TRANSFER Reference Manual

ALTER-ITEM-DES-C20
TISERV UOW Descriptions
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FIELDS-TO-ALTER
lets you select the fields to be altered within the item descriptor.
Y Select the field for alteration.
N Disable the field from alteration.
The meaning of each item descriptor field that your process can access is discussed
under ALTERABLE-FIELDS. Your process can retrieve all of these fields with the
GET-ITEM-DES-C20 UOW.
The alterable fields do not require system administrator capability for alteration; if
the item is alterable, any correspondent who has access to the item can alter it.
ALTERABLE-FIELDS
lets you indicate what updating should be done to the fields for which Y was
specified under FIELDS-TO-ALTER. These fields and their allowable entries are
defined as follows:
ITEM-TYPE
indicates the type of the item, as defined by the application. Appendix A of
the TRANSFER Programming Guide lists reserved ITEM-TYPE values.
REL-DATE-EARLIEST, REL-DATE-LATEST, REL-DATE-EXPIRATION,
REL-DATE-REPLY-BY, REL-DATE-SUBMIT-TIMED, and REL-DATE-
SUBMIT-UNTIL
determine whether the entries you specify in the EARLIEST-DELIV-DATE,
LATEST-DELIV-DATE, EXPIRATION-DATE, DATE-REPLY-BY, DATE-
SUBMIT-TIMED, and DATE-SUBMIT-UNTIL fields are relative to the dates
with respect to particular delivery milestones or absolute calendar dates.
Y The dates are relative dates.
N The dates are absolute dates.
EARLIEST-DELIV-DATE
is the earliest date at which the package can be delivered. You must specify
the date as an absolute calendar date or as a number of time units from
submission time (relative date). An absolute or relative date is indicated by
the REL-DATE-EARLIEST field.
EARLIEST-DELIV-DATE and LATEST-DELIV-DATE together define the
delivery window within which the TRANSFER delivery system must deliver
the package. If the TRANSFER delivery system is unable to deliver the
package to one or more recipients during the delivery window, it returns the
package to the sender with an explanation and discontinues further delivery
attempts. Under no circumstances is a package delivered sooner than its
EARLIEST-DELIV-DATE. You can regard the EARLIEST-DELIV-DATE as the
effective submission date of the package—in other words, the postmark.