TRANSFER Reference Manual

ATTACH-EXTOBJ
TISERV UOW Descriptions
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PARENT
denotes the object to which the attachment is to be made. This field can specify
either an item or a primary external object. PARENT-ID and PARENT-HANDLE
redefine this field to indicate the object ID or item handle, respectively, that
specifically identifies this object. If the parent is a primary external object, the
PARENT field in the response UOW contains the fully qualified name of the
parent; if an item rather than an external object is specified as the parent, this field
contains blanks.
To refer to an item produced by a previous UOW within the same IPC, you can
replace PARENT-HANDLE with ITEM-HANDLE, which is defined in the
“Commonly Used Fields” subsection of this manual.
OBJECT-NAME
is the name of the object to be attached.
DEFAULTS
specifies the default volume and subvolume to be used when the TRANSFER
delivery system qualifies OBJECT-NAME. The TRANSFER delivery system uses
the GUARDIAN 90 FNAMEEXPAND procedure to qualify OBJECT-NAME. The
format of the DEFAULTS field matches the format of the DEFAULTS parameter
used by the FNAMEEXPAND procedure.
OBJECT-TYPE
is the type of object being attached. This must be a GUARDIAN 90 operating
system file, indicated by a value of 1.
REL-POSITION
is the ordinal position in the list of primary or alternate attachments that the
attachment is to occupy.
USER-VALUES
indicates application-defined values that the TRANSFER delivery system uses to
selectively retrieve attachments (but that the TRANSFER delivery system does not
interpret in any other way).
OPTIONS
specify various criteria for the attachment:
PARENT-IS-ITEM
indicates whether the parent is an item or a primary external object.
Y Parent is an item.
N Parent is a primary external object.