TRANSFER Reference Manual

GET-ITEM-DESCR
TISERV UOW Descriptions
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SUBMITTED-DATE
is the date and time at which the package was posted. If the package has never
been submitted, this field contains zeros.
EARLIEST-DELIV-DATE
is the earliest date at which the package can be delivered, specified as either an
absolute calendar date or as a number of time units from submission time. An
absolute or relative date is indicated by N or Y, respectively, in the REL-DATE-
EARLIEST field, as described under ITEM-DESCR-FLAGS.
Note When a package is submitted, all relative dates in the EARLIEST-DELIV-DATE field and the LATEST-
DELIV-DATE and EXPIRATION-DATE fields are automatically changed to absolute calendar dates.
LATEST-DELIV-DATE
is the latest date at which the TRANSFER delivery system can deliver the package,
specified either as an absolute calendar date or as a number of time units from
EARLIEST-DELIV-DATE.
EXPIRATION-DATE
is the date and time at which the package expires, specified either as an absolute
calendar date or as a number of time units from LATEST-DELIV-DATE. If
expiration has not been requested, this field contains zeros.
SENDER-ZONE-OFFSET
is the difference, in minutes, between the time at the sender node and the time
local to the current session.
PRIORITY
is the package priority. The field can have a value from 0 (lowest priority) to 199
(highest priority). Priority allows you to classify a package according to its
urgency. The field can have an unsigned value from 0 (lowest priority) to 199
(highest priority). Packages are sent in decreasing order of numeric priority;
when two or more packages are assigned the same numeric priority, the packages
are sent in order of submittal date.
Priority overrules submission time in determining when a package is sent; a high-
priority package goes before a package of low priority, even if the low-priority
package was submitted earlier. Assigning a high-priority to new packages might
prevent older packages from being delivered within the requested timeframe.