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A description file is used to specify the format of the data being transferred from the Solaris file to the AS/400. It is a text file that contains:
Entries that describe each field in the file to be transferred
Information about the data format conversion which takes place between the data stored on the Solaris machine and that stored on the AS/400.
A description file is required when non-source data is transferred to the AS/400. This file would normally be created automatically when non-source data is transferred from the AS/400 to the local machine, in which case you do not need to do anything. However, if the data that you are transferring to the AS/400 has not come from an AS/400 previously, then you will need to create a description file for it.
This chapter describes the format of description files.
The description file is an ASCII text file, which can be created and edited using a text editor, such as vi. The file must be a PC CODE document file with the following characters:
Each record in it must end with a carriage return character (X'0D), followed by a line feed character (X'0A)
All tab characters (X'09) are treated as PC CODE spaces
The last byte of the file must contain an end-of-file character (X'1A)
Editors that create PC CODE documents usually use these special characters automatically.
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