ASCII Interfaces

The Infor Production Scheduling application can read data from ASCII files and convert the data for use in the application. You must create an interface definition for an entity for converting the data. The entity has attributes, and each attribute include a data type. These data types are used in the application:

  • String
  • Boolean
  • Integer
  • Real
  • Duration
  • Date/Time

The functions are evaluated and if the result makes sense for the specified data type, the result value is used. Else, the NULL value for the data type is used.

Note:  The tilde (~) is used to represent the imported or exported value. If the column type is alpha numeric, Infor Production Scheduling adds quotes to the value represented by the tilde during processing, else this cannot process. If the column type is numeric and you require that numeric value to be interpreted as a string, you must add quotes to the tilde.
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