Administration of the IMS Feature › Processing IMS Transaction Information Data › Job APCIJIFU—Importing the Data › Step 1

Step 1

In the first step, the provided IMS transaction information is checked for data validation and converted to the required format for further processing.

You should be aware of the following details when running this step:

• There are two parameters available to control the number of errors to be tolerated and the maximum number of warning messages to be issued. See Parameters for more information.
• The IMS transaction details must be provided as a sequential file in the required record format (FB 130 or VB 134) under DD statement APCINF.
  See DD statement Information for more information.
• Each file record must contain the IMS transaction information in the required format. See Format Requirements for the IMS Transaction Information Interface for a complete description of the format requirements.