Setting transformations

General considerations for records transformations

All records in the source file must have the same format.
Text records must contain printable characters. EOL (End Of Line) markers are required.
Binary records are untyped and may or may not contain printable characters (text). EOL (End Of Line) markers are not required.
OCTET_STREAM files have no record definitions.
ASCII is text.
EBCDIC is binary.

Attributes

Use the attributes in the following table to control the transformation.

The Virtual attributes control the format of the payload as it is sent/received over the protocol (PeSIT/OFTP). It’s not a physical file, that why we call it virtual file. The Local attributes control the format of the file as stored/to be stored on trading engine disk.

Note: Replace the "x" with either Virtual or Local. For example, VirtualFileFormat or LocalFile Format.

xFileFormat, xFilePaddingChar and xFileRecordLength attributes define the format transformation (padding/unpadding).
xFileCharSet is used to control the character transcoding.

Attribute	Value	Comment
LocalFileCharSet	« ASCII »/ « EBCDIC »/ Free	This is the name of the character set used in the local file
LocalFilePaddingChar	0x00…0x7F	The padding character used in the local file
LocalFileRecordFormat	FIXED_BINARY/ VARIABLE_BINARY/ FIXED_TEXT/ VARIABLE_TEXT/ OCTET_STREAM	OCTET_STREAM will turn off transcoding
LocalFileRecordLength	bytes	Size/ max size of a local file record
VirtualFileCharSet	« ASCII »/ « EBCDIC »/ Free	This is the name of the character set for the file flowing over the network
VirtualFilePaddingChar	0x00…0x7F	The padding character used in the file over the network
VirtualFileRecordFormat	FIXED_BINARY/ VARIABLE_BINARY/ FIXED_TEXT/ VARIABLE_TEXT/ OCTET_STREAM	OCTET_STREAM will turn off transcoding
VirtualFileRecordLength	bytes	Size/ max size of a file record over the network
message.attributes.template .in/out	––	Indicates the Message Attribute Template applied on reception/ on sending