Use this activity to define specific control statements that will be used
when reading an input file to decide if a file line should be handled or not.
A control statement can be assigned the condition Skip or Satisfy.
Control statements can also be grouped together meaning that all conditions
belonging to one group are considered as AND conditions.
If more than one
control group is defined then following applies: <conditions_in_group_one>
OR <conditions_in_group_two> etc.
If an external file type consists of more than one record type then it is necessary to define control statements, making it possible to decide the record type that each file line is associated with. The record type then makes it possible to find the detail instructions to be used when unpacking the file line.
Data must have been defined in the Input Files tab in the External File Template page to be able to launch the External File Template Control page.
It is not possible to modify template control data for a system defined file template.
The control statements makes it possible to: