Implementing Control-D/Image

The CTVPACK.EXE program must be installed on, or be accessible to, each PC that has entities to be uploaded to the mainframe. The CTVPACK.BAT batch file contains a description of the parameters used when invoking the CTVPACK.EXE packing program.

The packing program can handle the following objects:

• images that can be scanned by almost any scanning system to produce uploadable PC objects

  The output of the scanning system must be a flat control file with one control record for each object.

• word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and so on

  For these files, it may be necessary to produce control records manually.

Each record in the control file (for example, the sample LIST.TXT file) contains the name of the PC object and indexing data extracted from the object. All the objects must be accessible to the packing program.