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Because the WebSphere Studio Integration Application Integration tools for building
enterprise services target local and LAN files, download MFS source files (which normally
reside on z/OS) to a workstation or LAN server, and then import the source files into the
workbench. You can download MFS source files in either binary or text format; however, if
an MFS source file contains double-byte characters, you must download the file in binary
format. Downloading a DBCS file in text format will result in a parser error when the source
file is parsed by the MFS Importer wizard.
16.3.1 Supported device types
The MFS Transformer only supports MFS source formats for 3270 and 3270-An devices.
16.3.2 Supported MFS statements
The following MFS statements are supported:
MSG
LPAGE
PASSWORD
SEG
MFLD
FMT
DEV
DIV
DPAGE
DFLD
TABLE
IF
The following statements are not modeled but implicitly supported through parser:
ALPHA
COPY
DO
END
ENDDO
EQU
FMTEND
MSGEND
RESCAN
STACK
TABLEEND
UNSTACK
16.4 IMS MFS Web Services limitations
The following features are not supported:
Conditional logical paging
EGCS (NLS Support)
IMS system-generated MFS parameters such as PAGDEL
Magnetic strip reading device
Message option 3
MFS Bypass
MFS Buffer Pool
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