6 - Abbreviations
6.1 - Types of fields
Following abbreviation are used to describe fields in the messages.
| Code | Description |
|---|---|
| A | Alphabetic Characters (A-Z) |
| N | Numeric Characters (0-9) |
| AN | Alphanumeric Characters |
| S | UTF-8 compliant string. Control characters and special characters that may compromise data integrity will be filtered out or rejected. |
| DT | Datetime Format: yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss |
| DA | Date Format: yyyy-mm-dd |
| D | Decimal |
6.2 - Usage description
The following abbreviations describe usage of fields
| Code | Description |
|---|---|
| M | Mandatory |
| O | Optional |