8.5

Properties
General tab
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Source encoding: Select the current data encoding. Note that the source encoding is not selected
automatically and you must therefore select the proper encoding from this list in order for the
conversion process to be performed successfully.
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Target encoding: Select the encoding to which you want the data to be converted.
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Include target encoding signature: This option is only available when converting to UTF-8
(Windows code page 65001) or UCS-4 (code page 12000 or 12001). Select to include the character
encoding signature—also known as the byte order mark—at the beginning of the target string.
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Default character on translation: You may enter a character to be used to replace all those
characters that cannot be found in the source encoding. If you leave this box empty, they will be simply
stripped from the data, so you may consider using a space as a place holder for unidentified
characters.
On Error Tab
The On Error tab is common to all tasks. Details can be found in the" Task Properties Dialog" on page663.
By default, any action task, branch, splitter or condition that generates an error will simply be ignored, and
the task just under it (not within a branch)will be given control of the job file without any modification. Any
initial input task that generates an error will stop the process from running as a whole, and output tasks will
not generate output. The On Error tab can be used to overwrite the default behaviors.
l Send to Process: Check this option to send the job file to an error management process.
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Error Process drop-down:Enabled only when the Send to Process option is checked. Lists any
process of which the initial input task is the Input Error Bin task.
l Action Group:This group is disabled in the initial input tasks and defaults to Stop Process. In all
other tasks where the On Error tab is present, the following options are available:
l Ignore:The task is ignored as if it did not exist, and the job file is passed on to the next task in
the process.
l Stop Branch:If the task is in a branch of the process, the branch is stopped and the job file is
returned to the process after the branch. The branch will not produce any output.