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Data elements are not necessarily in the same sequence for both variable and fixed formats. Transaction Managment will reformat external formats to a common internal variable format. Exceptions to recognizing and processing variable and fixed formats are listed below. The specific edits and validations done on common fixed and variable format headers are listed in Chapter 2. All transactions that reject from Transaction Management do so under output DIC KRU. See volume 8 for the Input/Output fixed length formats. See volume 9 for the Input/Output variable length formats.

Variable format Input/Output transactions always begin with a numeric 4 position segment length. The package sequence number for the first record is always "A01" because variable transactions have a minimum of two records. The header record will only be repeated (using same dcn) for DIC LMX, the nsn will change on each full header. Mini-Headers will be used under DIC LMD to indicate multiple actions that must be processed together. Character/data element occurs counters are required for some data elements in variable format.