IES Recommened Header Format for Data Exchange- Version 2
Field Name
Position
Bytes
Type
Header Indicator
1-5
5
“UHL”
Extract Date
6-11
6
MMDDYY
Company Name
12-61
50
AN
Cycle Counter
62-67
6
N
County ID
68-71
4
AN
State
72-73
2
A
General Use
74-93
20
AN
Release Number
94-96
3
N
Format Version
97
1
N
Reserved
98-199
102
AN
End of Record
512
1
Always”*”
NOTE: All fields are left justified, with trailing spaces, except the Cycle Counter, this field will be right-justified with leading spaces. Header records will employ cycle counting to ensure a cycle of updates is not missed. When used with an ALI data file, the Reserved field will be expanded to 414 bytes.
