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E3.1. CARTRIDGE SUBMISSION
E3. ENCLOSURE 3
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
DODI 1336.5, May 2, 2001
The submitting Military Service shall use IBM 3480 or 3490 magnetic tape cartridges.
Each file shall be written with standard IBM internal labels using the file naming
convention outlined in section E3.4., below, and coded using the EBCDIC character set.
DMDC can accept compressed data files.
E3.2. ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION
The submitting Military Service shall contact the DMDC Active Duty Personnel File
Manager, who will establish a UNIX account number and password exclusively for these
reports and provide additional system specifications, including security protocols
appropriate to protect the data from compromise and consistent with standards
established by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). DMDC
supports standard FTP software and can accept compressed (zipped) data files. The file
names shall be consistent with the naming convention outlined in section E3.4., below.
(Note that the UNIX environment at DMDC requires the exclusive use of lower case
for all file names.) The Military Service is responsible for the accuracy and
completeness of each electronic data transfer.
E3.3. DATA SPECIFICATIONS
Order each file in ascending order by Person Social Security Number Identifier (Field 5
of enclosure 4, or Field 1 of attachment 1 to enclosure 5) and Transaction Effective
Calendar Date (Field 86 of enclosure 4, or Member Personnel Tempo Event Begin
Calendar Date (Field 8 of attachment 1 to enclosure 5). Multiple transaction records
with the same date shall be submitted in the order they are to be processed.
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