File settings
Sales genpo number (NSALGNP)
Written on every line. Mandatory – the number Honda Motor Japan issued to your distributor.
Country preset
Custom (currency/language edited by hand) Denmark – DKK, DA Sweden – SEK, SV
Sets the two defaults below. Rows already entered keep their values.
Default currency (new price rows)
ISO code, e.g. SEK, DKK or EUR.
Default language (new descriptions)
ISO 639-1 language code: Danish DA, Swedish SV, English EN.
Decimal separator in what you type/paste
Comma (1.234,50 or 1 234,50) Point (1,234.50)
Thousands separators are removed automatically.
Number format in the file
Implied decimal (12,5 → 000012500)
Fixed by the copybook: PIC 9(n)V9(3) – leading zeros, no decimal point, no sign. Empty optional numbers are sent as spaces.
Record ID (pos. 1–10)
<WZ360> + 3 spaces (COBOL copybook) WZ360 + spaces <WZ360 >
Copybook: VALUE "<WZ360> ". Only change if the receiver asks for something else.
Part numbers
With hyphens (15400-PLM-A02) Without hyphens (15400PLMA02)
Sent as typed, with hyphens.
Line endings
Windows (CRLF) Unix (LF)
Character set
Windows-1252 (1 byte per character) UTF-8
In UTF-8, æ, ø, å, ä and ö take 2 bytes and shift the positions.