National Archives and Records Administration
Electronic and Special Media Division
8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001

NIPS (NMCS Information Processing System) Emulation based on the
IBM(tm) FFS (Formatted File System)
version 3.5.2.0 Dated Oct 01, 2008

Production of simple Relational tables in ASCII of User’s
Data File Records from NIPS System files dumped in image form

This emulator produces one file per table (Fixed Set and Periodic Sets) in ASCII format. Each data value is transformed from EBCDIC, NIPS Coordinate, Binary, Decimal, etc. into ASCII, ASCII encoded latitude-longitude geographic coordinate system, ASCII encoded Decimal values, etc. Each file is a table in fixed field and optionally formatted delimited values. The delimited values use either commas or tabs chosen by the user. The first row of values for each table are the NIPS Mnemonics allowing the importing of the data into spread sheets and databases with the correct column lables.

For more detail about the files produced, changes in the size of the data values, and other valuable information about the processes used, see the User's Reference Manual.

Two additional files are produced during this process. One file shows the analysis and summary of the input data and the other file shows the layout of each table file produced. If a data dictionary is used with the program, the definition of each Mnemonic is printed on the layout report.

Processing started: Mon Jul 29 09:23:39 2019

The option selected for "Output Deliminated tables" is: TRUE

The delimiter selected is: COMMA

The NIPS file being processed is: Z:\1_WorkingStorage\RDER\NIPSTRAN project\ALOREP_MACAL\ALOREP NIPS\RG341.AL1.Y720102

Fixed Record Lengths by Table

(Values include "CR+LF" line termination)
Table Record Length
Fixed 170
Periodic 1 55




Fixed Table

Label Pos Offset Authority Len Type Defined by Report Label In Dataset
JULIAN 1 (0x0000) NIPS Metadata 4 Alphameric User Defined   n/a
PROJECT 5 (0x0004) NIPS Metadata 6 Alphameric User Defined   n/a
SCHNSCH 11 (0x000A) NIPS Metadata 1 Alphameric User Defined   n/a
SORNUM 12 (0x000B) NIPS Metadata 2 Alphameric User Defined   n/a
+PCN 14 (0x000D) NIPS Metadata 3 Alphameric System Generated   n/a
+SC0 17 (0x0010) NIPS Metadata 4 Alphameric System Generated   n/a
VSZ 21 (0x0014) NIPS Metadata 4 Numeric System Generated   n/a
ZULU 25 (0x0018) NIPS Metadata 5 Decimal User Defined   n/a
GRTIME 30 (0x001D) NIPS Metadata 5 Decimal User Defined   n/a
DEPTIME 35 (0x0022) NIPS Metadata 4 Decimal User Defined   n/a
CUBEUT 39 (0x0026) NIPS Metadata 4 Decimal User Defined   n/a
ACL 43 (0x002A) NIPS Metadata 4 Decimal User Defined   n/a
PAYLOD 47 (0x002E) NIPS Metadata 4 Decimal User Defined   n/a
PCTACL 51 (0x0032) NIPS Metadata 4 Decimal User Defined   n/a
PAXPAT 55 (0x0036) NIPS Metadata 4 Decimal User Defined   n/a
PABORD 59 (0x003A) NIPS Metadata 4 Decimal User Defined   n/a
LEGDIS 63 (0x003E) NIPS Metadata 5 Decimal User Defined   n/a
FLYHRS 68 (0x0043) NIPS Metadata 4 Decimal User Defined   n/a
DAY 72 (0x0047) NIPS Metadata 2 Alphameric User Defined   n/a
MONTH 74 (0x0049) NIPS Metadata 3 Alphameric User Defined   n/a
YEAR 77 (0x004C) NIPS Metadata 2 Alphameric User Defined   n/a
PRCODE 79 (0x004E) NIPS Metadata 1 Alphameric User Defined   n/a
ACFTYPE 80 (0x004F) NIPS Metadata 5 Alphameric User Defined   n/a
SERIES 85 (0x0054) NIPS Metadata 3 Alphameric User Defined   n/a
CNTYCD 88 (0x0057) NIPS Metadata 6 Alphameric User Defined   n/a
OPCREW 94 (0x005D) NIPS Metadata 6 Alphameric User Defined   n/a
SORTYP 100 (0x0063) NIPS Metadata 1 Alphameric User Defined   n/a
DEMODE 101 (0x0064) NIPS Metadata 3 Alphameric User Defined   n/a
FUNCT 104 (0x0067) NIPS Metadata 6 Alphameric User Defined   n/a
DEPBAS 110 (0x006D) NIPS Metadata 4 Alphameric User Defined   n/a
DESBAS 114 (0x0071) NIPS Metadata 4 Alphameric User Defined   n/a
PRIDEL 118 (0x0075) NIPS Metadata 8 Alphameric User Defined   n/a
SECDEL 126 (0x007D) NIPS Metadata 8 Alphameric User Defined   n/a
LOUTIL 134 (0x0085) NIPS Metadata 9 Alphameric User Defined   n/a
ABORCD 143 (0x008E) NIPS Metadata 1 Alphameric User Defined   n/a
ABORRE 144 (0x008F) NIPS Metadata 8 Alphameric User Defined   n/a
MILARE 152 (0x0097) NIPS Metadata 1 Alphameric User Defined   n/a
DELMOD 153 (0x0098) NIPS Metadata 3 Alphameric User Defined   n/a
SOURCE 156 (0x009B) NIPS Metadata 1 Alphameric User Defined   n/a
CARDNO 157 (0x009C) NIPS Metadata 3 Alphameric User Defined   n/a
REPNUM 160 (0x009F) NIPS Metadata 3 Alphameric User Defined   n/a
SECCLS 163 (0x00A2) NIPS Metadata 1 Alphameric User Defined   n/a
LASTUPD 164 (0x00A3) NIPS Metadata 4 Alphameric User Defined   n/a
OPCODE 168 (0x00A7) NIPS Metadata 1 Alphameric User Defined   n/a




Periodic Table 1

Label Pos Offset Authority Len Type Defined by Report Label In Dataset
JULIAN 1 (0x0000) NIPS Metadata 4 Alphameric User Defined   n/a
PROJECT 5 (0x0004) NIPS Metadata 6 Alphameric User Defined   n/a
SCHNSCH 11 (0x000A) NIPS Metadata 1 Alphameric User Defined   n/a
SORNUM 12 (0x000B) NIPS Metadata 2 Alphameric User Defined   n/a
+PCN 14 (0x000D) NIPS Metadata 3 Alphameric System Generated   n/a
PSSQ1 17 (0x0010) NIPS Metadata 4 Alphameric System Generated   n/a
VSZ1 21 (0x0014) NIPS Metadata 4 Numeric System Generated   n/a
SOSUPP 25 (0x0018) NIPS Metadata 15 Alphameric User Defined   n/a
UNSUPP 40 (0x0027) NIPS Metadata 14 Alphameric User Defined   n/a