To assign eLOT codes, you must provide the LOT File name and activate the assignment indicator. For more information on activating eLOT processing, please refer to Activating Auxiliary Processing.
During the PBFNInit call, if you have not defined the name of the eLOT File or the open has failed, the PBFN_NOLOT return code is issued. This return code indicates that the Zip4us.dir and the City.dir Files were successfully opened and address processing can continue. However, eLOT codes will not be assigned.
If you did not set the cLOTCode [LOT_LEN] or the LOT pointer is null in the PBFNAddressDataDef structure, eLOT codes will not be assigned and returned for that record. If a record is successfully coded, but the call to the eLOT database failed to return a valid eLOT code, the PBFNProcess call will return PBFN_SUCCESS and issue an error code. For detailed information on eLOT error codes, see "Finalist Error Codes" in your Finalist User's Guide.