Re: ISA_04 Security Code

2000-01-10 Thread William J. Kammerer
nformation - the ISA is neither encrypted or autheticated even if the X12.58 security standards are used. I doubt a crummy little password in ISA04 is all VANs or banks rely on for security for financial transactions! So why not just ignore the ISA04? William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Mem

Re: EDI ANY to XML translator - opinions wanted

2000-01-11 Thread William J. Kammerer
input EDI files, whatever are you going to do with them? William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Memorial Pkwy. Dublin, OH USA 43017-3305 (614) 791-1600 Visit FORESIGHT Corp. at http://www.foresightcorp.com/ "Commerce

Re: Element Separators/End of line indicators

2000-01-26 Thread William J. Kammerer
or example, throughout the interchange starting at the delimiter immediately after the ISA segment tag. A copy of X12.5 is available in the front matter of your X12 book or CD-Rom, or at http://www.disa.org/x12/x12c/X12CTG3/PDF/x12-5.pdf. William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Memorial Pkwy.

Re: Fields in an 820

2000-02-05 Thread William J. Kammerer
ting the Work Group chair's e-mail address and phone no. I don't want to list it here lest all sorts of cranks harass the poor fellow. William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Memorial Pkwy. Dublin, OH USA 43017-3305 (614) 791-1600 Visit FORE

Re: ANSI document for payroll timecard reporting

2000-02-24 Thread William J. Kammerer
he basic HR and organization information, and managers have the ability to temporarily delegate approval responsibilities. The system interfaces to the corporate-wide Directory Database, as well as to payroll systems. Now isn't that clever? William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp.

Re: Introductory Information on XML OR ebXML: The last, best hope for X12

2000-02-14 Thread William J. Kammerer
"last best hope of X12," oft quoted throughout the remainder of the week-long meeting. William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Memorial Pkwy. Dublin, OH USA 43017-3305 (614) 791-1600 Visit FORESIGHT Corp. at http://www.foresightcorp.com/ "Commerce for a New World" ==

Re: TXI Segment --Tax Jurisdiction

2000-02-14 Thread William J. Kammerer
t;Where do I find a list of SCACs". Well, you can buy the entire list from the NMFTA. Or since you probably only deal with a limited number of carriers, why not simply ask each of them for their own code (as a single carrier is almost always likely to know his own SCAC)? William J. Kammerer

Re: Comparative List

2000-02-16 Thread William J. Kammerer
usses the Functional Cross Reference of ASC X12 Transaction Sets and UN/EDIFACT Messages provided by the X12 CEFACT Forum Task Group (CFTG) (formerly DLTG) at http://www.disa.org/x12/dltg/. William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Memorial Pkwy. Dublin, OH USA 43017-3305 (614) 791-1600

More Current Wisdom....Goodbye EDI, Hello XML?

2000-02-21 Thread William J. Kammerer
e messenger services that keep things running smoothly. This one may be too stupid to parse. And aren't EDI messages "created on-the-fly, while still adhering to predefined business rules and definitions before being sent on their way"? William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer

Re: CONTROL and D.E. 0032, Communications Agreement ID

2000-02-21 Thread William J. Kammerer
rking on my magnum opus on MVS JCL... William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Memorial Pkwy. Dublin, OH USA 43017-3305 (614) 791-1600 Visit FORESIGHT Corp. at http://www.foresightcorp.com/ "Commerce for a New World" =

Re: Oracle, OR ERS

2000-02-21 Thread William J. Kammerer
insisting on using something other than the packing slip number? For example, maybe they want to return the bar code numbers since those can be scanned, which might be an entirely reasonable substitute for the packing slip number (since you know what bar codes were in which shipment). William J

Re: Comparative List - OR X12 to EDIFACT - Auto-magically!

2000-02-21 Thread William J. Kammerer
6, 1997) on LMI's XML and EDI White Papers and Miscellaneous Research page. William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Memorial Pkwy. Dublin, OH USA 43017-3305 (614) 791-1600 Visit FORESIGHT Corp. at http://www.foresightcorp.com/ "Commerce for a New World" ==

Re: Search tools for elements and code values

2000-03-02 Thread William J. Kammerer
how to point and click your way through the cross reference in the EDISIM Standards Reference, this type of exercise can be whittled down to 5 minutes or less! William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Memorial Pkwy. Du

Re: HL level code (HL03) and HL looping for 811

2000-03-24 Thread William J. Kammerer
LX~3 SI~AP~CR~2 HL~6~5~9 William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Memorial Pkwy. Dublin, OH USA 43017-3305 (614) 791-1600 Visit FORESIGHT Corp. at http://www.foresightcorp.com/ "Commerce for a New World" -Original Message- From: Dean Stynsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

2000-03-25 Thread William J. Kammerer
a premier world-class teaching and research institution if there ever was one. OSU is the largest University in the United States, and just so happens to have graduated me. And we also have the Ohio State Fair (again, the largest in the United States), featuring butter sculptures in the form of cows and Jo

Re: EDI Document Guidelines

2000-04-10 Thread William J. Kammerer
ome up with a compromise guideline to be used by both parties. Or we can even have a vote on which guideline should be used, after making fun of individual pieces-parts. At least Kurt would have more complete information to use in his decision and dealings with his trading partner, as Mark Kusia

Re: A (Yes/No) Question for the Mavens

2000-04-12 Thread William J. Kammerer
nformation Workgroup of the Mortgage Bankers Association of America, at http://www.reiwg.com/, for more names to call. William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Memorial Pkwy. Dublin, OH USA 43017-3305 (614) 791-1600 Visit FORESIGHT Corp. at http://www.foresightcorp.com/ "

Re: Requirements Designator question

2000-04-14 Thread William J. Kammerer
to figure that one out. William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Memorial Pkwy. Dublin, OH USA 43017-3305 (614) 791-1600 Visit FORESIGHT Corp. at http://www.foresightcorp.com/ "Commerce for a New World" ===

Re: Evaluating Translators...help!

2000-05-02 Thread William J. Kammerer
%40listserv.ucop.edu/, in date or thread order. William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Memorial Pkwy. Dublin, OH USA 43017-3305 (614) 791-1600 Visit FORESIGHT Corp. at http://www.foresightcorp.com/ "Commerce for a New World" =

Re: sub-element separator

2000-05-15 Thread William J. Kammerer
ation between EBCDIC and ASCII. William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Memorial Pkwy. Dublin, OH USA 43017-3305 (614) 791-1600 Visit FORESIGHT Corp. at http://www.foresightcorp.com/ "Commerce for a New World" ==

Re: Computerworld Article

2000-05-16 Thread William J. Kammerer
you always had to do all along to achieve the real benefits of EDI - no surprise), but you still have to use a VAN??!!! Help me out here, Doug. Am I missing something? William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Memorial Pkwy. Dublin, OH USA 43017-3305 (614) 791-1600

Re: EDI Payments in Europe

2000-05-17 Thread William J. Kammerer
ndards, at http://www.ecbs.org/downloadtc2.html. William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Memorial Pkwy. Dublin, OH USA 43017-3305 (614) 791-1600 Visit FORESIGHT Corp. at http://www.foresightcorp.com/ "Commerce for a New World"

Re: Request for Cost Justification Studies To Support The Adoption of EDI

2000-06-14 Thread William J. Kammerer
one you use. If you think this is a silly and roundabout way of implementing EC automation, remember that it worked for RosettaNet on their first go-round. William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Memorial Pkwy. Dublin, OH USA 43017-3305 (614) 791-1600

Re: Element #100

2000-06-30 Thread William J. Kammerer
ncy is the British Standards Institution. Follow the link to the BSI to get the newest ISO three-alpha currency codes. William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Memorial Pkwy. Dublin, OH USA 43017-3305 (614) 791-1600 Visit FORESIGHT Corp. at http://www.fore

Re: VAN

2000-07-05 Thread William J. Kammerer
nnect to another - I thought that was part of the "Value" in Value Added Network. There's another possibility that Global Supplier Communications is a captive supplier network like the Automotive Network eXchange. William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Memorial Pkwy. Dublin, OH

Re: A 997 response for an 824 Application Advice

2000-07-10 Thread William J. Kammerer
usually up to a trading partner agreement or convention. See http://www.mail-archive.com/edi-l@listserv.ucop.edu/msg00644.html. If I weren't made of such stiff material, my feelings would be hurt knowing Brian doesn't read my stuff in much depth. William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Memorial Pk

Re: EDI POD POR

2000-07-11 Thread William J. Kammerer
ing lately, would be done by the 997 Functional Acknowledgement and the 824 Application Advice). Proof of Delivery (by the carrier) is provided by the X12 214 Shipment Status Message (or the EDIFACT IFTSTA or IFTMAN), and Proof of Receipt by the 861 Receiving Advice (or the EDIFACT RECADV). William J

Re: 943 Warehouse Stock Transfer Shipment Advice alternatives

2000-07-19 Thread William J. Kammerer
- you've solved your own problem - just use the 856 Shipment Advice! As a matter of fact, UCS/WINS has done away with the 943 as of 004010UCS, preferring the favored child - the 856 - instead. Your time's up. Please send in Mr. 943 on your way out. William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Bla

Re: EDI usage

2000-07-26 Thread William J. Kammerer
(you know, FORTUNE 500, 1000, 2000, what's the difference?) to suit your needs. So much of this stuff floats around that they've become urban legends. William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Memorial Pkwy. Dublin, OH USA 43017-3305 +1 614 791-1600 Visit FORESIGHT Corp. at http://www.foresig

Re: Auto Forward vs Carbon Copy

2000-07-27 Thread William J. Kammerer
quot;value-added" service when you (i.e., your translator) can do it yourself, especially a service which the VAN people themselves can't explain. Then you're one step ahead of the game when and if you decide to move all of your EDI traffic to a competing VAN, or even to Internet EDI. William J. Ka

Re: 753 and 754 Transactions

2000-09-06 Thread William J. Kammerer
ganization with such guidelines at this time. William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Memorial Pkwy. Dublin, OH USA 43017-3305 +1 614 791-1600 Visit FORESIGHT Corp. at http://www.foresightcorp.com/ "Commerce

Re: EDI Providers

2000-09-06 Thread William J. Kammerer
support. What could be more painless? Eliminate rekeying from faxes and paper! For more information on TradeSite, please visit our Web site at http://www.foresightcorp.com/, select "products", then "Web EC/EDI". William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Memorial Pkwy. D

Stupid EDI Stories

2000-09-07 Thread William J. Kammerer
identities secret. Does anyone really think that XML will solve these sort of problems? William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Memorial Pkwy. Dublin, OH USA 43017-3305 +1 614 791-1600 Visit FORESIGHT Corp. at http://www.foresightcorp.com/ "Commerce for a New

Re: What standards exist for Manufacturer Part number

2000-09-27 Thread William J. Kammerer
bally unique 14-digit number assigned to each packaging level of a product or service...Company databases should reflect current internal part numbers and GTINs as a 14-digit numbers." See RosettaNet's GTIN FAQs at http://www.rosettanet.org/ - under Site Sections, see "Standards," th

Re: ICs for new Gov't trading partner categories

2000-09-29 Thread William J. Kammerer
ng rings were handed out. Short a ring, you can manually read such messages by looking at the raw e-mail: in Outlook Express, look at the Properties for the message, and under Details | Message Source, you'll be able to read the secret! William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Memorial Pkwy.

Re-engineering can make smaller XML!

2000-10-16 Thread William J. Kammerer
, and Brussels, commanding attention from the press and industry alike. William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Memorial Pkwy. Dublin, OH USA 43017-3305 +1 614 791-1600 Visit FORESIGHT Corp. at http://www.foresightcorp.com/ "Commerce for a New World" ===

Re: EDIFACT - Character Sets

2000-10-26 Thread William J. Kammerer
gnostic Message Type," then set to "ignore." Then under "View," cause ignored messages to be hidden by unchecking "Ignore" under "Diagnostic Message Type." Voilà, the offending message disappears! William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp.

Re: Customers, Or What's a R and S?

2000-11-06 Thread William J. Kammerer
the segment, loop or element; and Situational means the usage depends onwell, uh the situation. William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Memorial Pkwy. Dublin, OH USA 43017-3305 +1 614 791-1600 Visit FORE

Re: Trading Partner Agreements

2000-11-07 Thread William J. Kammerer
Robyn Noble, of The TJX Companies, asked "Anyone know where I can get some [trading partner agreement samples]?" Dear Robyn: See http://www.mail-archive.com/edi-l@listserv.ucop.edu/msg00526.html in the EDI-L archives. William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Memorial Pkwy.

Re: ASCII - EBCDIC conversion issue

2000-11-08 Thread William J. Kammerer
utspends Kammerer 92-to-1 in 16th Senate race" at http://www.snponline.com/ELECTION2000/all16senate2.htm William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Memorial Pkwy. Dublin, OH USA 43017-3305 +1 614 791-1600 Visit FORESIGHT Corp. at http://www.foresightcorp.

Re: ASCII - EBCDIC conversion issue solved! Or Not Quite....

2000-11-09 Thread William J. Kammerer
to EBCDIC, you won't get the sign character through conversion." Actually, X12 numeric elements do include the minus sign, or dash, for negative numbers. Maybe you're thinking of the COBOL SIGN SEPARATE thingy. William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Memorial Pkwy. Dublin, OH USA 4

Re: Odd character as sub-element separator

2000-11-10 Thread William J. Kammerer
was chosen in a vain attempt to avoid questions where EBCDIC and ASCII had no direct correlates. It should be noted that the inverted exclamation point (¡) exists in the X12.6 Select language characters, making it a "valid" sub-element separator. William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Bl

The Continuing Crisis: xml vs edi, OR Proof that not all Dummies are American

2000-11-10 Thread William J. Kammerer
Seen on news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.xml. The next day David Valera would've voted for both Gore and Buchanan if only he were a Floridian. William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Memorial Pkwy. Dublin, OH USA 43017-3305 +1 614 791-1600 Visit FORESIGHT Corp. at http

Re: Proof of Delivery

2000-11-16 Thread William J. Kammerer
Pat Knabe, of Blockbuster, Inc., asked about providing Proof of Delivery information to A/P departments. Please look at the EDI-L archives for the thread "Re: EDI POD POR," from last July, specifically http://www.mail-archive.com/edi-l@listserv.ucop.edu/msg01213.html. William J

Re: ebXML Passes Critical Interoperability Milestone

2000-12-15 Thread William J. Kammerer
es for business messages will be automatically retrieved from the ebXML registry/repository. Someday pigs will fly too. William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Memorial Pkwy. Dublin, OH USA 43017-3305 +1 614 791-1600 Visit FORESIGHT Corp. at http://www.foresightcorp.com/ "Comm

Re: UN/EDIFACT messages REPORT and DISPOR

2001-01-09 Thread William J. Kammerer
Development, at http://www.unece.org/trade/untdid/, then they are not "UN/EDIFACT" messages. Perhaps they're something like ODETTE, which is based on the EDIFACT syntax. I think these two are some kind of French Transport message; see "Guides utilisateurs" at http://www.edi

Fw: TP EDI Enabled ?

2001-01-16 Thread William J. Kammerer
uot; at http://lists.ebxml.org/archives/ebxml-regrep/200101/msg00048.html. William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Memorial Pkwy. Dublin, OH USA 43017-3305 +1 614 791-1600 Visit FORESIGHT Corp. at http://www.foresightcorp.com/ "Commerce for a New World" - Original Me

Re: HIPAA vs: Standard Implementation Usage Identifiers/Attribute

2001-01-24 Thread William J. Kammerer
uestion, "...has Foresight been asked for comments in the DoD's case?," I can only ask why the heck would the DOD ask us? The DOD asked X12 in the form of an RFI. William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Memorial Pkwy. Dublin, OH US

Re: International Units

2001-01-28 Thread William J. Kammerer
started. Teamwork, collaboration and goodwill, as always, will ensure progress toward our common goal in this consensus based standards effort. William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Memorial Pkwy. Dublin, OH USA 43017-3305 +1 614 791-1600 Visit FORE

Re: HIPAA - Patient registration

2001-02-23 Thread William J. Kammerer
sensitive manner: "Hey pal, you're dead meat unless you get your ass in here, pronto." Though the 140 and 143 are not HIPAA standard transactions, there's no law that says they couldn't be used in this context, assuming the transactions are securely transferred between hospitals and

Re: Standards bodies

2001-03-10 Thread William J. Kammerer
ne.com/, ISA for ocean transport at http://www.isaweb.com/, or RAILINC for rail, at http://www.railinc.net/. Where's Doug Anderson when you need him? William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Pkwy. Dublin, OH USA 43017-3305 +1 614 791-1600 Visit FORESIGHT Corp. at http://www.foresi

Re: VMI Workflow

2001-03-14 Thread William J. Kammerer
Management Business Models. William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Pkwy. Dublin, OH USA 43017-3305 +1 614 791-1600 Visit FORESIGHT Corp. at http://www.foresightcorp.com/ "accelerating time-to-trade" === To contac

Re: Walmart shipping information

2001-03-29 Thread William J. Kammerer
circumstances am I going to go to the hassle of using X12 just so I can buy some tattoo band-aids, shampoo, or batteries. Enough is enough! Now, if Wal-Mart had just mandated XML, that might be another thing altogether... William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Pkwy. Dublin, OH USA 43017-3305 +1

Re: XML/EDI - Why does it have to be so hard?

2001-03-30 Thread William J. Kammerer
. But can somebody help me with this XML message? See http://www.ibiblio.org/bosak/pres/0103gdl/sld04002.htm. William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Pkwy. Dublin, OH USA 43017-3305 +1 614 791-1600 Visit FORESIGHT Corp. at http://www.foresightcorp.com/ "acceleratin

Re: Location Systems ( was Walmart shipping information)

2001-04-01 Thread William J. Kammerer
s who are members of UCC/EAN tend to prefer DUNS+4 over GLNs for identifying internal locations; or did: Bill O'Brien told us on Friday that Wal-Mart is switching from DUNS+4 to the GLN. But if it means anything, the only means of identifying parties within RosettaNet is the D-U-N-S (even though UCC/EAN GTINs ar

Re: Location Systems ( was Walmart shipping information) - or Help me get a free trip

2001-04-03 Thread William J. Kammerer
But more importantly, if I can gather up enough of them, I might have justification for joining the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC32/WG2-Metadata Work Group when they meet in exotic pleasure spots like Sante Fe, Geneva or Helsinki. There *is* a method to my madness. William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 B

Re: XML/EDI - Why does it have to be so hard? ...Or at least that's how monkeys do it

2001-04-03 Thread William J. Kammerer
es cared for the infant hoping that it was theirs. William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Pkwy. Dublin, OH USA 43017-3305 +1 614 791-1600 Visit FORESIGHT Corp. at http://www.foresightcorp.com/ "accelerating time-to-trade" ==

Re: Bill of Material

2001-04-06 Thread William J. Kammerer
Information. Specify the Report Type Code in the SPI Specification Identifier segment as "BM," and voil - you have a Bill of Material! William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Pkwy. Dublin, OH USA 43017-3305 +1 614 791-1600 Visit FORESIGHT Corp. at http://www.foresightcorp.co

Re: Possible Duplicate 850s: Verbal EDI, or Don't forget your thank-you's

2001-04-07 Thread William J. Kammerer
he customer's system enough to encourage him to follow the suggestions some of Jake's respondents have offered. William J. Kammerer FORESIGHT Corp. 4950 Blazer Pkwy. Dublin, OH USA 43017-3305 +1 614 791-1600 Visit FORESIGHT Corp. at http://www.foresightcorp.com/ "a

Re: Orders with Lot/Package, or how's this for clairvoyance?

2001-07-05 Thread William J. Kammerer
Advice or the INVOIC Invoice message. In the event numbers like these were to be regurgitated back (or even supplied in the first place, such as EAN/UPC numbers) to the manufacturer, the GIN Goods identity number segment might be used. William J. Kammerer Rachel Foerster Associates, Ltd

Re: INVOIC as credit note

2001-07-06 Thread William J. Kammerer
in an invoice. Georgia, to be politically correct, might find it prudent to follow the EAN guidelines. William J. Kammerer Rachel Foerster Associates, Ltd. === To contact the list owner: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives at http

Re: JB Hunt and EDI to XML (and more) conversion

2001-08-15 Thread William J. Kammerer
and forward EDI to and from J.B. Hunt on behalf of their customers. William J. Kammerer Rachel Foerster Associates, Ltd. Columbus, US-OH === To contact the list owner: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives at http://www.mail-archive.com

Re: JB Hunt and EDI to XML (and more) conversion

2001-08-15 Thread William J. Kammerer
in line with the cost of equivalent solutions, further confirming we're dealing with an EDIINT communication package. Expensive and labor-intensive as these packages are, it does seem reasonable that you can obtain a fifteen-month ROI payback through elimination of costly VAN fees. William J

Take a look to the attachment - or why bad grammar is always bad news

2001-08-16 Thread William J. Kammerer
exhibits all the signs of a non-English speaker who will never master prepositions, and is one of the hallmarks of a virus laden e-mail. William J. Kammerer Rachel Foerster Associates, Ltd. Columbus, US-OH === To contact the list

Re: FYI: Article on ebXML and Interoperability

2001-08-27 Thread William J. Kammerer
of saying Core Components specifications nearly failed. And maybe Rawlins is being a little too generous here. But I don't really much care, because we still have good old X12 and UN/EDIFACT EDI which we can wrap up as BASE64 encoded MIME attachments. William J. Kammerer Rachel Foerster

Re: 837p HIPAA question

2001-08-28 Thread William J. Kammerer
the most current list from the HCFA, at http://www.hcfa.gov/medicaid/posdata.pdf. William J. Kammerer Rachel Foerster Associates, Ltd. Columbus, US-OH === To contact the list owner: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives at http