RE: [EDI-L] Good sources for ASN, UCC-128, BOL, etc Info

2004-12-20 Thread Travis Truax
Steve, That's been my experience so far, I was just hoping I was missing something. I just found this group, and I was immediately wanting to ask the great Oz the answers to all the EDI questions that have been beating me up all these years. ;) Thanks for the confirmation that it

RE: [EDI-L] Is EDI dead?

2005-01-11 Thread Travis Truax
a customer contract. Regards, -Steve Travis Truax To: EDI-L Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: RE: [EDI-L

RE: [EDI-L] Is EDI dead?

2005-01-11 Thread Travis Truax
Travis Truax To: EDI-L Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: RE: [EDI-L] Is EDI dead

RE: [EDI-L] Is EDI dead?

2005-01-12 Thread Travis Truax
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RE: [EDI-L] The Ubiquity of XML - again.

2005-02-04 Thread Travis Truax
I had to work with an 837 file a few weeks back that was almost 300 megabytes. UltraEdit was the tool of choice, did get the job done, but took a while. Let's bump that file up to XML (Using the most conservative X12 look-alike schema) and you're looking at roughly a 9 gig file. How much memory

RE: [EDI-L] ADVOCACY Why I Don't Like XML

2005-02-10 Thread Travis Truax
They can't help it. The white house is pumping out so much BS lately, the stink permeates all things, even EDI. ;) -Original Message- From: William J. Kammerer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 10:50 AM To: EDI-L Mailing List Subject: Re: [EDI-L] ADVOCACY Why I

RE: [EDI-L] Gentran Installation Question

2005-02-15 Thread Travis Truax
We had the same problem with version 3.2. I'm sure this is not the solution you're looking for, but the problem went away when we installed version 5.0. :) -Original Message- From: Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 7:35 AM To: EDI-L@yahoogroups.com

RE: [EDI-L] Not exactly EDI related, but sort of -- PGP

2005-02-17 Thread Travis Truax
This is making some presumptions about what you're doing, and I don't have any experience with PGP, but just a thought... Since you stressed the fact that the file is ALWAYS there, is that because the file is never moved, renamed, etc? As in a data file that gets updated and then PGPed over to

[EDI-L] LX Loop in 753 Request for Routing

2005-02-21 Thread Travis Truax
Anyone know what the purpose of the LX loop is in a 753? It seems like an extraneous loop. Should it not always just contain 01? Thanks- . Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: SALES, JOBS, LIST, TECH, MISC, EVENT, OFF-TOPIC Access the list online at:

RE: [EDI-L] What's an ASN?

2005-03-23 Thread Travis Truax
What is the relationship between an ASN and a packing list? I had always heard the comparison of ASN to BOL. How is an inland shipment different from an ocean shipment? Doesn't it have all the same product? (Unless some of it was lost on the docks. ;) Should we also expect one subsequently from

RE: [EDI-L] Misc Current Matrix of VANS - What's Obsolete?

2005-03-24 Thread Travis Truax
"Small businesses can't necessarily hire a full time network administrator to keep the HTTP servers up, and if they could, that administrator's one year salary could equal 15 years of VAN fees (if you're using the right VAN)." If you already have someone taking care of your translator,

RE: [EDI-L]Sales AS2

2005-03-24 Thread Travis Truax
Who wants to use a certificate authority? Trust that's purchased isn't trust at all. ;) Travis- -Original Message- From: Joe Matuscak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 11:06 AM To: EDI-L@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [EDI-L]Sales AS2 On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 [EMAIL

RE: [EDI-L]Sales AS2

2005-03-24 Thread Travis Truax
I just had to renew Walmart's cert on our system. They create theirs (at least for us) for 2 years. Travis- -Original Message- From: Earl Wertheimer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 2:26 PM To: Joe Matuscak; EDI-L@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [EDI-L]Sales AS2

RE: [EDI-L]Sales AS2

2005-03-24 Thread Travis Truax
The sad part is, the AS1,2, 3 RFCs are all laying there for everyone to put their own together. Sure, reinventing the wheel sucks, but if everyone is going to charge thousands for each wheel AS2 is not extemely complicated. There's no reason for certification anyway. It either complies with

RE: [EDI-L] Non-ASCII characters

2005-04-07 Thread Travis Truax
Just curious- What is the point in creating a company policy to limit the character sets used to communicate with your partners? :) Travis- -Original Message- From: Philippart, Marianne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 8:08 AM To: Dan Mehlhorn Cc: EDI-L

RE: [EDI-L] Non-ASCII characters

2005-04-07 Thread Travis Truax
the communication. Otherwise, why not send and accept anything in any format? Why bother with EDI at all Travis? Dan -Original Message- From: Travis Truax Just curious- What is the point in creating a company policy to limit the character sets used to communicate with your partners? :) Travis

RE: [EDI-L] Tech AS2 White Paper

2005-04-08 Thread Travis Truax
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ediint-as2-20.txt -Original Message-From: Michael Josiah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 1:56 PMTo: EDI-L@yahoogroups.comSubject: [EDI-L] Tech AS2 White Paper Hello Group, I fully understand what

RE: [EDI-L] For GXS customers.

2005-04-14 Thread Travis Truax
Their VPN connectivity option stinks. You have to manually key a password in every time it connects, and it boots you off after several hours. Travis- -Original Message- From: jpressedi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 9:47 AM To: EDI-L@yahoogroups.com Subject:

RE: [EDI-L] Gentran:Server translation

2005-04-15 Thread Travis Truax
On issue #2: Have you tried to empty the field in an ext rule? empty(#field); Travis- -Original Message- From: Jeff Garwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 2:12 PM To: 'EDI-L@yahoogroups.com'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [EDI-L] Gentran:Server translation I

RE: [EDI-L] XPath for the EDI message elements ???

2005-04-26 Thread Travis Truax
Xpath operates on heirarchial data. It can walk through the levels of data to find one field because every bit of data has a relative position within the heirarchy. Traditional EDI doesn't fit that mold. There are some dumb EDI - XML converters out there. You could then use XPath to search

RE: [EDI-L] Re: XPath for the EDI message elements ???

2005-04-27 Thread Travis Truax
No, you use xmlLinguist to go from this: BEG ITD PO1 SAC My bad, that's what I meant. adding hierarchy to an otherwise flat document (yes yes, I know X12 has an implicit hierarchy, but it's not 100% apparent. with XML, it's quite explicit) I'm glad you said that, as that is precisely

RE: [EDI-L] ISA-14

2005-04-29 Thread Travis Truax
That's just for requesting an ack for the Interchange, right? Many prefer to acknowledge at the Group level instead. Travis- -Original Message- From: Gina Coomer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 11:02 AM To: EDI-L@yahoogroups.com Subject: [EDI-L] ISA-14 Hello

RE: [EDI-L] Gentran NT differences of 3.2 to 5.0.

2005-05-05 Thread Travis Truax
There are some registry fixes that must be applied or some 3.2 maps will not compile. The fixes have been previously posted, and revolve around gentran lookup/location tables. Travis- -Original Message- From: doug6050 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 10:08 AM To:

RE: [EDI-L] Walmart - EDI

2005-05-12 Thread Travis Truax
Why would you prefer to go through a VAN for your AS2 communication? That just adds another step in the process. Sure, VANs are supposed to add value, but they usually add it on the retailer side. Travis- -Original Message- From: laguadj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May

RE: [EDI-L] Walmart - EDI

2005-05-12 Thread Travis Truax
Earl, you forgot about their profit model. Seeing that using the draft RFC, everyone could just make their own AS2 utility, or use an open source one, they setup this Drummond Group testing BS roadblock. Then they can charge too much for the sw itself, and they can charge enormous fees for

RE: [EDI-L] Walmart - EDI

2005-05-12 Thread Travis Truax
Earl, that profit model business was supposed to be a joke... :) Actually, the person who owns Drummond Group was one of the main people behind the RFC. And I suspect that is the exact reason for the certification. They pretended to develop an open standard, and then turned it into If you wanna

RE: [EDI-L] Walmart - EDI

2005-05-12 Thread Travis Truax
Shan, My bit of ranting about the certification process may make me look ignorant to the points you bring up, but really- I have taken that stuff into consideration. :) I just don't feel it's necessary. There will always be small problems to correct here and there. If we wanted to be even

RE: [EDI-L] Catalog data from major stores (Sears, Costco, Wal-Ma rt,...)

2005-06-01 Thread Travis Truax
Do you mean how to catalog items FOR a major store, or FROM? We use QRS/Inovis Catalog for some of our customers and another datapool for GDSN. Looks like Brian beat me to it Anyway what are you needing to know Eugene? Travis- -Original Message- From: Layevskiy, Eugene

RE: [EDI-L] Create Pass-Through Maps in Gentran NT

2005-06-14 Thread Travis Truax
I remember seeing a pass through processing whitepaper on sterling's site recently. Travis- -Original Message- From: extoman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:43 PM To: EDI-L@yahoogroups.com Subject: [EDI-L] Create Pass-Through Maps in Gentran NT I need to create

RE: [EDI-L] GTIN Labeling

2005-06-23 Thread Travis Truax
Earl, I'm actually pretty tenacious with my googling, you just compiled a fruitfull set of keywords. And I thank you glady for it. :) Travis- -Original Message- From: Earl Wertheimer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 10:46 AM To: EDI-L@yahoogroups.com Subject:

RE: [EDI-L] GTIN Labeling

2005-06-24 Thread Travis Truax
After pondering this further, and examining the links sent, I still can't get this clear in my head. Example: Baseball cards (All levels sold at POS, Only Shipping Case sold to Retailer) Shipping Case: UPC: xx1n Inner Box: UPC: xx2p Each Pack of cards: UPC: xx3q Since

RE: [EDI-L] (MISC) GTIN Labeling

2005-06-24 Thread Travis Truax
Even though a case is sold to a consumer it may not carry a U.P.C. or EAN-13. For example I purchased a case of Tejave ice tea. The case had a SCC14 and each bottle had a U.P.C. they were not the same, which is allowable. When I went to the checkout line the clerk opened the case scanned one

RE: [EDI-L] I didn't know this. Or why Proofreaders are needed. Or They've been lying to us....

2005-07-19 Thread Travis Truax
I'm actually suprised to hear this. I was just at a Retail-Link User Group last week that was focused on RFID, and the presenters there mentioned the trucking side was a blind spot as far as RFID visibility is concerned. Also, EPCglobal seems to show the same thing on their diagrams - trucking

RE: [EDI-L] I didn't know this. Or why Proofreaders are needed. Or They've been lying to us....

2005-07-19 Thread Travis Truax
Message- From: Travis Truax [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 3:00 PM To: EDI-L Listserv; 'Doug Anderson' Subject: RE: [EDI-L] I didn't know this. Or why Proofreaders are needed. Or They've been lying to us I'm actually suprised to hear this. I was just at a Retail

RE: [EDI-L] I didn't know this. Or why Proofreaders are needed. Or They've been lying to us....

2005-07-19 Thread Travis Truax
To: 'Travis Truax'; Doug Anderson; EDI-L Listserv Subject: RE: [EDI-L] I didn't know this. Or why Proofreaders are needed. Or They've been lying to us Travis Not to prolong the discussion.. but What do they expect Transportation to do with the rfid tags placed on product? What additional

RE: [EDI-L] I didn't know this. Or why Proofreaders are needed. Or They've been lying to us....

2005-07-20 Thread Travis Truax
-Original Message- From: EDI-L@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Travis Truax Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 4:21 PM To: 'Doug Anderson'; EDI-L Listserv Subject: RE: [EDI-L] I didn't know this. Or why Proofreaders are needed. Or They've been lying to us One example would

RE: [EDI-L] Hi Members

2005-07-27 Thread Travis Truax
I understand what you are saying, but (sorry Vijay) BS questions are not going to get good answers. On some of the programming lists I'm on, it's not uncommon for students - the very people that should be asking questions on the list - to ask for someone to just give some code, after others have

RE: [EDI-L] RFID?

2005-07-28 Thread Travis Truax
What is the new RFID part of EDI? Can you elaborate? The company I work for is hosting the University of Arkansas ITRI (Information Technology Research Institute) RFID Research Center. By hosting I mean we donated part of our facility for them to operate their lab. I will try to be a source for

RE: [EDI-L] Who is doing RFID?

2005-07-29 Thread Travis Truax
You still have the nasty EPC global membership fee yearly maintenance. $5000 to $500,000+ +20%/year depending on your company's sales. Travis- -Original Message- From: James Hatcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 7:45 PM To: Denise Tate; EDI-L@yahoogroups.com

RE: [EDI-L] UCC Code variations

2005-07-29 Thread Travis Truax
What is a U.P.C. Case Code? Are you referring to a product that has multiple consumer units (like a case of candy bars that can be purchased at POS or torn into and purchased separately at POS? Travis- -Original Message- From: Mike Rawlins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 29,

RE: [EDI-L] UCC Code variations

2005-07-29 Thread Travis Truax
Subject: RE: [EDI-L] UCC Code variations At 01:10 PM 7/29/2005 -0500, Travis Truax wrote: What is a U.P.C. Case Code? Are you referring to a product that has multiple consumer units (like a case of candy bars that can be purchased at POS or torn into and purchased separately at POS? The verbiage

RE: [EDI-L] Re: UCC Code variations

2005-07-29 Thread Travis Truax
coding scheme. The leading 3 in the consumer code identifies it as an NDC code (or something to that affect). Mike --- In EDI-L@yahoogroups.com, Travis Truax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grocery eh? Can't say I'm really versed in that market, but we have sold to a few. Using your example: 3

RE: [EDI-L] Re: Tech Sears, Penney's AS2 usage

2005-08-05 Thread Travis Truax
why would companies like Walmart use Drummond if it was not necessary and cost-effective? Bob, you must be joking! YES it is cost-effective to them! At the expense of everyone else. They most likely got FREE software! Don't think that it's the best way for everyone just because that's the way it

RE: [EDI-L] EDI Environment and Firewalls

2005-08-15 Thread Travis Truax
I presume you're talking AS2. How else would you do it? You wouldn't want everyone to have access to your EDI data. It shouldn't take very long to poke a hole for the partner to get through- you could even write a script to do most of the work... :) Travis- -Original Message- From:

RE: [BULK] Re: [EDI-L] Building Maps in Gentran

2005-12-07 Thread Travis Truax
I installed GT server and wrote maps for it at my company after reading the printed docs. (I later felt I needed more, and went to columbus for training - only to find out I had already learned more with the manual than the instructor seemed to know.) I think mostly, people on these lists get

RE: [EDI-L] From Gentran 3.02 to 5.0

2005-12-07 Thread Travis Truax
CM, I remember talking to you in the past. Guess you have just been biting your nails waiting for the inevitable. We went through the same process, and it was quite ugly. We only have 20 partners though. Your situation sounds frightening to me. We had to recompile most of our maps. There

RE: [EDI-L] GXS

2005-12-21 Thread Travis Truax
We currently use Sterling, GXS, and Inovis. Out of the bunch, GXS stands out as the junker. We use their VPN connectivity, which is a manual process- you have to login daily by hand using a checkpoint firewall client (free download). Their must be a better way to connect to GE, I just haven't

RE: [EDI-L] EDI Advantage with MAS200

2005-12-22 Thread Travis Truax
WOW! Another person using MAS + EDI! This has been a nightmare since go. We use MAS200 SQL, and VI as integration with Gentran server. We refuse to use an EDI package that will not allow us to do mapping, so EDI Advantage was out for us. What file specs do you need? It should just pull in raw EDI,

[EDI-L] GXS VAN CONFUSION

2005-12-28 Thread Travis Truax
Is anyone familiar enough with GE to tell me what the difference is between: Tradanet® Service EDI*EXPRESS SM Service EDI Services Information Exchange SM GXS Interchange Services Trading Grid GE has one of the worst websites I have ever seen. I can't tell the actual services from the marketing

RE: [EDI-L] UCS dumb question

2006-02-28 Thread Travis Truax
: [EDI-L] UCS dumb question GS1 US (Formerly the Uniform Code Council). Yes, you join the council. Yes, there are membership fees. The publications are available for sale to non-members (at a higher price). Check out http://www.uc-council.org/gs1us.html Mike Travis Truax wrote: Where does

RE: [EDI-L] ASN Question

2006-03-27 Thread Travis Truax
I wouldn't expect anything dealing with JcPenney to make sense. Just remember, JcPenney will hold you accountable for not making their senseless crap make sense. :) Travis- -Original Message- From: Paul McTeigue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 7:28 PM To: 'john r';

RE: [EDI-L] ASN Question

2006-03-27 Thread Travis Truax
Whatever. They have as many exceptions and rules as the federal government. They openly state to new vendors at orientation BECAUSE OF CHARGEBACKS AND OFFSETS, DO NOT EXPECT TO MAKE MONEY IN THE FIRST YEAR. We were there. We heard it. They told everyone that. Do you see when your past clients

RE: [EDI-L] GXS Desktop EDI programming interface

2006-04-04 Thread Travis Truax
They probably are not being very helpful because they don't want anyone using that software anymore. They want you to migrate to Edisoft Merchant Express. I doubt you will find anything beyond the standard import/export functionality, which is not an API. Best of luck. Travis- -Original

RE: [EDI-L] GXS Desktop EDI programming interface

2006-04-04 Thread Travis Truax
performs the send/recv function. EDISoft is the software that replaces ASN Desktop and ASN Plus. As far as automatically importing and exporting, I don't think so. We normally flat file out manually. Travis Truax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:They probably are not being very helpful because

RE: [EDI-L] 753/754 with JC Penney

2006-04-07 Thread Travis Truax
We went with an in-house developed system. I'm sure their are more rock solid solutions out there, but we just have a SQL script that rips all the data out of our wms, totals the item weights volume, and a gentran map warps the output into a 753. So far the 754 side has been far more manual than

RE: [EDI-L] submit claim using java

2006-05-09 Thread Travis Truax
Here are two sourceforge java projects you could look at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/edireader http://sourceforge.net/projects/edi4j These may help with questions 1-3, but question 4 is a bit different... I don't work in the health care industry, so I don't know if they force you to use any

RE: [EDI-L] DC Locations

2006-05-09 Thread Travis Truax
Or you may download them from the Retail-Link site. (not sure where to get Costco locations) Travis- -Original Message- From: LiBassi, Margaret [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 2:29 PM To: djposkey; EDI-L@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [EDI-L] DC Locations If you are

RE: [EDI-L] The Joys of AS2

2006-05-11 Thread Travis Truax
Jon, You must have missed all the previous rants. It all just boils down to $$$. If you look hard enough, maybe you too can find nothing at all that you can charge $15K for! :) Travis- -Original Message- From: Jon Garniss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006

RE: [EDI-L] The Joys of AS2

2006-05-11 Thread Travis Truax
This sounds really backwards to me as well. *Almost never* has anyone cared what tcp source port was used to send anything. The destination port is where it's at Travis- -Original Message- From: Earl Wertheimer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 12:01 PM To: Gait

RE: [EDI-L] PLEASE HELP AS EARLY AS POSSSIBLE.

2006-05-16 Thread Travis Truax
EDI is NOT a like an easy programming language that you can pick simply pick up if you are a good developer, EDI is an industry, you have to appreciate the fact that it takes years to build good experience to make a career out of it. You can not do that in two days. What are you smokin' ? Easy

RE: [EDI-L] The Joys of AS2

2006-05-23 Thread Travis Truax
Well that is totally, like cheap for a test. Like duh! And why don't you let us all know why we are demanding you to charge us for some *totally worthless* service? Travis- -Original Message- From: Beth Morrow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 9:33 AM To:

[EDI-L] RE: [edi_gns] Gentran NT Server 5.0 mailbox question

2006-05-24 Thread Travis Truax
How about a small-app/utility/command-line-script/cron job-whatever that just moves the files from directory X, renames them for your import, and puts them in directory Y ? I know you said you have no control over the name, but just curious- why not? Travis- -Original Message-

RE: [EDI-L] tech Integrated ASN Solution

2006-05-30 Thread Travis Truax
We are currently evaluating software to fill the ASN+ void. We also use Gentran Server as our translator, and are looking for a package that will only use ONE map for Gentran, and we'll pick and choose what data to send depending on partner maps. Right now EDIsoft Visual ASN looks pretty good, but

RE: [EDI-L] GTIN Generated from UPC

2006-06-01 Thread Travis Truax
Add 2 zeroes to the front and let the check digit recalculate. If you need to calculate the check digit by hand google mod-10 calculate. Travis- -Original Message- From: cmcmillan3 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 7:56 AM To: EDI-L@yahoogroups.com Subject: [EDI-L]

RE: [EDI-L] X12 5010 856 Gentran or GIS map example

2006-06-15 Thread Travis Truax
You must be working on Wal-mart.me too. But I haven't started on the 856 yet. I would very much like to see this as well if anyone replies. Travis- -Original Message- From: shawn_aker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 9:50 AM To: EDI-L@yahoogroups.com Subject:

RE: [EDI-L] Wal-Mart 812

2006-06-30 Thread Travis Truax
You can get it from retail link. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 8:27 AM To: EDL LIST Subject: [EDI-L] Wal-Mart 812 Hello group, Do anyone have the 812 spec's for Wal-Mart? If so, can you share it Thanks Carl

RE: [EDI-L] Interview question

2006-06-30 Thread Travis Truax
What is data? Where does the data go? What color is the data? -Original Message- From: ARIJIT DEY [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 8:14 AM To: EDI-L@yahoogroups.com Subject: [EDI-L] Interview question Hi Does anyone have some technical Interview question on

RE: [EDI-L] What does it take to start an Interconnect Service

2006-07-06 Thread Travis Truax
What exactly is an interconnect business? It sounds like it has something to do with being a middle-man between the other middle-men that are between the middlemen that are between companys' communication. Travis- -Original Message- From: larrybhawkins97 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: [EDI-L] The Cries of the Clueless

2006-07-13 Thread Travis Truax
Well said... -Original Message- From: Hurd, Richard [SLCUS] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 10:17 AM To: EDI-L@yahoogroups.com Subject: [EDI-L] The Cries of the Clueless Taking off my moderator hat for a minute, and speaking as a list subscriber... I've been

RE: [EDI-L] ERP EDI raw data import/export concerns

2006-09-07 Thread Travis Truax
Comment on Gentran:Server ODBC: I use it. It works - But my opinion is that it's a 'house of cards'. By that I mean you can break your map with the slightest of changes. And debugging what is going on with your map can be rough. Travis- -Original Message- From: Becker, Adam

RE: [EDI-L] ERP EDI raw data import/export concerns

2006-09-08 Thread Travis Truax
To: Travis Truax; EDI-L@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [EDI-L] ERP EDI raw data import/export concerns Travis Our accounting package's documented interface with it's built-in integrity checks- likes to unpredictably (yet frequently) steal lines from imported EDI POs and place them on manually entered

RE: [EDI-L] Ambigous 997s error

2006-09-13 Thread Travis Truax
Except we all know we can throw in theory right down the dumper when using certain translation software packages. Put Gentran:Server Windows on that list... -Original Message- From: Michael Mattias [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 12:25 PM To:

RE: [EDI-L] OT idiot job posters

2006-09-18 Thread Travis Truax
I remember seeing adds in the local paper here - trying to find developers with 6+ years experience in technologies that had not existed for even 4 years at the time. On the bright side, you can guess they likely wouldn't know what to expect from that experience anyway. :) Travis- -Original

RE: [EDI-L] Gentran:Server question

2006-10-13 Thread Travis Truax
The Acrobat Distiller will print to a PDF file Travis- -Original Message- From: Carl Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 11:11 AM To: EDI-L@yahoogroups.com Subject: [EDI-L] Gentran:Server question Importance: High I have a department that wants a word

RE: [EDI-L] To SDQ or not SDQ...

2006-10-18 Thread Travis Truax
I expect you will find that the SDQ is the way to go. I don't really know the history of the SDQ, but in my opinion, if it wasn't grafted on to the 850 as an afterthought, it was poorly implemented. But since it's the accepted standard for this sort of thing - you should probably stick with it.

RE: [EDI-L] To SDQ or not SDQ...MAS 200 Users

2006-10-19 Thread Travis Truax
Visual Integrator Gentran. VI's clunky, but it can be made to work. Travis- -Original Message- From: Charlotte Sigmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 12:37 PM To: Travis Truax; Mike Rawlins; EDI-L@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [EDI-L] To SDQ or not SDQ...MAS

RE: [EDI-L] UCC-128 labeling software

2006-10-24 Thread Travis Truax
I take you mean you need it to come with a basic example UCC-128, right? Then you can tweak to your customer's delight. I believe Label Matrix has several UCC format labels downloadable from their website for their label package. Travis- -Original Message- From: johannaclarke

RE: [EDI-L] Open Source EDI ??

2006-10-24 Thread Travis Truax
Search SourceForge. There are a few. Mostly Java related. Travis- -Original Message- From: tialoc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 2:48 PM To: EDI-L@yahoogroups.com Subject: [EDI-L] Open Source EDI ?? Has anyone looked into any Open Source solutions for EDI?

RE: [EDI-L] Data search organization for raw edi data - Win 200 0 files.

2006-10-26 Thread Travis Truax
UltraEdit! *ASCII or Hex *Column Mode *Find in files *Text Compare Travis- -Original Message- From: hultc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 12:22 PM To: EDI-L@yahoogroups.com Subject: [EDI-L] Data search organization for raw edi data - Win 2000 files. Does

RE: [EDI-L] ISA11 in v4030 Forward - Repitition Separator

2006-11-03 Thread Travis Truax
Mike is right. We had one retailer screwing this up as well. Many people got used to the previous ISA format and for some reason, assumed it wouldn't change. Travis- -Original Message- From: Mike Rawlins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 2:55 PM To:

RE: [EDI-L] Re: AS2 setup for CommerceHub OFF-TOPIC

2006-11-03 Thread Travis Truax
The question seems perfectly clear to me. He's asking for pointers on setting up GIS with AS2 to CommerceHub US Canada. If I had any knowledge in that area, I would help, but I don't. :( Travis- -Original Message- From: Mario Zambrano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 03,

RE: [EDI-L] SCC-14

2006-12-05 Thread Travis Truax
Number 2. Remember, the check digit is to validate the number as a whole, so if you add more digits to the number, the check digit will change with the number (unless the extra digits are all zeros.) Travis- -Original Message- From: k711_711 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,

RE: [EDI-L] ODBC Mapping

2006-12-06 Thread Travis Truax
I can tell you it is not extremely intuitive. I would definitely read through the ODBC guide - the appedix has some tips in it. And I will send you a zipped power point presentation Sterling sent me. It has some useful pages near the end. Travis- -Original Message- From: jas0729

RE: [EDI-L] EDI Outsourcing

2006-12-12 Thread Travis Truax
I know you are looking for answers, not more questions, but why would you spend the money on GIS and then throw it away? Travis- -Original Message- From: kakcrawford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 5:46 PM To: EDI-L@yahoogroups.com Subject: [EDI-L] EDI

RE: [EDI-L] EDI Outsourcing

2006-12-13 Thread Travis Truax
. -Original Message- From: krishna kumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 10:19 PM To: Travis Truax; kakcrawford; EDI-L@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [EDI-L] EDI Outsourcing Hi Travis, Can you please explain why you have that perception after certain period of time we

RE: [EDI-L] EDI Outsourcing

2006-12-13 Thread Travis Truax
that you can't get back the investment, (a mistake was made) and move on. If in fact all this conjecture actually mirrors the original poster's scenario. Travis- -Original Message- From: Brian Lehrhoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 9:19 AM To: Travis Truax

RE: [EDI-L] EDI Outsourcing

2006-12-13 Thread Travis Truax
: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 10:14 AM To: Travis Truax; Brian Lehrhoff; EDI-L@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [EDI-L] EDI Outsourcing The original poster was talking about a system running on AS/400, not a small EDI system. Access to an AS/400 would be greater than a small system and should be able

RE: [EDI-L] Transmission protocol question

2006-12-19 Thread Travis Truax
Heike, You wouldn't need AS2 software, just HTTP. Your web-browser is capable of doing the things you mentioned. An MDN is not the same as an HTTP return code. I'm not much of a *NIX programmer, but I'm guessing maybe a perl script would do the job. Good luck, Travis-

RE: [EDI-L] Reg:Using database tables in gentran Mapping

2007-01-17 Thread Travis Truax
Are you using Gentran or GIS? Gentran NT doesn't allow real SQL statements. The select extended rule is not the same as a SQL select. Same with UPDATE. User exits are your only option in this case. Other versions/platforms are outside my realm of expertise. Travis- -Original Message-

RE: [EDI-L] Creating xrf file for importing into cross ref table (Gentran).

2007-01-17 Thread Travis Truax
Why would you do that? push the data into the cross reference db tables. Travis- -Original Message- From: Narayanan Bharadwaj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 11:42 AM To: edi list Subject: [EDI-L] Creating xrf file for importing into cross ref table

RE: [EDI-L] Re: Reducing/eliminating our EDI VAN

2007-01-23 Thread Travis Truax
I'm surprised to see many of these posts. The last time I shared my displeasure concerning the drummond certification on this list everyone that responded collectively seemed to say, You're delusional, Rick Drummond is a great guy - stop ragging on him. Well, here's another helping of my worthless

RE: [EDI-L] Re: Reducing/eliminating our EDI VAN -AS2 Certificati on

2007-01-30 Thread Travis Truax
Many of the ASN systems for small shops are closer to a non-integrated, turn-around map type of process. Where EDI 850s are used to build the ASN possibly the invoice, and users must remove line items or quantities not shipped to sync the ASN Invoice with the actual order- if modified. It's a

[EDI-L] Direct Exchange (DEX) / Network Exchange (NEX)

2007-02-01 Thread Travis Truax
Anyone care to summarize what these terms are all about? I googled them, and while there is plenty of info out there, I've yet to find anything that really does it for me. We have been using EDI for a decade, and somehow I've not come across these terms until now. We've never had a request for

RE: [EDI-L] PO SDQ Segment Processing and Response

2007-02-01 Thread Travis Truax
Defined by the trading partner. -Original Message- From: Jerome Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 11:57 AM To: EDI-L@yahoogroups.com Subject: [EDI-L] PO SDQ Segment Processing and Response If trading partner sends a PO with multiple SDQ segments,

RE: [EDI-L] Direct Exchange (DEX) / Network Exchange (NEX)

2007-02-01 Thread Travis Truax
Thanks, Ken. That did it. -Original Message- From: KenCox(EDI) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 2:58 PM To: Travis Truax; EDI-L@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [EDI-L] Direct Exchange (DEX) / Network Exchange (NEX) They are terms used in the Grocery Industry

RE: [EDI-L] PO SDQ Segment Processing and Response

2007-02-01 Thread Travis Truax
Jim, As a supplier, I wish the logical scenario you have spoken about were always the case, but I would say it's more likely just the rule of thumb. This list has seen its share of the debate between what the standard is and what the customer wants. It *always* ends at what the customer

RE: [EDI-L] EDI File Encrypting

2007-02-05 Thread Travis Truax
You may already have everything you need. We just use our router. It's currently setup to create VPN tunnels encrypted using 3DES or AES on demand with GXS Inovis. I think GXS DID charge us a fee to setup the connection Travis- -Original Message- From: w_cohen99 [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [EDI-L] WALMART 5010 conversion 856

2007-02-06 Thread Travis Truax
We have MAS200, but it sure doesn't do ASNs. It doesn't even do warehousing or shipping! You must have a bunch of modifications or have many other products integrated with it. :) Travis- -Original Message- From: JAMES GONZALEZ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007

RE: [EDI-L] WALMART 5010 conversion 856

2007-02-07 Thread Travis Truax
the Enhancement Services manager there. We can help you out. From: Travis Truax [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'JAMES GONZALEZ' [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: EDI-L@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [EDI-L] WALMART 5010 conversion 856 Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 21:03:39 -0600 We have MAS200

RE: [EDI-L] GXS DOWN?????

2007-02-21 Thread Travis Truax
It went down sometime between 9:01AM 10:00AM CST. That's as close as I can get, anyway. Travis- -Original Message- From: Rudolph, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 2:40 PM To: Jackie Woodie; edi-l@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [EDI-L] GXS DOWN?

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