Seeburger Inc., a global provider of EDI/EC translation software solutions,
also currently supports ODBC.
Brad Woods
Seeburger, Inc.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony Beecher [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: March 01, 2000 11:19 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Mapping to/from Access and/or Excel
>
> What is EDITALK?
>
> I know that Gentran NT and St. Paul do not support ODBC,
> PaperFree does ODBC, EDITalk does ODBC,
> Mercator supports ODBC and MS SQL Server /Oracle/DB2 native connections.
>
> When I met with St. Paul, they said it was better to use a flat file and a
> bulk load rather than ODBC. Can anyone speak to this statement?
>
> Anthony Beecher
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark T. Kennedy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 2:06 PM
> To: Subject: Re: Mapping to/from Access and/or Excel
>
>
> Dan is correct here. Products having ODBC and/or native drivers to access
> database applications directly allows seamless message implementations.
> Eliminating all flat file integration.
>
> EDITALK has this functionality also a simplified "drag and drop" mapping
> tool.
>
> Mark Kennedy
>
> Dan Kazzaz wrote:
>
> I saw the original posting and did not have time to answer it.
>
> It certainly is possible to map to Access or Excel.However, it is
> product dependent.If the mapping tool you are using has ODBC capability
> you can do it.Without ODBC capability, it is difficult.
>
> Some mapping tools have ODBC capability by generating source code,
> others achieve it in more efficient methods.
>
> If your software vendor cannot support this capability, then you
> will need to write additional programs to parse the EDI message and post
> it into your database.There are several products on the market (including
> PaperFree's) that do not require this additional programming effort.
>
> Dan Kazzaz
>
> PaperFree Systems, Inc.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jasper Abeyta [ <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 3:14 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Mapping to/from Access and/or Excel
>
> Greetings,
>
> Several weeks someone asked the group if were possible to map
> to/from either Access or Excel. I suspect that most responses were sent
> directly to the individual since very few were posted for the groups
> benefit.
>
> I know how to do this with SPS, but is it possible to do this with
> Sterling's Gentran: Integrator? I called Tech Support and was told that I
> could not. In SPS when defining the flat file you can define it as a
> variable length. How would I do this with Gentran? Any and all
> suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jasper
>
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