What exactly was the problem when you translated that file? what is the
separator on the mainframe?
Yes there is a transliteration conversation between Mainframe (EBCIDIC) and the
pc (ASCII) but a translator should be able to handle that due to the fact that
any character can be used as a separator or terminator.
Is it valid? yes it is valid, there are no rules (unfortunately) when it comes
to separators!
Should you try to change it? If I were consulting for a large company and wanted
to change something that would benefit me I would look at the volume of the data
I wanted to change. If this is for only one TP then I would suggest it, if it
would help you out, but if this is for all TP's or a large amount of them, then
you probably need to adapt...but that is your call.
Anthony Whitehead
Technology Enablement
Andersen Consulting
=->Newbie Question:
=->
=->I have just started testing X12 (4010) with a large company that has
=->apparently been doing EDI for a long time. I have just downloaded the first
=->batch of test messages from an IBM Information Exchange network over the
=->AT&T secure IP network. I had a problem when I tried translating the test
=->messages to a flat mapping to view the contents:
=->
=->There is an oddity in the ISA: The sub-element separator is specified as
=->0xAD, that is a minus sign with the high-order bit on.
=->
=->1. Why would this be? Perhaps I can answer my own question there: my guess
=->is that the output is from an IBM mainframe and this the result of a wierd
=->EBCDIC to ASCII conversion.
=->
=->2. Is it valid? Ie. should I try to insist that they change it?
=->
=->3. Any suggestions on what I should do about it? (In this case it is
=->probably me that will have to adapt, not the trading partner because they
=->are very big and my organisation is very small).
=->
=->Cheers, Mark Dixon, Anysize Software Pty Ltd
=->e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
=->Phone: +61 8 9249 4703 Fax: +61 8 9249 4052
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