Jonathan Showalter was asking about 997s and said:
>
> A topic came up in the course of conversation about whether 997's should
> reflect the Standard or the Imp Guide (IG)...
A topic which has recently caused *much* heated debate in the hallowed
halls of X12.
> Now the questions... should the 997 reflect the Standard or the IG.
To give you the official answer, having been recently bruised through the
X12 process, a 997 is only allowed to report against the standard.
> I believe that creating a 997 from the standard is not very useful when
> it comes to syntax checking... there could be a valid qualifier/element/
> segment but because it's not in the IG I can't use it and will error out
> the transaction because I can't map the data. For example, if there were
> 5 relationship codes in the IG but the transaction being sent contains 6
> (the 6th one valid according to the standard) but one not in the IG and
> therefore doesn't map.
You are not the only one - most of the industry steals the 997 to do this
sort of reporting, often borrowing incorrect code values in AK3 to report
these conditions.
The official answer is: use the 824. The 824 has recently been enhanced
to enable it to carry all this sort of information, and if your translator
can generate a 997, it shouldn't be difficult to have it generate an 824
instead.
> Second question. Has anyone ever seen two 997's being sent. The first one to
> reflect the standard and the second to reflect the IG. I think this is a bad
> idea because if the first one says all syntax is correct and then the second
> one says there is a syntax error base on the IG.... the first one is of very
> little or no value.
No, this is strictly forbidden. Only one 997 may be sent for any one
functional group.
Jonathan
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