Interesting. As I recall GENTRAN:Director and/or GENTRAN:Server for NT were
developed by a British company. My experience with UNIX and mainframe
translators is that you must explicitly disenable segments but again my
experience is with large companies few of which ran on PCs or Windows NT.
Enabling most current EDI translators to generate 997s based on an IG would
require a redesign. IGs include business rules which cannot be expressed
easily or at all in most Standards Editors. One thing that we have to
remember is that there are at least three levels of "standards" against
which a 997 might be generated:
ANSI X12
Industry IGs
Trading Partner IGs (Presumably a subset of the industry IG but not
necessarily)
Jim Divoky
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From: "Mike Rawlins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 11:27 AM
Subject: Re: Dual 997's
> Speaking unofficially as vice-chair of X12C, which is responsible for
> the 997, I will confirm the comments that Jonathan Allen (chair of
> X12C/TG4) made concerning the 997. Due to strong opposition from a
> small number of voting members, we failed to achieve the consensus
> required to modify the 997 to report against implementation guides. The
> 997 is strictly defined to report against the standard. If I remember
> correctly (and I'm sure Jonathan will correct me), the 824 is in the
> process of being modified to report against ICs. I will also confirm
> that there is no case where two 997s are valid. If you need an official
> statement on either point, you may file a request for interpretation
> with DISA, X12's secretariat, and we would be happy to prepare you one.
>
> Taking my standards hat off and putting my consultant hat on, I will say
> that despite what the standard says, all of the translators I've worked
> with except one actually validate against several aspects of an IC and
> not strictly against the standard. For example, in GENTRAN Director and
> NT, you need to explicitly enable segments that you are expecting to
> receive. If you receive them and they aren't enabled in the map, a 997
> reject will be generated. Other translators also give you the option of
> restricting code sets used for validation.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Michael C. Rawlins, Rawlins EC Consulting
> www.rawlinsecconsulting.com
>
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