Gina, In the dim dark days of 300 baud modems, some people feared that an interchange may not make it through the phone lines. In an effort to be absolutl sure that the VAN got the entire interchange before the phone went dead, the ISA14 was born. The VAN would create a TA, a Transaction Acknowledgement, indicating that they got the entire ISA. In these days of emails and 100MB direct connects, it seems rather quaint, but since some people are still using Morse Code for EDI (just a joke) it is still there, and likely will be during the Y10K cirsis in about 8 thousand years. Dan Cotto-Thorner
Gina Coomer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Group Can someone please explain what the ISA-14 is used for exactly? The standards say '0' for No Interchange Acknowledgement Requested and '1' for Interchange Acknowledgement Requested (TA1). All ISA-14 elements that I have seen always had a value of '0' and a 997 acknowledgement was still sent back. Is this something other than a 997? Thank you for any insight. Gina Ann Coomer Smith Heating Supplies . Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Access the list online at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L --------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] . Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Access the list online at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
