Hello group; I am a network engineer at a VAN in Northeast Ohio. We have noticed delays with our interconnect with GXS. Our communication sessions were experiencing very long delays between the time a mailbag was delivered to GXS and put into pending status and the close of the comm session.
What was happening apparently is the slow-down in the AS/2 and ICS operations at GXS were affecting our VAN-to-VAN interconnect. With GXS, the communication session has to be left open until a mailbag moves from pending to confirmed. Apparently, if the comm session is forced to close before confirmation is delivered, the mailbag may be discarded by the GXS side. On May 15, noticed delays of as much as 38 minutes being stuck in comm sessions that had pending status. Depending on business logic driving the VAN-to-VAN interconnects, some VANs probably had a lot of trouble figuring out if their mailbags had been accepted by GXS due to the processing delays and lack of mailbag IAs coming back. Things seem to be better today, May 17. So far all the mailbags have been going on the first try, but IAs are a bit slow coming back. We have asked the GXS support people if there is a parm we can set to be able deliver mailbags asynchronously, thus getting around the problem. The way GXS implemented communications is great for a customer that sends some EDI once or twice a week manually by FTP - they have sure indication their work has been processed. As a VAN, we are more interested in working at the level of the mailbagging protocol and don't need synchronous indication while we are in a comm session. What we want to see is the IA being returned to us from the other VAN. Integration of processes is good, but when you can try to roll too much functionality together, you may compound the complexity of problems. --Bill Mayhew EC/EDI, Ltd. --- In [email protected], "Nancy Plume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is GXS still having problems at the VAN? Our orders are not being > received. I sure wish they would contact their customers when they are > down!!! > > Thanks, > Nancy > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Home is just a click away. Make Yahoo! your home page now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/DHchtC/3FxNAA/yQLSAA/OIFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix. Access the list online at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L RSS feed is: http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/rss 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/
