OOPS! Where I said "incorrectly" I should have said "correctly". It's
been a long week...
Mike Rawlins wrote:
> Alice,
>
> You are not insane, and your translator is behaving incorrectly. If
> your trading partner is sending you an ISA with a "U" in ISA11 and
> "00403" or higher in ISA12, they have messed up. They either need to
> send a character that is not in the data in ISA11 (meaning, something
> that can be used as a repetition separator), or they need to send you an
> ISA of version "00402" or earlier. The first approach is preferred, but
> since you don't have repeating data elements in your transaction sets
> the latter approach should work OK.
>
> Mike
>
> Alice Raia wrote:
>
>> All -
>>
>> I need a sanity check on the ISA11 in version 4030 forward.
>>
>> This element is defined as the "repetition separator":
>>
>> "The repetition separator is a delimiter and not a data element; this
>> field provides the delimiter used to separate repeated occurrences of
>> a simple data element or a composite data structure; this value must
>> be different than the data element separator, component element
>> separator, and the segment terminator."
>>
>> The way I read the above, since this field is defined as a DELIMITER,
>> it should never be set to a value that may actually occur in the EDI data.
>>
>> Is this how others understand this element ?
>>
>> My translator is taking an inbound 850/4030 with a "U" defined in the
>> ISA11 and removing all instances of "U" in the EDI data when it parses
>> the EDI. This is causing major problems in that our maps check for PO1
>> qualifiers of "UP" and "UK" and make decisions based on those values.
>> Post parsing, those values are simply "P" and "K".
>>
>> Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alice Raia
>>
>>
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