Greetings Everyone,
First, let me give you a background on our current setup.
1) Our EDI translator is Trusted Link Enterprise and is on the AS/400.
2) Currently our inbound process is utilizing BizManager for the AS/400.
The goal is to move off of BizManager and move it to Tibco BW/BC.
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Current AS/400 Process:
1) Do an FTP pull from the VAN and retrieve the EDI data.
2) Convert the EDI to 132 character blocks (necessary for Trusted
Link), and integrate the data into a table in its native format.
3) All the conversions and routing are done through BizManager currently.
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Tibco Process:
Currently there is a Tibco process setup that can be duplicated to
accomplish this.
My Tibco admin has noted that Tibco does not have the ability to
convert the EDI into 132 character chunks and that's where the issue
comes in.
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Workaround to get the 132 Character Block Formatting:
1) Tibco takes the inbound EDI and pushes it to the AS/400 in ASCII
format.
2) The data is then FTP'd to another folder on the AS/400 from a
script. The only special parameters I'm seeing are "namefmt 0" and
"BINARY mode."
3) Next the data is pulled back in where Trusted Link listens for it
from a script. The only special parameters I'm seeing "namefmt 1" and
"BINARY mode."
When steps 2 & 3 are combined, the EDI file gets converted to 132
character blocks. I don't really understand why and the person who
wrote the process can't explain it to me either.
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End Goal:
1) Eliminate this "football" FTP process we have setup and get the
data in its 132 characters blocks in a single upload.
Again, this football process was invented and magically worked because
Tibco can't do the 132 character conversions.
2) Understand how those two FTP steps "magically" convert the data
into 132 character blocks. Can anyone explain this?
Any ideas or insight would be appreciated, thanks.
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