yeah good luck with the "I hope that IBM doesn't mess with Sterling too much part"... That's like saying I hope that GXS doesn't mess with Inovis too much - which is what my company uses (Inovis Biztalk).
But I think the wiser ones and those that have gone through other mergers will probably know better... [email protected] ________________________________ From: Peter <[email protected]> To: "Hurd, Richard [SLCUS]" <[email protected]>; [email protected] Sent: Tue, July 27, 2010 8:56:27 PM Subject: Re: [EDI-L] WebSphere mapping question Richard, I wish there was a good reason, but it has nothing to do with technical reasons or common sense. I'm afraid it's just corporate decision making and group-think. I hope IBM doesn't mess with Sterling too much. It's been my contention that in recent years the Sterling brand has been held up by essentially the mapper and their VAN service. We all know the story with the latter since AS2 started rolling and if IBM messes up the former...ugh. Because of this WebSphere issue, I have been dealing with I have been looking into the WebSphere Message Broker to learn more about it. It has a visual style mapper and then a background code E-SQL that can be used instead of the visual mapper. Both seem about 10 years behind the current offerings in the EDI world. Even if you are doing 'space age' XML mappings! -Peter ----- Original Message ---- From: "Hurd, Richard [SLCUS]" <[email protected]> To: Peter <[email protected]>; [email protected] Sent: Tue, July 27, 2010 8:26:04 AM Subject: RE: [EDI-L] WebSphere mapping question >>Perhaps this isn't as off-topic as I though since with IBM's takeover of >>Sterling, all the Gentran stuff might end up as WebSphere in the not too >>distant >> >> >>future! Bite yer tongue. :) I'm genuinely curious as to why you have a middleware component in between your EDI system and SAP, since the inference from your message is that your EDI translator can consume IDocs. Can you share that? [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> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> 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/
