Michael - the first EDI translator I installed was the original TDCC source code. The I/O blocksize was very ugly - 3000 characters!!! Glad those days are over for me.
Rachel Foerster 847-872-8070 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Mattias/LS Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 8:52 AM To: EDI-L Subject: Re: [EDI-L] EDI Definition help?!? > Chris, blocking does take place at multiple levels.. [ et al] Used to see a lot of "blocked" data coming off of IBM mainframes. The probably originated because Waye Backe Whene COBOL was king and mainframe COBOL [programmers] didn't handle 'streams' of data well. Not well at all. You still see it from Mainframes and AS/400 machines but for a different reason: character set conversion. File Transfer Protocol is often used to move data from mainframe/AS400 to "other" places and FTP servers will often have the EBCDIC/ASCII conversions built in, but only in 'ASCII' mode... which requires record delimiters (usually LF or CRLF) to work. Since ya gots to put in those delimiters, ya gots to put 'em 'somewhere' so why not every 80 or 128 characters? The other format I've seen is "fixed, large record size" with one segment per record space-padded to that length. Someone sent me one of those about two years ago, but Ill bet it had been ten years since I'd seen it before then. I don't think that format has a 'sexy' name like "blocked" or "wrapped" ... but "ugly" would be good..... MCM . [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/
