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Dave Records
Records Consulting, LLC
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On May 20, 2011, at 3:02 PM, Michael Mattias/LS wrote:

> >>There is no indicator for "997 requested" in the ISA segment or anywhere
> >else in an ANSI X12 interchange, functional group or transaction set....
> >> ....
> >>ISA14 - Acknoweldgment Requested (values 0 = no, 1 = yes) - asks for an
> <<interchange acknowledgment. (TA1 segment
> 
> >Michael, I can’t believe that we still have to state this after 3-plus 
> >decades of using the X12 standards.
> 
> I can.
> 
> Every week I run into people new to ANSI/EDIFACT EDI who have a lot of 
> preconceived notions..in addition to misunderstanding the meaning of 
> ISA14.....
> .
> - Element delimiter is ALWAYS "*"
> - Delimiters are always the same for all interchanges in any one physical 
> file
> - Sender/Receiver IDs at functional group level are always the same as IDs 
> at ISA level
> - There is some one-to-one relationship between ISA 12 and GS06 version 
> values, e.g., if GS06=''004010" then ISA12 MUST equal "00401"
> - ANSI EDI data is *always* formatted one segment per line (with CRLF 
> termination)
> - Elvis frequently visits the Mall of America in Minneapolis
> - ANSI/EDIFACT EDI is obsolete, having been superceded by XML-format 
> documents (which are easy to implement because there is never any ambiguity 
> regarding the meaning of a tag)
> - If you've never touched an ANSI/EDIFACT EDI system but are otherwise 
> bright and hardworking you can implement a new system and do it well, from 
> scratch - by yourself - without any training or support from an EDI 
> professional.
> 
> All absolutely false, except of course the Elvis thing. I just threw that in 
> to see if everyone was paying attention.
> 
> Michael C. Mattias
> Tal Systems Inc.
> Racine WI
> [email protected]
> 
> 



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