RE: EDIINT AS2

Well, I have implemented AS2 strictly because of customer requirements
(read Wal-Mart!).  As I said before, we utilized Trailblazer's EDIINT
solution.  I don't claim to be a network expert (far from it actually),
but all I had to do was open up specific ports on my Cisco firewall only
for my trading partner's specific IP addresses to use for this to work.


I am not sure what you mean by it being a push only service - but if
your customers are requiring you to go to AS2, then your network police
are just going to have to figure out how to make it work, IMHO.

What is your application?  We are a manufacturer selling to retail.

Bob Cagle
IT Manager
Lynk, Inc.
8241 Melrose Drive
Lenexa, KS  66214
913-492-9202 ext.41
mailto:bcagle@xxxxxxxxxxx


-----Original Message-----
From: Hatzenbeler, Tim [mailto:thatzenbeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 1:39 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: EDIINT AS2 Question was RE: ARGH! Please make it STOP!

I was wondering, if anybody has experience with AS2,  I have been asked
to
research it's viablity for our company, but it has one glaring problem I
can't get around.  AS2 seems to be a push only service, so if I push
data to
our Trading Partner, I must then break the connection and wait for a
reply,
(here is the problem)  our network police has a zero toloerance when it
comes to listening ports.  So I can't seem to figure out if I can make
this
technology work for us.  I was wondering if anyone else has implemented
AS2,
and how did they make their network police happy?

Tim