RE: Rather aggravating EDI/FTP question

True.  And I think some of that information is in the ISA segment.

Back when we used VAN's we had a third party doing the verification for 
us.  However, they started getting a little pricey and people wanted 
direct FTP.  Now, rephrasing what the other poster stated, the customer 
has you even more by the short hairs.  And they are probably dealing with 
some PC based package that process this rather nicely in that fashion 
versus having purchased an EDI translator.

Rob Berendt
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safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
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Mike,

     If you are following EDI standards, the records should be a fixed 
length and should wrap. 

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Subject:                 Rather aggravating EDI/FTP question

I've got a vendor that we are FTP'ing our EDI transactions with.  We've 
been working for a while until recently where they claim we've changed 
what structure the file we are sending is.

Basically, we are sending our data in 80 character fixed length.  They 
claim that in prior testing we were sending one record per EDI segment. 
We've done some checking and think that it would have been impossible for 
us to change the record format and we even suspect that their early 
testing may have been done off of data we were emailing and not the FTP 
files as claimed.  As you can tell we may not have the best relationship 
with this vendor. 

They claim that the fixed length record isn't 'EDI standard' and our 
vendor says it is.......to protect the innocent I'm leaving names out.  I 
can change how we send the data but with this vendor I want to make sure I 

know what is what.

Is it normal for people to send their data in fixed length records or is 
it one record per segment?  And is the term EDI standard really mean it 
one or the other is a defacto standard? 


Michael Crump
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