Re: Internet EDI with the AS/400

[Carl Galgano <cgalgano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:58 PM 7/28/97 CST, David Gibbs wrote:
>On 28 Jul 97 at 10:18, Rob Berendt wrote:
>
>> Internet EDI seems to be a big push right now.  I've been doing some
>>   preliminary work into this.  I figure, in this case, Internet=FTP
>> right? 
>
>It could be... but FTP is pretty crude.  I would hope that there is 
>some other, more elgegant, solution for critical data transfer over 
>the internet.  One major issue with FTP is: It's not encrypted
>
>david
>--

Dave:
That is true, but either is 99.9% of the current EDI traffic over private
VANs. Nobody gets too concerned about that.  We are acting as an AS400
gateway for some of our clients that wish to send a file from AS400 to the
internet.  Pretty simple, they either send it to us SNA or BSC and we
forward it along.  Encryption IS an issue, and there are products out there
to solve that issue.  Premenos has it's Templar product (I am a Premenos
VAR), but it is basically a proprietary software standard and each side of
the conversation needs a copy.  Thats all well and good until you have to
support multiple proprietary security standards to pass "standard" EDI
transactions.  You know the nice thing about standards.... there are SO many
to choose from!
Just my 2 cents.
Carl

>
>David Gibbs
>Sr. Software Engineer
>Silvon Software
>Westmont, IL
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