RE: BISYNC vs ASYNCH programming

[Eric Kempter <noerick.norcal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Patrick,
     We are going direct with a trading partner.  

On Saturday, May 13, 2000 12:06 PM, Patrick Townsend 
[SMTP:townsend@patownsend.com] wrote:
| Eric,
| 
| There are some differences in how Bisynch and Asynch operate with ICF 
| files, but not a whole lot. If you have the Harbinger (formerly Premenos) 
| package you can probably write your own communications module and plug it 
| in. Or just receive to a file and use file processing to import the file.
| 
| One important point: many Asynch EDI interfaces use Xmodem, Ymodem or 
| Zmodem to transfer files. You would need a third party package to support 
| this on the AS/400. A better choice would be to use FTP. And you don't need 
| to install expensive frame relay connections to use FTP. Are you 
| communicating with a value added network like Advantis, or going direct 
| with a trading partner?
| 
| Patrick
| 
| At 04:03 PM 5/12/2000 -0700, Eric Kempter wrote:
| >Is there a great deal of difference in the programming of Bisynchronous
| >communications vs Asynchronous communications.  We purchased an EDI package
| >that uses Bisynch comms.  We asked the vendor for a quote on how much it
| >would cost to modify his package to support asynch comms.  He said it would
| >take him weeks to come up with a quote and then it would probably take
| >months to program.  Does this sound realistic.  TIA
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