RE: BISYNC vs ASYNCH programming

[Eric Kempter <noerick.norcal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James,
     This is strictly a software issue on our side.  My trading partner is 
willing to use ASYNCH.

On Saturday, May 13, 2000 2:15 AM, James W. Kilgore 
[SMTP:eMail@James-W-Kilgore.com] wrote:
| Eric,
| 
| The purpose of most EDI packages is not just to get data from point A to
| point B, but to verify that the data was delivered and done so
| accurately.
| 
| At it's simplest, bisync is handled by a pair of programs (one at each
| end) that does a batch transmission of a file.  This can be replaced
| with FTP and appropriate byte count and check digit controls to provide
| a degree of confidence in delivery.
| 
| What this vendor may have is the EDI mapping within the bisync
| communications program and performs their translation and verification
| on a record by record or order by order basis.
| 
| Now that's a different story.
| 
| (thinking out loud) Instead of having the EDI communications running,
| one could create an umbrella loop that uses FTP to send an order,
| verify, process, feedback.  Sort of like producing a report by opening
| and closing the spool file on each page (one page = one order) while the
| spool writer chugs away at what it's received.  There is a performance
| penalty.
| 
| IMHO, by now, with the current technology, they should have figured this
| out, on their own dime.  Is there a trading partner issue that must be
| addressed?  Like available communications protocols?
| 
| Ooops, I just heard the end of week, no thinking out loud buzzer go off.
| ;)
| 
| 
| 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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