Re: ADP

["John Earl" <johnearl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave,

> We are a financial institution that deals with a payroll company
(ADP) in sending and receiving data files. This company requires a
bi-synchronous connection. Does anyone else out there deal with ADP
and how do they connect to get the files to and from the AS400?

If you want to roll your own, I have some code (circa 1989) that you
can bang into shape to do send Bisync (2780 protocol) ACH files to a
remote system.  It's a little rough, but once you get it working you
can pretty much just set it and forget it.

If you want to save yourself some headaches, go buy a commercial
product like Alliance Banklink/400 from www.patownsend.com  The Bisync
technology is unchanged since probably 1969, so the documentation to
build it yourself should be readily available.  But then you have to
ask yourself how much time you want to invest in learning how systems
used to communicate.  :)

jte



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