RE: EDI Info Needed -- MIDRANGE-L

Gentran is written in COBOL and was ported from the mainframe years ago.  I
believe Sterling purchased Gentran.  They also used to have another midrange
translator (called Translator*400, also Translator*36 and Translator*38)
which was also purchased from MetroMark out of Long Island.  This was many
years ago.  Sterling basically bought the user  base, then sun setted the
product and resold licenses for Gentran.
cjg


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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
[mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Jim Damato
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 7:25 PM
To: 'midrange-l@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: EDI Info Needed


We've found Sterling GENTRAN to be quite easy to use and very stable.
Upgrades have been very well documented and always have gone smoothly.  The
interfaces were straightforward, but not simple.  I had seen Premenos in use
at a previous job and felt that GENTRAN was about as easy to map as
Premenos.  GENTRAN has a nice AS/400-style command interface so that you can
integrate EDI functions into CL job streams.

GENTRAN has a somewhat strange architecture behind the scenes.  The job logs
suggest that the code was generated on some other platform before being
translated and ported to the AS/400 (but I could be wrong).  Regardless, the
product is rock solid.

We've been using Sterling as a VAN.  I'm not plugged into their pricing.  I
do know that we think they're expensive:  That may, however, be a comparison
to B2B over the Internet as opposed to competitive VAN pricing.

-Jim

James P. Damato
Manager - Technical Administration
Dollar General Corporation
<mailto:jdamato@dollargeneral.com>


-----Original Message-----
From: Hatzenbeler, Tim [mailto:thatzenbeler@clinitech.net]
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 1:19 PM
To: 'midrange-l@midrange.com'
Subject: EDI Info Needed


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EDI Help...

Were using a software package called Infinium (Po's, invoices, asn) and were
about the start using the edi pieces, and was look for some resources on how
to complete this project...

My first step is to find as/400 edi mapping solution, that will work nicely
with infinium, and then I need a list of recommended VAN's (good quality)
with reasonable rates to transfer our doc's..

Please feel free to e-mail me privately...

Thank you... tim

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