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No although I have dabbled with them (we've replaced them with Trailblazer). I was specifically talking about the product from IBM Connect for iSeries. It's hard for me to define what the product is - www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/btob/connect/ Michael Crump Saint-Gobain Containers 1509 S. Macedonia Ave. Muncie, IN 47302 (765)741-7696 (765)741-7012 f (800)428-8642 mailto:mike.crump@saint-gobain.com Carl Galgano <cgalgano2@ediconsu To: midrange-l@midrange.com lting.com> cc: Subject: RE: EDI at midrange sites - Connect for iSeries 01/06/2002 11:55 AM Please respond to midrange-l Mike: Are you talking about the Connect: products from Sterling Software? As far as I know, they are the old SuperTracs software that have been updated to include things like FTP. It has been quite a while since I have used this software..... but most of the time if I need some comm stuff, I just write my own. EDI defines the "data format" standard, not the communications standard. This is totally left to be decided by the 2 trading partners. Back in the old UCS/WINS days, we actually DID define HOW communications would take place between 2 partners. Back then it was all direct comms (no VANS) and all BSC. We started with Bell 201 (2400 1/2 duplex) as our standard and then "upgraded" it to Bell 208 (4800 half duplex). By the time the merger happened w/X.12, that all changed and we have the variety of communications we have today. There are advantages to all the various methods, but you are correct, it is NOT simple or standard. cjg Carl J. Galgano EDI Consulting Services, Inc. 550 Kennesaw Avenue, Suite 800 Marietta, GA 30060 (770) 422-2995 - voice (419) 730-8212 - fax mailto:cgalgano@ediconsulting.com http://www.ediconsulting.com AS400 EDI, Networking, E-Commerce and Communications Consulting and Implementation http://www.icecreamovernight.com Premium Ice Cream Brands shipped Overnight FREE AS/400 Timesharing Service - http://www.ediconsulting.com/timeshare.html "You ain't gonna learn what you don't want to know" - rw -----Original Message----- From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Mike.Crump@saint-gobain.com Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 11:45 AM To: midrange-l@midrange.com Subject: RE: EDI at midrange sites - Connect for iSeries Carl, Another product that I am very interested in is Connect for iSeries. Do you have any experience or knowledge with this? I think one of the challenges is that while there are standards and standard practices it seems everyone has their own spin on data interchange. Trying to create an affordable data interchange capability that offers many methods is pretty hard. EDI, XML, SSH, SSL, PGP, FTP, SMTP, HTTP, public exchanges, private exchanges,.....................it's hard to keep up with. Michael Crump Saint-Gobain Containers 1509 S. Macedonia Ave. Muncie, IN 47302 (765)741-7696 (765)741-7012 f (800)428-8642 mailto:mike.crump@saint-gobain.com Carl Galgano <cgalgano2@ediconsu To: midrange-l@midrange.com lting.com> cc: Subject: RE: EDI at midrange sites - Off Topic?? 01/05/2002 09:48 AM Please respond to midrange-l Trailblazer does have some GREAT comm products. cjg Carl J. Galgano EDI Consulting Services, Inc. 550 Kennesaw Avenue, Suite 800 Marietta, GA 30060 (770) 422-2995 - voice (419) 730-8212 - fax mailto:cgalgano@ediconsulting.com http://www.ediconsulting.com AS400 EDI, Networking, E-Commerce and Communications Consulting and Implementation http://www.icecreamovernight.com Premium Ice Cream Brands shipped Overnight FREE AS/400 Timesharing Service - http://www.ediconsulting.com/timeshare.html "You ain't gonna learn what you don't want to know" - rw The changes I mentioned earlier were that we have a lot of people interested in exchanging data but they do not want to use a VAN..........so we have been expanding our capabilities so that we can offer a VAN method and a non-VAN method. I personally like (except for the fact that everyone wants to do it differently) the idea of server to server processing with our customers. So we have picked up the Trailblazer software so that we can do SMTP, FTP, and HTTP transmits of data......and also be able to do it encrypted. Michael Crump Saint-Gobain Containers 1509 S. 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