RE: EDI translation/mapping packages

I would be interested in seeing any analysis comparing the ownership
costs of acquiring said packages vs. an outsourced approach.
Phil

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Darrell A Martin
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 3:00 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: EDI translation/mapping packages

Hi:

I have found the Premenos / Trusted Link / Inovis software to be very 
powerful, and fairly easy to use (as EDI software goes -- ease of use is

compromised by the inherent complexity of dealing with a customer who 
helped invent the spec and thinks they are still supposed to be
inventing 
[grin]). I set the system up from scratch, and still cover for the
current 
EDI Administrator.

We have, however, had a major headache in that the Inovis software's 
PC-based client absolutely insists (their tech people confirm that it is
a 
real requirement) that virtual device workstation entries QPADEV0001 
through ...5 are set up in QPGMR. This causes problems with other
devices 
which try to grab those workstation entries, sometimes stopping Inovis 
from working and sometimes getting access when the QINTER subsystem is 
down. Obviously neither of those is a good thing....

Darrell

Darrell A. Martin  -  630-754-2141
Manager, Computer Operations
dmartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 01/26/2007 01:48:22 PM:

I'm partial to Inovis, from using the older Premenos software and

found 
it 

to be very good in terms of AS/400 packages - screen navigation is

easy, 

help text, etc.

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