Re: EDI mailbox retrieval program

[Keith Carpenter <carpcon@xxxxxxx>]

Check with your VAN as to what connection options are available.  I
believe it was recently posted in midrange-l that one VAN is dropping
dialup.  I've been working with Sterling and they support a lot of
connection options.

One traditional method is Bisync (BSC) dialup which you could do with
RPG and a ICF file. For practicality you'd need a modem that supports
synchronous dialing commands. Typically your old ECS modem would work.
There's a learning curve here that might this an impractical project.

A more modern approach would be to FTP the mailbox data to/from the VAN.
 The trick would be setting up the working "scripts" neede to do the
transfers. The archives should have something on using FTP with the
input and output file overrides and examples.  Our Van had some
documentation on their website on how their FTP exchanges worked. Your
VAN may have something similar.


Keith



nick wrote:
> I am looking to write a customer RPG program to retrieve EDI information
> from various mailboxes.
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> Can anyone fill me in on what will be required for this in regards to
> hardware (modems, TCP/IP connection) and software (program to retrieve and
> send info to mailboxes).
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> I already know what to do with the data (edi forms such as 810) when I get
> it, but just not too sure on how to get it.
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> Thanks
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