One thing I've noticed in the emails I've received so far is that IBM
has done a good
job at disguising what it offers. IBM has a huge
number of products that have had several names in the past few years.
I'm dealing with something called a 'Partner Gateway' that uses
'Community Manager' and 'DIS' to do
EDI. I'm not sure how they tie
together or how it works with the rest of the webSphere products we
have... yet... not sure how many millions we spent but we have a slew
of software to use.... and are trying to figure out what would be the
best solution and present those options against any political
solutions. ;)
-C
--- In Brian Lehrhoff <blehrhof@...> wrote:
>
> without starting a long-winded
discussion and a bunch
> of muck raking ... even IBM now conceeds that the
> homegrown strategy that many have taken - running
> mercator as a replacement to the websphere translator
> - is its own best of breed. most companies
buy ibm
> products for the name, reputation and comfort. not to
> mention that is runs on ibm hardware :)
>
> since your employer spent boucoup bux for that
> product, you better either use it, figure out how to
> use it, or have a good explanation why you're not
> using it. the last guy that i know who didn't use a
> million dollar translator that a certain bank
> purchased is now selling hot dogs on 47th and 3rd
> (although he's much happier now.)
>
> what translator are you running today?
>
> --- cmcmillan3 <cmcmillan3@...> wrote:
>
> > A company I'm working for recently purchased a suite
> > of IBM
> > middleware. I have used Websphere in the past and
> > did not care for
> > the product or IBM... that was 4 years ago. The
> > translator I've been
> > asked to use is called 'Partner Gateway' and it
> > looks overly
> > complicated for what we need it to do. I'm familiar
> > with Gentran and
> > GXS AI and both would be better options in my
> > opinion. We're running
> > on Unix and using the service bus architecture of
> > Webshpere.
> >
> > My thought was that I'd implement a small and
> > separate EDI gateway
> > that appeared as a service on the bus. So, GIS
> > would be too big in my
> > opinion... I just a need a translator with good XML
> > handling, partner
> > profiles, and great error handling so we can easily
> > see where errors
> > exist... without having to program all of this
> > ourselves.
> >
> > I'm having a mental block as to who's out there for
> > good but simple
> > software.... and that doesn't want to run my entire
> > back end.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Carl
> >
> >
> >
> >
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