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Re: <TECH>, VDA Information

Hi all,
Strange as it may seem, but the below format looks like BISAC to me.
You can check it out on www.edifecs.com (click on resources and Standards
Online).
(Listed under Education).
Cheers...
Michael Burbury
GE ecXpress
System Administration
Ph: 61.2.94376511
Fax: 61.2.94374977
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Johnson" <
To: <
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 8:45 AM
Subject: <TECH>|[EDI-L] VDA Information
> In message < "Sean Brown
> (Mobile)" < writes
> >Does anyone here use VDA, We have a new trading partner that uses VDA and
> >I'm looking for additional information.
>
> German Automotive EDI standard. It is a tagged flat file SDF (data
> fields at defined column positions and with a defined length) format
> with record types effectively defined by the first 3 characters. 128
> character records. It looks, and is structured, like the 'flat file'
> which is at the application side of many of the earlier EDI converters,
> although it can have detail information on the final header record in a
> message, which Mr Spock would undoubtedly have declared to be illogical
> (and he would have been right). A materials release can look thus (if a
> line doesn't start with 51x01 it is a wordwrap from the previous line,
> trailing blanks will have been deleted by my text editor so the example
> appears to have variable length records)
>
> 51101FORD XXXXX 0060100602990206
> 512011Y 625-4 990206625-3 990130 95AB A22620ACYZAP 1Y 1GR STL
> S 0134A
> 512011Y 625-4 990206625-4 990206 95AB A22620ACYZAP 1Y 1GR STL
> S 0134A
> 5130199020200053278000000000000168000000000285644444400000033699021500000
> 0840990222000001008990301000001008990308000001008
> 5130199020200053278000000000000168000000000285644444400000033699021500000
> 0840990222000001008990301000001008990308000001008
> 5140199031500000100899032200000067299032900000100899040500000100899041200
> 0001008990430000002016555555000000000990500000003024
> 51401990600000001577990700000000000000000000000000
> 5140199031500000100899032200000067299032900000100899040500000100899041200
> 0001008990430000002016555555000000000990500000003024
> 51401990600000001577990700000000000000000000000000
> 5150199010199030700000060489901019905020000013776 990801
> 5150199010199030700000060489901019905020000013776 990801
> 51801 BD
> 51801 BD
>
>
> I think you will have problems finding public documentation for the VDA
> formats. Such as we have has been obtained from hubs describing their
> implementations. This topic was touched on in EDI-L within the last
> year, and I drew a blank on any significant information publicly
> available on the Web. With luck someone more expert than I will come to
> your aid.
>
> We have found that software intended for processing tagged flat files
> works successfully with VDA messages.
>
> Regards
> Chris
> --
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