|
[EDI-L Mailing List Archive Home]
[Message List]
[Reply To This Message]
<tech> RE-phrase my question about long term archival of EDI
Greetings -
First, I want to thank Mr. Mattias for responding to my inquiry about
retrieval of EDI from archive.
But, as i re-read my question and his response, I feel i must re-phrase my
question, as it did not come out as clear as I had intended.
The background is this:
We are migrating to Sterling's Gentran/Unix, and are using the on-line
storage facility provided with the product, keep about two months of data
available
using that method.
We plan to move the data to tape storage after it has been online for 60
days.
At this point we do not have a strategy for how to retrieve the EDI once
it has gone to tape, or for that matter,
how to store it.
We have been discussions about this issue, but I would like to know:
How others using Sterling Gentran/Unix have faced this challenge;
if there is a best-practice concerning long-term storage and retrieval;
If anyone on the list could share their experience in this area, I would be
glad to take the discussion off-line.
Thanks for any and all advice offered in this area.
Jack Anderson
<mailto:
>>Message: 7
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 11:07:52 -0500
From: "Michael Mattias" <
Subject: Re: <tech> EDI history archival script
----- Original Message -----
From: Anderson, Jack (CC-Business Systems)
To: <
> List - Has anyone on this list used or created a script to retrieve
> EDI data from an archival file ? We archive inbound EDI , and
> translated outbound EDI into a file(s). I am looking for a way to
> retrieve the EDI, and will need a way to send parameters to a
> retrieval-script to return specific documents. The parameters can be
> any combination of ISA06/ISA08/date/time/group-id. The platform is
> Unix.
Using what tool? In what format is the archive file?
Lots of commercial translator products offer 'some' form of
archive/retrieve; but that's all controlled through those products.
Sounds to me like you have some kind of home-grown archive system, which
means the retrieve will need to be home-grown, too, tailored to cooperate
with the archive function.
Of course, it could be as simple as taking the archived file and copying it
to wherever your system looks for "new stuff to process," then setting your
map parameters to extract only those interchanges/groups (see below) in
which you are interested.
> The parameters can be any combination of
> ISA06/ISA08/date/time/group-id.
Given your druthers, it's better to use the GS02/GS03 sender-receiver IDs
instead of the ISA values. I've detailed "why" here before, so if you are
interested in that "why" you should be able to find it in the archives
within the last sixty days or so.
Michael Mattias
Tal Systems, Inc.
Racine WI
>>
Jack Anderson
402.595.4659
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
|
|
Subscribe in XML format
| RSS 2.0 |
|
| Atom 0.3 |
|
|
Cart
