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RE: beginner question: X12 flavours
Charles,
It appears that they may be sending perhaps an intermediate format? That is
not X12, nor is it EDIFACT.
I would check with your customer.. perhaps they sent the wrong file?
Best Regards,
Mary Burkinshaw
-----Original Message-----
From: cmcf_au < [mailto:
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 5:10 PM
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Subject: [EDI-L] beginner question: X12 flavours
Hi all
A new customer is asking my company to implement what they've called an X12
850 for them. In my (very limited) experience with X12 formats I expected a
PO with a data format that used a sequence of asterix-delimited
lines--identified by 2 or 3 character codes such as "ISA", "GS", "ST", "BEG"
etc--that were typically around 20-50 characters in length.
This customer however--who is using Oracle R11i--is supplying a PO format
that's devoid of delimiter chars (other than CR) & primarily identifies data
positionally with flds they call Record Number, Record Layout, and Record
Layout Qualifier. These flds are positioned at col 92-100 and contain
combined values like "0010CTCTL" on line 1 of the transaction, "0020A1TH1"
on line 2, "0030A2TH2" on line 3 & so on. The sample data lines are
typically around 200 - 500 chars in length (mostly whitespace).
The format is reasonably easy to follow, but its radically different from
what I was expecting! I had assumed X12 to be a reasonably homogenous format
based on premises reasonably similar to EDIFACT, but this current customer
seems to have blown that idea out of the water :)
Is anyone able to help me out by commenting on the number of X12 flavors
around, &, if they recognize it, maybe identifying the example I've
described here from this Oracle customer?
Many thanks in advance!!!! My inexpert web searches so far haven't shed any
light on the subject, and I'm keen to get some independent input before I go
back to the customer.
Regards,
Charles Ferguson
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