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Re: Re: beginner question: X12 flavours

From: rich hurd <r.hurd@...>
Date: Tue Jan 28, 2003  2:42 am
Subject: Re: [EDI-L] Re: beginner question: X12 flavours
At 02:32 AM 1/28/2003 +0000, cmcf_au < wrote:
>Thx Art--much appreciated!
>
>I've been in contact with the customer and confirmed that they are indeed
>sending us an Oracle Interface file. They had been under the impression that
>this was itself an X12 file--they're now going to see if they can find out
>how to generate valid X12.
>
>Does anyone know if this is likely to be a relatively simple process?We are
> hoping we can get it running in the next three days--does this sound wildly
> unrealistic in other people's experience?

Not to burst your bubble, but calling this 'unrealistic' is like calling
the sinking of the Titanic a "real shame."

>Our other option is to extract the data we need from the Interface file as =
>is, which should be doable in that time frame based on what I've seen so far

Three days??? To find a translator, install it, generate a message and
send it?
Or to extract the raw data from the Oracle feed?

I don't think this is doable. Remember the old saw about the 9 women
making a baby.






 
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