Element/Segment/Sub Field Delimiter Problem

Question

Hi gurus,
I have a requirement in oracle b2b 11g wherein a TP can send multiple inbound document of the same type/version (eg X12 810v 4010) with different delimiters. It does that by choosing different Sender ID at ISA/GS level for the same transaction set. So a partner can have multiple EDI Interchange Id, DUNS Nos., AS2 Identifier etc. which we have defined as the TP identifiers. Now my question is how do I manage this requirement at the TP level, because I can only override the Version Params which has the the Delimiters at the TP Document Def level and that can be done only once.
Edited by: Sandeep_22 on May 30, 2012 12:41 PM

Answer 1

Hi Anuj,
Yup, that's what I thought initially, to have multiple TP for each of these scenarios, but the agony is this is for Inbound to b2b. Generally we have all the Delimiter information in the EDI file coming in and there are other EDI tools (Webthods specifically) which need not be fed in the delimiter information to parse the inbound EDI. So, I tried a POC in Oracle to NOT override any of the Delimiters and use the default ones. I unchecked the 'validate' option on the agreement and strangely to the least of my expectation, with all different EDI's I tried (having different delimiters) for same document type, b2b was successfully able to identify the agreement and parse the document into and XML representation without error.
So for me it works without any extra efforts.
Edited by: Sandeep_22 on Jun 7, 2012 11:17 AM
Edited by: Sandeep_22 on Jun 7, 2012 11:17 AM