Seeburger FTP Adapter And SAP PI 7.1

Hi Everyone,
Just a few questions about Seeburger FTP adapter please. Bit of background for clarity, we are doing an implementation using Seeburger FTP and sap PI 7.1 picking up EDIFACT (Orders) and returning (DESADV, ORDERSP, INVOICES). However we are not using any BIC, using another tool for EDIFACT -> EDIFACT-XML conversion (conversion agent) and in-house mapping development using graphical mapping.
So couple of things which I haven't been able to figure out from the standard documentation for Seeburger FTP adapter:
1) First is the functional ACK which we are meant to send back to the VAN is that a STANDARD FUNCTIONALITY with Seeburger FTP adapter?
2) Because we are receiving a mix bag EDIFACT interchange on the way IN, I need to split messages accordingly and pass them on to the relevant channels and mappings. By using the standard module Splitter can I achieve that?
3) Lastly some of the standard validations which are applicable to EDIFACT are they supported within the FTP adapter automatically? e.g. Counting number of messages in one interchange etc.
Any help in this regard will be really great.
regards

Now a Good news.
If you are using Seeburger version 2.1 (which you should be as you want it for PI 7.1), then there is an Internal Classifier and Split option for FTP adapter. You just need to tick checkbox "Use built-in splitting" and you are done. Then I believe there won't be any need for considering all these problems. The earlier version of Seeburger with PI 7.0 doesn't have such option and that could be the reason you haven't received any appropriate response yet.
Still I will reply all your questions considering that "your case is of PI 7.0". -> remember PI 7.0
>>even with just splitter we should be able to break it up?????? or am I wrong in thinking this?
No. You even need BIC or an equivalent custom module for achieving this.
>>I can't visualize where to handle the overall message count in one Interchange any suggestions?
You need to write an adapter module for this. Not sure about the code but this module has to be added before the split happens.
>> seeburger ftp adapter it does talk about a lot of reports which are available on sender/reciever actions. e.g. delivered, despatched etc. Are these reports not essentially ACKs?
These reports are the ones used at the receiver side for getting the ACKs from the receiver. Your requirement is at present for sender scenario.
Regards,
Prateek

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Ok Here are the steps
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