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Data Transliteration
Date posted: June 7, 2010
(Original)
Technical Service Bulletin (GXS-AM
100706-01)
GXS Operations Center
10:00AM ET Friday,
June 18, 2011
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Currently, outside VANS have
two interconnect gateways to GXS – one into GXS TGMS and one into GXS
Information Exchange (IE), formerly the IBM Advantis VAN. As part of GXS’
continuing effort to unify our customers into a single environment, we are
consolidating these interconnect gateways.
During this transition, GXS will discontinue the transliteration of data
as it enters our network. Transliteration was implemented many years ago on the
GXS Information Exchange (IE) interconnect gateway for legacy reasons related to
former dial communications methods and mainframe character set requirements. In
our enhanced environment, we are now able to pass data through an Interconnect,
just as it was originally sent, without the need for transliteration. The EDI
data standards are built on the principle that the position-based EDI header
will provide a customer’s translator with the information needed to translate
the document.
Note that we have encountered a very small number of situations where
customers have hardcoded EDI characteristics in their translator or have other
character restrictions in their environment that may experience difficulty
translating data after this change.
If you encounter this or another issue you think may be related to this
consolidation, please notify us at the number below.
This change will be phased in over the next few months
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