Associated Mailbox

Associated Mailbox

 

Introduction

In EDI, ASN transactions might be sent through two different but identical mailboxes (they have the same sender and receiver ID's) from 1 trading partner. The result will be that the user will receive a message "the set count is wrong". This might occur when the ASN is sent from 1 mailbox but the FA is being received to the other.

Note: This must be done by Jonar when all users are out of EDI.

Instructions

Make sure to have a backup of  the mailbox.dbf before proceeding.

Send EDIPRO\LIB\Mailbox.dbf to their EDIPRO\LIB folder.


Note: The new file has a new field Assoc_Mbox. It is very important that it is from OUR EDIPRO\LIB to their EDIPRO\LIB.

From Jonar

At the customer:

Run the fix file "update file structure".

Note: When you run "update file structure", it first runs on the main EDI files and then a screen pops up to select mailboxes to run. DO NOT SELECT any mailbox to run on.

This will update the structure of their MAILBOX.dbf to include the new field.

Send "EDIPRO\VBRWMBOX.scx,.sct" in this updated format from source safe.

Under Browse/Update Mailboxes - Variable Settings 2), there is a new entry for Assoc. Mailbox

  • Each of the two mailboxes should point to the other.

  • The mailbox number entered must include the appropriate number of zeros.

Note: The ST count for one of the mailboxes (preferably the second) should be set to a number much higher than the first...let's say 10,000.

  • This is to ensure that the transaction set numbers are unique in each mailbox in order to prevent the possibility of the same transaction set numbers in both.

Send EDIPRO\V997.fxp


This program has been modified so that if a SET COUNT WRONG message is received and an associate mailbox has been entered, the 997 is run against the associated mailbox.

After the above has been done, we will need to test with one of the FAs with this problem.


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