RE: EDI Translator wanted

[carl@xxxxxxxxxx]

Art,

I had drafted a reply earlier in this thread to you, and then dropped it
in the bitbucket, and instead have followed the discussion (quite a 
discussion, I might say).

If you put a networked PC in the equation, in addition to software costs
(*all of them) and added nuisance costs, you have to ask about
transactions. If the PC/AS400 connection is not one which supports a
transaction, or a safestore, or something like that, you may be betting
the company business on an unreliable connection. Keeping EDI on just
one machine simplifies this to a safestore on the AS400, which (I
assume) is a no-brainer. Ask what happens if something gets dropped
betwixt 400 and PC? Is that a problem? If so, could it happen?  How does
this affect the complexity of the proposed PC solution? Just my 2 cents.

><I'm going to approach the customer about purchasing an AS/400 solution.
><Carl is right that the additional programming costs for pc file transfer,
><etc. outweigh purchasing the AS/400 upfront.
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