RE: BISYNC vs ASYNCH programming

[Patrick Townsend <townsend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eric,

You might want to consider changing to FTP for your communications 
interface. Just as Bisynch is fading away, Asynch is too.

Patrick

At 08:58 AM 5/15/2000 -0700, Eric Kempter wrote:
>Patrick,
>      We are going direct with a trading partner.
>
>On Saturday, May 13, 2000 12:06 PM, Patrick Townsend 
>[SMTP:townsend@patownsend.com] wrote:
>| Eric,
>|
>| There are some differences in how Bisynch and Asynch operate with ICF
>| files, but not a whole lot. If you have the Harbinger (formerly Premenos)
>| package you can probably write your own communications module and plug it
>| in. Or just receive to a file and use file processing to import the file.
>|
>| One important point: many Asynch EDI interfaces use Xmodem, Ymodem or
>| Zmodem to transfer files. You would need a third party package to support
>| this on the AS/400. A better choice would be to use FTP. And you don't need
>| to install expensive frame relay connections to use FTP. Are you
>| communicating with a value added network like Advantis, or going direct
>| with a trading partner?
>|
>| Patrick
>|
>| At 04:03 PM 5/12/2000 -0700, Eric Kempter wrote:
>| >Is there a great deal of difference in the programming of Bisynchronous
>| >communications vs Asynchronous communications.  We purchased an EDI package
>| >that uses Bisynch comms.  We asked the vendor for a quote on how much it
>| >would cost to modify his package to support asynch comms.  He said it would
>| >take him weeks to come up with a quote and then it would probably take
>| >months to program.  Does this sound realistic.  TIA
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