RE: EDIINT AS2 Question was RE: ARGH! Please make it STOP!

["Carl Galgano" <cgalgano2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim:
I have implemented AS2 with Walmart.  The implementation was not AS400.  We
used the iSoft product with Walmart and put the PC in the DMZ of the
network.  I am not sure there are ANY PERFECT solutions.
cjg

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Hatzenbeler, Tim
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 2:39 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: EDIINT AS2 Question was RE: ARGH! Please make it STOP!


I was wondering, if anybody has experience with AS2,  I have been asked to
research it's viablity for our company, but it has one glaring problem I
can't get around.  AS2 seems to be a push only service, so if I push data to
our Trading Partner, I must then break the connection and wait for a reply,
(here is the problem)  our network police has a zero toloerance when it
comes to listening ports.  So I can't seem to figure out if I can make this
technology work for us.  I was wondering if anyone else has implemented AS2,
and how did they make their network police happy?

Tim