Re: Alternatives to Bi-Sync dial-up for EDI?

[Tim Bronski <tim.bronski@xxxxxxxxx>]

No one has mentioned AS2? Simply streets ahead of FTP for EDI.

On 11/10/2011 12:23 AM, Ron Adams wrote:
> Sounds great. We are also using Sterling Commerce and I have opened a
> request ticket with them to allow us access to our mailbox via FTP.
> Did you use CL/file based scripts externally from your EDI software or did
> you use the software to script it?
> Gentran has the ability to do FTP scripting, but it requires purchasing a
> separate module which I would like to avoid, if possible.
>
> Ron
>
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Gregory Martin<mr.gamartin@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> > We are currently utilizing the standard FTP on the i to communicate with
> > Sterling Commerce. We had to write our own scripts to bring in the files
> > and transfer in and out of our old bisync data files. If you van requires
> > FTP/s or another connectivity method you may require the use of Cleo's
> > Lexicom. It is a great product that works on the i and there support is
> > good. Depending on your OS version on your i, you might be able to use the
> > built in FTP/s, but never tried.