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

["Bob Cagle" <bcagle@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

True, but software to support AS2 is expensive and the OP's goal was to
save money.

Bob Cagle

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Bronski
> 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.