August 2003
Intermediate to advanced
624 pages
15h 3m
English
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Enhancements and Alternatives
I have tried to be fairly thorough in supporting the minimum syntax requirements for version 004010 of X12. As I've noted elsewhere in the chapter, we can certainly enhance these utilities by supporting other versions of X12 and other EDI standards such as UN/EDIFACT. In addition to these important enhancements, there are a few other major features we should consider for Babel Blaster requirements.
Auditing: For our various logging functions, log entries to a data store rather than displaying the output to the current system output.
Acknowledgment tracking: This is related to auditing support. We generate Functional Acknowledgments for trading partners but don't tie those we have received from them to data we sent. ...