Before you can use WebSphere Partner Gateway to translate data, or to send or receive transactions, messages, or files, you must define certain information. This information describes how your system sends and receives data, how data is formatted in your application files and mapped to a standard, to whom you send data and from whom you receive data, and other pertinent information.
This document explains how to use Data Interchange Services client to develop data transformation, validation, and functional acknowledgment maps for WebSphere Partner Gateway to use when processing EDI documents, XML documents, and Record Oriented Data (ROD) documents.