EDI documents with Pass Through action

WebSphere Partner Gateway provides the capability to de-envelope and transform EDI interchanges, a process described in Configuring EDI document flows.

Figure 21 shows the flow of an EDI interchange that is being passed through from a participant to the Community Manager.

Figure 21. Incoming EDI interchange with Pass Through action
This figure shows the flow of an EDI interchange that is passed through the hub and delivered to the Community Manager

In this example, the AS2 headers are removed, but otherwise the interchange is left intact and flows through the system to the gateway of the Community Manager.

Creating document flow definitions

The document flow for EDI passthrough exchanges is already provided (by default) on the Manage Document Flow Definitions page, as described in An example flow. If you want to modify any of the attributes that have default values or set an attribute that has no assigned value, you can use the Manage Document Flow Definitions page to perform this task.

For example, suppose you want to change the Time to Acknowledge attribute for an EDI document packaged with AS. These are the steps you take:

  1. Click Hub Admin > Hub Configuration > Document Flow Definition.
  2. Click the Edit Attribute Values icon next to Package: AS.
  3. Scroll down to the section of the page titled Document Flow Context Attributes.
  4. In the Time to Acknowledge row, type a different value in the Update column.
  5. Click Save.

Note that you changed a package attribute in this example. The attributes for protocol (for example, EDI-X12) and document flow (for example, ISA) are not relevant for a Pass Through action. This package attribute applies to all documents wrapped in AS packaging.

Creating interactions

To create the interaction for an EDI interchange with Pass Through action, perform the following steps:

  1. Click Hub Admin > Hub Configuration > Document Flow Definition.
  2. From the Manage Document Flow Definitions page, click Manage Interactions.
  3. Click Create Interaction.
  4. Under Source, expand Package: AS and Protocol: EDI-X12 and then select Document Flow: ISA.
  5. Under Target, expand Package: None and Protocol: EDI-X12 and then select Document Flow: ISA.
  6. From the Action list, select Pass Through.

Steps 1 through 6 have enabled WebSphere Partner Gateway to accept an EDI-X12 interchange packaged as AS from a source participant, to send an EDI-X12 interchange with no packaging to the target participant, and to have the interchange pass through from the source to the target.

If you want to set up an interaction that has the source document packaged as None/EDI-X12/ISA and the target document packaged as AS/EDI-X12/ISA, expand Package: None in step 4 (in the Source column) and expand Package: AS in step 5 (in the Target column).

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