Reply To: MDM fun

I did this same interface last year and remember a few of the odd things about it:

– Dictaphone does not send an EVN segment on the transaction and it is required by HL7, so I had to make it optional on a variant.

– The rtf content in OBX 5 can and will exceed the default size, so I increased the size on my variant to 100,000 and had Dictaphone set a limit on their size to below that, which they can do. Also the field can repeat which is no big deal except that my receiving system could not handle that so in my translate I just keep appending it to a tmp variable with a CONCAT statement and then copy it after I fall out of the interation.

– And the last thing is that the Dictaphone side has a MAX message size that it can send on a message, so very large documents will get split across messages and I had to put a tcl proc on the TPS Inbound of the thread to write them out to disk and then put it all back together on a single message to the engine when the last one arrived.

Roger   8)