HL7 ACK missing &

[Tim Hallbauer]

Hi All,

I have an issue with the generic ‘create_ack’ tcl.

One of our systems recently changed. They added a mid-point product between us and the sending system. Nothing on my side changed except the port I am listening on. They are complaining that the ACK I send this mid-point system doesn’t have the & in the encoding characters.

In the generic create_ack proc it has

set sepchar “^~\&”

THEN LATER

set sepchar [lindex $mshflds 1]

My question is…why isn’t the & being included in the ACK? They are sending  the & in the inbound mesage.

It’s the same ACK program that has been used for all inbound systems.

Thanks,

Tim

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[Charlie Bursell]

Tim:

The only “generic”. supported HL7 ACK proc is hl7_Rawack.  Any reason you don’t use that?

In the proc, echo out sepchar and see what you get.  Without more there is no way to tell

[Tim Hallbauer]

Charlie,

Don’t know. It’s the one that has always been used and there were no complaints from vendors until now.

I did what you suggested and the proc I had been using didn’t echo the &.

I also tried the hl7Raw_ack and it did. I guess I’ll change to that one.

Thanks,

Tim

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