hl7 variant not acting properly

[Tim Gobbel]

I created an hl7 variant to handle several Z segments that most downstream vendors choke on.

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[Jim Kosloskey]

Tim,

What method inside the Xlate are you using to populate the fields (BULKCOPY PATHCOPY COPY, etc.)?

Also are there any xltp procs involved in the affected fields?

email: jim.kosloskey@jim-kosloskey.com 29+ years Cloverleaf, 59 years IT - old fart.

[Tim Gobbel]

Thanx Jim!  I have tried both bulk and path thinking bulk was the problem.  It is a simple Xlate with bulkcopy, an if statement, a continue and a suppress.  I diactivated everything and it still truncated.  The testing tool for the Xlate used no procs and no tcl use in the Xlate.  The only thing I have not tried is to send it raw but if that works I am in a pickle as I have to filter out some messages.  I guess if it goes OK raw then I could filter with a tcl proc.  Thanx!

[Tim Gobbel]

I changed the route to raw, bounced the site and re-sent the message.

[Tim Gobbel]

Well, don’t waste anymore time on this one.  It was probably a bit of stupdity and a bit of field numbering confusion.  I went back and changed the variant field sizes all to 45.  I then double checked the file I was testing with and found it was the truncated OB message and not the complete IB one.  Using the correct test file with the changes to the variant, it is now going thru without truncation.  Thanx!

[Jim Kosloskey]

Tim,

Been there – done that  😆

email: jim.kosloskey@jim-kosloskey.com 29+ years Cloverleaf, 59 years IT - old fart.

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