I need help with Lawson formatting of HL7

[Dan Loch]

Hello,

Is there anyone who has written interfaces to and from Lawson?

This is my first time with FTP and Lawson.

The Lawson HL7 message come inbound with a X’0d0a’ between every segment.  Is there a style in the FTP protocol tab that will interpret this segment delimeter? Does this have to be done with scripting?

They are also asking for me to add carriage return / line feed to delimit segments on an outbound ADT HL7 file.

Does this have to be done with scripting?

We are running 5.3 on Win 2003 server

Thanks for your help.

Dan Loch

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[John Hamilton]

What OS  is Lawson running on?

It may be as simple in part to change the FTP process to use Binary as opposed to ASCII.

Is it a single messages per file or multiple messages per file ?

[Dan Loch]

Thanks for responding.

Lawson is running on AIX unix.

I tried both ASCII and binary with the same result.

Dan

[Rob Abbott]

You can modify the data using TPS / scripting.  If you do this you should probably use binary transfer.

inbound – convert CRNL to CR:

Code:

regsub -all “rn” [msgget $mh] “r” data
msgset $mh $data

outbound – convert CR to CRNL:

Code:

regsub -all “r” [msgget $mh] “rn” data
msgset $mh $data

Rob Abbott
Cloverleaf Emeritus

[lisa sater]

Most of the files I get from Lawson I use perl in kornshell scripts to change the message format.  Most of the time the MSH segment is missing from the inventory data.  I have some examples if you want them.

Lisa

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