Is it possible in an Xlate to combine multiple input records

[John Hamilton]

For the first time, I think in my 13 years of working with cloverleaf.

I have been asked to take multiple input VRL records to a single outbound X12 record.

Has anyone done this ? I would be interested in hearing your solution.

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[Rob Abbott]

John

You can hold transactions in a TPS – we do this when we need to build a batch file … this makes the process recoverable – if things go down in the middle of a batch it will pick up where it left off

example code you would put in IB TPS

Code:

global mh_list batch_msg

start { set mh_list “”; set batch_msg “” }
run {
  # figure out if this is the last message in the batch
  if $last_msg {
    # destroy all the messages we are holding
    foreach my_mh $mh_list {
       lappend dispList “KILL $my_mh”
    }
   
    # set current mh to batch data
    append batch_msg [msgget $mh]
    msgset $mh $batch_msg    

    # clear our globals
    set mh_list “”
    set batch_msg “”
 } else {
     # not the last message, append the data to our global and hold the
     # message handle
     append batch_msg [msgget $mh]
     lappend mh_list $mh
     return “”
 }

Rob Abbott
Cloverleaf Emeritus

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