Issue with Z segment in xlate

[John Stafford]

We are receiving a custom message from an outside vendor. I have created a variant that includes the custom segments, and have built an xlate to modify the message in the manner that we need.

However, when I try to compile/test the message, I get the following error:

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FAILED

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[0:TEST] Unrecognized field name ‘Invalid segment reference: ZPOA(0) 4(0).ZPOA(0).#1’

[0:TEST] Unable to compile IN list ‘4(0).ZPOA(0).#1’

[0:TEST] Unable to compile statement ‘

{ OP COPY }

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[Chris Williams]

Try making your segment ID be 3 characters.

[John Stafford]

It would seem that you are on to something, as the testing tool is not copying the other Z segments.

The foreign system is creating these segments, so is it possible for CL 5.5 to interpret segment names that are longer than 3 characters?

[Jim Kosloskey]

I believe your foreign system folks need to go back to HL/7 school   😯  – segment IDs are 3 characters.

It is possible to define larger in the Variant tool but the Xlate won’t recognize them per the standard.

Time for a little wall-to-wall counseling with the sending system I think  😀

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

[John Stafford]

Thanks for the replies, gentlemen. Time to hammer the sending system into compliance.  😈

[Max Drown (Infor)]

John, if you can’t get the sending system to comply, you could use a tclproc to modify the segment names before the message is passed to the xlate and variant.

-- Max Drown (Infor)

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