Removing Segments Before Sending Message to Receiving System

[Ariba Jones]

I need to not send the IN1, IN2, and IN3 segments of ADT messages to the receiving system if a particular field in the PV1 segment is equal to a certain value.  Does anyone know how to not send certain segments when the value of a field in another segment is equal to a certain value?  I have translations setup for my ADT interface.  I wonder if there is a way I could do this using the translations, but without having to null each field of those segments.  

Thanks in advance!

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[Jim Kosloskey]

Ariba,

Are you using BULKCOPY in your Xlates?

Jim Kosloskey

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

[Ariba Jones]

Yes, I am.

[Anonymous]

What we did here was on the tps outbound run a tcl script that reformated the messages. With bulkcopy being used I don’t know how to stop them from getting there.

[Jim Kosloskey]

Ariba,

With BULKCOPY in play I think you have a few choices (assuming you want to do this within an Xlate and not use Tcl).

1. Make sure the IN1, etc. segments in the Outbound Variant are Optional.

   Then COPY @null to each field in the outbound segments inside an IF Action.

2. This one I am not so sure of but I think it will work:

   Again make sure the segments in question are Optional in the Outbound Variant.

    PATHCOPY @null to the segments of interest inside an IF Action.

3. Remove BULKCOPY and replace with PATHCOPY (as many as needed for the desired segments) with the segments of interest’s PATHCOPY being inside an IF Action.

4. Remove the BULKCOPY and build each field of each segment independently.

Jim Kosloskey[/list]

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

[Ariba Jones]

Jim,

Thanks for the suggestions.  Option #2 worked for me.

Ariba

[David Teh]

Hi folks,

I am looking to do something similar to Option 2.

I have a translation that has BULKCOPY.

If I simply want to discard every OBX segment (repeated in source message) using ITERARE and PATHCOPY, what should the syntax be?

Should I be iterating ‘list’ or ‘segment’?

TIA!

[Daniel Lee]

David,

It really depends on what your varient looks like.  If you can post a copy of your varient it would help.

If you’re not removing the OBX conditionaly can you just remove the OBX segment from your outbound varient?

-Daniel

[David Teh]

Got it done! 🙂

The variant is used by other ‘standard’ XLTs, so I am not too keen to amend it.

This is what I did.

1. I have an ITERATE using ‘list’ type, with Basis: ‘0 1 2….30’, Variable: ‘%s1″.

2. Within that ITERATE, I have a PATHCOPY:

                     Source: @null

                     Destination: 0(0).OBX(%s1)

Next question:

If the source system is not sure what is the maximum number of OBX segments they may sent, is there a way to cater for that?

Thanks folks!

Daniel Lee wrote:

David,

It really depends on what your varient looks like.

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