SEPCHARS not supported ?

[Craig Weldy]

We are affiliated with another hospital and I am now stepping in to take care of their interfaces.  I am seeing the message below in several of their process log files.  Any idea what might me causing this warning?  What is SEPCHARS?  Is this a problem with the data field?

Cloverleaf 5.7 on Linix Redhat (version unknown)

Any help would be appreciated!

[msg :Msg :WARN/0:   adts_xlate:01/21/2013 21:43:44] SEPCHARS is not supported in hl7 and the values in SEPCHARS are ignored.’addr1= ‘401 W MARION ST

Craig Weldy
Senior Interface Analyst
Beacon Health System
South Bend, In, 46615

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[Jim Kosloskey]

Craig,

As I recall SEPCHARS is a metadata field and is used for non-HL/7 messages (like X12).

So I am guessing there may be a proc on the Inbound thread (maybe pre-route) which is setting the SEPCHARS metadata field when it is not necessary.

I think as the message indicates the values are ignored and the MSH values are used instead so everything should work correctly.

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

[Bob Richardson]

Greetings,

Starting with 5.7 SEPCHARS is used in X12 interfaces (for sure).

When we went from 5.6 to 5.7 (and now running 5.8.5.0 for Secure Messenger), that error showed up for each X12 message we processed within Secure Messenger.

We added logic to populate it correctly for our X12 interfaces.

But did not see it for any HL7 v2 messages.

I would check if someone had coded a TCL procedure to plug values into that metadata field for a message.  Maybe intended to use USERDATA instead?

Before ripping out any code however that you find plugging values into SEPCHARS check that no downstream TCL programs expect something to be in there.

Good luck, good hunting!

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