PM76530: SERVER - FA 999 MISSING A1 SEGMENT DATA - EDI2EDI TRANSFORM

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APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Using WDI 3.3 SFP7 (03/16/12 build), running an EDI to EDI
  Transform of X12 850 data with Functional Acknowledgements on,
  part of the input data is not found in the FA output.
  Specifically - 348300.0000  in the input data
  ( CTT*22*348300.000000! )
  is not showing up in the FA data, but should be displayed as
  A1*850**348300.00000*L!
  but is displayed in the FA outfile as
  A1*850***L! .
  
  Just verified that the problem existed with SFP6 as well.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• Bad input data element is not showing up in the DT
  functional acknowledgement segment.
  

Problem conclusion

• PTR P8010032 added logic to validate data using
  ALPHANUM prior to placing the data in the FA segment.
  Only data that passed the ALPHANUM validation was
  written to the FA file. In this testcase, the data
  contained a period (.) and a period was not in
  ALPHANUM, so the validation failed, and the data
  element was not placed in the FA segment.
  The DT validation program will be changed to filter
  out real-number characters (plus sign, minus sign,
  period, and comma) prior to the ALPHANUM validation.
  By the way, the reason that the testcase FA
  segment contains "123400.00000" rather than the full
  input data "123400.000000" is two-fold. One, the A103
  element is defined to have a maximum length of 12.
  And two, the mapping to A103 uses the SubString
  function with length 12.
  

Temporary fix

Comments

• Applies to all WDI 3.3 platforms, part of SFP9
  

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

  UK83267

Modules/Macros

• CPP      EDIVAICL
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  WEBS DI ZOS

• Fixed component ID

  5655I4003

Applicable component levels

• R330 PSY UK83267

     UP13/02/26 P F302

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