This file provides important information you should read before using webMethods EDI Module 6.5.
Documentation about how to install webMethods EDI Module 6.5 is located in the webMethods Installation Guide. Procedures for upgrading webMethods EDI Module are located onthe webMethods EDI Module page of the webMethods Bookshelf.
2.0 Known Issues
3.0 Usage Notes
5.0 Deprecated Items
6.0 Globalization
6.1 Localization and Certification
6.2 Configuration
6.3 Known Globalization Issues
7.0 Documentation
7.1 Major Documentation Changes
7.2 Known Documentation Issues
10.0 Viewing the readme for the Previous Version
If you process incoming EDI documents in a business process, do not install webMethods EDI Module 6.5 or webMethods Trading Networks 6.5 until the WmPRT package 6.5 and webMethods Modeler 6.5 are available. Even if you have the EDI Module set up to form a Conversation ID for an incoming EDI document, EDI Module 6.5 will not add the Conversation ID to the BizDocEnvelope that Trading Networks processes. As a result, Trading Networks will not pass the EDI document to process management, and the EDI document will not be processed in a business process even if you have defined a process model using webMethods Modeler. When the WmPRT package 6.5 and webMethods Modeler 6.5 are available, webMethods will release a fix for the webMethods EDI Module 6.5 to enable the logic to include a Conversation ID with an EDI document. This will allow you to process EDI documents using a business process.
- Starting in X12 4020, X12 provides a repetition separator to separate repeated occurrences of elements or composites. We do not support the repetition separator in this release.
- For ODETTE standards, we only support document recognition in Trading Networks.
For other known issues and troubleshooting information relating to webMethods EDI Module, see the Knowledge Base on the webMethods Advantage Web site.
- Certain EDI Standards, such as UCS, VICS, and EANCOM, restrict the default standard allowed code values using alternate code sets. Support for alternate code sets was first implemented in webMethods Integration Server 6.1 SP1. If users migrate from webMethods 6.1 to 6.5, schemas installed in 6.1 might be using alternate code sets while schemas installed in 6.5 might not. For consistency, we recommend that users re-generate EDI schemas created in 6.1.
- For WmEDIINT users to continue to sign/verify/encrypt/decrypt SMIME payloads, they will have to either install their certificates in the Integration Server’s Trusted Directory or set the property watt.security.cert.wmChainVerifier.trustByDefault to true in the server.cnf file.
- EDI ID qualifiers for different EDI standards and versions can use the same code. The EDI Module can only support mapping one description to a single EDI ID qualifier. If the default mapping of the EDI ID qualifier is not mapped as the customer intended, the user needs to write a custom service, custom.EDIIDMapping:addEDIIDMapping, to overwrite the mapping. For detailed information on the custom service, please go to the Knowledge Base Samples area on the webMethods Advantage Web site.
For information on enhancements and fixes in webMethods EDI Module 6.5, go to the webMethods EDI Module 6.5 Enhancements and Fixes document on the webMethods Bookshelf.
The webMethods EDI Samples package (WmEDIsamples) is no longer available through the webMethods Installer. To obtain the latest webMethods EDI Samples package, go to the Knowledge Base Samples area on the webMethods Advantage Web site.
The webMethods EDI Module Version 6.5 has not been tested for conformance with the internationalization standards of webMethods. This internal certification is planned for a future release. This release of the EDI Module currently does not support fixed-length fields for multi-byte and wide character encodings. As a result, the EDI Module has not been tested with character encodings other than ISO8859-1 ("Latin-1") and US-ASCII. These known issues are listed below.
webMethods EDI Module is provided with an English user interface, messages, and documentation. No language pack is available in this release.
If you expect to display non-English data in your webMethods tools, make sure an appropriate font is installed in your operating environment. If you see hollow boxes or black squares where you expect to see non-English data, modify your JRE font.properties file to reference an appropriate font. For information on modifying your font.properties file, go to Sun's Java website. For instructions, see:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/intl/fontprop.html
http://www.unicode.org/help/display_problems.html
webMethods EDI Module has the following known limitations at the time of its release:
- This release of the EDI Module currently does not support fixed-length fields for multi-byte and wide character encodings.
For webMethods EDI Module 6.5 technical documentation, go to either one of the following directories or the webMethods Bookshelf:
<Integration_Server_Directory>\packages\WmEDI\pub\doc
<Integration_Server_Directory>\packages\WmEDIINT\pub\doc
The following manuals are provided as PDF files:
- webMethods EDI Module Concepts Guide 6.5
- webMethods EDI Module User’s Guide 6.5
- webMethods EDI Module Built-In Services Reference 6.5
- webMethods EDIINT Module User’s Guide 6.5
- webMethods EDI Modules Upgrading from 4.x to 6.5
- webMethods EDI Modules Upgrading from 6.0.1 or 6.1 to 6.5
To view the documentation, you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 or later.
For information regarding this release of webMethods EDI Module, see the webMethods EDI Module 6.5 Release Notes on the webMethods Bookshelf.
For information about technical support, see the General Support Statement for webMethods Fabric.
All EDIINT user documentation and built-in services documentation has been moved to a newly-created document, the webMethods EDIINT Module User’s Guide 6.5.
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Self-service support is also available in the webMethods Advantage Knowledge Base and in the Advantage Customer Forums.
To view information about the previous release of webMethods EDI Module, see the previous readme on the webMethods Bookshelf.
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