The webMethods EDI Module 8.0 enables you and your business partners to collaboratively exchange and process EDI documents within and across the extended enterprise. The module offers comprehensive support for EDI, including full EDI parsing, validation, transport, transformation, and processing functionality.
New features and enhancements in release 8.0 increase EDI standards support while improving the usability and breadth of EDI-specific functionality.
The webMethods EDI Module 8.0 provides support for VDA, which is an automotive standard widely used by manufacturers in Germany. The EDI Module provides support for all VDA message types. To maintain processing consistency across all standards, the EDI Module processes VDA documents in a manner very similar to the way it processes ANSI X12 and UN/EDIFACT documents.
EDI Module administration and configuration tasks, such as managing control numbers, setting EDI properties, configuring field formats, and submitting documents, were previously performed on the EDI Module Home page in the Integration Server. These tasks have been moved in this release to the My webMethods interface. This move enables users with the appropriate permission to access Trading Networks and EDI Module configuration settings from a centralized location.
The webMethods EDI Module 8.0 offers a variety of predefined reports, including summaries of EDI transactions, EDI volume by transport media, FA reconciliation, and partners not returning FAs. The embedded reporting technology also provides the ability to build custom reports based on the data residing in the Trading Networks database.
With this release, EDI document types and the associated schema can now be installed directly using the Trading Networks Console. This extends the XML document definition flexibility to EDI document types and enables the use of XQL queries to extract custom attributes from EDI documents, similar to the capability available for XML documents.
The webMethods EDI Module 8.0 maintains, in the Activity Log, a complete audit trail of EDI TPA usage and changes. The module now allows TPAs to be created where either the sender or receiver is unknown, helping to reduce the number of TPAs that users have to manage to handle EDI documents.
In addition to automatically generating FAs by sender and receiver, the webMethods EDI Module 8.0 now allows the automatic generation of FAs by document type. This provides the ability to selectively generate FAs based on the document or group type.
Users with the appropriate functional privilege can manually acknowledge FAs by editing the FA Status field on the My webMethods Transaction Details page.
The webMethods EDI Module 8.0 now supports and handles variations across all versions of the EDIFACT standard. The module conforms to the EDIFACT standard for sending FA messages, supports both EDIFACT envelope versions (UN1ICS and UN4ICS), and supports EDIFACT syntax releases.
This release offers the ability to specify, through a new EDITPA setting called BatchCriteria, interchange and group header fields that the webMethods EDI Module should use to identify collections and subcollections when generating a batched EDI document.
The webMethods EDI Module 8.0 also supports splitting batched documents into groups and transactions. A new input parameter, processOutput, has been added to the batching service wm.b2b.editn.batch:batchProcess. If this parameter is set to true, the batched document is split into group and transaction documents that can be viewed through the My webMethods Transactions page. The batched document is also related to the individual documents that are used to create it.
For a list of all the changes and issues resolved since the last release, see the readme file for webMethods EDI Module.
For information about previous releases of webMethods EDI Module, see the release notes for those releases.
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