B2B Integration 10.5 | Administering and Monitoring B2B Transactions | webMethods Module for EDI | Defining Control Number Information for Trading Partners | Overview
 
Overview
A control number is a number in the header of a non-TRADACOMS EDI document that is used for validation and for ordering documents exchanged between trading partners.
For inbound EDI documents, Module for EDI can perform control number validation, which determines whether control numbers are valid or invalid and detects duplicate or out-of-sequence control numbers. Also, inbound control number validation determines whether the control numbers are in order, and therefore whether the EDI documents arrived in order. However, inbound control number validation does not guarantee that EDI documents are processed in the same order in which they are received.
This chapter discusses actions that are taken to define and manage control number information. For information about control number validation, see Optional Inbound Processing When Using Trading Networks .
Note: If you use the TRADACOMS EDI standard, the term control number is equivalent to the transmission reference numbers specified in the STX and BAT segments of your TRADACOMS documents. Whether your EDI standard includes control numbers or transmission reference numbers, you define them the same way in Trading Networks. The only difference is in the terminology. For simplicity, Trading Networks and Module for EDI use the term control number to mean either control number or transmission reference number.
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