If you set the action to take for an out-of-sequence control number to Reject, you can later reprocess the out-of-sequence documents.

Out-of-sequence control numbers in EDI document might indicate that there were missing documents. Later, if the missing EDI documents arrive, you might want to force the processing of the out-of-sequence document. This time, because the missing EDI documents have arrived, the control number will no longer be out-of-sequence and Module for EDI will be able to process it normally.

To force the processing of out-of-sequence documents, you can create a service that locates all out-of-sequence documents and attempts to reprocess them. For information about how to create the service, see Creating a Service to Reprocess Documents with Out-of-Sequence Control Numbers.

Rather than invoke the service you create manually, you should use Integration Server Administrator to schedule a user task that causes the Integration Server to periodically invoke your service to reprocess any out-of-sequence documents. For more information about creating a user task to schedule a service to run periodically, see the webMethods Integration Server Administrator’s Guide for your release.