ANSI Delivery Request Acquisition

ANSI acquisition processing is performed in batch mode.  The acquisition program uses EDI workfiles mapped by third party translation software.  Each workfile approximately corresponds to the delivery request header, lines, and comments master files.

To start ANSI acquisition processing, the Acquisition batch program (GAANSIACQ) must be submitted after the third part translation software has completed mapping of the EDI workfiles.  Acquisition processing is divided into two general parts:

1.   A front program to determine the type of message to execute (ex:  DR, credit notes, etc.)

2.   A validation program to provide generic validation of any type of ANSI transaction (proprietary or non-proprietary).  The program performs a validation similar to the DELINS/VDA acquisition program validation except that the entire message structure is checked.  Only delivery request validation is available at this time.