Features of the iWay Integration Solution for TRADACOMS

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TRADACOMS Syntax and Transmission Structure

The standards-based iWay Integration Solutions for Electronic Commerce reduces the amount of effort it takes to integrate document transformations with your internal enterprise applications and third-party trading partners. It includes conversion and validation of documents to XML format, making it easy to include documents in your XML-based integration projects.

Features include:

Integration with iWay Service Manager (iSM).
Integration with iWay Trading Partner Manager (iTPM).
Integration with more than 200 other information assets, including popular back-office systems, databases, and front-office systems.
Integration with leading application servers. Some of the popular platforms are BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, Sun Java Enterprise System, and Oracle Application Server.
Support for synchronous and asynchronous bi-directional interactions for documents between application servers, integration brokers, third-party software packages, and messaging services.
Out of the box Ebix-based support for transaction sets. For more information, see Ebix-Supported Transaction Set.
A Reusable framework for parsing, transforming, and validating documents without the need to write custom code.
A data dictionary approach to facilitate transformations to XML. All iWay Integration Solutions use dictionaries to transform data from standard format to any other format, or from any format to standard format. They support flat files, comma-delimited files, popular relational database formats, XML, and more.
Pre-built data dictionaries, XML schemas, transformation templates, and rule files for automatic transformation and validation of input and output documents.

TRADACOMS Syntax and Transmission Structure

The syntax is a looping data structure. Elements are variable length. Here are some other highlights:

Batches begin with an STX segment and terminate with an END segment.
The segment tag delimiter is an equal sign character (=) rather than a data element separator.
Only implicit decimals are used.
All dates use a six digit format (YYMMDD).

Any segment can occur only once in a TRADACOMS message definition. Segments tend to be very specific with a qualifier to identify their function.

TRADACOMS uses Files with one or more examples of the message being preceded by a header message, and followed by one or more trailer messages. This avoids the duplication of common header and trailer information which can occur in other standards.

TRADACOMS files are only intended to be used within the UK. They make no allowance for currencies other than Sterling. Tax information is also geared to UK requirements.

For more information, see the sample documents in Sample TRADACOMS Files.