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Chapter 1 Overview : Transport Gateway

Transport Gateway
The Gateway protocol provides a facility for sending well-formed EDI documents generated from the back-end systems directly to your trading partner without EDI message validation and XML or TEXT conversion. This function is particularly useful when your back-end system or legacy application is capable of generating well-formed EDI documents. In this scenario, Gateway serves as the transport gateway to provide transport connectivity, such as AS1 and AS2, with your trading partner.
No EDI guideline validation is done for documents that are picked up from the Gateway polling directory. The Gateway outbound EDI file request poller provides transport connectivity to your trading partners without EDI message validation and XML conversion. Therefore, it functions as a pass-through gateway for sending EDI documents.
EDI documents that are picked up under the polling directory for Gateway will not be examined for multiple interchanges to identify the trading partner. The Gateway protocol generates only one outbound request message to the corresponding Gateway trading partner. The trading partner must be specified in the name of the parent directory from which the document is being picked up.
If the Gateway polling directory is specified as
/tibco/bc/outbound/request/*.*
the outbound file poller recursively searches through all subdirectories of /tibco/bc/outbound/request/ for files that match the pattern *.*.
For example, to transmit the X12_5010_850.dat file to the trading partner VAN1, put it in the subdirectory /tibco/bc/outbound/request/VAN1. TIBCO BusinessConnect will pick up the file and generate a single outbound request to the Gateway trading partner VAN1.
Gateway does not perform any EDI guideline validation or EDI to XML (or EDI to TEXT) conversion of any outbound documents, whether they come from the outbound file poller directory or private process communication; it functions as a pass-through gateway for sending EDI documents.

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