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Chapter 4 Setting Up Trading Hosts : Preprocessing Tab

Preprocessing Tab
In the Preprocessing tab, you can configure preprocessing for inbound and outbound X12 documents.
Preprocessing is necessary if the X12 documents that you exchange with your trading partner are formatted in any abnormal way. For example, you have to preprocess if the X12 document is blocked at 80 characters per line.
The following table lists the fields in the Preprocessing tab:
For information on the characteristics of EDI data, see TIBCO BusinessConnect EDI Protocol powered by Instream User’s Guide.
If you clear this check box and no characters are specified in the Characters to Strip field, you can get an error in case unwanted characters or any unrecognized characters other than the delimiters are found in the document.
Characters To Strip must also be used if the EDI document is blocked into lines of equal length because blocked documents contain carriage returns inside of segments. Strip Chars Between Segments Boundaries only works between segments.

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