Defining Inbound Acknowledgement Criteria

Acknowledgements are sent to a trading partner to inform them that you received a transmission they sent and to inform them of any errors. You must define the level of acknowledgements that you expect from your trading partners and you are sending to your trading partners upon receipt of a transmission.

The criteria that the system uses to acknowledge inbound documents, functional groups, and interchanges is defined at the partner level on the Partner Editor Inbound Relationship dialog boxes. The translation objects used by the system to generate functional acknowledgements are included as system translation objects and are registered automatically when you install Sterling Gentran:Server®.

Note: If you generate functional acknowledgements as a result of receiving documents for an inbound relationship, you must set up the corresponding outbound relationship to generate the acknowledgements your partner requests.

To define criteria to generate acknowledgements, complete the following steps.

  1. Define document acknowledgement criteria when you set up the partner relationship. Select the Advanced options on the Inbound Relationship Dialog Box.
    Note: If you select Immediate acknowledgement processing, acknowledgement reconciliation occurs during the inbound break session. If you select Deferred acknowledgement processing (the default), reconciliation occurs at its scheduled interval.
  2. Define functional group acknowledgement criteria when you set up the Inbound Group Entry. Select the Advanced options on the Inbound Group Entry Dialog Box.
  3. Define interchange acknowledgement criteria when you set up the Inbound Interchange Entry. Select the Advanced options on the Inbound Interchange Entry Dialog Box.