Map Details
The Map Details dialog box enables you to edit the details of the map, including the description and version information.
This dialog box also enables you to instruct the translator to use the pad character and alignment settings of each field when reading a positional file, to determine how to trim pad characters from the data.
The following table describes the properties of the Map Details dialog box:
- Author
- Person or department that created the map. Required.
- Description
- Unique description of the map. Required. The translator
uses this description to identify the map. Some identifying characteristics
that you can use are the trading partner that this map is used for,
the standard, the version, or the type of transaction this map uses.
For example, MWT X 3030 850 is the description of a map used with partner MWT, for an ANSI X12 version 003030 Purchase Order (850).
- Map Function
- Select the Sterling B2B Integrator map type
from the list. Required. The other map options are available to enable
you to import maps from other IBM® products in order
to convert them to Sterling B2B Integrator maps. Note: If you are importing a map, you must change the map function to Sterling B2B Integrator
- System
- This option is not needed for a Sterling B2B Integrator map type.
- Use Configurable Trimming
- Use this option to configure non-space characters
on the input side of a map for both the numeric and date/time fields.
The translator uses the pad characters you define and the alignment
settings of each field when reading a positional field to determine
how to trim pad characters from the data.
If the alignment setting indicates that the data is aligned to the left of the field, then pad characters are trimmed from the right of the field. If the alignment setting indicates that the data is aligned to the right of the field, then pad characters are trimmed from the left of the field. If the alignment setting indicates that the field data is aligned in the center of the field, then pad characters are trimmed from both the left and right of the field. Default is center alignment.
For example, use configurable trimming to preserve either trailing or leading spaces in positional data.
- Sterling Gentran:Server® For Microsoft WindowsNT 2.x Compatible Rule Execution
- Use this option only if you are using a map that was created with Sterling Gentran:Server For Microsoft Windows NT 2.x and you need the rules to run exactly as they did in that product.
- Use BigDecimal Mode
- Select if you want to use Big Decimal mode. Please see Big Decimal (BigDecimal) Support for Real Numbers for more information on BigDecimal and when to use it.
- Initialize Extended Rule Variables
- Select if you want to initialize your extended rule variables (set them to zero).
- Keep Trailing Zeros (V5.2.5 and higher)
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- Never Keep Trailing Zeros - truncate any trailing zeros specific to the current map
- Always Keep Trailing Zeros - keep any trailing zeros specific to the current map
- Use Setting from Translator properties - use global setting for this flag from the translator.properties file
- Throw an error if a field is present but marked as “Not Used”
- Select if you want to receive an error when running a translation of a map if a map component is specified (on the Validation page) as “Not Used” but is actually present in the data.
- Major version/
Minor version - Designate different versions of a map. The valid
values for each box are in the range 0 - 255. These two boxes are
available for your use only. Sterling B2B Integrator does not
use them.
For example, if you type 5 in the Major version box and 45 in the Minor version box, the map version number is 5.45.
- Compiled on
- Date that the map was compiled. The field is blank if the map has not been compiled.
- EDI Associations area
- EDI information, if you selected Delimited EDI
for the input, output, or both sides of the map. Note: Change these fields only if you want to change the EDI agency, version, transaction, or functional group of an existing map. You can copy and change an existing map.
- OK
- Saves changes and exits the dialog box.
- Cancel
- Exits the dialog box without saving changes.