Restart attribute on an interchange

On input data, the restart attribute is intended to filter network noise and to detect invalid interchanges. If you receive an invalid interchange from one partner, the restart allows you to process good data in other interchanges in the same transmission.

When you receive network messages and you know where they appear in an inbound communication file, you might want to include them as a component of an Inbound Transmission type. If you do not include them as data, they are rejected as invalid interchanges if they are not recognized as part of a transmission. However, the processing time takes longer than if you included these network messages as data.

For EDI output data, restart is useful for auditing data. You can audit the output data to report when outbound interchanges within a transmission are invalid.