Planning the conversion

The following components are essential to successful TPEC to Trading Manager conversion:

• Trading Partner EC to Trading Manager Conversion Tool – you must have first used this tool to create an XML Autoload file to populate the Trading Manager database. This step is included in the base related product and is not described in documentation provided here.
• Header and trailer conversion must be complete – new tables are populated with header and trailer information from the mailbox records in the TPEC extract used above. This program also creates new 'put' post offices in the Trading Manager database, one for each unique mailbox assigned to an existing trade link. This component of the plug-in is shipped

All components of the conversion can be run only once with the same extract file. If you attempt to run the Trading Partner EC to Trading Manger Conversion tool with the extract file more than once, all existing partners will be rejected in the XML Autoload step. Using the same extract with the header trailer conversion program will either delete and re-create the header trailer data or ignore it, depending on a setting of an on-screen option.