When you are migrating your system, and your actual host server will change, you have a couple of options: You want your trading partners to make a change to connect to your new host.You don’t want any of your trading partners to make any changes. You want your trading partner to connect to your new server Having your trading partner … [Read more...]
Things to consider when migrating systems: Introduction
Generally, when I sit down to write a blog post, I will create a mind map to capture the main points I want to bring out. Once I had done that with the central topic of "Migrating Systems", it was so large with so many nodes that I thought it would be better to break this up into multiple posts, instead of one really large one. Anyone who has … [Read more...]
An Unrelenting Computer Standard Headache
Imagine you get on your system one morning, and it appears as if all of your customers are conspiring against you. Everyone seems to be sending you orders that you can't process for one reason or another. One customer is sending order files with made-up fields. Another is sending files that are not formatted correctly so you can't parse them. And … [Read more...]