Electronic Data Interchange
Interchange Acknowledgment (ASC/X12)

The Interchange Acknowledgment indicates the receipt of an interchange.  The interchange in an EDI document is begins with Interchange Header (ISA) control segment and ends with the Interchange Trailer (IEA), and technically it is the presence of these two segments that the interchange receipt acknowledges.

Generating Interchange Acknowledgments

To automatically generate an Interchange Acknowledgment, take the following steps:

  1. The properties EnableInterchangeAcknowledgment  have to be set to TRUE.
  2. For the ASC/X12 Interchange Acknowledgment, if the acknowledgment option OptAcknowledgment_IgnoreAckRequest is disabled, the Interchange Acknowledgment is generated depending on the value of the Acknowledgment Requested Data Element (I13).  If the value of data element I13 is "1" then the Interchange Acknowledgment is enabled.

    The following is a summary of how the Interchange Acknowledgment is dependent on the OptAcknowledgment_IgnoreAckRequest option and EnableInterchangeAcknowledgment property.

    DE I13 OptAcknowledgment_IgnoreAckRequest  EnableInterchangeAcknowledgment  TA1
    0 FALSE FALSE NO
    0 FALSE TRUE NO
    0 TRUE FALSE NO
    0 TRUE TRUE YES
    1 FALSE FALSE NO
    1 FALSE TRUE YES
    1 TRUE FALSE NO
    1 TRUE TRUE YES

  3. The Interchange Acknowledgment (TA1) data segment definition is used to create the interchange acknowledgment.  FREDI uses the built-in definition of this data segment as default to creating the segment, otherwise if it will use the definition in the implementation guideline provided.

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