van dapters

[Former Member]

Hello all

Can anyone give some information on working with VAN adapters?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Pradhan,

<b>VAN(Value Added Networks)</b>

In the most basic form, a VAN acts as a regional post office. They receive transactions, examine the 'From' and the 'To' information, and route the transaction to the final recipient. VANs provide a number of additional services, e.g. retransmitting documents, providing third party audit information, acting as a gateway for different transmission methods, and handling telecommunications support. Because of these and other services VANs provide, businesses frequently use a VAN even when both trading partners are using Internet-based protocols. Healthcare clearinghouses perform many of the same functions as a VAN, but have additional legal restrictions that govern protected healthcare information.

VANs also provide an advantage with certificate replacement in AS2 transmissions. Because each node in a traditionally business-related AS2 transmission usually involves a security certificate, routing a large number of partners through a VAN can make certificate replacement much easier.

for more ingo see(check below)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Data_Interchange

regards

biplab

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

HI,

The SEEBURGER FTP/VAN Adapter is responsible for transmitting files according to the File Transfer Protocol, with the particular support of various VANs. This protocol was installed as a user gateway protocol by several of the largest VAN providers, such as IBM, GE and Sterling IIB and Sterling Commerce.

The FTP/VAN adapter must be configured in the configuration part of the Integration Builder. The adapter is based on the Adapter Framework and is executed by the SAP J2EE Adapter Engine as shown in the diagram below.

The FTP/VAN Adapter supports the following protocols:

• IBMIE VAN, all report options.

• GEIS (GeMarkIII) and GeMark3000, all report options, report file is only extracted, if needed.

• EXITE (ECODEX), EDIFACT file processing, DISPATCHED reports.

• Sterling Commerce and Sterling IIB.

• MCI EDI*Net.

The following FTP options are supported:

• SSL, both IMPLICIT and AUTH_TLS support, server authentication.

• All popular FTP proxy types like: USERWL, USERWOL, SITEWL, OPENWOL.

• Active and Passive connection modes.

• "KeepAlive" feature.

• Binary, ASCII and custom transfer types.

Refer the below thresd which taks about the AS2 adapter configuration inroder to convert the EDI to XML message the similar configuration needs to be done in case of VAN/FTP adapter.

Seeburger adapters like FTP,OFTPS,AS2,X400 are used for B2B scenario where the file is coming through WAn network or mailbox. As XI dont have capability to convert the EDIFACT format file to XML the same work will be done by seeburger adapters.

The SEEBURGER Business Integration Converter (BIC) is an any-to-any format converter, used to translate EDI data and legacy data formats into XML and vice versa. It can also be used for complex, high performance XML-to-XML mappings or to interface to existing JDBC data sources.

Supported EDI formats include:

• ANSI

• EDIFACT

• INHOUSE

• IDOC

• XML Schema

• XML DTD

• CSV

• Delimited Data

• positional data

• SWIFT

• EANCOM

and many more.

See for converting the EDI XML to EDI and XML-EDI you need to have a seeburger mapping program at the adapter module which does the conversion. For this module you need a BIC tool of seeburger which provides the different module program for EDI to XML and XML-EDI. This program needs to be deployed on XI and through adapter it has to be called for conversion.

Seeburger provides the std mapping program which has to be deploy on to XI and we need to give it to module tab in adapter which does the conversion.

Here are the some of the std mapping program which is provided by seeburger.

See_E2X_INVOIC_UN_D96A

See_E2X_INVOIC_UN_D99A

See_E2X_ORDERS_UN_D96A

See_E2X_OSTRPT_EAN_D96A.

We need to take the license from seeburger and we need to deploye the seeburger adapters then only we can see in adapter list on XI.

Thanks and Regards,

Chirag Gohil