Use the Outbound Acknowledgement page of the partner wizard to define the outbound acknowledgement for the partner.
The Outbound Acknowledgement page includes the following properties for EDI X12 and EDIFACT messages:
Send functional acknowledgment
Select the Send functional acknowledgment option to send acknowledgements for all the messages. B2B Gateway generates and sends acknowledgments to the partner upon receiving and processing messages. This option is selected by default.
Send acknowledgment to default location
Select the Send acknowledgment to default location option to send acknowledgments to a default location. This option is selected by default.
If you clear this option, you can manually enter the connection type, connection, target directory, and file pattern.
Connection Type
Select the type of the connection to where B2B Gateway sends the outbound acknowledgment files. You can select the following connection types:
- Advanced FTP V2
- Advanced FTPS V2
- Advanced SFTP V2
- AS2 Client
- File Servers (AS2, HTTPS, SFTP)
- Local Folder/MFT
Connection
Connection where B2B Gateway creates outbound acknowledgment files for the partner. Applies to the Advanced FTP V2, Advanced FTPS V2, Advanced SFTP V2, and AS2 client connection types.
You configure connections in Administrator. For information about configuring the connections, see the Administrator help.
Target Directory
Path to the directory on the connection where B2B Gateway drops outbound acknowledgment files.
File Pattern
Select the outbound acknowledgment file name pattern.
For example:
($eventId).edi
The patterns are not case sensitive. For more information about the file patterns that you can use in the outbound acknowledgement definition, see File Patterns.