All,
Due to changing clients, I've been off the
listservs for a week or so. I'm still not sure if I'm back onto SAPFAQ
or not, their signon procedure has gotten longer as they try to keep
recruiters off the list. Please send any replies directly to me, as well
as the list, that way I'm sure to get them.
My client is a SME (small to medium enterprise)
that is just implementing SAP 4.6 on an NT platform. That have been
using Harbinger Trusted Link for Windows 4.3 (HTLW) with their legacy
system. This system receives EDI messages and prints them. To send
out EDI, the data needs to be manually put into a screen for
translation.
Harbinger tells them that they need to purchase a
product called SD Mapper (?) in order to translate EDI to Idocs and
visa-versa. Harbinger also recommends some communication package to
talk to/from SAP. Both seem somewhat expensive, and the maintenance fees
are exorbitant.
Questions:
Does HTLW work with integration to
SAP?
Does it work well - e.g. would anyone recommend
it? I know that Harbinger has taken quite a bashing lately for lack of
support.
Does the SD product provide ANSI X12 and EDIFACT
standard transaction sets?
Does the product provide any capability to create
an application layout using a downloaded SAP Idoc format?
Is the communication package necessary to get
stuff into and out of SAP?
Does it cost anything to upgrade to HTLW version
5.1?
Thanks in advance,
