Hi all, We're currently running Gentran:Basic on Z/OS but with our inexorable corporate grinding to SAP across multiple franchises, I think that we'll be moving to a unix platform for pretty much everything. It won't happen tomorrow, but if I were a betting man, that is where I'd put my money.
We also run webMethods (on unix) as a corporate middleware layer. There are some people who think that we should use the EDI capabilities of webMethods for our translator at some point in the future. I am not numbered among these people. We have a current semi-urgent need to move our communications to Connect:Enterprise Unix or some variant thereof. Sterling was in recently, and pitched this -- as well as GIS. I was part of this meeting and was frankly (and pleasantly) surprised at the amount of interest I saw around GIS. I am now working with this team on presenting a cogent argument for moving our translator platform from Gentran:Basic to GIS. I need facts and opinions. I need war stories. I would LIKE to hear tales that GIS is great, that it runs rings around webMethods, that it's relatively painless to migrate from G:B to GIS (well, okay; I've seen a Gentran:Basic map and I know that this isn't really true.) But I've only heard marketing and sales engineer stuff. How horrible is it, really? Has anyone done it? I could say that I simply want to stop beating the "AS2/Drummond/waah waah waah certification waah waah waah" horse, and that would only be partly true -- but this is a looming need and a legitimate question. webMethods fans/foes/freaks, and GIS fans/foes/freaks, do your stuff. Let me know what we're in for. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12ht2ed84/M=362131.6882499.7825260.1510227/D=groups/S=1705005582:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1123608308/A=2889191/R=0/SIG=10r90krvo/*http://www.thebeehive.org ">Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job) Welcome to the Sweet Life - brought to you by One Economy</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> . Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Access the list online at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
