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Created on Aug 22, 2025

Using Generic Inbound GS and ST Envelopes

We have data that comes in with multiple GS ID values for the senders.

If one of those GS envelope IDs is not included in ITX-A, the entire payload fails with a missing envelope entry.

We need to process all the valid envelopes and not process the missing envelope data.

We have done this through the use of generic envelopes for the GS and ST envelopes, and it is working successfully in our Windows environment using a SQL Server database, but when we move it to the Linux environment using an Oracle database, we are getting this error in the SPE output from the DeEnvelope map call:

Resource X12-0: WebSphere Transformation Extender compliance checking requested but ‘X12MapLocation’ not set in translator.properties. (Handled in Error BP).

This error is not true, because when we send valid data (all GS envelopes are present in ITX-A) the data processes successfully.

When we process data that also has an invalid ISA ID, this process works as expected and uses the Generic envelopes successfully.

When we change the partner ISA envelope to set the Use WebSphere Transformation Extender compliance checking to NO, it processes the data with this error, but the data for the groups that are valid is not compliance checked because that setting is required in order to use HIPAA compliance checking.

We have also tried troubleshooting by installing the Supplychain maps and uncommenting the ‘translator.X12MapLocation=ccx12’ line in customer_overrides.properties.

This proved that the EDI Supplychain pack map (ccx12) was being called instead of the HIPAA pack map (compliance_check), because the original error went away, but we then got ‘One or more inputs is invalid’.

This error is true, because the Supplychain map does not understand the HIPAA data structure

L2 is able to reproduce this in their Lab. Here are their observations:

ISA Envelope is set to Use WebSphere Transformation Extender compliance checking: Yes

Hipaa GS Envelope has Compliance Check enabled

CBC GS Envelope has Compliance Check disabled

Error when Running SPESample: Advanced status = Resource X12-0: WebSphere Transformation Extender compliance checking requested but 'X12MapLocation' not set in translator.properties. (Handled in Error BP). This is confusing since this is an SI property and not the property defined in ITXA customer_overrides.properties.