Configuring Content-Type Inboxing for the AS/400 Native File System (AS2 only)

The Add Content-Type Directory to Inbox checkbox allows for sorting of incoming messages based on the content-type of the message to a subdirectory (under the Inbox specified on the General tab for the Host).   You specify each of the content-types that you want directed to specified subdirectories by entering a name in the Directory field.  Directory entries may be made for content-types of:  EDIFACT, X12, XML, Binary, Plain Text, and Other (a default catch-all for messages with all other content-types you may receive.)  The same subdirectory may be used for multiple content-types.  You may also leave 'Directory' entries blank that will cause any received messages of that 'Content-Type' to be stored in the Inbox specified on the General tab. 

Note: If you use this feature, incoming messages are placed in the specified folder based on the content type specified in the HTTP header of the message.  The Cleo LexiCom application does not check the actual content of the message to determine its content type.

Note: If you are integrated with a translator, you should not add entries for the X12 or EDIFACT directories.  These directories must remain blank for translator integration to work properly.

By default, the Content-Type directories are preconfigured for windows or IFS based folders.   To use this feature on the AS/400 Native File System, you must modify all directories to be used so that the settings have the correct AS/400 syntax. That is, each directory must be specified in the form, DIRECTORY.FILE.

On the General tab, specify just the library for the Inbox value where the Content-Type files will be created.  For example, /QSYS.LIB/LEXICOM.LIB/:

Now verify that all the "directories" that you have specified, i.e., files in the form DIRECTORY.FILE, have a matching physical file.  In the example above, the files EDIFACT.FILE, X12.FILE and XML.FILE under the /QSYS.LIB/LEXICOM.LIB library are being used.   If these files don't already exist, create a physical file for each of the files you have specified as follows:

CRTPF FILE(LEXICOM/EDIFACT) RCDLEN(132) MAXMBRS(*NOMAX) SIZE(*NOMAX)  
CRTPF FILE(LEXICOM/X12) RCDLEN(132) MAXMBRS(*NOMAX) SIZE(*NOMAX)  
CRTPF FILE(LEXICOM/XML) RCDLEN(132) MAXMBRS(*NOMAX) SIZE(*NOMAX)

As a final step, verify that the Add Mailbox Alias Directory To Inbox setting on the Advanced panel is not selected:

Configuring the Scheduler for the AS/400

Since the LexiCom AS/400 server does not have a UI to allow the user to manually send and receive files from trading partners, and typical AS/400 users will be integrating LexiCom with an EDI translator, the LexiCom Scheduler is a convenient way to invoke the <send> and <receive> actions that you have configured for your hosts.

See Scheduling actions - Native and Classic Web UI for more information.