OSI/MHS Orientation Guide

Building Your Message Handling System
OSI/MHS Orientation Guide—424829-001
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Tasks Described in This Section
8. Designing an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Application. You can design an
EDI application consistent with the X.400 Recommendations or integrate an existing
EDI application with an X.400 network.
9. Managing a Messaging Network. A variety of tools and instrumentation allow you
to monitor, tune, and administer a messaging network.
10. Writing an Accounting or a Billing Application. Accounting and billing are
important management functions of X.400 networks. You can automate such
functions on the NonStop system.
11. Integrating 1984 and 1988 Messaging Systems. Most existing implementations of
X.400 are based on the 1984 version of the Recommendations. Compaq X.400
products allow you to create a multiversion X.400 network.
Note. Items 4, 5, 6, and 8 all describe ways of integrating applications with X.400 networks
through OSI/MHS. Table 1-10 (in the description of EDI application development) contrasts the
application interfaces.