OSI/MHS Orientation Guide

Building Your Message Handling System
OSI/MHS Orientation Guide—424829-001
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Where to Look
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Manuals describing the message formats, protocols, and standards conformance of
the existing application (or requirements for a new application), and similar
information for other EDI applications with which yours must interoperate.
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Copies of the CCITT X.400 series of Recommendations, including X.435, and of
EDI standards and implementors’ agreements with which you choose to comply.
(The Data Interchange Standards Association [DISA] is a source for the ANSI X12
standards; various industry groups publish industry-specific implementation guides.)
"About This Manual" lists and describes the X.400 Recommendations and related
documents, as well as the NonStop manuals you are likely to find most helpful.
For information about EDI solutions for Compaq systems, see the Software Services
Directory of the Compaq Alliance Group.
Manuals and Media Guide
Table 1-11 includes Compaq manuals and educational media that help you plan and
implement EDI applications. Items are listed in one possible reading order, but you will
certainly find yourself moving back and forth among the manuals as you work.
In the table, represents a manual, represents a videotape, represents a
workbook, represents a lecture course, and represents information available to
Compaq technical support personnel through the Courier application.
Table 1-11. Manuals and Media for EDI Over X.40
Title
Subject
Area Contents
Introduction to Compaq Net-
working and Data Communica-
tions
COMM/OSI Background on Compaq networking prod-
ucts, including MHS
X.400 Concepts and Architec-
ture video
MHS X.400 technical overview
OSI/MHS Product Overview
video
MHS Introduction to OSI/MHS concepts and
components
OSI/MHS Gateway
Programmatic Interface (GPI)
Programming Guide
MHS How to use the OSI/MHS GPI
OSI/MHS Gateway
Programmatic Interface (GPI)
Reference Manual
MHS Syntax and semantics of GPI procedure
calls
OSI/MHS P7 Application
Programmatic Interface (API)
Reference Manual
MHS How to use the P7 API, and syntax/seman-
tics of procedure calls
Data Definition Language
(DDL) Ref Manual
Database Syntax and use of DDL