With EdiNation, you can automatically generate EDI-compliant acknowledgments - TA1, 997, or 999 for X12, and CONTRL (technical and functional) for EDIFACT.

Before you can generate an acknowledgment, you must validate the EDI file. To learn about validating EDI files, read the Validate and debug EDI files article. 

Generate X12 acknowledgments

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To generate an X12 acknowledgment for your validated EDI file, click on the ACK button:

The acknowledgment is opened in a modal box and can be downloaded:

For X12, the TA1 acknowledgment is bundled together with the 997 or 999, unless discarded in ISA14 or explicitly suppressed in the configuration (see below).

Configure EDI file acknowledgments

The following options are available to configure parsing by clicking on the settings button next to ACK:

Generate 997 instead of 999

By default, the generated X12 acknowledgments are TA1 and 999. If you want to generate TA1 and 997 instead, enable this property:

Generate AK2 for valid messages

For X12, AK2 loops are only generated for messages with errors. If you wish to generate AK2 loops for valid messages as well, enable this property:

AK901 should be P instead of E

For X12, the value in AK9 position 1 for partial status is E. Some applications expect this value to be P (both are correct according to the X12 standard). If you wish to generate P instead of E, enable this property:

Supress TA1

By default, TA1 is generated and included in the same X12 ACK interchange when the value in ISA14 is 1. When the value in ISA14 is 0, TA1 is not generated. If you wish to cancel the generation of TA1 altogether, regardless of the value in ISA14, enable this property:

Next steps

To learn more about how to translate and validate EDI files with EdiNation, try these tutorials:

• Parse and format EDI files
• Validate and debug EDI files
• Convert between EDI and JSON
• View and download EDI specs
• Create and import EDI specs