Used for the batch processing mechanism for EDI flat files in N4 that requires either the length or the starting value of segments, such as the header, body, and the footer. The ARGOEDI003 setting specifies the length of the header, each transaction in the body, and the footer of a flat file separated by a comma.
You must set ARGOEDI003 at the EDI session level. This enables you to use different values for each session.
For example, if you set ARGOEDI003 as 1,2,3, "1" represents the number of segments in the header, "2" represents the number of segments for each transaction in the body, and "3" represents the number of segments in the footer.
After excluding the header and the footer segments, N4 treats the remaining segments in the file as the body. In this example, two consecutive segments in the body are considered as one transaction.
If you do not set either ARGOEDI002 (EDI_FLAT_FILE_IDENTIFY_SEGMENTS_BY_VALUE) (on page 1) or ARGOEDI003 for a session processing flat files, N4 does not use batch processing when executing the session.