The trading partner files store information about trading partners, the entities that exchange electronic business documents. The trading partner files contain information such as the codes that identify the sender and receiver on EDI envelopes and the details of the trade agreements that link specific maps with specific EDI messages/transaction sets for specific trading partners. Trading partner information is stored in the trading partner file/database and the wixset.dat file.
In both inbound and outbound processing, the fully qualified path to the trading partner directory is part of the required -t switch/parameter for users with non-ODBC trading partner files. For users with an ODBC trading partner database, the DSN (data source name) that points to the trading partner database is part of the required -st <DSN> parameter/switch.
