ED02 Setup..What is best practice

We don't use GHX but it sounds like they want the transfer in binary which should be 1::b (two colons between the 1 and the b). 

FTP CONNECTION OPTIONS
User field 2 is can be used for specifying the FTP connection parameters: debug, active or passive ftp connections, ascii or binary data transfers, and an ftp timeout parameter.   Parameters are delimited by a colon (:).  If a parameter is blank the default value will be used.

The order of the parameters is debug:connection:mode:timeout.

VALID VALUES:
Debugging: "d" or "debug" or "1" to enable, "0" or "off" to disable.  If blank, defaults to 0;
Connection: "1" or "p" or "passive" for passive connections, "0" or "a" or "active" for active connections. If blank, defaults to "1";
Mode: "0" or "a" or "ascii" for ascii transfers, "1" or "b" or "binary" for binary transfers.  If blank, defaults to "binary".
Timeout: specify a time out in seconds, the default is 120.

Examples:
To enable only FTP Debug Trace, enter just a 1 in User Field 2. This is equivalent to "1:p:b:120"
To enable only an active FTP connection, enter ":a" in User Field 2. This is equivalent to "1:p:a:120".
To enable debug with a ascii transfer:  enter "1::a" in User Field 2. This is equivalent to "1:p:a:120"
To change only the timeout to 3 minutes (180 seconds): enter ":::180" in User Field 2.  This is equivalent to "0:p:b:180".
To enable debug, with an active connection, ascii transfer and 4 minute time out: enter "1:a:a:240" in User Field 2.

We have GHX, but the User Field2 value tht Jon is referring to is different than what we have on our ED02 forms. Maybe you have a different version of Lawson? We're on 9.1. I'm not able to attach screen shots to show you our set up. LawsonGuru is giving me an error.
We have 2 ED02's.
First one:
Carrier:GHXTCP
Method: TCP Provider: GHX
Host:The GHX server IP addess
User Field 1: 31234
User Field 2: 41234
User Field 3: 30
User Field 4: 10

The 2nd one:
Carrier : NEOFTPGHX
Method: FTP Provider: LAWS
Host: Our ftp address
Login: ghxftp
Access: ftp2ghx
User Field 1 and User Field 2 are both blank.
User Field 3: in
User Field 4: out

Bev, the numbers in your user fields for your GHXTCP carrier are specifically for sending and receiving data across TCP for GHX ConnectPlus. User Field 1 and User Field 2 are the socket numbers for sending and receiving, respectively. User Field 3 is the maximum number of retries the system will attempt to send or receive data. User Field 4 is the connection time-out in seconds.

Your NEOFTPGHX carrier is a straight forward unsecured FTP connection. User Field 3 is the directory to which the system puts the purchase orders (850s) and User Field 4 is the for the directory from which the system picks up acknowledgements (855s), invoices (810s) and other inbound files.

Thanks Jon!!

Saving this and adding to my EDI notes. I'm learning as I go along!

 

Bev

We're neoftpghx as well:
Carrier : NEOFTPGHX
Method: FTP Provider: LAWS- Lawson
Host: IP address
Login: ghxftp
Access: ftp2ghx
User Field 1 blank
User Field 2 1
User Field 3 in
User Field 4 out

Jon is correct - GHX is telling you they want it binary. But as GHX has been migrating in the back to amazon cloud, your consultant may have been right at the time, it's just changed.