This Draft Standard for Trial Use contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Data Status Tracking Transaction Set (242) within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This management transaction set is the vehicle by which the transmission status information is conveyed by a service request handler to the interchange sender, interchange receiver, or both; it can be used to provide status information regarding interchange as it flows from an interchange sender through one or more service request handlers to an interchange receiver during its transmission cycle. It can be used by the interchange sender or interchange receiver to request from a service request handler ad hoc or periodic reports containing status information regarding interchanges.
To indicate the start of a transaction set and to assign a control number
To indicate the beginning of a transaction set
To identify report selection criteria
To specify any or all of a date, a time, or a time period
To specify identifying information
To provide a free-form format that allows the transmission of text information
To identify dependencies among and the content of hierarchically related groups of data segments
To uniquely identify interchange control structures
To identify a party by type of organization, name, and code
To specify identifying information
To specify quantity information
To identify activity taken with an interchange
To identify a party by type of organization, name, and code
To specify identifying information
To specify quantity information
To indicate the end of the transaction set and provide the count of the transmitted segments (including the beginning (ST) and ending (SE) segments)
