| Title: | UPDATE: Upcoming MQ Trade Gateway Migration. ACE Truck Mfst users should Test in CERT. |
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| Date: | 2018-06-07 |
| To: | abi,acee,air,export,newace,ocean,partner,rail,truck |
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As announced in CSMS# 18-000375, in accordance with CBP's mandate to retire and relocate applications housed on the Mainframe to an IBM MQ Appliance platform, it is imperative that trading partners who transmit electronic messages to CBP's ACE system in an ANSI X.12 format test to ensure they are able to receive CBP's response messages.
It has been determined that ONLY ACE TRUCK Manifest users will be impacted by this migration. This is due to a difference in the EDI segment delimiter between the mainframe EBCDIC character set and the non-mainframe ASCII character set. Specifically the ACE Truck Manifest application's 350 (Customs Status Notifications) and 355 (Customs Manifest Acceptance/Rejection) response messages were developed to send a hex '85' segment delimiter to handle mainframe conversions from EBCDIC to ASCII. With the migration to an IBM MQ Appliance, a hex '85' character is no longer portable to all message-receiving platforms and therefore, it will be necessary to use the hex '15' character instead. Please note that the ACE Truck 997 (Functional Acknowledgement) message does not have the segment delimiter issue; it already uses the hex '15' character for a segment delimiter.
Trade partners must test to make certain that they can consume the new delimiters and may need to make accommodations in their process in the event they experience issues consuming the new delimitation.
The ACE Truck 350 and 355 message segment delimiters will change to the hex '15' character in the ACE Certification environment and available for trade testing on Thursday, JUNE 28th, with a targeted PRODUCTION date of Saturday, JULY 28th. Upon testing in the ACE CERT environment, if a trade partner discovers manifest response messages to be missing, please check your error queues and error logs for errors in receiving the messages.
If you need further assistance with this testing, please contact your assigned CBP Client Representative.