WebSphere Transformation Extender

WebSphere Transformation Extender Industry Packs

WebSphere® Transformation Extender Industry Packs provide out-of-the-box capabilities to integrate a range of industry standard data formats with your enterprise infrastructure. Industry Packs enable developers to accelerate the delivery of transformation solutions by providing predefined type tree templates, conversion maps, and in some cases provide validation maps and tools to remove risk from projects that require conformance to mandatory and advisory guidelines required by the regulatory body or industry service provider.

WebSphere Transformation Extender Industry Packs used in conjunction with WebSphere Transformation Extender, a universal data transformation engine, provide organizations with an infrastructure that:

FIX (Financial Information eXchange Protocol)

WebSphere Transformation Extender Pack for FIX delivers prebuilt data transformation content for the FIX Protocol. FIX is a set of message specifications for automated trading of financial instruments and is used as a standard format in straight-through-processing and collaboration scenarios by banks, brokers, dealers, and market makers, including the foreign exchange markets. Originally conceived in 1992, FIX formats are available in both older tag=value, and XML (FIXML), both DTD and XML Schema based. The Pack supports version 4.0 through 4.4, and 5.0 of these formats.

NACHA( National Automated Clearing House Association)

WebSphere Transformation Extender Pack for NACHA delivers templates for 2007 Automated Clearing House (ACH) compliant message exchange used throughout North America for electronic payments. More checks are also now processed as ACH transfers. The most common uses of ACH are online bill payment, mortgage and loan repayment, and direct deposit of payroll. Like many older financial formats ACH is in an 'envelope' structure consisting of a file header/trailer, batch header/trailer and detailed transaction records. This pack delivers validation using the guidance provided by NACHA. Maps are included for conversion of Cash Concentration and Dispersion (CCD) and Corporate Trading Exchange (CTX) ACH formats, with examples for handling ACH acknowledgements and returns.

SEPA (Single Euro Payment Area)

WebSphere Transformation Extender Pack for SEPA helps banks and financial institutions meet their compliance obligations to the European Union initiative to have a pan-European electronic payments infrastructure. It includes templates for SEPA credit transfers and direct debits, mapping between SEPA and SWIFT message type103 as well as validation for European Payment Councils SEPA implementation guidelines. Additional converter examples for mapping MT101, 102, 102+, 103+ SWIFT message types to SEPA credit transfer messages are included, and additional validation updates implemented from the European Payment Council guidelines.

SWIFT
WebSphere Transformation Extender Pack for SWIFT provides support for SRG 2011 and SWIFTNet Fin updates including ISO 20022 and ISO 15022 data dictionaries for MT-MX message coexistence and the complete catalog of SWIFT messages and SWIFT business rules.

In addition to templates and maps, it includes validation to ensure messages conform to SWIFT message standards, delivery monitoring, and prioritization of message storage and retrieval. Samples are included for Swift Alliance Access (SAA) headers for SWIFTNet Phase 2.

As part of SWIFT Partnership framework, the SWIFTReady certification program certifies the SWIFT-compliance of third-party financial applications that complement SWIFT’s value proposition. Certified applications are awarded a SWIFTReady Application label following their functional and technical compliance with SWIFT standards, messaging services and connectivity. Designed to reflect an application’s ability to provide automation in a SWIFT environment, the application label is based on a dedicated set of SWIFT-specific certification criteria (link resides outside of ibm.com) that are re-evaluated annually.

HIPAA EDI - Now with 5010 support!

WebSphere Transformation Extender Pack for HIPAA EDI includes ready-to-execute template definitions for the complete ASC X12N standard for HIPAA including HIPAA 4010 addendum, as well as CMS (formerly HCFA) formats for legacy NSF, UB-92 Claims and Coordination of Benefits, and 4010 flat file formats for Professional and Institutional Claims and Coordination of Benefits. The Pack features compliance validation checking, and handling of claims attachments. Also supports the National Provider ID requirement and Clinical Data Architecture release 2.0 for claims attachments support.

HIPAA EDI addresses the administrative simplification aspects of HIPAA legislation - the standardization of electronic patient health, administrative, and financial data. HIPAA regulations affect payers, health plans, clearinghouses, and those providers who conduct financial and administrative transactions electronically.

HL7

WebSphere Transformation Extender Pack for HL7 includes HL7 versions 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 and 2.5 type trees. HL7 version 3 XML formats can be easily imported into the Design Studio Type Designer using the XML Importer built into the tool.

Health Level Seven is an ANSI-accredited standards organization operating in the healthcare arena. HL7’s domain is clinical data. The HL7 produces standards for the exchange, management, and integration of data, intended to promote interoperability between healthcare information systems.

NCPDP

WebSphere Transformation Extender Pack for NCPDP includes template definitions for all of the finalized HIPAA NCPDP Telecommunications V5.1 transaction sets and Batch V1.1 format. The Pack also supports NCPDP V3.2 transaction sets and Batch V1.0 format. Sample maps are included to create reports from requests and replies.

The National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP) is a HIPAA-designated standards maintenance organization for finalized HIPAA transactions. NCPDP standards are used in the retail pharmacy sector.

ACORD (Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development)

WebSphere Transformation Extender Pack for ACORD delivers pre built message templates for the ACORD insurance industry standards for Life & Annuity (Life) V2.x, Property & Casualty/Surety (PCS) V1.x and Reinsurance Large Commercial (RLC) accounts. An AL3 2006 V4 type tree is included with a conversion map example for AL3 to ACORD PCS XML 1.x format using then ACORD PCS V1.10.1 Schema. A Validation map utility with XML data examples for PCS. Life support includes a sample map for TXLife 2.15.02 to X12 EDI 267 (individual life annuity & disability application). This Pack requires the ACORD XML Schema - available to ACORD (link resides outside of ibm.com) members only.

X12

WebSphere Transformation Extender Pack for X12 includes pre built definitions for the ASC X12 transaction sets. ASC X12 represents multiple business domains including finance, government, health care, insurance, and transportation.
Definitions updated to support version 5040 as described by the Data InterChange Standards Association (DISA).

EDIFACT

WebSphere Transformation Extender Pack for EDIFACT includes pre built definitions for the United Nations Electronic Data InterChange For Administration,Commerce, and Transport(EDIFACT) standards.
Definitions updated to support EDIFACT D.06a and D.06b versions.

EANCOM

WebSphere Transformation Extender Pack for EANCOM provides pre built definitions for EDI solutions requiring standard exchange formats. The EAN identification system defines unique identification codes for products and locations often used for barcodes too. Designed for the retail sector, EANCOM is used in healthcare, transport, electronics and publishing.

Odette

WebSphere Transformation Extender Pack for Odette provides a template to help improve quality and shorten design time of EDI solutions for the Automotive industry. Odette International is an organization, formed by the automotive industry to sets the standards for e-business communications, engineering data exchange and logistics management.

TRADACOMS

WebSphere Transformation Extender Pack for TRADACOMS provides pre built definitions. For TRADACOMS an EDI standard used in the retail sector for general merchandise.

WebSphere Transformation Extender Design Studio is capable of importing many other industry formats available as XML, and with V8.2 is able to work with imported XML Schema directly.

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WTX provides a unique, graphical user environment that allows integration designers to visualize complex data types in graphical form, and provide powerful data processing and manipulation capabilities.

This industry pack addresses the formatting requirements for EDI compliance, which includes WTX Packs for ASC X12, EDIFACT, and TRADACOMS. The EDI pack includes the updates provided by the Extender Packs for X12, EDIFACT and TRADACOMS.

This industry pack addresses the administrative simplification aspects of HIPAA legislation, which includes WTX Packs for HIPAA, HL7 and NCPDP. This industry pack includes the updates provided by the Extender Packs for HIPAA, HL7, and NCPDP.