Acknowledgment Level

Specifies whether the external application sends an HL7 application Acknowledgement after successfully receiving a message, or after the message has been successfully committed to the application database. The options are: 

• A: Application acknowledgment. The acknowledgement is sent after the message is successfully and functionally processed by one receiving system.

• C: Commit (accept) acknowledgment. The acknowledgement is sent when the message is successfully received.

Select A or C.

The configured default is A.

eGate Sends App Acks

Specifies whether the HL7 application acknowledgment sent to the external system is generated by the adapter or forwarded from the application server. 

• True indicates that the app server receives or creates the HL7 application acknowledgment and sends it to the adapter, which in turn forwards it to the external system.

• False indicates that the adapter creates and sends the HL7 application acknowledgment directly to the external system.

  This parameter is used for inbound Collaboration code.

Select True or False.

The configured default is False.

Forward External Acks

Specifies whether the HL7 application acknowledgment is forwarded to the app server. When an HL7 application acknowledgment is received, it is sometimes necessary to forward the contents of the HL7 application acknowledgment to the app server (as data). 

• True indicates that adapter forwards HL7 application acknowledgments from the external system to the app server for processing.

• False indicates that HL7 application acknowledgments from the external system are not forwarded to the app server by the adapter.

  This parameter is used for inbound Collaboration code.

Select True or False.

The configured default is False.

Timeout For Delayed Ack

Specifies the timeout value for delayed ACK in milliseconds. 

This parameter is used for the inbound Collaboration code. 

A number indicating the timeout in milliseconds. 

The configured default is 30000 (30 seconds).