Microsoft KB Archive/297631

= FIX: Documents Fail Data Validation When You Use X12 Documents with BizTalk Server =

Article ID: 297631

Article Last Modified on 10/22/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q297631



SYMPTOMS
When you use X12 documents with Microsoft BizTalk Server that use either Real (R) or Number (N) data types, your documents may fail data validation. The reason provided for validation failure may be similar to the following error message:

Length is greater than the maximum.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

299664 INFO: How to Obtain the Latest BizTalk Server 2000 Service Pack



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in BizTalk Server 2000 Service Pack 1.



MORE INFORMATION
To provide support for newer specifications, BizTalk Server now provides a property named Custom Maximum Length. This new property allows data that includes plus (+) or minus (-) signs and decimal points (.) to be excluded from the calculation of the length of field data.

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbbiztalk2000sp1fix KB297631

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