3.32 Release Notes
June 28, 2010
 
UTF-8 Character Support and Move Licenses when Replacing Entities

UTF-8 Character Set Support
Many AGIIS subscribers not only do business with customers in foreign countries, but also own and operate businesses in other countries.  These subscribers were unable to add some entity records to the database with correct spelling because AGIIS did not support the necessary characters such as the “ñ” (a diacritical tilde over “n”) in the Spanish word Español or the “ç “ (cedilla) in the French word Français.

AGIIS has been enhanced to support the UTF-8 character set which enables multinational characters commonly used in languages other than English to be uploaded, added using the website and stored in AGIIS.

There are several EBID Update Extract file formats currently used by AGIIS Subscribers that are not UTF-8 compatible;  EDI838 Document, ASCII Transaction File as 996, ASCII Transaction File as PF and ASCII Transaction File.  Any time a non-ASCII character is contained in data being exported from AGIIS into one of these file formats, the non-ASCII character will be removed and replaced with a blank space.

Move Licenses when Entity Status Changes to Replaced
When resolving duplicate entity records or when an entity moves from one location to another and both locations are identified in AGIIS, the entity status of one record is changed to “Replaced By” the record that is selected as the survivor.  The record that was replaced is inactivated.  This process causes a record to be added to the GLN Update Extract for those subscribers who have the replaced entity in their AGIIS subset.

A change has been made to AGIIS so that if the Replaced/Inactivated entity has a license(s), the license(s) will be removed from the Replaced entity and added to the record selected to be the survivor.

For those subscribers who have their license information stored in AGIIS and those subscribers who use license information from AGIIS, it now becomes even more important that they use the information in their GLN Update Extract.  The GLN Update Extract can be used to determine not only the entity record that should be used but also the entity that is licensed.  Subscribers should also apply the appropriate changes to data in their internal systems in order to stay up-to-date with AGIIS and the rest of the industry.

NOTE:  The “Replace By” entity status can not be used when a record that is selected to be replaced/inactivated has a license that is identical to a license on the designated survivor record.