Ooh I see now - no way that response is only two character in the length - yes first two are imortant, but is definitely longer that. Some of them probably finished reading of the manual on that line, and in infinite wisdom, decided that is all they need. I would like to see how they handle ISO8583 110 message, for example?

Well, this is some misunderstanding with regards of 8583, you can certify that your application is conforming 8583 (of so called "Deluxe") standard with financial organization through which your application sends/receives transactional messages. Best is certification with the regulatory body for financial transactions in the region/state/province; and they should have valid reference number of that certification at least. By submitting to certification, you should be able to prove that interface of application (in whatever state it might be) can handle ISO 8583 messages. Addendum on ISO8583 manual describes messages to the detail and what the answering messages should look like to pass certification. Ohterwise you can claim that your mesage handling is ISO8583 "conoformant" - tha you can receive and properly respond to baseline set of messages. There is als Base24 and X11 standards for financial messaging. Technically Bank (this is from my experience) have to certify itself for all protocols it handles with regulatory body inthe region/province/state and with entity who has switch (concetrator) and not with ISO entity at all.

No not yet, but i plan to conect it. It actually have two modes switchable form the xp task bar/tray icons. One 800x400 (default) and 800x600 (scrollable) which is tolerable for quick editing / browsing the code. I paid $409 CDN before taxes from resseler with cash discount - other stores offer it for $439. As I said, the 1GB ram upgrade is a must, and also having a big SD card as second drive. Actually I do acassionally connnect WD passport external drive to it, but there are cases when I could not afford draining batteries - hence SD card which is in all the time. I also use another 4GB memory stick.

Well, I just become proud owner of one (401, 4G, Camera), and managed to install XP professional, and to remove extra stuff from it. Actually, I got more space left than I had originally with Linux version which came with it. It is good addtion to my mobile tools, and good supplement to my working notebook, (big 17" toshiba sattelite) which is not always practical to carry. Battery life is what I have expected, but I must definitely upgrade to 1g of ram (it came with 512). I also put 1g SD card which I use ase second drive - I will be upgrading to 4G soon. It tends to became hot when you work on power suplly though. I use set of portable apps (www.portableapps.com or something like that) and especially portable notepad ++. I'll keep you posted abou my experiences.

No, unfortunately it's very hard to do that with ABAP, what they(and maybe you too) need is the SAP Exchange Infrastructure, http://www11.sap.com/solutions/netweaver/exchangeinfrastructure/index.aspx[^] whic supports, java, web services, etc. You can also get more info in whole SAP Net weaver section.