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About Sterling B2B Integrator

IBM® Sterling B2B Integrator is a business process-centric transaction engine for modeling and managing business processes. Sterling B2B Integrator supports high volume electronic message exchange, complex routing, translation and flexible integration, and real-time interaction with multiple internal systems and external business partners. Sterling B2B Integrator processing is based on industry standards: v Business processes are created and run based on the Business Process Modeling Language (BPML), a metalanguage for the modeling of business processes. v Internet communications protocols (HTTP, FTP, E-mail) meet industry standards. v B2B management, packaging, and communications protocol standards are supported (ebXML, AS1, AS2, EDIFACT, ANSI X12). v Security standards are supported (X.509 certificates, SSL, digital signatures, data encryption). Using the Sterling B2B Integrator business process-centric transaction engine for modeling and managing business processes, you can automate system-to-system business document exchanges such as purchase orders, invoices, shipment notifications, and many other document types depending on yours or your trading partners business needs and required protocol standards.


How Sterling Connect:

Enterprise for UNIX Interoperability Works Interoperability between Sterling B2B Integrator and Sterling Connect:Enterprise works in both directions. Both systems can initiate information exchange and respond to information requests with the ability to invoke business processes and track activity on both ends. The following figure shows a high-level view of how Sterling B2B Integrator and Sterling Connect:Enterprise work together to exchange information: Chapter 1. Overview of IBM Sterling Connect:Enterprise for UNIX Interoperability 3 Sterling Connect:Enterprise for UNIX Server Adapter As shown in the preceding figure, connectivity between Sterling B2B Integrator and Sterling Connect:Enterprise for UNIX is handled through a special adapter, the Sterling Connect:Enterprise for UNIX Server Adapter. When an external trading partner sends business documents electronically to a mailbox on Sterling Connect:Enterprise, the Server Adapter can receive notification and then use the account and schedule information from Sterling Connect:Enterprise to invoke business processes. These business processes use services to interact with the Sterling Connect:Enterprise mailbox. These services are described fully in the next section. When data in a Sterling Connect:Enterprise mailbox matches the criteria of a notification schedule Sterling Connect:Enterprise notifies the Server Adapter.The Server Adapter can also call Sterling Connect:Enterprise unsolicited. When the Server Adapter retrieves the batch summary data, it sets this information in ProcessData and invokes the business process. The business process can extract data from or add data to Sterling Connect:Enterprise and perform other back-end activities. CAUTION: Because of continuing efforts to improve services and adapters to align with new technology and capabilities, the Sterling Connect:Enterprise adapter was retired and replaced in Sterling B2B Integrator with the Sterling Connect:Enterprise for UNIX Server Adapter with related services.

Testing Sterling B2B Integrator and Sterling Connect:
Enterprise for UNIX Interoperability You can test that Sterling B2B Integrator and Sterling Connect:Enterprise were configured correctly and are now communicating by the following methods: v Perform a quick test v Run the interoperability verification demo Quick Test The Server Adapter must be configured with a valid Sterling Connect:Enterprise host, port, user id, and password so the Server Adapter can be registered in Sterling Connect:Enterprise as a business process protocol daemon. After the Server Adapter is configured and registered, Sterling Connect:Enterprise sees the Server Adapter as just another protocol.
 Note: Maximum number of characters for the password in the Server Adapter is 55. If the Sterling Connect:Enterprise for UNIX password is longer than 55 characters, it must be changed to 55 characters or less.
 Testing the Configuration To test the configuration, follow this procedure.
 Procedure
 1. Start the Sterling Connect:Enterprise server.
 2. Edit the CEUServerAdapter BP.
3. Click Enable.
4. Click Finish. Verifying the Configuration To quickly verify that the Server Adapter is configured correctly and that Sterling B2B Integrator and Sterling Connect:
Enterprise are communicatin, follow this procedure. Procedure
1. Type one the following cmusession commands to find a registered instance of the Server Adapter: v To list only registered business process protocols: cmusession -u admin -p adminpass -g v To list all registered protocols: cmusession -u admin -p adminpass where admin is the Sterling Connect:Enterprise product adminstrator login and adminpass is the password for that login id
2. Verify that the Server Adapter is listed as a BP protocol. If the Server Adapter name is not in the list of registered protocols, the following are the most frequently encountered problems: Results If the Server Adapter name is not in the list of registered protocols, the following are the most frequently encountered problems: v Invalid host IP address or port number