The menus in the IBM® Sterling
B2B Integrator Dashboard
interface work in the same manner to provide access to the different components of IBM Sterling
B2B Integrator.
The following figure displays a typical menu with the parts labeled:
Some primary headings have secondary headings under them, providing
access to another tier of menu options. The following menu shows a
primary heading, Trading Partner and a secondary
heading, Document Envelopes. Both these headings
can be expanded by clicking the corresponding arrow:
The following table describes the primary heading menu options
of the Administration Menu because they relate to specific tasks.
Remember that some of the menu options illustrated and described in
this document may not be displayed in your interface, depending on
the permissions assigned in your user account by the administrator
who created it.
You should navigate to the Admin Console pane in the interface
as you read this section to gain a better understanding.
For information about the specific activities you can perform from
a given page, see the page information (Side Help) on the corresponding
page in the interface.
Primary Menu Heading |
Description |
Business Processes |
Provides access to pages for business process management
activities, including:
- Accessing the Graphical Process Modeler to create business process
models
- Creating, deleting, and searching for business process definitions
- Checking business processes in and out of IBM Sterling
B2B Integrator
- Starting, stopping, enabling, and disabling processes
- Monitoring current processes for information such as status, start
and stop time, and errors
- Determining what other processes are related to a specific business
process
- Searching for information about service activity within a business
process
- Performing a wide range of advanced searches for business processes,
documents, EDIINT transactions, and ebXML message flows
|
Trading Partner |
Provides access to pages for trading partner management
activities, including:
- Creating, modifying, and searching for trading partner profiles
- Configuring and searching for advanced trading partner information
such as transport records, document exchange information, delivery
channels, and packaging information
- Creating, checking in, and searching for digital certificates
- Creating, configuring, and searching for document envelopes and
related information such as contents of the EDI Sequence Check Queue
and the control number history
- Creating and locating contracts
- Creating and locating code lists
- Configuring SSH Remote Profiles
- Managing Odette FTP Partner Profiles
- Managing PGP Server, PGP Partner, and PGP Sponsor
|
Deployment |
Provides access to pages for services-related activities,
including:
- Searching for information about specific services
- Creating and searching for service configurations
- Creating and searching for schedules for business processes and
services
- Accessing the Map Editor application and EDI or CII standards
- Checking in and searching for translation maps, XSL style sheets,
XML schemas or DTDs, WSDLs (Web Services Description Languages), and
Collaboration Protocol Agreements for ebXML
- Checking in, searching for, and exporting Web templates and resources
- Creating and managing mailboxes
- Checking in and searching for ebXML Business Process Specification
Schemas and assigning business processes to activities in a schema
- Importing and exporting system resources
- Configuring adapter utilities such as SAP or SWIFTNet
- Creating and packaging custom services and adapters
|
Operations |
Provides access to pages for systems operations-related
activities, including:
- Troubleshooting system problems
- Creating, scheduling, searching for, and viewing other reports
- Configuring performance tuning
- Entering a support case
- Viewing system logs
- Updating and searching for product licenses
- Monitoring running threads and messages
- Configuring and managing archive settings and locked resources
- Adding and configuring perimeter services
- Configuring and managing proxy servers
|
Accounts |
Provides access to pages for user account-related
activities, including:
- Creating and searching for user groups, permissions, accounts,
and password policies
- Creating and searching for user news messages
- Modifying your user account settings
|