Activating and deactivating connections

As a user, company administrator (admin), or a representative of IBM Support, you can activate or deactivate a connection.

About this task

A deactivated connection, which is in the Inactive status cannot be used in transactions. After you deactivate a connection, those trading partners that were using this connection cannot use the connection, unless you activate it.

You can activate and deactivate both private and public connections from the My connections list page. However, you can activate or deactivate only the private connection from the Trading partners list page.
Important: If you have not deployed your public or private connection of the sending type into the CTE, you cannot activate or deactivate your connection. You can deactivate only an outbound public connection.

Procedure

  1. From the side navigation menu, select Company resources > Connections. Then, on the Connections page, click the Action options menu, and click Deactivate.
  2. On the confirmation window, click Deactivate.
    The connection is now in the Inactive status.

What to do next

To activate a connection, go to the My connections page. Then, click the Action options menu, and click Activate. The status of the connection changes from Inactive to its previous status.