IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising policy

An IBM® Sterling™ Intelligent Promising policy contains the connection details that are used by an IBM Sterling® Intelligent Promising Request node when you connect it to IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising.

You can use an IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising Request node in a message flow to connect IBM App Connect Enterprise to IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising and issue requests to perform actions on objects such as demands, distribution groups, jobs, safety stocks, and supplies. The IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising policy controls, at run time, access to the IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising application.

The IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising policy is created when you configure a connection between an IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising Request node and IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising by using the Connector Discovery wizard. During the process of discovery, account credentials are stored in the vault and connection details are stored in a policy. The policy is created with a type of IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising, and the name of the policy is returned to the node and specified in the Connection tab, in the format {policyProjectName}:policyName.

You can also create, update, or delete an IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising policy by using the Manage Discovery Connector Policies and Credentials wizard, which you can access by right-clicking the policy project in the IBM App Connect Enterprise Toolkit and then clicking New > Discovery Connector policies and credentials.

You must deploy this policy before message flows that use the policy are started. If you redeploy an IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising policy, all message flows that are using the policy are stopped and restarted.

For more information about using IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising policies, see Using IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising with IBM App Connect Enterprise.

Table 1. Properties of the IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising policy
Property	Property name in .policyxml file	Description of properties
IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising Application Type	applicationType	This property is reserved for future use and must be set to the value `online`.
IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising Application Version	applicationVersion	This property is reserved for future use and must be set to the value `v1`.
IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising Authentication method	authenticationMethod	This property specifies the type of authentication that is used for the connection between IBM App Connect Enterprise and IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising. This property is reserved for future use and must be set to `OAUTH2_CREDENTIALS`.
Tenant ID	tenantId	The tenant ID provided by IBM to access your APIs.
Credential Name	credentialName	The specified credential can be defined during connector discovery and stored in the vault. Alternatively, you can specify an existing credential that was configured by using the mqsicredentials command or the server.conf.yaml file, or loaded through an external credential provider.