Working with CIDX Trading Partners

To effectively set up trading partners that implement CIDX, you must configure Sterling B2B Integrator with specific CIDX message data settings. This section provides an overview of the steps to set up trading partner information, including the different types of contracts necessary, along with the specific configuration settings that enable you to meet your CIDX data exchange requirements. After setting up your trading partner information, you can then create and implement business processes that comply with CIDX standards.

To configure trading partner information to implement CIDX, you must:

1. Create a trading profile for your organization and each of your trading partners. The trading profile enables you to define how you want to:
   • Build and parse CIDX message data.
   • Define message security and transport protocols.
2. Depending on contractual requirements agreed upon by you and your trading partner, you then create the following types of contracts:
   • A Partner Interface Process (PIP) is a CIDX-defined business process designed to be a framework for business flows between CIDX trading partners. For each PIP you plan to exchange, you must create a contract. For example, if the company is initiating and responding to E41, you must create a contract to initiate E41 and one to respond to E41.
   • You must create a RosettaNet contract for a PIP Code for Notification of Failure (PIP 0A1), as CIDX uses PIP0A1 as defined by RosettaNet as a standard means of Notification of Failure.
   • Message contracts—for CIDX-specific services to build and parse message, promote security, and send outbound CIDX messages to the appropriate URLs.

For more information about:

• CIDX solution for Sterling B2B Integrator, see the IBM® Customer Support Web site at http://www.sterlingcommerce.com/customer/tech_support.html.

  The Web site provides access to Support on Demand.

• CIDX concepts and development, see the CIDX Web site at http://www.cidx.org.

Before You Begin

Before you set up a CIDX trading profile and to simplify the tasks you must perform, collect and prepare the following information about your organization and trading partners:

• Trading partner name and address information, including:
  • DUNS numbers
  • Contact information, such as addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses
• Transaction information, including:
  • PIP code and PIP version to exchange
  • Roles of trading partners using each PIP (that is, the trading partners who is initiating and the trading partner who is responding).
• RNIF (RosettaNet Implementation Framework) version information (only RNIF v1.1 is supported).
• Transport information, including:
  • HTTP URLs
  • CA certificates for trading partner if using SSL
• Security information, digital signatures, and encryption and certificates (for example, certificates used to encrypt and decrypt).
• If you are using digital certificates, check in the appropriate certificate.