Creating a Community

Integration Architects create, edit, and delete communities.

Procedure

  1. From the main menu, select Participants > Communities.
  2. Click add.
  3. Complete the information in the wizard for the new community.
    Field Description

    Community Name

    A meaningful name to describe the community. Required. Cannot be a name previously used in IBM® Sterling B2B Integrator. Do not use spaces, tabs, or the following special characters:

    ! @ # % ^ * ( ) + ? , < > [ ] { } / ' \ " | ;

    Secret key for PGP signing

    Select from list of keys assigned to AFTPGPProfile. Required if any of the consuming partners belonging to this community require PGP signed data from the Router. See Prepare to Use PGP.

    Secret key for PGP decryption

    Select from list of keys assigned to AFTPGPProfile. Required if any of the producing partners belonging to this community send PGP encrypted data to the Router. This secret key may be the same or different from the one for PGP signing. See Prepare to Use PGP.

    Partner Initiates Protocol Connections to Mailbox

    Select to make this option available when creating Partners belonging to this community. A unique mailbox is created for Partners that initiate connections. Depending on other selections, submailboxes are created for Partners to enable them to drop files off for routing, or pick up files routed to them.

    Partner Listens for Protocol Connections

    Select to enable protocols available to listening Partners belonging to this community. When selected, the following choices are available when creating Partners belonging to this community:

    • FTP or FTPS
    • Connect:Direct®
    • SSH/SFTP
    • WebSphere® MQ FTE
    If the System Administrator adds other protocols to the AFTExtensionsCustomer.xml file, they are also provided as choices here.

    Should member partners receive notifications that they are subscribed to?

    This selection has no effect in Sterling File Gateway.
  4. Confirm the information and save.
  5. Close the Community window to return to Sterling File Gateway.

Results

Route Provisioners can now create partners using the community.