Receiving a new Global Mailbox message to a Connect:Direct server adapter SNODE

You can receive a new Global Mailbox message to a Connect:Direct® server adapter SNODE.

Before you begin

Knowledge of Connect:Direct protocol and business processes is required. For more information about the integration of Connect:Direct, see IBM® Sterling B2B Integrator and Sterling Connect:Direct on IBM online documentation.

You must be assigned a virtual root and permissions for the mailbox in Global Mailbox.

About this task

The Connect:Direct server adapter allows Sterling B2B Integrator to act like a Sterling Connect:Direct server, sending and receiving data using the Sterling Connect:Direct protocol. The Connect:Direct server adapter enables you to use files from a Sterling Connect:Direct server in a Sterling B2B Integrator business process and to create business processes that exchange files with a Sterling Connect:Direct server.

You can also use the Connect:Direct server adapter SNODE to copy file directly to the Global Mailbox. Currently, the check point restart feature of the Connect:Direct protocol is supported for such transfers. If the receiving of the file is interrupted, it is resumed from a previously check pointed location instead of starting the file transfer from the beginning.

The Connect:Direct server adapter is the SNODE. The PNODE can be any supported Sterling Connect:Direct node on any supported platform. There is no indication to the PNODE that Global Mailbox is part of the exchange.

Important: When you receive a message to a Global Mailbox, the payload is replicated to other data centers. Replication may be immediate or delayed depending on the replication configuration. Users with appropriate permissions to the mailbox can retrieve and view the replicated payload (message) by using the Connect:Direct server adapter instance. When the replicated payload is retrieved from one of the data centers, the extraction count is updated.

Procedure

To receive a Global Mailbox message from a Connect:Direct server adapter SNODE, complete the following steps:

  1. Configure a Connect:Direct server adapter and specify the following value:

    Enable Global Mailbox = Yes

    Use this adapter as the SNODE in business processes to request files from a Global Mailbox.
  2. On the PNODE, specify the following value:
    RemoteFileName = /mailbox/filename
    If you are a z/OS® PNODE, doing a copy FROM Global Mailbox on a z/OS system, the statement looks like this:
    FROM(dsn='/mailbox/yourmailbox/yourfilename' DISP=SHR SNODE)