How the Sterling Connect:Enterprise UNIX Server Extract Service Works

A Sterling Connect:Enterprise® for UNIX schedule notification can be used in a business process to initiate aSterling Connect:Enterprise for UNIX Server Extract service.

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The following describes what happens when this service is used in a business process that is initiated by a Sterling Connect:Enterprise for UNIX schedule notification.

1. The Sterling Connect:Enterprise UNIX Server Adapter initiates a business process in response to a schedule notification from Sterling Connect:Enterprise for UNIX.
2. The business process specifies to extract data from a Sterling Connect:Enterprise for UNIX mailbox using the Sterling Connect:Enterprise UNIX Server Extract service. This service works through the Sterling Connect:Enterprise UNIX Server Adapter.
3. Using the information from the schedule notification, the Sterling Connect:Enterprise UNIX Server Adapter extracts the batch that matches the CEUBatchNumber and CEUBatchDateTime in process data.
4. Sterling Connect:Enterprise for UNIX sets the Transmitted (T) flag on the batch indicating that Application extracted the batch.
5. Application adds a log entry into Sterling Connect:Enterprise for UNIX that includes the business process ID of this business process.
6. The service adds the batch into the business process as a primary document.
7. Other batch details are added to process data.

   For information, see Output from Service to Business Process.

8. Application sets the correlations between the business process that initiated the request and batch summary data from Sterling Connect:Enterprise for UNIX. These include: CEUBatchId, CEUMailboxId, CEUBatchNumber, schedule definition name and CEUSessionId. These correlations allow subsequent searches for this information using the Central Search function.
9. The system performs additional activities as indicated within the business process. For example, the contents of the batch could be translated into another format.