Searching for Documents Using Correlations

Edit online

You need to consider that you can obtain even more tracking ability if you specify the type of information that is most important to you and your organization by using the Correlation feature in the Sterling B2B Integrator. Before running business processes or transmitting documents, consider:

  • The type of information that might be useful for searching and tracking documents.
  • Edges (that is, the entry of a document to and exit from the Sterling B2B Integrator system) are important — services and adapters should track any system-dependent identifiers for documents entering and leaving the system.
  • Adapters may require explicit code enhancements to enable document tracking.
  • Document correlations provide a consistent unification to associated business processes and the ensuing services and adapters.

You can track a document throughout its life cycle, provided you previously specified the document information and turned document tracking “on” when you checked in the business process. Sterling B2B Integrator enables you to search for documents by:

  • Location
  • Date and Time processed
  • Sender and Receiver IDs
  • Correlations (includes searching for values that equal, begin with, or contain a specified value)
  • Document ID

Some examples are:

  • The IBM® Sterling B2B Integrator Map Editor Update standard rule correlation data function enables you to record document-specific correlation parameters during translation. These correlation parameters are attached to the translated document. You can then use the Correlation Search user interface to locate the translated document using the criteria you specified in the map through the Update standard rule. This function saves you time, because you would otherwise need to locate the translated document by reviewing the results from a Central search query.
  • The Correlation Data Update standard rule, the Correlation service in a business process, or the Correlation Search enables you to retrieve specific invoices or find out what happened to specific purchase order numbers.
  • The Correlation service enables you to specify detailed search criteria that the Sterling B2B Integrator then uses to search for and display the documents that match your criteria, and is used to create business process-level correlations from information in ProcessData.
  • You can search for failed SWIFTNet MT and MX messages and repair (and validate) them using the Message Editor interface.
    Note: Searching for SWIFTNet messages created through the SWIFT Message Entry Workstation is performed using search functions directly on the SWIFT Message Entry Workstation page.
  • You can track CIDX messages (and the messages of many other standards) through their lifecycle.