Creating an AS2 Organization

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About this task

Before you can create trading partners in your system, you must create your organization. An organization is the company or business entity that administers your system. You can have only one organization for each Sterling B2B Integrator AS2 Edition. This organization is comparable to a profile and an identity in Sterling B2B Integrator. Sterling B2B Integrator and Sterling B2B Integrator AS2 Edition only allow you to create one organization (representing your company) because the Sterling B2B Integrator AS2 Edition is limited to a “one hub, many spokes” configuration (that is, you can send AS2 documents to many partners and receive AS2 documents from those partners, but a “many-to-many” trading partner scenario is not supported).

Keep the following in mind as you create your organization information:

  • The option to validate the certificate dates is checked when you check the certificate in (or you can go back and edit that setting), but the actual validation is done when the certificate is used, not at check-in time.

  • The system will allow the use of certificates that have expired, or have future go-live dates. This is to support both backwards compatibility and scenarios where partners do not provide an updated certificate but need business continuity.

  • "Closest non-future Go Live date, or only certificate in the list" policy means that when multiple certificates are provided, the system will choose the certificate with the nearest "go live" date that is not in the future; however, if there is only one certificate, it will use it, even if it has a future go-live date.

  • The ordering of certificates in the user interface is currently an option to change the user interface display of the list. This ordering is not used to determine the order in which the system selects certificates.

  • Certificates cannot have the same go-live dates.

To create your organization information:

Procedure

  1. From the File Tracking page, select Trading Partner.
    Note: If you are not using the Sterling B2B Integrator AS2 Edition but are instead using Sterling B2B Integrator to send and receive AS2 messages, from the Administration menu, select Trading Partner > AS2.
  2. In the Trading Partners Configurations page, in the Create section next to New AS2 partner or organization, click Go!
  3. In the AS2 Configuration Type page, select Organization and click Next.
  4. On the New Identity page you can either use an existing Identity or create a new one:
    1. To use an existing identity, select Use Existing Identity and begin typing the name of the identity. A list automatically appears that match your entry. This list contains all the identities available in your system, some of which might not be associated with any of the AS2 profiles. Make a selection and click Next.
    2. To create a new Identity, select Create a New Identity and click Next.
  5. In the Organization Details page, complete the fields, as appropriate, and click Next.
  6. In the Confirm page, verify the information and click Finish.

    To edit information about your organization, see Editing AS2 Organization and Trading Partner Information.