CEU Server Batch Status Service

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The CEU Batch Status Service queries batch summary data and optionally can change the process flags that identify the batch status, such as transmit (T), delete (D), and extract (E) flags.

About this task

The CEU Server Batch Status Service can change the data format flags for the batch contents (such as ASCII, EBCDIC, or BINARY), and can modify mailbox IDs and user batch IDs.

A batch may exist in a Sterling Connect:Enterprise® mailbox but may not be extractable by Sterling B2B Integrator because of process flag settings (for example, the batch was enabled for only one extract and has already been extracted). This service enables updating the process flag on the batch so that it can be extracted again.

The following steps describe what happens when this service is used in a business process:

Procedure

  1. A Sterling B2B Integrator business process requests to update the status of a specific batch in a designated Sterling Connect:Enterprise mailbox (remote connect).
  2. Sterling B2B Integrator begins a session with Sterling Connect:Enterprise using the CEU Server Begin Session Service.
  3. Sterling B2B Integrator requests to update a flag on a specific batch in the designated mailbox. Process flags, protocol flags, and data flags may be updated.
  4. Sterling Connect:Enterprise updates the batch.
  5. Sterling B2B Integrator sets the correlations between the business process that initiated the request and batch summary data from Sterling Connect:Enterprise, which includes: batch ID, mailbox ID, batch number, and session ID. These correlations enable subsequent searches for this information using the Sterling B2B Integrator Advanced Search function.
  6. Sterling B2B Integrator writes a log entry to Sterling Connect:Enterprise that includes the business process ID of the originating request.
  7. The Sterling B2B Integrator business process requests to end the session using the CEU Server End Session Service.
  8. The Server Adapter ends the session and notifies Sterling Connect:Enterprise that the session is closed.