CEU Server Extract Service

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Use this service to extract a batch from a Sterling Connect:Enterprise® mailbox. This service is triggered by a notification from Sterling Connect:Enterprise that a batch is in a particular mailbox.

About this task

When Sterling Connect:Enterprise notifies Sterling B2B Integrator, this is known as a scheduled notification. Sterling B2B Integrator can also perform unsolicited requests to extract batches from Sterling Connect:Enterprise using this service. Unsolicited requests are represented in Sterling Connect:Enterprise as remote connect sessions.

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

Procedure

  1. The Server Adapter initiates a business process in response to a notification (autoconnect) from Sterling Connect:Enterprise.
  2. The business process specifies to extract data from a Sterling Connect:Enterprise mailbox using the CEU Server Extract Service. This service works through the Server Adapter to accomplish the extraction.
  3. Using information in the notification, the Server Adapter extracts the batch matching the batch number and batch date/time in ProcessData as provided by this service.
  4. Sterling Connect:Enterprise sets the Transmitted (T) flag on the batch indicating that Sterling B2B Integrator extracted the batch.
  5. Sterling B2B Integrator adds a log entry into Sterling Connect:Enterprise that includes the business process ID for the event.
  6. The Server Adapter adds the batch into the business process as a primary document.
  7. The Message From Service displays the following batch details: Batch ID, Batch Number, Mailbox ID, Create Date and Time, Batch Size, Session ID, Batch Status Flags, and Sterling B2B Integrator Document ID.
  8. 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, schedule definition name, and session ID. These correlations enable subsequent searches for this information using the Sterling B2B Integrator Advanced Search function.
  9. The system performs additional activities as indicated within the business process.
  10. The Sterling B2B Integrator business process requests to end the session with Sterling Connect:Enterprise.
  11. The Server Adapter ends the session and notifies Sterling Connect:Enterprise that the session is closed.