Creating a Sterling B2B Integrator Mailbox

When you copy a file from Sterling Connect:Direct® to Sterling B2B Integrator, you can copy to a Sterling B2B Integrator mailbox. Mailboxes allow you to organize, store, and manage trading partner documents and transactions, by providing business document repositories. In addition, setting up mailboxes within Sterling B2B Integrator can also facilitate how you stage and schedule data transmissions, making the storage and retrieval of files more transparent to all parties—senders and recipients alike.

After you have set up your mailboxes, see Scenario 1 - Use Sterling Connect:Direct to Copy a File to a Sterling B2B Integrator Mailbox, for more information on how to write a Sterling Connect:Direct process to send information to a Sterling B2B Integrator mailbox. To see examples involving copying files from a variety of Sterling Connect:Direct platforms to a Sterling B2B Integrator mailbox, search for Sterling B2B Integrator-Connect:Direct Server Adapter Examples. To see examples for retrieving and storing primary documents in a Sterling B2B Integrator mailbox system, see Use Sterling B2B Integrator to Copy a File to a Sterling Connect:Direct for i5/OS Node and Use Sterling B2B Integrator to Copy a File from Sterling Connect:Direct.