Creating schedules for accounts enables you to initiate
unattended, automatic interactions using Sterling B2B Integrator business
processes. The Server Adapter receives a notification from Sterling Connect:Enterprise® when
data meeting the criteria of an automatic transfer is placed in a Sterling Connect:Enterprise mailbox
or on a scheduled basis. The Server Adapter retrieves batch summary
data, sets the BP Verified (V) flag within Sterling Connect:Enterprise,
and then invokes a business process accordingly.
About this task
Use this procedure to schedule automatic notifications
between Sterling B2B Integrator and
one or more remote accounts.
Procedure
- Access web administration through your browser.
- From the left navigation panel, click Define Schedules.
- From the Manage Schedules page:
- To define a schedule, click New.
- To edit a schedule, select the schedule from the list and click
Edit.
- For a new schedule, type a name for the schedule (required)
in the Schedule name text box, up to 15 characters, which includes
the .acd extension.
If you do not specify the .acd extension
in the schedule name but set the When and Except parameters
in the schedule, the system adds the .acd extension automatically.
If Contact Remote Site is set to Data Available Meets Criteria, the
system adds the .acd extension automatically. If no When or Except settings
are defined, the .acd extension is optional.
- In the Run at these times column,
set the time that you want the schedule to run or edit the current
settings for a schedule. Setting a value for one field means that
all remaining fields default to All.
- If needed, define or edit the exceptions to the schedule
in the Except for these times column. Setting
a value for one field means that the remaining fields default to All.
- Define or edit the schedule connection options using the
following table as a guide:
| Field |
Description |
Valid Values |
| Contact remote site |
Identifies when to contact the remote site. |
Always = Default; contact the remote site whether
or not there is data to send. Data = Contact the remote site if
there is data to send.
Data available meets criteria = Start
transfer when data or batch matching the selection criteria specified
in the schedule definition is available. The batch must be added with
the trigger parameter through the cmuadd, $$ADD, or put command.
|
| Priority level in queue |
Specifies the order in which a connection request
is queued waiting for connection resources to become available. |
07 = Default 1–15
1 = highest
|
| Wait to re-queue failed remote connection |
Specifies number of minutes to wait before re-queuing
a remote site that it was unable to contact. |
5 minutes = Default 0–120 minutes
|
| Seconds between sessions |
Specifies number of seconds the program waits
after one session is complete before initiating another session. |
0 = Default (immediate) 0–180 seconds
This
parameter is valid only when Maximum number of concurrent sessions
= 1.
|
| Times to re-queue remote resource |
Sets the number of times the specified resources
are re-queued for any remote name in the list that is not connected
after the number of retries have been attempted. The total number
of attempts is: (# of Resources) x (RETRIES+1) x (REQUEUES+1). |
5 = Default 0–99
|
| Retry connection attempts |
Specifies the number of times the system tries
to contact a remote account after the first attempt fails. If more
than one resource is defined, the schedule process attempts the connection
the number of times specified by connection retry attempts+1 (RETRIES+1)
for each resource before re-queuing the connection. |
1 = Default (1 retry) 0–99
|
| Maximum number of concurrent sessions |
Specifies the maximum number of communications
sessions permitted concurrently for a single schedule. |
2 = Default 0–128
0 indicates the maximum
allowable sessions = 128.
|
| Specify seconds of inactivity (bisync only)
|
Specifies the number of seconds of session inactivity
before the session is terminated. |
Default = No; disconnect processing is not performed. 0–3600
seconds
If the disconnect interval is not specified here, then
the value set in the account definition is used.
|
- Type a comment to describe the schedule (optional), and
click Next. The Update Schedule List page displays.