Sterling Document Tracking

Sterling Document Tracking is a tracking tool for IBM Sterling B2B Integration SaaS. It enables you to view the status of EDI interchanges, functional groups, or specific documents.

To enable you to track the exchange of your data, Sterling Document Tracking provides the following features:

  • The ability to define user accounts with four levels of access, including administrator, full, read-only, and select access.
  • User account profiles that specify mailslot description, number of days displayed, and initial view after login.
  • Views that display information about documents you have sent or received, with options to select a time range, document types, and trading partners for a specified period of time, document type, or trading partner.
  • Views that display the status of a specific batch, interchange, functional group, or document.
  • Threshold alerts you determine based on interchange size level, file size level, monthly kilocharacter levels, and daily kilocharacter levels.
  • Search functions to locate information about data associated with a mailslot.
  • Printer-friendly interface pages.
  • Views that display sent and received interchanges and the ability to change the status of an interchange.
  • The ability to use an EDI ID and qualifier to look up trading partner information.
  • The ability to manage EDI IDs associated with a mailslot.
  • The ability to manage EDI IDs associated with an interconnect.
  • Views that display archived and saved data and the ability to load or dial the data to your system again.
  • Views that display data for a batch, either the entire batch, or for Outbox data, a specific interchange or group.
    Note: If you are set up for Document Visibility, you will also have the ability to view data for a specific Outbox document.
  • The ability to download data sent and received through a mailslot.
  • The ability to copy and paste portions of data within a view.
  • The ability to view information with Hex on or off.
  • The ability to parse data based on a specific character, specific hex character, a fixed record length, or XML tags.
  • The ability to loosely associate documents together (e.g., by PO or invoice) by providing multiple cross reference numbers in the Document Tracking tool (if this is set up for your mailslot).