Connecting to a data pool

You need to connect to a data pool to send or receive data.

Before you begin

Before you can connect to a data pool, you must register with the data pool. Registration with a data pool requires you to enter into a contract and to pay the subscription fee. On successful registration, you get the URL that the data pool exposes to customers, and one or more global location numbers (GLNs).

Procedure

  1. Define a participant connection for sending information from IBM® Product Master to the data pool.
    You need to enter the URL that the data pool exposes, the global location numbers that you received from the data pool on registering, and the protocol in which you plan to send your product documents.
  2. Define a participant connection for receiving information from the data pool.
    You need to enter the protocol in which you plan to receive product documents.
  3. Activate the connections.