IBM Sterling B2B Integrator data harness

In some cases, IBM Transformation Extender maps must share information with the IBM Sterling B2B Integrator services and other IBM Sterling B2B Integrator processes.

IBM Sterling B2B Integrator

For example, the maps can perform one of the following activities:
  • Store information about the data, for example, a document ID or other key field that can be used by Sterling B2B Integrator to track the data.
  • Get information from Sterling B2B Integrator tables, such as trading partner information, or code list table data. The maps read and write this information to Sterling B2B Integrator database tables using the Sterling B2B Integrator adapter. This is referred to as the Sterling B2B Integrator Data Harness which provides access to these tables.
The Sterling B2B Integrator adapter is used to get and to set certain values that are maintained in the Sterling B2B Integrator adapter database tables.
  • The setProcessData call is used to set values such as reference ids in the processData table. This value can be used by other services in the Business Process flow.
  • The setCorrelation call is used to set the values such as reference ids in the correlation data table. This value can be used to help search for documents processed by the map.

The Generic Deenvelope service and Generic Envelope service example maps use PUT calls to the Sterling B2B Integrator adapter in order to set the transaction reference number for MT scenarios, and instruction id, for MX scenarios in the Sterling B2B Integrator database called ProcessData and Correlation tables.