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IBM Sterling Value-Added Network (VAN) facilitates secure and reliable electronic data exchange (EDI) with customers, suppliers, distributors, and trading partners globally.

When IBM Sterling VAN is integrated with , it acts as a communication layer between and trading partners. For more information, see Value-Added Network.

Subscribing to IBM Sterling VAN

To subscribe to IBM Sterling VAN, create a support ticket with IBM Support with the following information.
  • In the Product field, select webMethods Hybrid Integration SaaS.
  • In the Capibility field, select .
  • In the Case description field, mention provisioning IBM Sterling VAN for each environment. Also, provide the following details:
    • The instance ID of the IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration environment, to which capability is provisioned. You can find the instance ID from the Environment Details tab.
    • Specify if you want to migrate from another provider’s VAN.
    • An estimate of the number of trading partners.
IBM Sterling VAN team creates the VAN mailbox, with a Mailbox ID, Client ID, and client secret. IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration Support team notifies you when your VAN account is successfully set up and is ready for use.
Note: If you enable in a new IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration environment and want to use IBM Sterling VAN, create a support ticket. In the support ticket mention that you already have an existing VAN mailbox account and provide the instance ID of the new IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration environment.