Implementing WebSphere Business Integration Express for Item Synchronization / Lee Gavin ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gavin, Lee., Author.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

Redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inventory control--Computer programs.

Inventory control.

Web servers--Computer programs.

Web servers.

Software configuration management.

WebSphere.

Physical Description:

xiv, 270 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Research Triangle Park, N.C. : IBM, c2004.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Today's suppliers, consumer packaged goods companies, manufacturers, and wholesalers face many challenges. Each year, 20 000 new food and non-food Universal Product Code (UPC) items are created and it typically takes 10 to 30 days to get these new items and price changes to market. Data elements that describe these individual items may change up to four times per year. Furthermore, nearly three out of five orders placed need to be revisited and reworked before completion. To meet these escalating data demands on suppliers, UCCnet has implemented multi-industry standards for product identification and related electronic communications. A subsidiary of the Uniform Code Council Inc., UCCnet is a neutral industry organization that implements these standards by requiring its community of trading partners to provide standardized item data in particular formats to its registry. This IBM Redbooks publication covers IBM WebSphere Business Integration Express for Item Synchronization, which is designed for mid-market suppliers pursuing supply chain integration through the UCCnet GLOBALregistry. Please note that the additional material referenced in the text is not available from IBM.

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

The team that wrote this redbook

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Part 1 Overview

Chapter 1. UCCnet

1.1 The challenge

1.2 What is UCCnet

1.3 Some important terms

1.3.1 GLOBALregistry and Item Registry

1.3.2 Global Location Number (GLN)

1.3.3 Global Trade Item Number (GTIN)

1.3.4 Target Market (TM)

1.3.5 UCCnet Key

1.4 Current item exchange

1.5 UCCnet proposed scenario

1.6 UCCnet messages

1.6.1 RCIR: Register Catalogue Item Registry

1.6.2 CI: Catalogue Item Document

1.6.3 CIP: Catalogue Item Publication

1.6.4 CIN: Catalogue Item Notification

1.6.5 CIC: Catalogue Item Confirmation

1.6.6 Query messages

1.7 UCCnet message structure

1.7.1 Envelope: transport layer

1.7.2 Transaction: Command layer

1.8 End-to-End flow

1.9 Advantage of Item Synchronization

Chapter 2. AS2 communications

2.1 Overview

2.2 What is EDIINT?

2.3 AS1 and AS2 specifications

2.4 What kind of data can you send with AS2?

2.5 UCCnet supports the AS2 protocol

Chapter 3. WebSphere Business Integration Express for Item Synchronization

3.1 Features

3.2 Technical overview and components

3.3 Collaboration components

Chapter 4. iSoft Peer-to-Peer Agent

4.1 Communication features

4.2 Data integrity and security characteristics

4.3 Administration features

4.4 Load-balancing and multi-machine setup

Chapter 5. Business case and scenario

5.1 Scenario overview

5.2 Business process overview

5.3 Technical process overview

5.3.1 ItemAdd workflow (add a new item to UCCnet)

5.3.2 CatalogueItemNotification_Add workflow

5.3.3 CatalogueItemConfirmation workflow

5.3.4 Sending email through UCCnet_processWorklist collaboration object subdiagrams

5.4 Component overview.

Part 2 Install and configure

Chapter 6. About some of the key components

6.1 What are collaborations?

6.1.1 What collaborations are installed?

6.2 What are business objects?

6.2.1 Application-Specific and Generic Business Objects

6.2.2 What are the key business objects?

6.3 What are connectors?

6.4 What are maps?

6.4.1 What do they do in the solution?

6.5 What are relationships?

6.5.1 Where are they used

6.6 Other tables of interest

6.6.1 Audit Log Table

Chapter 7. WebSphere BI Express installation and verification

7.1 JDK

7.2 DB2 V8.1

7.3 WebSphere MQ V5.3.1

7.4 WebSphere Application Server Express V5.0.2

7.5 Microsoft Visual Studio C++

7.6 WebSphere Business Integration Express

7.7 Installation verification

7.7.1 Review initial start-up of the InterChange Server

7.7.2 Perform WebSphere MQ configuration

7.7.3 Start the InterChange Server and register it

7.7.4 Review deployed components

7.7.5 Switching to Design mode for the ICS

7.8 ICS monitor in WebSphere Application Server Express

Chapter 8. WebSphere BI Express configuration

8.1 Set-up the audit and logging service

8.2 Load relationship tables

8.3 Create meta-objects

8.4 Create and configure connectors

8.4.1 JTextRWLConnector

8.4.2 ISoft Connector

8.4.3 PortConnector

8.5 Create and configure the collaboration objects

8.5.1 UCCnet_ItemSync collaboration object

8.5.2 ItemCommandRouter collaboration object

8.5.3 UCCnetXSD_CIN_Dispatcher collaboration object

8.5.4 UCCnetXSD_CIN_Dispatcher_forRWL collaboration object

8.5.5 UCCnet_processWorklist collaboration object

8.5.6 UCCnet_requestWorklist collaboration object

8.5.7 Update Maps

8.5.8 Deploying objects

8.6 Unit Test

Chapter 9. Configuration for integration of back-end system.

9.1 Create application tables and event tables

9.2 Create and test the database trigger

9.2.1 Create the Application-Specific Business Object

9.3 Build a map for transforming the ASBO into a GBO

9.4 Testing the map

9.5 Create the JDBC connector

9.6 Deployment of the changed and new objects

9.7 Validation using the Test Connector

9.8 Validation using the JDBC Connector

Chapter 10. Configure the AS2 connection

10.1 Install iSoft for supplier

10.1.1 Run Buildcfg5

10.1.2 p2pagent.cfg

10.1.3 Generate keys

10.2 Install iSoft for test receiver

10.3 Unit test for send RCIR and receive MDN

Chapter 11. Final configuration and test from end-to-end

11.1 Processing messages from UCCnet

11.2 Process the response from UCCnet

11.3 Test the Catalogue Item Notification

11.3.1 Create the map

11.3.2 Modify the connector

11.3.3 Modify the collaborations

11.4 Test the Catalog Item Confirmation

11.5 End-to-end simulation

Part 3 Appendixes

Appendix A. Getting started with UCCnet

A.1 Prerequisites

A.1.1 System requirements

A.1.2 Software requirements

A.2 Configuring your user account

A.3 Obtain and register your own digital certificates

A.3.1 Import your digital certificate into SYNCpoint

A.3.2 Bind your userid to certificate

A.4 Obtain UCCnet's public key digital certificate

A.5 Subscribe your user IDs to relevant events

A.5.1 Subscribe retailer to publication information

A.5.2 Subscribe supplier to authorization information

Appendix B. Our sample messages

Sample message texts

Appendix C. Additional material

Locating the Web material

Using the Web material

System requirements for downloading the Web material

How to use the Web material

Abbreviations and acronyms

Related publications

IBM Redbooks

Online resources.

How to get IBM Redbooks

Help from IBM

Index

Back cover.

Notes:

"This edition applies to version 4, release 3, of IBM WebSphere Business Integration Express for Item Synchronization."

"May 2004."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

80243997