Use the AS1/AS2 Viewer to view packaged B2B transactions and B2B process
details that use the AS1 or AS2 (Applicability Statement 1 or 2) communication
protocol. You can view the choreography of the B2B process and
associated business documents, acknowledgment signals, process state, HTTP
headers, and contents of the transmitted documents.
Like its predecessor AS1, which defines a standard for data transmissions
using SMTP, AS2 defines a standard for data transmissions using HTTP.
AS2 identifies how to connect, deliver, validate, and reply to data;
it does not concern itself with the content of the document, only the
transport. AS2 creates a wrapper around a document so that it can be
transported over the Internet using HTTP or HTTPS. The document and
wrapper together is called a message. AS2 provides security and
encryption around the HTTP packets. Another bonus with AS2 is that it
provides a measure of security not found in FTP. AS2 provides an
encryption base with guaranteed delivery.
An important component of AS2 is the receipt mechanism, which is referred
to as an MDN (Message Disposition Notification). This ensures the
sender of the document that the recipient has successfully received the
document. The sender specifies how the MDN is to be sent back
(synchronously or asynchronously; signed or unsigned).
You can use the AS1/AS2 Viewer to view the message ID, Time Stamps,
Document Flow, Gateway Type, Synchronous status, as well as document
details. Additional document processing information is displayed when
viewing document details.
Table 18. AS1/AS2 Viewer tasks
- Click Viewers > AS1/AS2 Viewer. The system
displays the AS1/AS2 Viewer screen.
- Select the search criteria from the drop-down lists.
Table 19.
AS1/AS2 Viewer search criteria
Value
| Description
|
Start Date and Time
|
Date and time the process was initiated.
|
End Date and Time
|
Date and time the process was completed.
|
Participant
|
Identifies the participant (Community Manager only).
|
My role is the
|
Specifies if the participant is the source (initiating) or the target
(receiving).
|
Initiating Business ID
|
Business identification number of the source participant, for example,
Duns.
|
Gateway Type
|
Production or test. Test is only available on systems that support
the test gateway type.
|
Package
|
Describes the document format, packaging, encryption, and content-type
identification.
|
Protocol
|
Document format available to the participants, for example, RosettaNet of
XML.
|
Document Flow
|
The specific business process.
|
Message ID
|
ID number assigned to the AS1 or AS2 packaged document. Search
criteria can include the asterisk (*) wildcard. Maximum length, 255
characters.
|
Synchronous Filter
|
Search for documents received in synchronous mode. This means that
the connection between the initiator and the Document Manager stays open until
the transaction is complete, including request and Message Disposition
Notification (MDN).
|
Sort by
|
Sort results by this value.
|
Descend or Ascend
|
Ascend - Displays the oldest time stamp first or the end of the
alphabet.
Descend - Displays the most recent time stamp or the beginning of the
alphabet.
|
Results per page
|
Use to select the number of records displayed per page.
|
- Click Search. The system displays a list of
messages.
- Click Viewers > AS1/AS2 Viewer. The system
displays the AS1/AS2 Viewer screen.
- Select the search criteria from the drop-down lists.
- Click Search. The system displays a list of
messages.
- Click
next to the message that you want to view. The system displays the
message and the associated document details.
Table 20.
AS1/AS2 Viewer: Package Details
Value
| Description
|
Message ID
|
ID number assigned to the AS1 or AS2 packaged document. This number
identifies the package only. The document itself has a separate
Document ID number that is displayed when viewing the document details.
Maximum length, 255 characters.
|
Source Participant
|
Participant initiating a business process.
|
Target Participant
|
Participant receiving the business process.
|
Initiating Time Stamp
|
Date and time the document begins processing.
|
Gateway Type
|
Test or production. Test is only available on systems that support
the test gateway type.
|
MDN URI
|
The destination address for the MDN. The address can be specified as
a HTTP URI, or an e-mail address.
|
MDN Disposition Text
|
This text provides the status of the originating message that was received
(either successful or failed). Examples include the following:
- Automatic-=action/MDN-sent-automatically; processed.
- Automatic-action/MDN-sent-automatically;processed/Warning;duplicate-document.
- Automatic-action/MDN-sent-automatically;processed/Error;description-failed.
- Automatic-action/MDN-sent-automatically;failed:unsupported
MIC-algorithms.
|
- (Optional) Click
to view the raw document.
