Creating the Community Manager profile

The Community Manager is typically the company that owns the WebSphere Partner Gateway server and that uses the server to communicate with participants. The Community Manager is also considered a participant of the hub, and, as such, has a profile, gateways, and B2B capabilities.

To create the Community Manager profile, perform the following steps:

  1. Click Account Admin > Profiles > Community Participant.
  2. Click Create.
  3. For Company Login Name, enter the name the Community Manager will use in the Company field when logging in to the hub. For example, you might type Manager.
  4. For Participant Display Name, enter the company name or some other descriptive name for the Community Manager. This is the name that appears on the Participant Search list.
  5. From the Participant type list, select Community Manager.
    Note: WebSphere Partner Gateway supports only one Community Manager and one Community Operator. The Community Operator is created automatically when you install WebSphere Partner Gateway.
  6. Select the status for the Community Manager. You will probably want to use the default value of Enabled.
  7. Optionally enter the type of company in the Vendor field.
  8. Optionally enter the Web site of the Community Manager.
  9. Click New under Business ID.
  10. Specify a type from the list, and enter the appropriate identifier. WebSphere Partner Gateway uses the number you enter here to route documents to and from the Community Manager.

    Observe the following guidelines when typing the identifier:

    1. DUNS numbers must equal nine digits.
    2. DUNS+4 must equal 13 digits.
    3. Freeform ID numbers accept up to 60 alphanumeric and special characters.

    Note: You can assign more than one business ID to the Community Manager. In some cases, more than one business ID is required. For example, when the hub sends and receives EDI X12 and EDIFACT documents, it uses both the DUNS and Freeform IDs during the document exchange.

    Both the Community Manager and the participants involved in these types of document flows should have both a DUNS and Freeform ID. The Freeform ID is used to represent EDI IDs that have both an identifier and a qualifier. For example, suppose the EDI qualifier is "ZZ" and the EDI identifier is "810810810". The Freeform ID could be specified as ZZ-810810810.

  11. Optionally enter an IP address for the Community Manager by performing the following steps:
    1. Under IP Address, click New.
    2. Specify the gateway type.
    3. Enter the IP address of the Community Manager.
  12. Click Save.
  13. You will be presented with a password that the Community Manager will use to log on to the hub. Make a note of this password. You will provide it to the Community Manager Admin user.
    Note: When you create the Community Manager profile, you are actually creating the Admin user for the Community Manager. Admin users can then create individual users within their organizations, or, as Hub Admin, you can create the users for the participants.

After you create a profile for the Community Manager, establish the gateways that the hub will use to send documents to the Community Manager. Refer to the following sections for setting up gateways for the Community Manager:

After you set up the gateways for the Community Manager, you set up the B2B capabilities of the Community Manager.

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