New in release 6.0
This section highlights the changes to Partner Gateway
for version 6.0:
- WebSphere Business Integration Connect has been renamed WebSphere
Partner Gateway.
- Enhanced EDI document processing capabilities, provided by the
Data Interchange Services feature, expand on the passthrough processing
offered in previous releases. New support includes:
- Enveloping, de-enveloping and splitting provide the ability
to handle or generate EDI interchanges with multiple heterogeneous
documents as well as input files with multiple heterogeneous interchanges.
- Extensive validation and functional acknowledgments support.
- Robust, any-to-any mapping capability for EDI, XML, and record
oriented data (both fixed length fields and comma-separated values)
using the Data Interchange Services client. This graphical user
interface includes a drag-and-drop mapper with extensive on-line
help, a library of built in functions for string handling, date
manipulation, arithmetic operations, and the ability to combine
maps.
- Enhancements to the Community Console for:
- Configuring Partner Gateway to receive, process, and send EDI documents.
- Importing transformation and validation maps from the Data Interchange
Services client graphical user interface.
- Viewing EDI document content and transaction details.
- Trading-partner-level control: all aspects of transformation,
validation and acknowledgment can now be controlled at the individual
trading partner level.
- Extended transport and business protocol support:
- Added FTP Scripting transport support for the Receiver and Gateway.
- Additional Receiver transport handlers added for splitting files
containing multiple EDI Interchanges, SML and Record Oriented Data
(ROD) documents.
- Support for additional RosettaNet PIPs.
- Enhancements for reliability, availability, and serviceability:
- Ability to copy a document to the file system.
- Full message repository support including the ability to view
status and images of interchanges sent or received and drill down
to the individual documents within the interchanges to see their
functional acknowledgment status.
- Added ability to re-send documents that have been sent successfully
or unsuccessfully.
- New support for handling multiple leaf or root certificates
prevents outages when certificates expire or are revoked.
- Changes to software supported or required:
- Support for management of Partner Gateway by IBM Tivoli License
Manager (ITLM).
