1. Implementing Listening Producers in IBM Sterling Filegateway
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Implementing Listening Producers in IBM Sterling Filegateway
Bhavya M Reddy(Staff Software Engineer)
29th August 2018
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2. Presenter Bhavya M Reddy bhavyred@in.ibm.com
Staff Software Engineer, IBM Sterling B2B Integrator
I have worked with IBM for 7 and half years as the IBM Sterling B2B Integrator Product Support Engineer.

3. Agenda IBM Sterling Filegateway Partner On-boarding
Why is there a need for Listening Producer
Implementing a Listening Producer
Introduction to RestAPI
Installing RestAPI
Creating a Listening producer and Enabling File Transfer
Demo
Q&A

4. Filegateway Partner on-boarding4
Filegateway Partner on-boarding
Creating Partners - Producers and consumers
Initiating Producers
Initiating Consumers
Listening Consumers
Listening Producers(From SBI /SFG ) 4
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5. Why is there a need for listening producer?
Avoids the overhead of pushing the file to the producer mailbox.
No manual intervention required.
File transfer is Automated from Producer to Consumer.
Using a polling interval, the SFG can poll for documents on any specific server.
Supports FTP, SFTP, CD and FTPS protocols.

6. Implementing a Listening Producer
Create a Listening producer TP using RESTAPI UI
Enable File transfer

7. Introduction to REST API
Introduced in SBI 5.2.6
Allows user to pro-grammatically Create, Read, Update and Delete resources in B2Bi.
JSON and XML supported as input and output formats.
Provide support for Partner Engagement Manager(PEM).
More efficient mechanism for on boarding trading partners compared to Xapi.
Any user which has the “RESTAPI” permission can access

8. Installing Rest API Navigate to /install_dir/packages.
Extract the contents of the folder to a new location.
Run the following command:
./InstallService.sh /<absolutePath>/b2bAPIs_ jar , where <absolutePath> refers to the location where you extracted the contents of the packages folder.
References ction_to_the_new_Sterling_B2B_Integrator_REST_API_Part_1?lang=en_us
eference.doc/B2B_REST_APIs.html

9. Configuring a Listening Producer
Login to the REST API interactive console.

10. Configuring a Listening Producer
Collect details like the, Protocol, Hostname, Port on which the SFG partner will poll for documents, community to which the partner would belong.
After logging in to the REST API UI, Use “Create Trading partner” services API as below, to create the Listening producer partner.
In this interface, fill in all the partner information

12. Partner creation – REST API vs SFG Admin UI
DEMO

13. How to Identify a Listening Producer in SFG
Group all the listening producers under a single group.
Check the tables below
FG_LIST_PROD_CD
FG_LIST_PROD_FTP
FG_LIST_PROD_FTPS
FG_LIST_PROD_SFTP

14. Enabling File Transfer
Enable the FileGatewayListeningProducer schedule.
There are 4 out of the box BPs involved in enabling a file pull
Primary BP : FileGatewayListeningProducer
Secondary Bps:
FileGatewayListeningProducerCD
FileGatewayListeningProducerFTP
FileGatewayListeningProducerSFTP
When the schedule runs,
The FileGatewayListeningProducer BP calls a "database polling" service

15. Enabling File Transfer
It checks each row in the listening producer table to see if any partner reached its polling time
If yes, the service kicks off either a FileGatewayListeningProducer CD/FTP/SFTP secondary business process
It will send to the protocol BP the connection details provided during configuration as below

16. Enabling File Transfer

17. Enabling File Transfer
The Secondary Protocol BP will then
Connect to the remote Listening Producer partner server.
Get a list of the files, do a loop for every file listed.
Retrieve them and add them to the Listening Producer mailbox in SFG
Once the file is added to the mailbox successfully, it is deleted from the remote server.
The File transfer is locked at the DB level, so primary BP cant kickoff another secondary BP when file transfer is in progress for a specific TP.

18. DEMO

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