Release 10.12

This readme includes improvements, usage notes, and known and resolved issues that have been implemented for the IBM webMethods B2B 10.12 release.

Highlights

Component	Description
Business Documents	The enhancements are as follows: Add Flat File documents Exchange them using various channels Optionally validate them. See Flat File Documents.
Channels	The enhancements are as follows: Exchange Flat File documents (both inbound and outbound) over AS2, HTTP, SFTP channels. See Supported Channels. Use RNIF protocol 1.1 version in RNIF channels. See RNIF Channel. Use AS4 channels to exchange inbound and outbound documents with the following capabilities: See AS4 Channel. Support for One-way push and One-way pull MEP bindings. See Message Exchange Pattern. Support for Custom policy files and AS4 Pmode as TPA configurations. See AS4 TPA Parameters. Support for AS4 runtime configurations. See Configuring Runtime Options.
Partner onboarding	Experience a cohesive partner onboarding flow on the user interface. See Partner Onboarding.
Cloud Container	New services help you migrate and deploy your on-premises use cases. A few services are improved to support cloud use cases. The new services are listed as follows: wm.tn.dictionary:getContactTypes wm.tn.dictionary:getFieldDefinitions wm.tn.dictionary:getFieldGroups wm.tn.dictionary:getIDTypes wm.tn.doc:resubmit wm.tn.doc:resubmits wm.tn.doc:sign wm.tn.doc:updateComments wm.tn.doc:verify wm.tn.doc:viewAll wm.tn.docattr:list wm.tn.docattr:listTypesForAttribute wm.tn.profile:getExtendedFields wm.tn.profile:getExternalIDs wm.tn.profile:getInternalIDsForUser wm.tn.profile:getProfileMappings wm.tn.profile:getUserProfiles wm.tn.profile:getUserProfilesSummaries wm.tn.profile:getUsersForPartner wm.tn.rec:BizDocAttribute wm.tn.rec:DeliveryServiceOutput wm.tn.rec:Field wm.tn.rec:FieldMetaData wm.tn.rec:ReliableServiceOutput wm.tn.rec:Task wm.tn.rec:TPA wm.tn.rec:TpaError wm.tn.route:containsRuleName wm.tn.route:getAnyTask wm.tn.route:getLastChangeID wm.tn.route:list wm.tn.route:load wm.tn.task:getAnyTask wm.tn.task:restartTask wm.tn.task:stopTask wm.tn.tpa:getTPA wm.tn.util:longToSqlTimestamp wm.tn.util:stringListToDateList wm.tn.util:stringListToDoubleList wm.tn.util:stringToDate wm.tn.util:stringToDouble See Working with Trading Networks Built-In Services on IBM webMethods Cloud Container.
Reliability and monitoring improvements	The performance enhancements are as follows: Software is more robust, scalable, and fault-tolerant after improving the monitoring aspect and the cloud infrastructure capabilities. IBM webMethods B2B generates FA asynchronously, thereby improving the processing time of inbound EDIINT documents. The time taken to list the B2B assets on the user interface has reduced significantly.
Enhancements to IBM webMethods B2B app on IBM webMethods Integration	A new operation named constructSubmitInput is added in IBM webMethods Integration for you to prepare the necessary input for submitting the business documents to IBM webMethods B2B. See constructSubmitInput.

Usage Notes

The following functionalities have certain restrictions in IBM webMethods B2B system:

Partner certificate automatically gets associated with the new partner created with the same details as the deleted one. Also, the certificate is not listed in the certificate monitoring page.
To use 2-Way SSL/TLS functionality, business documents must be sent to a channel URL with the port 8443 appended to the hostname. The 2-Way SSL/TLS functionality is an additional-level of validation and security. This along with the partner-user credential-based authentication ensures secure exchange of business documents.
While synchronizing partner profiles as part of partner onboarding, IBM webMethods B2B ignores all new partner profiles, retaining only the pre-existing profiles. Additionally, a message about the duplicate occurrence is logged in the Activity logs under the General category.
IBM recommends that you do not create, update, or delete any B2B assets during the upgrade window.
If you are not able to map multiple documents to a document array based on indexing in a Flow service, create a document array that holds all the required documents using the “insertDocument” operation of the “Document” service.
For example, if you want to map three documents (D1, D2, and D3) to a document array (DA1[]), add the “insertDocument” operation thrice: once for each document, and insert D1, D2, and D3 into the “documents” array. You can also use loops to run the “insertDocument” operation thrice. Finally, map the “documents[]” array, which holds all the three documents, to DA1[].
Publishing of assets from one environment (the origin) to another environment (the target) with inherited users is not supported.
IBM webMethods iPaaS products are available in several geographical regions, operated by different infrastructure providers. For information on the underlying infrastructure provider in each region and the available products, click Regions.

Mapping of IBM webMethods B2B production URLs with the IBM webMethods iPaaS Region are listed as follows:

Region	Sample URL
US1 Oregon AWS	`https://tenantname.int-aws-us.webmethods.io/b2b`
US2 East Azure	`https://tenantname.int-az-us.webmethods.io/b2b`
EU2 Frankfurt AWS	`https://tenantname.int-aws-de.webmethods.io/b2b`
EU3 West Azure	`https://tenantname.int-az-eu.webmethods.io/b2b`
AU1 Australia East Azure	`https://tenantname.int-az-au.webmethods.io/b2b`

Known Issues

This section lists any issues for the current release that were known when this readme was published:

BOC-14849
In a clustered or multipod tenant, asynchronous request and response messages can get processed on different nodes resulting in processing errors. The grouping fails for such asynchronous request/response messages as they do not get related to each other across pods in a cluster.
There is no workaround.
BOC-8265
TRADACOMS transactions do not split and therefore do not show the transaction document when submitted in IBM webMethods B2B.
There is no workaround.
BOC-15098
Functional Acknowledgment delivery fails with an with internal server error when you set Generate control number to Random in the Control number table of the EDITPA.
There is no workaround.
BOC-8265
In the Full Message log entries for Course of transactions, IBM webMethods B2B renders the timestamp in Universal Time Coordinated (UTC) rather than the current time zone.
BOC-10263
During the product upgrade window, you might notice a few failed transactions when it involves running operations using webMethods.io B2B Connector on IBM webMethods Integration.
Workaround: You can resubmit the failed transactions after the upgrade window.
BOC-12853
Although tenants with custom domain names can deploy on-premises assets to the cloud, thereafter, certain configurations involving cross-applications and runtime invocations do not work.
Workaround: There is no workaround for this issue.
BOC-13902
IBM webMethods B2B does not support two-way SSL communication with IBM webMethods Cloud Container. If two-way SSL is configured in Cloud Container, executions in IBM webMethods B2B that invoke Cloud Container services fail.
Workaround: Change the authentication mode in Cloud Container to allow one-way and two-way SSL API execution calls (credentials and certificate).
BOC-2204
If you create a tenant user in IBM webMethods iPaaS with a username that is identical to an existing partner user in IBM webMethods B2B, an Internal Server error appears when the tenant user attempts to log in to IBM webMethods B2B.
Workaround: Delete the partner user and create another partner user with a unique username that does not match any of the existing tenant usernames. However, if you do not want to delete the partner user, delete the tenant user and create a tenant with a unique username that does not match any existing partner users. You can do this on the IBM webMethods iPaaS > Administration > Users page.
BOC-13549
Occasionally, an “Authorization Required” error occurs while reprocessing a transaction when the following sequence of actions are performed:
1. Add a user in IBM webMethods iPaaS.
2. In IBM webMethods B2B, select this new username in the processing rule action to call an integration.
  Workaround: Ensure that the user with that username logs in to IBM webMethods B2B at least once.

Resolved Issues

This section lists any issues that were resolved as part of this release:

BOC-13686
When you edit the partner name, description, or status, the default values in the delivery settings take precedence over user-defined values. This issue is resolved. Now, when the partner has no user-defined values, the default values are assigned.