Release 10.16

What's New

Release 10.16.3

Ability to retrieve the transactions with asset information

IBM webMethods Integration allows you to retrieve the transactions with asset information through the queryTransactions operation.
Important This feature works only with IBM webMethods Integration 10.16.1 version.
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Ability to resubmit and reprocess all transactions

You can resubmit and reprocess a maximum of 10000 transactions on IBM webMethods B2B.
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Download the customized columns on the transaction monitoring page

You can download the transactions after customizing the columns on the transaction monitoring page.
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Configure the SMTP server to send an email through custom domain

You can send an email to your business partners with a custom domain email address while onboarding them.
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Ability to supply different AS2 addresses when sending message to AS2 Partner

You can choose a specific AS2 address when there are multiple addresses defined for an enterprise.
For more information, see constructSubmitInput and Creating a General Queue

Note You cannot customize AS2 addresses in constructSubmitInput when IBM webMethods Integration is on version 10.16.0 and IBM webMethods B2B is on version 10.16.3.

Ability to track IBM webMethods B2B transactions through End-To-End monitoring

When you are tracking a IBM webMethods B2B transaction on End-To-End monitoring, you will be redirected to view the transaction on IBM webMethods B2B transactions page.
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Release 10.16.0

IBM webMethods B2B user interface enhancements

• Support for UNEDIFACT D95B business document type

  You can now transact using UNEDIFACT D95B business document type.
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• Self-service Partner Portal (Beta)
  

  A new single web-based self-service interface enables faster onboarding, transaction monitoring, and configuring communication details between you and your partners.

  Warning: Partner Portal is a beta feature. The contents of this feature are preliminary and may be changed or discontinued without prior notice. Any changes may impact the feature’s operation with the IBM webMethods family of products. webMethods warranties and product service levels shall not apply to the feature or the impact of the feature on other portions of the IBM webMethods family of products. IBM webMethods may review and monitor the performance and use of this feature. The documentation for this feature is also considered a beta version and is subject to revision. To enable the feature in your tenant, contact IBM support.

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• Customize the columns on the transaction monitoring page
  

  You can personalise the Transactions page by selecting the columns of your interest.
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• Enhancements to checking duplicate business documents
  

  • A new configuration named Unique keys retention days retains references to transactions identified as unique to check for duplicate documents, before archiving them.
  • The Stop duplicate detection option in the pre-processing step of each processing rule allows you to customize how specific business documents are processed.
    

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webMethods.io B2B Connector enhancements on IBM webMethods Integration

• Addition of four new operations

  • getFAReport retrieves a list of transactions with reconciled functional acknowledgments and generates a report.
  • resubmit resubmits the existing transactions of IBM webMethods B2B as new documents based on the transaction IDs.
  • reprocess reprocesses the existing transactions of IBM webMethods B2B based on the transaction IDs.
  • queryTransactions retrieves transactions that match the specified criteria.
    
    

• Flat file batching for large documents
  

  A new output parameter hasMore is added in the convertFlatFileToDocument to process large Flat file documents in batches.
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Customer Actions Required

SSL/TLS Certificate Update

SSL/TLS certificates for IBM webMethods Integration and IBM webMethods B2B will expire on the date mentioned in the IBM webMethods iPaaS Service Status page. If you are currently using SSL/TLS certificates with IBM webMethods Integration and IBM webMethods B2B, download the updated certificates from the specified location below and replace your existing certificates.

Azure cloud regions US2, EU3, AU1: Download certificates

AWS cloud regions US1, EU2, AU2: Download certificates

If you do not update your certificates, your 2-way SSL transactions will fail and you might experience an SSL handshake error.
Root and intermediate certificates remain unchanged.

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 that business documents are exchanged securely.

• While synchronizing partner profiles as part of partner onboarding, IBM webMethods B2B ignores all new partner profiles, and retains only the pre-existing profiles. Additionally, a message about the duplicate occurrence is logged in the Activity logs under the General category.

• 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 recommends that you do not create, update, or delete any B2B assets during the upgrade window. For information on major releases, hotfixes, and patch releases including the latest statistics on the availability of cloud environments, incident history, and planned maintenance events, see IBM webMethods iPaaS Service Status page.

• IBM webMethods iPaaS products are available in several geographical regions, operated by different infrastructure providers. Go to the Regions website for information on the available products and also the underlying infrastructure provider in each region. For allowed IPs, see IP addresses for the cloud products.

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

Known Issues

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

Release 10.16.2

• BOC-18184
  

  On the Transactions page, when you select the dateTime or number attribute (only for decimal values), transactions cannot be downloaded.  

Release 10.16.0

• BOC-17241
  

  When a Partner Portal user tries to upload a P7b certificate for both sign-verify and encrypt-decrypt authentication options, the certificate chain for either one of the authentication options goes missing. Subsequently, this missing certificate chain does not appear on the IBM webMethods B2B user interface.
  Workaround:

  • In Partner Portal, for existing certificates that have empty authentication options, upload the certificate again for the missing authentication option.
  • In Partner Portal, for new users and their certificates, upload the certificate for the Sign-Verify authentication option and click Verify and Save. Later, upload the certificate for the Encrypt-Decrypt authentication option. You can either upload the Sign-Verify certificate first and Encrypt-Decrypt certificate next or vice versa.
    
    

• 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-14028
  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.

Resolved Issues

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

Fixes

This section provides information on the fixes for IBM webMethods B2B v10.16.3.

Release 10.16.3