IBM webMethods B2B lets you exchange business documents on cloud with customers, distributors, and trading partners, and do it seamlessly with no hardware investments, maintenance, or upgrades.
And this quick start helps familiarize you with the product and get started.
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IBM webMethods B2B is available in several geographical regions, operated by different infrastructure providers. For information on the underlying infrastructure provider in each region and the available products, see Regions. See the IBM webMethods iPaaS page for IP addresses for the cloud products.
Based on the vendor and the associated region selected by you at the time of creating your IBM webMethods B2B tenant, you need to allow relevant IPs to establish the connectivity between your servers and IBM webMethods B2B.
Mapping of IBM webMethods B2B production URLs with the regions are listed below:
| Region | Sample URL |
|---|---|
| US West Oregon AWS US1 | https://tenantname.int-aws-us.webmethods.io/b2b |
| East US Virginia Azure US2 | https://tenantname.int-az-us.webmethods.io/b2b |
| Europe Frankfurt AWS EU2 | https://tenantname.int-aws-de.webmethods.io/b2b |
| West Europe Netherlands Azure EU3 | https://tenantname.int-az-eu.webmethods.io/b2b |
| Australia East Azure AU1 | https://tenantname.int-az-au.webmethods.io/b2b |
Go to IBM webMethods iPaaS.
Under Products, select IBM webMethods B2B.
If you want to register for the first time or want to try IBM webMethods B2B for free:
Click Sign up for free.
Provide the required information in the registration form.
Click Sign up.
When you sign up for a IBM webMethods B2B account, a IBM webMethods Integration account is also provisioned with it.
If you have an existing IBM webMethods Integration account, and sign up for IBM webMethods B2B, then IBM webMethods B2B gets associated with your IBM webMethods Integration account. This linking is to enable to you to create and execute B2B orchestrations in IBM webMethods Integration for IBM webMethods B2B.
Within a few minutes, IBM sends you an email with the username you chose.
Open the URL provided to you in the email.
Log in using the username and the password you set during the registration process.
This point onwards, you can switch between the IBM webMethods Integration and IBM webMethods B2B instances using the app switcher.
From your IBM webMethods iPaaS account, you can subscribe to more products from the Other IBM webMethods iPaaS products list.
To add new administrator-users in your set-up, go to IBM webMethods iPaaS account > Administration, and click Add user.
Select the following user roles to enable the new administrator user to operate with all the required permissions.
Click Save to see the initial setup page.
If you switch to another product instance using the app switcher and log out from that product, it does not log you out from IBM webMethods B2B. To log out from IBM webMethods B2B, switch back to it and then log out.
If you are logging in for the first time and the tenant happens to be deactivated, then you must wait until the tenant is activated again. Thereafter, you must log out and log in again to activate your subscription.
IBM webMethods B2B provides better availability support for the product and infrastructure. This allows having multiple replicas for paid tenants.
This capability ensures a new processing node is assigned as soon as the current processing node fails.
Note that this is only a high availability support and not failover support. This means that the transactions in-flight may fail and those may need to be resubmitted or reprocessed.
Any new transactions will be successfully processed on the newly assigned node.
Click Set up my enterprise.
Add an identity type and value.
Add an address.
Add a contact.
You must create several B2B assets and associate them with each other to set up your IBM webMethods B2B product instance.
Go to Partners > Add partner profiles.
Add an identity type and value.
Add an address.
Add a contact.
Depending on the type of documents that the business partners share and how they share, create:
Go to Communication > Channels > Add channel > Select Inbound channel or Outbound channel > Select Channel type > Type a channel name > Click Finish.
Go to Partners > Select a Partner > Select Inbound channel > Associate Inbound Channel > Select the inbound channels you created > Add.
Go to Partners > Select a Partner > Select Outbound channel > Associate Outbound Channel > Select the outbound channels you created > Add.
Go to Partners > Partner users > Add partner user.
Go to Partners > Select a Partner > Select Inbound channel > Associate Inbound Channel > Select the inbound channels you created > Add.
Go to Partners > Select each partner profile > In the header bar, enable the profile by clicking Active.
IBM webMethods B2B supports a comprehensive list of industry standard EDI business documents. You can add business documents of your requirement by selecting from a variety of the standards, versions, and transaction types in a single click without having to construct the document schema. For a complete list of out-of-the-box documents, refer to the online help available in the right-top corner.
Each of the business partners in your network can use these business documents types to relay information.
Ensure that the documents you add are enabled.
Go to Documents > Business documents > Add Document.
Create new processing rules, or use out-of-the-box processing rules to process the inbound documents in a specific manner.
Go to Rules > Processing Rules > Create Processing Rule.
The processing rules in IBM webMethods B2B depend on IBM webMethods Integration to execute integrations. Flow services in IBM webMethods Integration gives you the capability to create these integrations.
To start receiving documents from your business partners, share your inbound channel endpoint URL with the partner user credentials.
This is the inbound channel endpoint you created for each of the partners in step 5. For more detailed steps, see the Product Help.
Monitor, inspect, and track transactions using the monitoring screens.
Go to Monitoring > Transactions.
IBM webMethods B2B has a new and engaging user interface.
Information about the availability of IBM webMethods B2B environments and planned maintenance downtime specific to your region or platform is available here. The following categories are available for status monitoring in IBM webMethods B2B:
You can also visit this page for information about the latest statistics on cloud system availability and data on component-level outages.