The Sterling B2B Integrator Advanced Business Process Modeling course teaches you how to use message options, collect and move data, capture errors, send notifications, and update a database.  You will learn about service configurations, the Assign Service, the Invoke Business Process Service, importing resources, and the lightweight JDBC Adapter. This course is a three day course.

After completing this course, students should be able to:

• Differentiate between services, adapters, and activities as they relate to building business processes.
• Configure a business process using the message output options.
• Apply the Assign Service along with DOM or Doc features in a business process.
• Create a business process to capture errors and to notify the user of an error.
• Create a business process to manage 997s.
• Create a business process to send data to different storage locations.
• Use the JDBC Adapter to create a business process to receive configuration values from a database

This course is designed for EDI End User, Web Developer, System Administrator, and Business  Analyst.

This course assumes you have the following foundation knowledge:

• J2EE Framework and N-Tiered Architectures
• Database schemas and related concepts
• SQL Scripting
• Sterling B2B Integrator

Specialty or advanced Sterling B2B Integrator  knowledge in the following areas:

• EDI Processing
• AS2 Implementation
• Secure Transports
• Web Services
• Trading Partner Management
• JSP Development

The following topics will be covered during this course:

• Course Overview
• Lesson 1. Basic BPML concepts
• Lesson 2. Service Editor Configuration Options
• Exercise. Service Editor Configuration Options
• Lesson 3. Using the Assign
• Exercise. Using the Assign
• Lesson 4. Error Handling
• Exercise. Error Handling
• Lesson 5. Importing Style Sheets
• Exercise. Importing Style Sheets
• Lesson 6. Read Values from Flat File
• Exercise. Reading Values from a Flat File
• Lesson 7. Using a Database
• Exercise. Using a Database
• Lesson 8. Course Wrap-up

Prior to enrolling, IBM Employees must follow their Division/Department processes to obtain approval to attend this public training class. Failure to follow Division/Department approval processes may result in the IBM Employee being personally responsible for the class charges.

GBS practitioners that use the EViTA system for requesting external training should use that same process for this course. Go to the EViTA site to start this process:

http://w3.ibm.com/services/gbs/evita/BCSVTEnrl.nsf

Once you enroll in a GTP class, you will receive a confirmation letter that should show:

• The current GTP list price
• The 20% discounted price available to IBMers. This is the price you will be invoiced for the class.