There are a few steps you need to take before you can use the Figaf tool to migrate the B2B scenarios. You need to setup an environment that will enable you to process the EDI setup.
Migrating B2B from PI to Integration Suite will be a demanding task, that will take you some time to get familiar with. But with this guide, you will get introduced to the steps for how to complete a migration to having an operational B2B scenario in the Integration Suite, which can be validated and regression tested.
Note, naming conventions: The naming conventions are important for handling this in a larger perspective. There is a purpose for using all settings as specified in the videos.
Before you can get started with the migration you should install Figaf on your own environment and configure it. The best guide is this one.
You will be taken through the following procedural steps:
- Prepare Company, no video for this, since this is a basis one-time task
- Prepare Partner Profiles, using the Figaf fast-track
- Prepare MIGs, and ideally MAGs
- Prepare Integration Suite TPM Agreement Templates, using naming conventions
- Perform migration of PI/PO Operation mapping to Integration Suite TPM
Create company
You should have created yourself as a company and if required, the subsidiaries you will be using. I would recommend you check how Figaf creates the Partner profiles and add Identifiers and Systems in the same way.
Video Guide 0: End-to-end flow
In this video you can see a full end to end flow about how a migration is going to work once you have setup everything.
This covers the overall at a high level allowing you to get an idea about the full process about what is going on. You should explore the other videos to get to the point where you can perform the steps in real life.
Video Guide 1: Create B2B Partner Profiles
See how the Figaf B2B “PI to CPI migration” menu’s fast-track feature “Create Partner Profiles” will help you to quickly prepare all the partner profiles with corresponding systems and identifiers, for your PI B2B migrations.
Watch on YouTube B2B PI to CPI migration procedure: prepare partner profiles
Video Guide 2: Creation of MIGs and MAGs
As a part of the preparation for your PI B2B migration, you will need to define all MIGs, and ideally also MAGs, so that you can proceed to the preparation of agreement templates.
When migrating a B2B solution from PI, you will not be needing the MAG, but having them in place, even as empty mappings, will ensure that your Agreement Templates are better aligned using correct MIGs. Preparing MAGs (complete or not) is not required for the migration process, but advisable.
Watch on YouTube B2B PI to CPI migration procedure: prepare MIGs and MAGs
Video Guide 3: B2B Agreement templates
How to prepare the mandatory B2B Agreement Templates for your full B2B scope of message formats (typeSystems).
Watch on YouTube B2B PI to CPI migration procedure: prepare agreement templates
Video Guide 4: B2B Migration
Now you are ready to perform the migration using Figaf’s “PI to CPI Migration” menu.
In this video you can see how to perform the migration, and how to re-use your PI test cases for the newly created agreement.
You will also see how the B2B scenarios are easier to manage and monitor in the Figaf “B2B” menu.
Watch on YouTube B2B PI to CPI migration procedure: Operation mapping to CPI TPM with custom map
Video Guide 5: B2B Reuse of Operation mappings
In this video you can see how to reuse Operation mappings for multiple agreements.
Watch on YouTube B2B PI to CI migration procedure: create and use generic global mappings
Video Guide 6: Quick Partner Create and Agreement Demo: Penny Grabber IE
Video Guide 7: Mass Test Cases Creation based on Archived Messages assigned automatically to TPM Agreements
In this video you can see how you can upload a B2B archive to your B2B test cases. In Figaf, you can now add imported files to test cases that cover a B2B Agreement.
Video Guide 8: B2B Transport of bigger B2B setup including MIGs and MAGs
Transport is the last step in the process but it is a really important one. In this video you can see how to transport Agreements with all relevant objects like Customer, party, MAG, MIG, iFlows.
Watch on YouTube B2B: Transport of bigger B2B setup including MIGs and MAGs
How to get started?
Install and explore
If you want to see how to install Figaf, explore “Figaf in migration project and complete installation” page and it would also be advisable to look at the migration video.
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