Defining Collaboration Agreements 

Purpose

In a collaboration agreement you define which communication channel to use to process messages for a particular combination of senders and receivers.

You can also agree security settings that relate to the content of the message for the XI adapter, the SOAP adapter, and the mail adapter.

In the receiver agreement, you can use security settings to do the following:

●      Sign a message

●      Guarantee the integrity of the data

●      Encrypt a message

In the sender agreement, you can use security settings to do the following:

●      Check the signature of an inbound message

●      Check the integrity of the data

●      Authorize the sender of a message

●      Decrypt a message

In receiver agreements, you can specify a mapping program to change the structure of a message.

For more information: Communication Channel, Receiver Agreement, Sender Agreement.

Integration

The collaboration profile contains all the technical options that are available to communication parties for exchanging messages. In particular, one or more communication channels can be assigned to communication components and parties in the collaboration profile.

A collaboration agreement describes which technical details for message exchange have been agreed on for a particular combination of senders and receivers.

For more information: Collaboration Profile

Features

The following two object types are summarized under Collaboration Agreement:

Object Type	Function
Receiver Agreement	Used in outbound message processing to transform a message so that it can be understood and processed by the receiver.
Sender Agreement	Used in inbound message processing to transform a message so that it can be processed by the PCK.

Collaboration Agreement Objects and Runtime Procedure