Exchanging Identity Information

Trading partners must exchange information that they can use to identify the other partner when conducting e-commerce. Trading partners can exchange identity information by email, the web, or any other method.

The identity information that you must share with a trading partner includes the following information:

• Trading partner name
  See the sections of setting up trading partners in the relevant configuration guide for information on where you add your partner’s company name in the TIBCO BusinessConnect Container Edition Admin UI.
• Interchange qualifiers and identifiers
  Each trading partner involved in the exchange of EDI documents has a interchange qualifier and ID. The qualifier indicates the type of the ID. For example, a qualifier of 01 indicates that the ID is a D-U-N-S number. After qualifiers and IDs are set up in the TIBCO BusinessConnect Container Edition Admin UI, the values are used as the interchange sender or interchange receiver qualifier and ID. See the sections of setting up trading partners in the relevant configuration guide for information on where you add your partner’s interchange qualifier and identifier.
• Public certificates
  Trading partners have to exchange their public certificates for encryption and authentication. Your trading partner public certificate is used to encrypt outgoing messages and authenticate incoming messages signed by your trading partner. See TIBCO BusinessConnect Container Edition Trading Partner Management Guide for information on security in general, certificates files, and instructions on how to set credentials in the TIBCO BusinessConnect Container Edition Admin UI.