Transports TIBCO BusinessConnect EDI Protocol powered by Instream offers different transport features. It mainly provides the following transport features: • AS1, AS2, HTTP/S, POP/SMTP, FTP/S, FILE, SSHFTP, and Inbox transport protocols. All variants (EDIFACT, Gateway, TEXT, TRADACOMS, and X12) of the TIBCO BusinessConnect EDI Protocol powered by Instream except for the Service protocol support the use of the Inbox transport to exchange files with partners who are using the following products: − TIBCO BusinessConnect™ Plug-in for SSH Server − TIBCO BusinessConnect™ Plug-in for FTP Server − TIBCO PartnerExpress™ • Outbound batching of transactions for X12 and EDIFACT messages directly to a single trading partner or multiple trading partners through a transporting, Gateway to a VAN. • Scheduled transmission of outbound EDI documents at regular time intervals. • Custom FTP scripts are used to control the retrieval of files from an FTP server using FTP-GET and/or the storage of files on an FTP server using the outbound FTP transport. These also provide the ability to perform pre- and post-processing from within a custom FTP script. • File name masks to control which inbound files FTP-GET retrieves in an FTP server directory and the naming of outbound files sent using FTP or FILE. • Synchronous request-reply transaction type for X12. This is mainly used in processing real-time HIPAA transaction sets over HTTP. • Partner and transaction-level routing of inbound documents. • Send and receive EDI documents with optional message validation and XML conversion. • Outbound EDI file request pollers to monitor predefined file locations for validation and transmitting outbound EDI documents generated by legacy systems with automatic splitting of interchange envelopes. Set Up Trading Partner Transport via Inbox TIBCO BusinessConnect EDI Protocol powered by Instream supports exchange of files with TIBCO BusinessConnect Plug-in for SSH Server, TIBCO BusinessConnect Plug-in for FTP Server, and TIBCO PartnerExpress. When transport can is configured as Inbox, all variants of TIBCO BusinessConnect EDI Protocol powered by Instream except for the Service protocol are able to exchange files with partners who install the mentioned products. Support for FTP and SSH Server Plug-ins On outbound, trading partners can use an FTP client to log into a FTP or an SSH server and download EDI data from an Inbox folder. On inbound, trading partners can use an FTP client to log on to a FTP or an SSH server, and upload EDI data into the corresponding protocol Outbox folder. TIBCO BusinessConnect EDI Protocol powered by Instream automatically picks up EDI data from the Outbox folder, and processes it as inbound EDI data. Support for TIBCO PartnerExpress On outbound, trading partners can log on to TIBCO PartnerExpress administrative GUI, and download EDI data posted in the Inbox folder. On inbound, TIBCO BusinessConnect EDI Protocol powered by Instream automatically picks up EDI data uploaded from the TIBCO PartnerExpress administrative GUI, and processes it as inbound EDI data.