RE: [ebxml-bp] Manual Operations in BPSS"

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Zinovy,

    We at BT have try to model exactly the same scenario.  The presumption is that the BPSS is there to coordinate the state of systems on both side of the partnership.

 

  To make this work in BPSS 1.01 we have had to create 'manual' BusinessTransactionActivities that in effect run the BPSS Transaction in reverse. 

    e.g normal we would expect a customer to conform that a fault has been cleared after we have fixed it.  However, if they confirm ove rthe phone rather than the B2B we send a notification to them telling their systems that we had done this.

 

    In the event of a massive failure there is currently no BPSS command that is designed to synchronise the states of two enterprises systems to align with manual transactions.  In our latest Face 2 Face meeting we discussed the ideas around business failures but this did not come up.

 

    Sorry

 

Martin Roberts
xml designer,
BT Exact
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-----Original Message-----
From: ZBarch [mailto:zbarch@rcn.com]
Sent: 16 February 2004 21:27
To: ebxml-bp@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [ebxml-bp] Manual Operations in BPSS"

Dear all!

 

I have a practical question. Do we have a "Manual Operation" in BPSS?

Example: We have 3 party collaboration and one party has a major network failure (like we saw with American stock exchange last

week). Can a party perform business transaction "manually", I mean outside of ebXML (web services) - via phone, fax or US Post mail and update

results later?

 

Thanks,

Zinovy