CHIPS Message Transport Using SWIFTNet

The Sterling B2B Integrator enables you to send CHIPS messages to CHIPS, using either the SWIFTNet network (optionally using IBM® Websphere MQ) or The Clearing House Frame Relay Network (a proprietary network that uses IBM Websphere MQ). Acknowledgements are sent to CHIPS using the SWIFTNet Server adapter. Using the SWIFTNet transport available in the Sterling B2B Integrator, you can also receive all response messages from CHIPS, including heartbeat messages, and send supervisory STATUS messages to CHIPS to test the connection.

The CHIPS adapter works with the SWIFTNet Server adapter, SWIFTNet HTTP Server adapter, and the SWIFTNet MEFG Server to communicate with CHIPS. When the CHIPS adapter is used with the SWIFTNet network, it receives acknowledgement messages from CHIPS in the SWIFTNet Response within sixty seconds, and any incoming messages (for example, heartbeat message, resolver notification, and so forth) are received by SWIFTNet Server adapter. The return acknowledgement of the incoming messages is performed by the Receive Handler and Acknowledgement Handler within the CHIPS adapter (the business process is bootstrapped using the SWIFTNet Routing Rule).