Specifying Data Exchanged With Other Applications
You can describe the message flows exchanged between applications, with their direction and content. This information enables creation of exchange mapping.
For more details on obtaining this report, see Generating an Application Environment Report.
A message flow is information flowing within an enterprise or exchanged between the enterprise and its business environment. A message flow can carry a content.
A Business data indicates content of a message flow. A Business data can be used by several message flows, since it is not associated with a sender and a destination. The same business data can be used by several message flows.
To create a message flow of a source application to a target application:
1. Open the properties pages of the source application.
See also Accessing Application Properties.2. Click the drop-down list then Characteristics.
3. Expand the Exchanged Flows section.
4. Click Sent Application Flows and click the New button.
The Creation of Message Flow - Content dialog box appears.
5. Select the Receiver application.
6. From the Content field, select the business data you want to associate with the message flow.
7. Click OK.
See also Defining the Data Used by an Application.