DIVE Platform
DIVE: Data Integration and Visibility Engine
The modern operational layer for enterprises running IBM Sterling B2B Integrator — visibility, governance, administration, and day-to-day operational control.
Overview
What DIVE is
DIVE is a self-hosted operational platform that runs alongside IBM Sterling B2B Integrator. It does not replace the execution engine and it does not sit in the data path. IBM Sterling B2B Integrator continues to receive, transform, route, and deliver files exactly as it does today. DIVE reads what those processes record, presents it in a modern interface, and gives operations teams a governed place to administer partners, flows, protocol profiles, and security assets.
The problem DIVE addresses is operational rather than functional. Mature IBM Sterling B2B Integrator environments accumulate hundreds of partner-specific business processes, mailbox structures, and routing rules. Answering a simple question — did the file arrive, and if not, where did it stop — often means console access, database queries, or a request to the one person who knows. DIVE puts that answer in a browser.
Capabilities
What the platform covers
DIVE groups the daily work of a B2B operations team into six areas.
Operational visibility
File and transfer activity searchable by producer, consumer, flow, tag, protocol, receive status, delivery status, and time window, with the outcome of every delivery attempt.
Monitoring and exceptions
Volume and health trends, delivery outcomes over a selected period, ranked failure categories with their underlying error signatures, and an exceptions queue for abnormal behaviour.
Administration
Partner records, flow definitions, protocol profiles, code lists, and notification configuration managed through a single governed interface rather than scattered console screens.
Governance
Versioned flow definitions with effective-from dates, attributable changes, and a registry that shows what is active in the environment right now.
Role-based access
Local accounts with administrator, standard user, and partner user roles, so support staff can investigate without holding full platform credentials.
Partner and flow management
Partner onboarding, routing, schedules, and protocol configuration handled as configuration against reusable patterns instead of a new business process for every partner.
How DIVE fits with IBM Sterling B2B Integrator
DIVE is deployed inside your environment, on your infrastructure. The agent component reads operational data on a schedule and streams it to the DIVE application; it is read-only and no transferred files pass through it. If DIVE is stopped, IBM Sterling B2B Integrator continues to run and you lose visibility rather than transfers.
That boundary is deliberate. Enterprises running regulated file exchange cannot accept a new component in the critical path, and DIVE is designed so adoption carries no delivery risk. IBM Sterling B2B Integrator Ecosystem Services explains the services that surround an implementation.
Protocols and components in scope
DIVE manages configuration and visibility for the transports enterprises already run on IBM Sterling B2B Integrator.
- SFTP, FTP and FTPS partner exchange
- AS2 messaging with signed payloads and MDN handling
- HTTP and REST-based delivery endpoints
- Mailbox routing and store-and-forward exchange
- Local and network filesystem pickup and delivery
- IBM Connect:Direct managed routing
- AS2 and SSL certificates, PGP keys, and SSH keys as governed security assets
Inside DIVE
The running product.
Illustrative DIVE interfaces, captured in the Cognitrix demo environment. Partner names, file names and identifiers are redacted; everything else is the shipping product.
Screenshots show sample data from a demo environment and are not representative of any customer’s results. IBM, Sterling, Sterling B2B Integrator, Sterling File Gateway and Connect:Direct are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. Other product names are trademarks of their respective owners and are used for identification purposes only.
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