Information Exchange is an international storage and retrieval mechanism for electronic mailbox services and computer-to-computer networking and a common point of contact between you, your applications, and your trading partners. You can send and receive information of virtually any size in electronic form, from standard-format EDI transactions, free-format documents (such as memos and letter), and data files containing up to 280 million characters. Information Exchange receives transactions and documents from trading partners on a network, routes them to the recipients, and stores the data for retrieval.

You can administer your Information Exchange mailbox through online, batch, or Internet interfaces. Service administrators can coordinate use of Information Exchange within their companies. For example, set up trading partners for communications with users in other companies.

Information Exchange Administration Services is a panel-driven interface that you can use to perform administrative tasks for the Information Exchange users you support.

With Information Exchange Administration Services, you can:

• View and delete mail, hold and remove hold on messages
• View, delete, and retrieve archived mail
• Modify user profiles and security options
• Define and manage trading partner lists
• Create and modify carbon copy relationships with trading partners
• Create and modify alias tables
• Define and manage distribution lists
• Create a library to store information for an extended time period
• Define and authorize access to Internet and X.400 trading partners
• Access audit and session information
• Change or reset Information Exchange passwords
• Reset user sessions

Information Exchange Administration Services for the Web provides Internet Protocol (IP) customers with the ability to access many Information Exchange Administration Services functions without using 3270 emulation. With Information Exchange Administration Services for the Web, you can:

• View and delete mail, hold and remove hold on messages
• View, delete and retrieve archived mail
• Modify user profiles and security options
• Define and manage trading partner lists
• Create and modify alias tables
• Access audit and session information
• Change or reset Information Exchange passwords
• Reset user sessions

System Requirements

To connect to Information Exchange Administration Services, you need a full-screen emulator product or a network-attached terminal. You must order both Information Exchange and Information Exchange Administration Services to perform the administrative tasks.

The Expedite Licensed Programs, which also interface with Information Exchange, do not provide interactive access to Information Exchange Administration Services, but do provide the ability to perform some administrative tasks in a batch mode.

To use Information Exchange Administration Services for the Web, you need the following:

• A valid Information Exchange account ID and user ID.
• A valid Information Exchange password that must follow Extended Security Option (ESO passwords rules.
• A valid network password.

Note: You have the option to specify a network password in addition to an Information Exchange password. If you choose this option, your Information Exchange password does not need to follow ESO rules.

You need an appropriate Web browser and a connection to the Internet using an Internet service provider (ISP), or a Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) connection using the network. Appropriate Web browsers include:

• Netscape Navigator 4.7 or functional equivalent
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or functional equivalent

These browsers are subject to change without notice.