In order to take advantage of these services in both the External User Acceptance Test (Ext-UAT) environment and the production environment, you must submit the System-to-System Certificate Access Request form (PDF, 74 KB) to the Help Desk for processing. The Help Desk staff will endeavor to process your request, register your certificate information, and respond to you with a confirmation message within 5 business days of submission.

Please note that it is your responsibility to notify eRA to update your registration if your certificate expires or changes in any way. Allow at least 5 business days to action an update request to ensure you do not experience a lapse in service.

• Complete the System-to-System Certificate Access Request (PDF, 74 KB)
  
  When the form has been completed and signed by your organization’s Signing Official, fax the form to: 301-451-5675
  Or scan the completed and signed form and email to: commons@mail.nih.gov
  
  
• Access the Web Service Description Language (WSDL) at the URL below. The WSDL can be used by various tools to generate the web service client stubs.
  
  EXT-UAT: https://services.external.uat.era.nih.gov/eraexchange/services/
  SubmissionAgencyDataService?wsdl
  
  Production: https://services.external.era.nih.gov/eraexchange/services/
  SubmissionAgencyDataService?wsdl
  
  EXT-UAT (discontinued 5/3/2013): https://services.external.uat.era.nih.gov/eraexchange/services/ESubServices?wsdl
  
  Production (discontinued 5/3/2013): https://services.external.era.nih.gov/eraexchange/services/ESubServices?wsdl
  
  
• The URLs for the web certificate-based authentication services are:
  • Ext-UAT: https://services.external.uat.era.nih.gov/eraexchange/services/
    SubmissionAgencyDataService
  • Production: https://services.external.era.nih.gov/eraexchange/services/
    SubmissionAgencyDataService

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• The S2S Client Transactions Guide (PDF - 139 KB) (version 2.0.0; January 2008) provides software developers with transaction level details for the eRA Exchange System-to-System Client (S2Sclient) exchange.
• Draft S2S Client Transaction Guide updated for Complex Applications (PDF - 232 KB; Version 4.0.0; June 2012)