Openft V12.0 for Windows Systems Managed File Transfer in the Open World
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English openFT V12.0 for Windows Systems Managed File Transfer in the Open World © Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG 1995 Pfad: D:\Projekte-01-FSC\openft\satz_V12-korr\ben_w_e.vor User Guide Edition September 2012 Comments… Suggestions… Corrections… The User Documentation Department would like to know your opinion on this manual. Your feedback helps us to optimize our documentation to suit your individual needs. Feel free to send us your comments by e-mail to: [email protected] Certified documentation according to DIN EN ISO 9001:2008 To ensure a consistently high quality standard and user-friendliness, this documentation was created to meet the regulations of a quality management system which complies with the requirements of the standard DIN EN ISO 9001:2008. cognitas. Gesellschaft für Technik-Dokumentation mbH www.cognitas.de Copyright and Trademarks Copyright © Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH 2012. All rights reserved. Delivery subject to availability; right of technical modifications reserved. All hardware and software names used are trademarks of their respective manufacturers. This manual is printed on paper treated with chlorine-free bleach. Contents 1 Preface . 11 4. October 2012 Stand 13:05.59 Pfad: D:\Projekte-01-FSC\openft\satz_V12-korr\ben_w_e.ivz 1.1 Brief description of the product . 12 1.2 Target group . 12 1.3 Concept of openFT for Windows manuals . 13 1.4 Changes since the last version of the manual . 14 1.5 Notational conventions . 18 1.6 README files . 18 1.7 Current information on the Internet . 19 1.8 License provisions . 20 2 openFT - the Managed File Transfer . 21 2.1 Heterogeneous computer systems . 23 2.1.1 File conversion . 23 2.1.2 openFT product range . 24 2.2 Heterogeneous networks . 26 2.2.1 The OSI reference model . 26 2.2.2 Position of the openFT product family in the OSI Reference Model . 28 2.2.3 openFT partners . 29 2.2.4 FTAM partners . 29 2.2.5 FTP partners . 30 2.3 Transferring files . 32 2.3.1 Specifying the transfer start time . 33 2.3.2 Controlling the duration of a request . 33 2.3.3 Request queue . 34 2.3.4 Automatic restart . 35 2.4 File management . 36 Dokuschablonen19x24 7.4us Version für FrameMakerV7.x vom09.02.2010 © cognitas GmbH 2001-2010 openFT V12.0 for Windows Systems - User Guide Contents 2.5 Remote command execution . 37 2.6 Automation . 38 2.6.1 File transfer with preprocessing, postprocessing and follow-up processing . 38 2.6.1.1 Preprocessing . 39 2.6.1.2 Postprocessing . 39 2.6.1.3 Follow-up processing . 39 2.6.2 Program interfaces . 41 2.6.3 openFT script interface . 41 2.7 Further processing of openFT data . 42 2.8 Secure operation . 43 2.8.1 The FTAC function . 43 2.8.1.1 Features of the FTAC function . 43 2.8.1.2 Admission set . 44 2.8.1.3 FT profile (admission profile) . 45 2.8.1.4 Effects of an admission profile . 48 2.8.1.5 FTAC administrator . 49 2.8.2 Encryption for file transfer requests . 49 2.8.3 Logging openFT operations - the logging function . 51 2.8.4 Authentication . 53 2.9 Using openFT in a cluster . 55 2.10 Switching language interfaces . 56 3 File transfer and file management . 57 3.1 File names . 58 3.1.1 Unique file names for receive files . 58 3.1.2 BS2000/OSD file names . 59 3.1.3 File names in Unix systems . 61 3.1.4 Windows file names . 61 3.1.5 z/OS file names . 62 3.2 File passwords . 65 3.3 File types . 66 3.3.1 BS2000/OSD files . 66 3.3.2 z/OS files . 67 3.3.3 Unix and Windows files . 68 3.3.4 FTAM files . 70 3.3.5 Transfer of various file types . 71 3.3.6 Migrated files . 74 openFT V12.0 for Windows Systems - User Guide Contents 3.4 Transferring 7-bit, 8-bit and Unicode files . 75 3.4.1 Code tables and coded character sets (CCS) . 75 3.4.2 Specifying the CCS on a transfer request . 76 3.4.3 Data conversion . 77 3.5 Entries for the remote system . 80 3.5.1 Defining the partner computer . 80 3.5.2 Transfer admission . 84 3.6 Options for file transfer . 87 3.6.1 Maximum record lengths . 87 3.6.2 Syntax rules . 87 4. October 2012 Stand 13:05.59 Pfad: D:\Projekte-01-FSC\openft\satz_V12-korr\ben_w_e.ivz 3.6.3 Compressed file transfer . 88 3.6.4 Encrypted file transfer . 89 3.6.5 Notifying results . 89 3.6.6 Access mode . 89 3.6.7 Preprocessing and postprocessing . 90 3.6.8 Follow-up processing . 92 3.7 File management . 94 3.7.1 File management in the remote system . 94 3.7.2 File management in the local system . 95 3.8 Special points for file transfer with FTAM partners . 97 3.8.1 Virtual filestore . 97 3.8.2 Mapping file access rights . 100 3.8.2.1 Outbound requests . 100 3.8.2.2 Inbound requests . 101 3.8.3 Mapping FTAM attributes to the real file system . 103 3.8.3.1 Inbound mapping of FTAM attributes . 103 3.8.3.2 Inbound mapping the document type . 105 3.8.3.3 Access protection . 107 3.8.3.4 Outbound mapping of the document type . 108 3.8.4 FTAM diagnostic codes as per ISO 8571-3 . 111 3.8.5 Addressing via Application Entity Title (AET) . 116 4 Working with openFT . 119 4.1 The openFT Explorer . ..