Overview
IBM WebSphere® MQ File Transfer Edition, Version 7.0.1 delivers an SOA-ready managed file transfer solution that can replace home-grown and FTP-based approaches to file movement. It delivers a managed file transfer solution for moving files - regardless of size - with auditability, visibility, and reliability. WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition, the newest member of the WebSphere MQ family of messaging products, is available both for distributed platforms and for z/OS on the IBM System z® platform.
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WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition V7.0.1 enhances this product with exciting new features.
Enhancements on distributed platforms:
- Ability to archive transfer audit log to external databases
- Enhanced directory monitoring
- Ability to script multi-step file transfer jobs than can span across platforms
- Enhanced transfer request error reporting
- Unattended silent install
- Support for Linux® on System z™ platform
- Support for Windows® 2000 (Clients only)
Enhancements on z/OS:
- Enhanced performance
- Support for generation data groups (GDGs)
- Support for tape media
- Enhanced directory monitoring
- Ability to script multi-step file transfer jobs than can span across platforms
- Enhanced transfer request error reporting
- Extended z/OS release support adding z/OS V1.6 and V1.7
Auditable
WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition V7.0.1 provides a log of file movements that enables organizations to demonstrate that business data in files in being transferred with integrity from source to target file system. The audit log can be subscribed to by multiple queue managers and hence stored in multiple places. The audit log can be viewed remotely using plug-ins supplied for WebSphere MQ Explorer. It will also be possible to register one or more applications as subscribers to the audit logs, which can in turn take the log records data and persist this to a destination of choice – for example loading the audit log into a SQL database.
Visible
WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition provides graphical configuration tooling which, based on WebSphere MQ Explorer, will enable quick and easy definition of transfers without the need for programming. This enables users who are not familiar with the concepts of messaging software to make use of it for file transfer. It provides a zero coding solution with initiative graphical tooling that only requires understanding of file transfers -- not the underlying WebSphere MQ network -- helps accelerate solution deployment and reduces skills requirements.
Reliable
WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition uses the proven WebSphere MQ transport to ensure files arrive at their destination. Pacing technology ensures the MQ network does not become overloaded with file data at a faster rate than it can arrive. Unlike FTP transfers, where partially transferred files appear - and are left behind, if a transfer fails - WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition only places files into the destination file system once the entire file has been transferred, checked to be completed and recorded in the transfer audit log. This helps eliminate disruption caused to down-stream processes that use partial or incomplete files.
