Odette FTP Protocol Support

The Odette File Transfer Protocol (OFTP) is a packet-oriented file transfer protocol (RFC 5024) facilitating electronic data interchange of business data between trading partners.

Originally defined by the non-profit organization Odette (Organization for Data Exchange by Tele Transmission in Europe) for the automotive industry sector, it is used across a wide spectrum of industry sectors like banking, retail, manufacturing, and transport to list a few.

The protocol supports both direct peer to peer communication and indirect communication using a Value Added Network and may be used with TCP/IP, ISDN, and X.25 based networks.
Note: X.25 is not supported in IBM® Sterling B2B Integrator.
Features of the Odette FTP adapter include:
  • Support of OFTP Version 2.0. For additional information, see Using the Odette FTP Implementation.
  • Improving support of clustered environments because the OFTP Partner Profile resides in the Sterling B2B Integrator Database.
  • The ability to list, search, create, and edit OFTP Partner Profile elements in the Sterling B2B Integrator user interface.
  • The ability to list, export, or modify (insert or delete) one or many Odette FTP Partner Profile elements through the OFTPPartnerManager command line tool which uses Partner Profile XML file as an import or export format.