Creating a scheduled file transfer
You can schedule a new file transfer either from the IBM® WebSphere® MQ Explorer or from the command line. The scheduled transfer can contain single files or multiple files in a group. You can perform a scheduled file transfer once or repeat the transfer multiple times.
About this task
You can set up a file transfer schedule to occur once,
or to occur at the following intervals:
- Every minute
- Hourly
- Daily
- Weekly
- Monthly
- Yearly
- At a defined time and date
- After a defined number of occurrences
To create a new scheduled file transfer using the command line, use the scheduling parameters (-tb, -ss, -oi, -of, -oc, and -es) for the fteCreateTransfer command.
To create a new scheduled file transfer using the Create New Managed File Transfer wizard in IBM WebSphere MQ Explorer, use the following steps:
Procedure
Results
For information about the messages involved in scheduled file transfers, see Message formats for scheduled transfers.