Transferring a file to a Connect:Direct node

You can transfer a file from a IBM® MQ Managed File Transfer agent to a Connect:Direct® node using the Connect:Direct bridge. Specify a Connect:Direct node as the destination of the transfer by specifying the Connect:Direct bridge agent as the destination agent and specifying the destination file in the form connect_direct_node_name:file_path.

Before you begin

Before transferring a file, you must configure the Connect:Direct bridge, which is a component of IBM MQ Managed File Transfer. For more information, see Configuring the Connect:Direct bridge.

About this task

In this example, the Connect:Direct bridge agent is called CD_BRIDGE. The source agent is called FTE_AGENT and can be any version of WMQFTE. The destination Connect:Direct node is called CD_NODE1. The file to be transferred is located at the file path /home/helen/file.log on the system where FTE_AGENT is located. The file is transferred to the file path /files/data.log on the system where CD_NODE1 is running.

Procedure

Use the fteCreateTransfer command with the value for the -df (destination file) parameter in the form connect_direct_node_name:file_path and the value of the -da (destination agent) parameter specified as the name of the Connect:Direct bridge agent.
Note: The Connect:Direct node specified by connect_direct_node_name is the node that you want the file to be transferred to, not the Connect:Direct node that operates as part of the Connect:Direct bridge.
```
fteCreateTransfer -sa FTE_AGENT -da CD_BRIDGE 
  -df CD_NODE1:/files/data.log /home/helen/file.log 
```
For more information, see fteCreateTransfer (create new file transfer).
The source agent FTE_AGENT transfers the file to the Connect:Direct bridge agent CD_BRIDGE. The file is temporarily stored on the system where the Connect:Direct bridge agent is running, in the location defined by the cdTmpDir agent property. The Connect:Direct bridge agent transfers the file to the Connect:Direct node CD_NODE1.