Central Governance 1.1.3 Users Guide Save PDF Selected topic Selected topic and subtopics All content Source transfer properties Default values are provided for source transfer properties in the user interface for Transfer CFT. Change values to meet your needs. Prerequisites General flow information is defined Source or sources are selected The source properties page is displayed. See Transfer CFT source fields in flows for the procedure to access this page. Fields Transfer priority Transfer priorities are equivalent to integer values ranging from 0 (low) to 255 (high). If you select Custom, you must enter an integer between 0 and 255. Note that the integer value for medium priority is 128. When Transfer CFT reaches the maximum number of transfers allowed, it queues transfers. When an ongoing transfer is finished and a slot is available for a new transfer, the system selects the one with the highest priority. Transfer priority is available when the initiator is the source. Bandwidth allocation The amount of bandwidth allocated to this flow. The value you select determines the data transfer rate for this flow. Transfer state Indicates the state of the transfer request. Ready - Transfer is available and can start immediately. On hold - Transfer is deferred until a remote receive request is accepted, or until a local start command changes this transfer to the ready state. Kept - Transfer is deferred until a local start command changes this transfer to the ready state. User ID The identifier of the transfer owner. Sending user ID The identifier of the user sending the transfer. Receiving user ID The identifier of the user receiving the transfer. Sending application Id of the application sending the file. Receiving application Id of the application receiving the file. Detect duplicate transfers Detect duplicate transfers This field is used in detecting duplicate transfers and may contain a list of symbolic variables separated by a period ".". Duplicate transfers can occur, for example, if there is an error in a processing script. Possible variables include: &PART &IDF &DIRECT &MODE &SAPPL , &RAPPL &IDA &SUSER , &RUSER &FNAME, &NFNAME &SYSDATE, &SYSTIME &PARM Example: &PART.&IDF.&IDA.&SAPPL See Symbolic variables for descriptions of the variables. Compress file Indicates whether files are compressed before transferred. Do not enable compression if the type of files being transferred would not benefit from it and possibly result in longer processing times. For example, do not activate compression if transferring JPG or ZIP files. On file not found Specify what happens when files to transfer are not found. Abort transfer - Transfer fails and status is changed to Canceled. Ignore transfer - Transfer is successful and status is changed to Completed. This parameter is available starting with Transfer CFT 3.1.3 Service Pack 4. On file modification Specify what happens if files are modified during the transfer. Continue transfer - Modified file is transferred. Stop transfer - Transfer status is changed to Kept. Action after transfer Specifies what happens to the file when the transfer has completed. Delete - Deletes the file. Delete file content - Removes the contents of the file but leaves the end-of-file mark at the beginning of the file. None - No action is performed on the file. Archive - Move the file after the transfer completes. Archive filename Path to the location where you want to archive (move) the file after a transfer. You can use the &FROOT&(-.)FSUF syntax to preserve the original filename. Delete file on purge Indicates the transfer states of files that will be deleted when you remove the associated transfers from the transfer list or when you purge the transfer list. You can select any combination of statuses. If you do not select anything, files are not deleted even when the associated transfers are removed from the transfer list. Ready (D) - Transfer is available and can start immediately. Transferring (C) - Transfer is being executed. On hold (H) - Transfer was interrupted due to an error, such as a network failure, or by a user. Kept (K) - Transfer was suspended by Transfer CFT or by a user. Transferred (T) - Transfer was completed successfully. Executed (X) - Transfer was ended by an application or user. Purge completed transfer Indicates whether a completed transfer is purged from the transfer list or kept. Yes - Transfer CFT purges the transfer from the transfer list when the status is Completed. No - Transfer CFT keeps completed transfers in the transfer list. Additional information Use this field for any information you want to provide. For example, you can use this field to propagate some business identifiers or values from the source to the target at the protocol level (without having to open the files). Note that in this use case, the attribute must be populated dynamically at runtime for each file transfer. Maximum transfer duration The maximum time in minutes to complete a file transfer before the transfer is canceled. If a transfer times out, you can restart the transfer manually. A transfer will not restart automatically. A value of 0 indicates there is no time limit. This field is only available for the flow initiator. That is, it is only available for the source when the source is the initiator and it is only available for the target when the target is the initiator. Activation period Enable When set to Yes, you can define the interval when transfers can occur by setting a start date and time and an end date and time. This field is only available for the flow initiator. That is, it is only available for the source when the source is the initiator and it is only available for the target when the target is the initiator. Visibility On file modification Specify the level of transfer process step details that are sent as events to the Sentinel service. Default – Events are sent as defined in the configuration of the source Transfer CFT. All – Events related to every step of the transfer process are sent. First and last – Events related to only the initial and final steps of each transfer process are sent. None – No events are sent. Error - Only error events are sent. Broadcasting A broadcast list represents the list of targets in the flow. Using a broadcast list enables to you send a file to all targets in the list with a single command. See Transfer CFT broadcast and collect for more information. Broadcast list Enables or disables the use of a broadcast list. If you enable broadcast list (choose either File or Partner list) and have fewer than two targets defined, a warning message is displayed. File – Using a file in which the list of partners is saved. Partner list – Explicitly using a list type parameter. If there are more than 200 targets defined, a warning message is displayed specifying that the File option should be used instead. Transfer CFT partner list is limited to 200 targets. None – Disable the broadcast list. When you enable broadcast list, the following fields are displayed depending on whether you select File or Partner list. Name Identifier for the list of targets defined in the flow. The name must be unique among all flows for the source or sources. This field displays when you select either File or Partner list. File Specifies if either a new broadcast list file is created, or an existing file is used. Create file (default) - Uses a file in which the list of partners is saved. The file is automatically generated based on the selected targets Use existing file - Uses an existing file, which contains the list of partners, that is located in an application directory outside of the Transfer CFT installation directory. This field displays when you select File. Filename Name of the broadcast list file. The new file is available on Transfer CFT after the flow is deployed successfully. The new file is uploaded to Transfer CFT with the default path $(cft.runtime_dir)/conf/ws_upload. The file is overwritten if it already exists on Transfer CFT. This field displays only when you select File. Unknown target Specifies the action to take when a target in the broadcast list is not found. Continue – Display an informational message and continue processing Ignore – Continue processing without an informational message Cancel – The transfer stops at the first error, but all transfers that were started before the error continue. For example, if you have 10 targets in the list and the fourth one is unknown, targets 1, 2 and 3 receive the file, but targets 4-10 do not. This field displays when you select either File or Partner list. Configure specific parameters for each source Specifies whether to enable configuring different transfer properties values for each source product. This field displays when you select multiple sources. If you select Yes, a table listing all the source products is displayed. Click Edit to customize parameters for a source. Related topics Transfer CFT source fields in flows Source file properties Transcoding and character translation Source processing Central Governance | Document Directory Related Links
Source transfer properties Default values are provided for source transfer properties in the user interface for Transfer CFT. Change values to meet your needs. Prerequisites General flow information is defined Source or sources are selected The source properties page is displayed. See Transfer CFT source fields in flows for the procedure to access this page. Fields Transfer priority Transfer priorities are equivalent to integer values ranging from 0 (low) to 255 (high). If you select Custom, you must enter an integer between 0 and 255. Note that the integer value for medium priority is 128. When Transfer CFT reaches the maximum number of transfers allowed, it queues transfers. When an ongoing transfer is finished and a slot is available for a new transfer, the system selects the one with the highest priority. Transfer priority is available when the initiator is the source. Bandwidth allocation The amount of bandwidth allocated to this flow. The value you select determines the data transfer rate for this flow. Transfer state Indicates the state of the transfer request. Ready - Transfer is available and can start immediately. On hold - Transfer is deferred until a remote receive request is accepted, or until a local start command changes this transfer to the ready state. Kept - Transfer is deferred until a local start command changes this transfer to the ready state. User ID The identifier of the transfer owner. Sending user ID The identifier of the user sending the transfer. Receiving user ID The identifier of the user receiving the transfer. Sending application Id of the application sending the file. Receiving application Id of the application receiving the file. Detect duplicate transfers Detect duplicate transfers This field is used in detecting duplicate transfers and may contain a list of symbolic variables separated by a period ".". Duplicate transfers can occur, for example, if there is an error in a processing script. Possible variables include: &PART &IDF &DIRECT &MODE &SAPPL , &RAPPL &IDA &SUSER , &RUSER &FNAME, &NFNAME &SYSDATE, &SYSTIME &PARM Example: &PART.&IDF.&IDA.&SAPPL See Symbolic variables for descriptions of the variables. Compress file Indicates whether files are compressed before transferred. Do not enable compression if the type of files being transferred would not benefit from it and possibly result in longer processing times. For example, do not activate compression if transferring JPG or ZIP files. On file not found Specify what happens when files to transfer are not found. Abort transfer - Transfer fails and status is changed to Canceled. Ignore transfer - Transfer is successful and status is changed to Completed. This parameter is available starting with Transfer CFT 3.1.3 Service Pack 4. On file modification Specify what happens if files are modified during the transfer. Continue transfer - Modified file is transferred. Stop transfer - Transfer status is changed to Kept. Action after transfer Specifies what happens to the file when the transfer has completed. Delete - Deletes the file. Delete file content - Removes the contents of the file but leaves the end-of-file mark at the beginning of the file. None - No action is performed on the file. Archive - Move the file after the transfer completes. Archive filename Path to the location where you want to archive (move) the file after a transfer. You can use the &FROOT&(-.)FSUF syntax to preserve the original filename. Delete file on purge Indicates the transfer states of files that will be deleted when you remove the associated transfers from the transfer list or when you purge the transfer list. You can select any combination of statuses. If you do not select anything, files are not deleted even when the associated transfers are removed from the transfer list. Ready (D) - Transfer is available and can start immediately. Transferring (C) - Transfer is being executed. On hold (H) - Transfer was interrupted due to an error, such as a network failure, or by a user. Kept (K) - Transfer was suspended by Transfer CFT or by a user. Transferred (T) - Transfer was completed successfully. Executed (X) - Transfer was ended by an application or user. Purge completed transfer Indicates whether a completed transfer is purged from the transfer list or kept. Yes - Transfer CFT purges the transfer from the transfer list when the status is Completed. No - Transfer CFT keeps completed transfers in the transfer list. Additional information Use this field for any information you want to provide. For example, you can use this field to propagate some business identifiers or values from the source to the target at the protocol level (without having to open the files). Note that in this use case, the attribute must be populated dynamically at runtime for each file transfer. Maximum transfer duration The maximum time in minutes to complete a file transfer before the transfer is canceled. If a transfer times out, you can restart the transfer manually. A transfer will not restart automatically. A value of 0 indicates there is no time limit. This field is only available for the flow initiator. That is, it is only available for the source when the source is the initiator and it is only available for the target when the target is the initiator. Activation period Enable When set to Yes, you can define the interval when transfers can occur by setting a start date and time and an end date and time. This field is only available for the flow initiator. That is, it is only available for the source when the source is the initiator and it is only available for the target when the target is the initiator. Visibility On file modification Specify the level of transfer process step details that are sent as events to the Sentinel service. Default – Events are sent as defined in the configuration of the source Transfer CFT. All – Events related to every step of the transfer process are sent. First and last – Events related to only the initial and final steps of each transfer process are sent. None – No events are sent. Error - Only error events are sent. Broadcasting A broadcast list represents the list of targets in the flow. Using a broadcast list enables to you send a file to all targets in the list with a single command. See Transfer CFT broadcast and collect for more information. Broadcast list Enables or disables the use of a broadcast list. If you enable broadcast list (choose either File or Partner list) and have fewer than two targets defined, a warning message is displayed. File – Using a file in which the list of partners is saved. Partner list – Explicitly using a list type parameter. If there are more than 200 targets defined, a warning message is displayed specifying that the File option should be used instead. Transfer CFT partner list is limited to 200 targets. None – Disable the broadcast list. When you enable broadcast list, the following fields are displayed depending on whether you select File or Partner list. Name Identifier for the list of targets defined in the flow. The name must be unique among all flows for the source or sources. This field displays when you select either File or Partner list. File Specifies if either a new broadcast list file is created, or an existing file is used. Create file (default) - Uses a file in which the list of partners is saved. The file is automatically generated based on the selected targets Use existing file - Uses an existing file, which contains the list of partners, that is located in an application directory outside of the Transfer CFT installation directory. This field displays when you select File. Filename Name of the broadcast list file. The new file is available on Transfer CFT after the flow is deployed successfully. The new file is uploaded to Transfer CFT with the default path $(cft.runtime_dir)/conf/ws_upload. The file is overwritten if it already exists on Transfer CFT. This field displays only when you select File. Unknown target Specifies the action to take when a target in the broadcast list is not found. Continue – Display an informational message and continue processing Ignore – Continue processing without an informational message Cancel – The transfer stops at the first error, but all transfers that were started before the error continue. For example, if you have 10 targets in the list and the fourth one is unknown, targets 1, 2 and 3 receive the file, but targets 4-10 do not. This field displays when you select either File or Partner list. Configure specific parameters for each source Specifies whether to enable configuring different transfer properties values for each source product. This field displays when you select multiple sources. If you select Yes, a table listing all the source products is displayed. Click Edit to customize parameters for a source. Related topics Transfer CFT source fields in flows Source file properties Transcoding and character translation Source processing Central Governance | Document Directory