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| toutatis |
 Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 4:53 am Post subject: FTE basic features |
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Hi,
I'm examining MQ FTE for replacing our custom build FT tool. There are some feature gaps, that may be implemented by custom user exits or Ant scripts.
But a couple of features are kind of basic that I presume to be standard FTE functionality. I just can't find any sites to confirm this.
1) merging a couple of files into one single file.
2) sending files by SMTP-mail as an attachment
3) copy a single file to multiple targets (opposite of 1)
4) create a backup of every transferred file
5) Using PGP (instead of) SSL for encryption
6) Read transfer info from a database
Can anyone tell me if any of these operations are possible with only FTE (or point me to a how-to)?
Kind regards,
Roel |
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| zpat |
| Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 7:34 am Post subject: |
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| Websphere message broker could do most of those, it can be used in conjunction with FTE. |
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| mqjeff |
| Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 10:25 am Post subject: |
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What do you mean by number 5? That you want to encrypt the file before you transfer it? Or that you want to use PGP to encrypt data as it passes over a network socket?
SSL provides the later - it uses a variety of cryptographic algorithms and techniques to ensure that the data that passes over the network is encrypted at the sending end and decrypted at the receiving end. |
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| toutatis |
| Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 10:19 pm Post subject: FTE basic features |
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Thanks guys for your response.
@zpat We use MB as well as our ESB, but we prefer not to use it for FT.
@mqjeff I mean with 5 that our architectural guidelines proclaim PGP for encryption for external mail with high confidential attachments.
For less confidential mails, SMTP/TLS (SSL) is enough. |
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| mqjeff |
| Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 10:46 am Post subject: Re: FTE basic features |
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| toutatis wrote: |
@mqjeff I mean with 5 that our architectural guidelines proclaim PGP for encryption for external mail with high confidential attachments.
For less confidential mails, SMTP/TLS (SSL) is enough. |
That doesn't answer my question.
Are you attempting to use PGP to encrypt the contents of the email message as an email document?
Or are you attempting to use PGP to encrypt the SMTP transport protocol?
You can do one of these relatively easily with Message broker. You can do the other only with some significant effort.
You could likely use FTE to create a PGP encrypted file as well, whether or not you could use FTE to send this PGP encrypted file via SMPT is a different question. I suspect the answer is no. |
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| toutatis |
| Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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We will use PGP to encrypt files. The transport will be secured/encrypted with SMTP/TLS.
Thanks for your explanation. |
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| kimmyj |
| Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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I've got ANT scripts (utilising Javascript where necessary) to do 1-4.
It was pretty straight forward and repeatable.
Cheers
Kim |
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