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My company currently uses BMC’s Control-M for automation tasks. It unfortunately doesn’t include Managed File Transfer for UNC to UNC server transfers.

• Does JADE allow single source to numerous destination UNC file transfers?
• If I have to specify credientals for the transfer, can that be setup without it being in plain text?

Answer:

Yes. JADE (JobScheduler Advanced Data Exchange) allows the use of UNC-Names as well as server2server (or site2site) transfer without touchdown. e.g. it is possible to use different protocols for the source and the target server in a transfer. JADE can be used standalone as a command line client and together with JobScheduler in a scheduling enviroment. We have customers who are using JADE together with different Schedulers, e.g. Control-M, UC4, ...

Example: Using UNC Names with JADE I:

 [Copy_Local2Local_UNC]
 source_protocolh1.protocol = local
 source_dir = //8of9.sos/c/temp

 
 target_dirh1.dir = //r2d2.sos/share/nobackup/junittests/testdata/JADE
 target_protocol = local

 
 log_filenameh1.filename = $\{TEMP\}/test.log
 file_spec = ^.*\.(txt|dot)$
 operationh1.operation = copy
 remove_files = false

This is a profile (section) of a configuration file. Just start with

 jade.cmd -settingh1. settings=settings-file-name -profileCopyprofile=Copy_Local2Local_UNC

All Files in the folder "//8of9.sos/c/temp" (source folder) with txt or dot file name extentions (specified with file_spec parameter) will be transferred (copied) to the "//r2d2.sos/share/nobackup/junittests/testdata/JADE" target folder. This is a local operation and therefore a (s)FTP(S) server is not needed. "file_spec" is not like a wildcard, it is a regular expression.

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Server to server transfer, from sftp to ftp without touchdown:

 [ftp_server_2_server]
 ssh_auth_methoh1. method=password

 
 source_userkbuser=kb
 source_passworh1. password=*****
 source_ssh_auth_methodpasswordmethod=password
 source_hosh1. host=wilma.sos
 source_protocolsftpprotocol=sftp
 source_porh1. port=22

 
 target_usertestuser=test
 target_passworh1. password=*****
 target_host8of9host=8of9.sos
 target_protocoh1. protocol=ftp
 target_port21

port=21
 
 file_path1. path=test.txt
 operationcopy

operation=copy
 
 log_filenamh1. filename=$\{TEMP\}/sosftphistory.log

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Note that it is possible to define the "net use" or any other os command directly in the profile:

 [Copy_Local2Local_UNC_withNetUse]
 includeCopyinclude=Copy_Local2Local_UNC
 preTransferCommands=net use //8of9.sos/c;net use //r2d2.sos/share

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