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JSCAPE MFT server 9.1 released

JSCAPE is pleased to announce the release of JSCAPE MFT Server (9.1). This release introduces several new features and enhancements, highlights of which include: Added support for TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol) and OFTP (Odette File Transfer Protocol) services. Added support for Amazon S3, TFTP, OFTP, REST, IMAP, SMTP and POP3 in Trading Partners module. Added support for various protocols to Reverse Proxies module including Amazon S3, REST, TFTP and OFTP. Added pagination and ability to search data tables in administrative web interface. Added DateAdd, DateSubtract and DateFormat functions to Triggers module for use in manipulating and formatting dates. Numerous usability improvements to administrative web user interface. Various interoperability fixes and improvements for AS2 protocol.

Topics: News, JSCAPE MFT

How to set up automated emails for past downloads

Overview Your scheduled automatic download should be finished by now. But how would you know how it went without physically or remotely logging into your server? Had you used JSCAPE MFT Server, you could have configured it to email you an update. In this post, we'll show you how to set up JSCAPE MFT Server to email you a message along with a file attachment with details about your latest file transfer.

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Business Process Automation, Triggers

Generating a list of freshly downloaded files

Overview As soon as an automated server to server download completes, you might want to generate a list of those files that have been successfully downloaded. This tutorial will show you how to do that.

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Business Process Automation, Triggers

Moving files on the remote server after an automated FTP download

Overview A couple of weeks ago, I received another interesting query from one of our customers. He was setting up an automated FTP download with one of his trading partners and wanted to know how he could move those files that have just been downloaded from the remote server to an archive directory on that same server . I was thinking many of you would find it useful, so I decided to share the steps I recommended then.

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, Triggers, FTP

How to schedule automatic downloads with trading partners

Overview Last time, we published a short tutorial on Setting Up A Trading Partner For Automated FTP file transfers. That post was meant to serve as a jump off point for future articles that would demonstrate different automated file transfer processes involving trading partners. Today, we'll make use of what we learned in that post to show you how easy it is to set up a scheduled automatic download if we already have a Trading Partner ready to be called into play. Once you're done reading this post, I encourage you to drop by the article Scheduling an Automated File Transfer for Files Matching A Regex and scroll down to the part where you specify the trigger action parameters. You'll see how this process is better when you're downloading from a trading partner.

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, Triggers

JSCAPE MFT gateway 3.2 released

JSCAPE is pleased to announce the release of JSCAPE MFT Gateway 3.2. This release is a minor version update and includes the following features:

Topics: News, JSCAPE MFT

How to send large files through email - part 4

Overview We're now in the last leg of our 4-part series on how to send large files through email. We wrap up this series by showing you how to configure your MFT server so that users can send large files via email without having to install an Outlook plugin (see Part 3), let alone use MS Outlook at all. Instead, your users will be able to login to your server through their favorite Web browser and email large files from there.

Topics: Ad-Hoc File Transfers, JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Secure File Transfer, FTP

How to send large files through email - part 3

Overview: How to Email Large Files with Outlook Welcome to Part 3 of our tutorial on how to send large files through email. Last time, we walked you through the steps of setting up the ad hoc file transfer service on JSCAPE MFT Server. Today, we'll move on to the client side and show you how to set up the ad hoc file transfer plugin for MS Outlook. With this plugin, your users will be able to email large files with Outlook and its familiar interface.

Topics: Ad-Hoc File Transfers, JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, FTP

How to send large files through email - part 2 | JSCAPE MFT server

Overview We now proceed with Part 2 of our tutorial on how to send large files through email. In Part 1, we introduced you to a secure, reliable, and efficient method of sending big files through trusty old email. We called that method ad hoc file transfer. Today, we start getting technical as we show you how to set up the ad hoc file transfer service on your JSCAPE MFT Server. This won't take long, so just sit back, scroll down, and discover the handful of settings that will free your users from the file size limitations of email.

Topics: Ad-Hoc File Transfers, JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Secure File Transfer, FTP

How to send large files through email with ad hoc file transfer

Overview: How To Send Large Files Through Email This is the first of what I expect to be a 4-part series of posts detailing how you can send large files through email. Here in Part 1, we'll talk about the motivations of doing it and the limitations of most email services. We'll also give you an overview of a method that will allow you to circumvent those limitations. A method that is most suited for businesses, where large file attachments must be sent securely, reliably, and efficiently.

Topics: Ad-Hoc File Transfers, JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Secure File Transfer, FTP