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How You Manage Unscheduled File Transfers

You have seen how you can define resources to help you manage scheduled file transfers. However, there are other transfers occurring in your environment that are not scheduled. The Active File Transfer Monitor lets you monitor these transfers, but you can also manage them by defining rules to detect them and provide appropriate responses. For example, you can define rules to detect unauthorized transfers and raise alerts when they occur.

You can use the following process to define your file transfer rules:

1. Before you can define any rules, you must define a rule set to hold them. You define rule sets through the File Transfer Ruleset List panel, which you access using the /FTADMIN.R panel shortcut.
2. After you defined a rule set, you can add rules to it. The R action lets you access the File Transfer Rules panel from which you can add rules.
3. For the region to use the defined rules, you must load the rule set that contains them. You can do this from the File Transfer Ruleset List panel using the L action. To enable automatic loading when the region starts, you must specify the rule set in the AUTOIDS region parameter group.

Example: Storage Problems

Storage problems require you to move some huge transferred files to somewhere else to free up storage for critical file transfers. You decide to automate this using a file transfer rule:

• To detect the right transfers, the rule matches all completed incoming transfers with a Boolean expression of destination (TGTADDR) and byte count (XFRAMT).
• On detection of a matched transfer, the rule performs the following actions:
  • Execute a Network Control Language (NCL) procedure that moves the file. The file to be moved can be identified using the &ZRFTGTFNAME variable.

    Note: For information about NCL, see the Network Control Language Programmer Guide and the Network Control Language Reference Guide.

  • Notify the user who performed the transfer of the new location of the file. The user to be notified can be identified using the &ZRFUSER variable.