Preprocessing and postprocessing

During preprocessing, you can, within a file transfer request, prepare the send data before the transfer. These could be operating system commands, program calls or procedure calls, in order to create or prepare the data before the transfer. The commands can, for example, extract information from a large data base (data base query), or prepare data (compress, encrypt), in order to subsequently pass it to openFT for file transfer.

During postprocessing you can, within a file transfer request, process the received data using one or more commands after the actual transfer. To do this, you can execute commands, e.g. operating system commands, a program call or a procedure call. The command(s) can, for example, decode/uncompress data which has been encrypted or compressed using external routers.

openFT requests with remote preprocessing or postprocessing can also be transferred by older versions of openFT or FT. It is important that a version of openFT that supports preprocssing and postprocessing is used in the remote system.