Administering partners

Partner systems can only be administered if they are entered in the partner list. You have two options to do this:

• You enter the partner with name and address (named partner).

• You enter the partner only with address but without name (registered dynamic partner). In this case, you have to note some details, see section „ Registered dynamic partners “.

I.e. free dynamic partners (partners which are not entered in the partner list) cannot be administered. Please refer to the openFT manual "Concepts and Functions" for more information on the partner concept.

openFT offers the FT administrator the following commands for the administration of partner systems:

ADD-FT-PARTNER	Add new partner system entries to the partner list
MODIFY-FT-PARTNER	Modify partner system entries in the partner list
REMOVE-FT-PARTNER	Remove partner systems from the partner list
SHOW-FT-PARTNERS	View information on partner systems in the partner list and back up the partner list ( see „ Backing up the partner list “)
START-OPENFTPART	Backing up the partner list
MODIFY-FT-OPTIONS	Define the global FTAC security level, enable/disable dynamic partners

For links with FTAM partners assumes that the transport system permits parallel connections. The remote systems are identified via their presentation addresses. Either BS2000 or the FTAM partner can initiate file transfer.

Registered dynamic partners

All partners that are entered only with their addresses but without names in the partner list are registered dynamic partners. You enter partners of this type in the partner list as follows:

ADD-FT-PARTNER PARTNER-NAME=*NONE,PARTNER-ADDRESS=address,<other attributes>.

I.e., you assign one or more attributes with a value other than the default, e.g. TRACE=*ON.

Please note:

• Security level based on the partner setting (SECURITY-LEVEL=*BY-PARTNER-ATTRI- BUTES) is the default setting for free dynamic partners and therefore does not count as a differently set attribute.

• In contrast, security level based on the operating parameter setting (SECURITY- LEVEL=*STD; default setting for the ADD-FT-PARTNER command) is a differently set attribute.

If you reset all the attributes for a partner of this type to the default values with MODIFY-FT- PARTNER then this partner is removed from the partner list and becomes a free dynamic partner.

Backing up the partner list

You can back up the entries in the partner list by means of the SHOW-FT-PARTNERS command or the START-OPENFTPART command :

• SHOW-FT-PARTNERS outputs the partner entries in the form of MODIFY-FT- PARTNER commands. To do this, specify the
  OUTPUT=*SYSLST(LAYOUT= *BS2-PROC ) operand.

  The output can be redirected to a file by means of the ASSIGN-SYSLST command. To make the procedure executable, the first column of the output file must then be removed in an editor.

• START-OPENFTPART also outputs the partner entries to a file in the form of MODIFY- FT-PARTNER commands with the difference that the first column is already removed.