Category: Business Process Automation
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EDI integration with trading partners: 6 best practices
Many large companies with high-volume transactions, especially those involved in e-commerce, manufacturing and retail supply chains, have long migrated from manual processes to Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). EDI, which enables the automated exchange of…
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How to set up an AS2 EDI connection
Many organizations that employ electronic data interchange (EDI) in their business-to-business (B2B) transactions exchange EDI messages through the Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) protocol. EDI communications carried out over AS2 are sometimes called AS2 EDI.…
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Data streaming vs. store-and-forward : ensuring secure data transfers | JSCAPE by redwood
Secure data transfers are pivotal for maintaining a competitive advantage in our swiftly evolving digital landscape. As cybersecurity challenges rise and the shift towards cloud-based ecosystems continues, your strategy for secure data streaming becomes…
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How To Automate An SFTP File Transfer
Automated secure file transfer protocol (SFTP) file transfers are traditionally done through scripts, but there’s a much easier way. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to automate SFTP file transfers without scripting a…
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How to set up automated AS2 file transfers
Overview In an earlier quickstart guide to setting up an AS2 server, we featured a manual method for sending EDI messages. Because EDI transactions are best carried out automatically, we thought it would be…
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How to setup an AS2 server with JSCAPE: a QuickStart guide
In this tutorial, you’ll learn the basic steps for setting up an Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) server. While the final outcome will only be a rudimentary AS2 setup, the steps you’ll encounter along the…
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Downloading files periodically from a trading partner
Overview In this post we’re going to show you how to download files periodically from a trading partner. For this particular example, we’ll be setting up JSCAPE MFT Server to connect to a trading…
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How to auto upload files to a server from a local directory
In this tutorial, we’re going to show you how to automatically upload files to a remote server as soon as the files are added into one of your MFT Server’s local directories.
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Monitoring a remote SFTP server for newly added files
Most users of JSCAPE MFT Server are already familiar with directory monitors. You often use it to monitor a directory for newly added files. Although that capability has helped immensely in automating a lot…
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How to copy multiple files from s3 to azure data lake storage
In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to copy multiple files automatically from AWS S3 to Azure Data Lake Storage using JSCAPE MFT Server.
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How to automatically transfer files from SFTP to azure blob storage via trading partner
In a previous post, we taught you how to automatically transfer files from SFTP to Azure Blob Storage using a JSCAPE MFT Server network storage object. This time, we’ll show you how to do…
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How to automatically transfer files from SFTP to azure blob storage via network storage
Let’s say you have trading partners who can only transfer files to you via SFTP. Incidentally, you also happen to have an account on Azure Blob Storage and you prefer to store those files…
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That free FTP server might cost more than you think
As you scout for the most cost-effective way of transmitting files with your business units and trading partners, among the many file sharing solutions that will likely stand out are free FTP servers. Most…
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Protecting your file transfer service from internal threats
Overview [Last updated: December 2020] Malicious insiders and careless insiders are increasingly posing serious risks to file transfer systems. If nothing is done to mitigate them, these internal threats can cause data loss or,…
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How to sync a linux directory with an amazon s3 bucket
In one of our previous posts, we taught you how to sync a Windows folder with an AWS S3 bucket. This time, we’ll show you how to do that with a Linux directory.
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How to configure an SFTP-to-S3 file transfer
Many businesses use Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) to transfer data between business units or to trading partners. With the growing adoption of cloud solutions, it makes sense to leverage the cloud to enhance…
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Use JSCAPE MFT server with Multi-Cloud storage solutions
When business processes involve multiple cloud storage solutions, things can get quite tricky for IT administrators. In this post, we discuss some of the challenges IT admins face when managing and performing file transfers…
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How to copy files from azure blob storage to AWS s3
There are several possible reasons why you might want to copy files from Azure Blob Storage to AWS S3 (or vise versa). Maybe you want to migrate from one cloud to another. Maybe you…
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How to download multiple files from azure blob storage
All this time, you’ve been uploading loads upon loads of files onto your Azure Blob Storage container. But now, you have this workflow that will need some of those files on a monthly basis.…
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Using AES-256 to encrypt files you upload to your s3 trading partner
Files you upload to an Amazon S3 trading partner through JSCAPE MFT Server are normally stored in plaintext. If you want to encrypt those files to minimize the risk of a data breach, one…
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Sync windows folder with AWS s3 bucket
In previous posts, we taught you how to set up an Agent service and trading partner. We also taught you how to install an agent on a remote Windows host devoid of any file…
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Using AWS KMS to encrypt files you upload to your s3 trading partner
Files you upload to an Amazon S3 trading partner through JSCAPE MFT Server are normally stored in plaintext. If you want to encrypt those files to minimize the risk of a data breach, one…
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Install MFT Server agents on Linux hosts
Last time, we taught you how to install a JSCAPE MFT Server Agent on a remote Windows host with no file transfer service. But what if that remote host is a Linux machine? This…
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How to install MFT server agents on windows
Time to continue our tutorial on using JSCAPE MFT Server Agents. If you’ve been following our recent blog posts, you know that agents offer an easy way of exchanging files with hosts that don’t…
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How to set up an agent service & trading partner
As discussed in our previous post, JSCAPE MFT Server now gives you the capability to perform automated data transfers with hosts with no file transfer service. If you read that post, you know this…
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How to transfer data to a host without a service
As an IT administrator, you probably encountered this problem before — there’s this host that you want to transfer files with on an automated basis but it doesn’t have any file transfer service. The…
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How to sync a remote FTP server to s3
In a previous post, we taught you how to mirror an FTP/S service running on JSCAPE MFT Server to an Amazon S3 bucket folder. You can set up a similar process using any remote…
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How to mirror a FTP server to s3 storage
If your FTP/S service runs on JSCAPE MFT Server, it’s possible to mirror files stored in that FTP server to an Amazon S3 bucket folder. We’ll show you how to do that in this…
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What is AS2 protocol? how to use applicability statement 2
AS2 (Applicability Statement 2) is a secure file transfer protocol used for automated, server-to-server transfers. It ensures message integrity, confidentiality, and reliability, making it ideal for exchanging business documents like purchase orders and invoices.…
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VAN vs AS2 – which is better for sending EDI documents?
There are currently two ways of exchanging EDI documents. The first involves subscribing to a third party known as a Value Added Network (VAN), while the second involves using the AS2 protocol. Sure, there…
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How to use AS2 MDN async receipts on the JSCAPE MFT server
When you request an electronic receipt a.k.a. Message Disposition Notification or MDN for your AS2 transmission from your trading partner, you can choose between two options: Sync MDN or Async MDN. In this post…
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How to schedule an AS2 file transfer
In a previous post on automated AS2 file transfers, we showed you how to configure JSCAPE MFT Server so that it would monitor a directory for newly added files and then, each time a…
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How to move downloaded files on a trading partner
Let’s say a trading partner wants you to move files you download from their server to a designated archive folder on that same server. This is a B2B file transfer, so it has to…
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Don’t pair regex trigger actions with a directory monitor event
When sever admins pair regex-type trigger actions (e.g. Trading Partner Regex File Upload) with a directory monitor event (e.g. Directory Monitor File Added) on JSCAPE MFT Server, the usual intention is to apply the…
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What is the standard server port for AS2?
The AS2 protocol has no standard port per se. However, since it runs over HTTP or HTTPS, people who use AS2 also use the standard ports of those protocols by default.
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An easier way of exchanging AS2 trading partner credentials
AS2 is no doubt the best option for carrying out B2B exchanges of EDI documents. However, compared to general purpose file transfer protocols like FTP/S or SFTP, it’s known to be considerably more difficult…
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Benefits of using the JSCAPE MFT server as an AS2 server
As promised in our last post, we’re going to talk about JSCAPE MFT Server and why it’s the perfect choice for an AS2 server.
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How to pick the best AS2 server for your business
So you’ve already discovered the benefits of AS2 and are now convinced you need one for your business. You might now be wondering, ‘what is the best AS2 server out there’? There can be…
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What is an AS2 Server? | B2B File Sharing
Last time, we talked about the benefits of AS2 and why you might need it for your business. In order to transact through AS2, you’ll need an AS2 server. In this article, we will…
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What are the benefits of AS2 file transfers?
Since the start of the year, we’ve been seeing a dramatic rise in interest for AS2 from businesses across the board. AS2 is commonly used in enterprise B2B transactions. So why are more businesses,…
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Monitor & respond to copy file events
In a previous post, we showed how you can monitor Move File events and respond to them with an appropriate trigger action(s). You can perform these types of operations on Copy File events as…
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Moving data across a hybrid cloud doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg
One of the technical challenges IT admins face with hybrid cloud environments is how to move data between their organization’s on-premise data center and whichever public cloud(s) it’s paired with. This post introduces an…
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How to monitor moved files without using directory monitors
There are times when, as part of a business process, you’d want to monitor files that have been moved from one directory to another. Once a particular file is moved, you might want to…
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Introducing the redesigned trigger action workflow
Last time, we introduced you the new Trigger Conditions Expression Builder, one of the new features that came with the recently released JSCAPE MFT Server v12. But that’s not the only new thing you’ll…
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Introducing the new trigger conditions expression builder
In later versions of JSCAPE MFT Server, you’ll find a graphical Expression Builder in the Trigger Conditions step of the Triggers module. It’s designed to make writing trigger conditions much easier and faster. Let…
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How to import & export triggers
If you’ve been using JSCAPE MFT Server, you know how important triggers are in automating business processes. In fact, many of our customers have hundreds of triggers (some even have over a thousand) running…
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Monitoring an amazon s3 folder and transferring newly added files to azure
When you have a multi-cloud infrastructure, there will be several instances when you’ll want to transfer data from one cloud platform to another. Perhaps you’d want to aggregate data, perform backups, carry out migrations,…
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How to download newly added files from an AWS s3 folder
Organizations with hybrid infrastructures consisting of cloud-based and on-premise solutions will usually need the ability to conduct automated data transfers between these two domains. JSCAPE MFT Server‘s extensive cloud integration features can be a…
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Set up automated file transfers with windows SMB share
One of the most common ways of transferring data between Windows servers is through the Server Message Block (SMB) network file sharing protocol. A lot of organizations, for instance, use it for exchanging data…
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How to schedule automated dropbox file transfers
The ability to perform automated file transfers to a cloud-based storage solution like Dropbox can be a valuable asset to businesses who want to benefit from the scalability and cost-efficiency of the cloud or…