• Importing Putty SSH Private Keys

    • September 26, 2022
    • kbcswpadmin

    Diplomat MFT can import SSH KeyPairs for use with SFTP communications. Under some conditions, you might have to reformat your existing SSH KeyPair in order to import into Diplomat MFT, which uses the “OpenSSH” format for import. If Diplomat MFT cannot import an SSH KeyPair for you, please open that…

  • SFTP Performance

    • August 25, 2022
    • kbcswpadmin

    Overview The SFTP protocol is very thorough in verifying data integrity. A file transfer involves taking a portion of the file, referred to as a “packet” (typically 32KiB), encrypting it, adding a signed checksum, and delivering the packet to the SFTP Server. Then, it waits for a verification of that…

  • Importing SSH Public Keys

    • July 27, 2022
    • kbcswpadmin

    Overview If you wish to import SSH public keys into Diplomat MFT (for example, to use as an authentication mechanism for an SFTP Server user), then those key files have to be in SSH2 format. This format is easy to discern because the file will begin with a line reading:…

  • How to set a finite query timeout for SQL Audit Database

    • July 23, 2022
    • kbcswpadmin

    Overview By default, the Microsoft SQL JDBC driver uses an infinite timeout for the execution of any query. This means that if you have any trouble with the back-end database (like deadlocks), Diplomat MFT will wait infinitely for any Audit queries to complete. In a situation such as this, the…

  • Customizing Slack and Teams notifications

    • July 8, 2022
    • kbcswpadmin

    Overview Diplomat MFT provides notifications for Transactions over Slack and/or Microsoft Teams. The default notification content is usually sufficient for customers, but sometimes more control over the content is desired. This article describes how to customize those notifications for Slack and/or Microsoft Teams. Properties File Diplomat MFT looks for the…

  • How to map network shares as drive letters for the Diplomat MFT Service account

    • June 28, 2022
    • kbcswpadmin

    Overview When selecting paths on the Diplomat MFT Admin interface, the admin user might wish to browse mapped drive letters in Diplomat MFT server. Drive letters can be mapped to physical storage volumes (hard drives, CD-ROM, SAN/NAS appliances, and so on) or they can be mapped to network shares. In…

  • How to set RECFM and LRECL on SFTP Server

    • May 3, 2022
    • kbcswpadmin

    When transferring files to an IBM OS, you often need to explicitly set the record format and/or logical record length of the uploaded data. These are options not typically encountered on Windows or Linux OS, but are very important for the IBM OS. If the SFTP server running on the…

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