SFNA reason text and reason length

In Odette FTP, the Start File Negative Acknowledge (SFNA) and the Start File Positive Acknowledge (SFPA) commands are returned in response to a Start File Identification (SFID) request. The SFNA command is returned when the recipient system refuses permission to the sender system that is sending a file.

In Sterling B2B Integrator, the SFNA reason text (SFNAREAST) and the SFNA reason length (SFNAREASL) are included as part of the SFNA command. SFNAREAST provides the reason text for refusing permission to send a file. SFNAREASL provides the length of the SFNA reason text. SFNAREAST and SFNAREASL are supported only for OFTP version 2.0.

When a sender system receives an SFNA command from a recipient system, the corresponding SFNAREAST is displayed in the OFTP Advanced Queue Search page.

If a system initiates an OFTP session through a BP and receives an SFNA command from a recipient system, the corresponding SFNAREAST is displayed in the status report of the BP and the OFTP Advanced Queue Search page.

SFNA retry for each SFNA reason code is set in OdetteFTP.properties file. To modify the SFNA retry configuration, set the retry parameters to true or false, as required, in the customer_overrrides.properties file.