Physical Partner Contract

A Physical Partner Contract defines the OFTP communication link between a local Physical Partner and a remote Physical Partner identified by the Physical Partner Names.

OFTP communication parameters have to be defined in a bilateral agreement between you and your OFTP partner. The parameters can be automatically negotiated between you and your partner during establishing an OFTP session, such as the Odette API Level or the OFTP Exchange Buffer Size. Both Local and Remote Physical Partners must use the same communication mode (IP or CAPI).

Local and Remote Physical Partner must not be identical. If you want to create a loopback scenario where local and remote partners reside on the same system, create two different Physical Partner Contracts with crossed Local and Remote Physical Partner names.