Configuring the Redistributable Managed File Transfer Agent

Configure the optionally provided Redistributable Managed File Transfer Agent to connect to an existing IBM® MQ infrastructure and enable users to transfer files without installing IBM MQ to get the Managed File Transfer functionality.

Before you begin

Redistributable Managed File Transfer Agent provides the functionality of Managed File Transfer with these exceptions:

• Bindings mode connection to the coordination, command, and agent queue managers, is not supported, you must use client mode connection. When you are issuing commands, you must provide the parameters that are optional when you are using the Managed File Transfer that is installed as part of IBM MQ: queue manager host, port, name, and channel name.
• The following commands are not included:
  • fteCreateCDAgent.cmd
  • fteCreateLogger.cmd
  • fteDeleteLogger.cmd
  • fteMigrateLogger.cmd
  • fteSetLoggerTraceLevel.cmd
  • fteShowLoggerDetails.cmd
  • fteStartLogger.cmd
  • fteStopLogger.cmd
  For a complete list of available commands, see Installed MFT command sets.
• Managed File Transfer Connect:Direct® is not supported.
• IBM MQ Explorer is not included.

You must install the following Microsoft libraries on your system to use Redistributable Managed File Transfer Agent:

• Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable 2008
• Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable 2012

These libraries are available from Microsoft. See The latest supported Visual C++ downloads.

1. Download the Redistributable Managed File Transfer Agent package from IBM Fix Central.
   1. Choose the package for your operating system:
      • 9.0.1.0-IBM-MQFA-Redist-Win64
      • 9.0.1.0-IBM-MQFA-Redist-LinuxX64
      • 9.0.1.0-IBM-MQFA-Redist-LinuxS390X
      • 9.0.1.0-IBM-MQFA-Redist-LinuxPPC64LE
   2. Identify the directory where you want to extract the package, for example:
      • C:\MFTZ
      • /home/MFTZ
2. Extract the contents of the downloaded package:
   • Use the Windows Explorer tools to extract.
   • Extract and untar as follows:

     gunzip 9.0.1.0-IBM-MQFA-Redist-LinuxX64.tar.gz

     and then

     tar xvf 9.0.1.0-IBM-MQFA-Redist-LinuxX64.tar

   The following directories are created:

   • bin: Contains all the required MFT commands
   • bin64: Contains required libraries that are needed for Windows 64-bit OS support
   • java: Contains the IBM JRE and IBM MQ libraries
   • licenses: Contains the license files
   • mqft: Contains ant and lib directories that are required for Ant support and for core MFT function support
   • swtag: Contains swidtag file that is required by license managers to identify the installations on the machine