TIXstream MFT User Guide

Click Transfer. In File Selection choose a configured source directory. Select one or more files and add them to the job by clicking the > icon.

In section Metadata you can optionally add metadata. Here a metadata file can be imported or text can be entered.

In section Peer Selection, you can specify the destination including receiver node and share (one of its available file system locations). Click > to add the selected recipients of the job. If recently added systems are not visible, they should be available as receivers after you click Refresh (circular arrow). Unreachable systems are listed as Offline Nodes.

In section Execution a meaningful short description can be entered and the transfer can be created for example using queue option Now for immediate execution.

In the Dashboard tab, status and progress of transfer jobs can be monitored. A job for immediate execution usually appears in the tab In Progress after a few seconds. When the transfer has finished successfully, it can be found in the corresponding Completed tab (if necessary after clicking the Refresh icon).

When a transfer could not be completed because of system or network errors, it usually appears in the Waiting tab, since it is automatically rescheduled for later execution when the root cause of the error has been resolved.

The dashboard provides an overview of recent incoming and outgoing transfer jobs within a table. Separately, the receive queue, i.e. the list of upcoming transfer jobs to be received, is displayed.

With the tabs located above the transfer list you can select the status of a job that should to be displayed:

For transfers the following information is displayed in the corresponding columns. Depending on the actual table the respective relevant elements are:

When you select a transfer by clicking on its table row, depending on the selected transfer list, transfer status, transfer direction and user role, various actions are available in drop-down menu (Actions):

In the receive queue:

In the search box you can enter text and filter the job list by clicking Refresh (⇄). With the checkboxes outgoing and incoming you can show or hide corresponding jobs.

In tables Completed and Canceled as well well as in the history, you can select multiple transfers and take actions, such as Delete. Clicking on a row selects the corresponding transfer, click again to undo the selection.

A transfer can basically only be created at the sending system. In TCC this is typically done in four steps that can be executed by a click on the corresponding item. A final click on Create (bottom right) creates the transfer job, which is then transmitted to the receiving system. It is started by the receiver depending on the configured execution time and according to available resources at sender and receiver.

In history view all completed and aborted transfer jobs are displayed. Here you can also filter by date and time (from – to). Tick checkbox Updated to use the time of the last change of the transfer jobs instead of the start time for this range.

In the overview following information is displayed:

Here, too, actions are available from the pop-up menu for the selected jobs.

You can select multiple jobs and execute actions, such as Delete. Clicking on a row selects the corresponding job, click again to undo the selection. With the key combination Ctrl-A all transfers displayed are selected at once ("select all").

To inspect several details of a transfer job, select a transfer job from the dashboard or the history and click Show.

Here additional job information are displayed. If the transfer status permits, some data can be modified. To do so, click the pencil icon at the top right. The pencil icon becomes a disk icon and is used to apply (save) any changes.

The job ID is shown at the top.

The following information is available in the corresponding tabs:

A transfer job can take the following states. Details regarding state transitions and other technical information can be found in the API documentation.