Outbound Enterprise enables you to move data to the right place, in the right format
Multi-platform managed file transfer solution
Outbound Enterprise is a dynamic, multi-platform, managed file transfer product that enables you to transfer files of any record size or block size combination between disparate platforms.
Extensive compatibility
With Outbound Enterprise, you can run unattended data transfers between IBM-compatible, zSeries servers (z/OS, VSE, VM, and zLinux) and distributed platforms including Windows, Linux, Unix, and AS/400® systems. Outbound Enterprise supports transfers of DB2® tables and provides the ability to extract fields from DB2 databases and VSAM and QSAM data sets.
Outbound Enterprise:
Initiates transfers from a scheduler or an application program according to a prearranged schedule or as data becomes available
Records all activity by command in audit file records
Optionally compresses data — providing up to 90 percent compression
Checkpoint/Restart capability allows data transfers to be restarted from the point-of-failure, eliminating the need to restart the data transfer from the beginning
Server feature lets your users initiate transfers — ad hoc or predefined — right from their desktops. You can even embed transfers in Microsoft Word®, Excel®, Visual Basic® and C applications
Secures your file transfers with an interface to external security products such as RACF®
With Outbound Enterprise, you gain:
- Graphic Development Interface (GDI)
- Application modularity
- Suitability for decision making and knowledge-based applications
- No CGI programming or scripting language knowledge requirements
- Customized, end-user interface for deployment with a host of applications
- Compatible with outside programs and relational databases