File Transfer from One unix box to other
Hi All,
A file exchange is required between a Pega application and a legacy application. As of now any feeder application which wants to interact with the pega application sends the file in a landing zone unix server. A third party tool named Control-M is used to read the file content, parse it. debulk it and loads into DB table. A pega agent picks up the entries from the DB table.
We would like to change this approach by processing the file within pega only without control-M.
Question- Does Pega provide any OOTB feature to locate a file from different server and bring it into the Pega server.
Key information-
1. Pega version 7.1.9
2. Web server in both Pega and the landing zone is Unix
3. The landing zone is not a FTP server
In case Pega does not support we have to use 3rd party tool for such interactions in future
Thanks
Sayak
Instellars
IN
Hi Sayak,
This is not supported OOTB currently but you can create an activity with a Java step. In it, you will have to write custom code to connect to the remote server, read the file and then save it locally.
Obviously, having a FTP will make things much easier as then you would be able to make use of apache commons library (org.apache.commons.net.ftp).
However, if you don't want to use FTP, then you can use "java.net.socket" implementing your own protocol as per the Unix server where the files are present.
Once done, you can create an agent and schedule it to run this activity as per your needs.