Product Overview

The WRAP File Enabler enables you to package native MCP-based files—along with their MCP attributes—as byte stream data files. This capability enables you to transport native MCP files across heterogeneous networks such as the Internet or corporate intranets while preserving their native file attributes. Once these files arrive back in the MCP Environment, you can use the unwrap facility of the MCP to restore them to their original format, as shown in the following figure.

General Features

You can use Microsoft Windows Explorer to download wrapped files from a share in the MCP Environment of a ClearPath server onto your workstation. From there, you can send the files across a network as an e-mail attachment, burn them onto a CD-ROM, or put them on a Web server. When you reload these files onto an MCP server, they can be restored to their native MCP formats. There is no difference between the original source file and the restored destination file.

This product also handles compression and encryption.

The ability to wrap and unwrap files provides you with the following advantages:

Wrapping Files

Transporting multiple files is easy. You can wrap these files into “containers,” which are then sent as a single entity across a network. To copy files back into the MCP Environment, you can restore either individual files or multiple files from a container.

You can wrap or unwrap files programmatically through MCP program interfaces or through the use of Work Flow Language (WFL) syntax.

Creating Reports and Interrogating File Attributes

You can create reports on the contents of a container through the use of the SYSTEM/FILEDATA utility. You can also use the FILEDATA LFILE command to determine the attributes of the native MCP Environment file stored within the wrapped file.

Security

If security is a consideration, you can use a private key to add a digital signature to the file during the wrapping process. The digital signature must be verified on the receiving host prior to restoring the file to its native MCP file format. A digital signature ensures that files are not altered during the transfer process.

Ordering Information

Source code is not available for this product. The WRAP File Enabler is also included in the Heritage Host Services and Native File Transfer products.

The unwrap facility is an inherent feature of the MCP for all ClearPath servers.

Product Information

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