Using ibm mq in managed file transfer environments final

© 2015 IBM Corporation
AME-2285: Using IBM MQ
in Managed File Transfer
Environments
Leif Davidsen
Senior Product Manager
IBM Messaging

Files and file content are in every part of the
enterprise
• Businesses and their applications use files across their
infrastructure to store valuable data
• Where the data is created is not always where it needs to be
consumed
• Files and file contents need to be moved to deliver value
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How do most organizations move files today?
• FTP
• Typically File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is combined with writing
and maintaining homegrown code to address its limitations
• Why is FTP use so widespread?
• FTP is widely available – Lowest common denominator
• Promises a quick fix – repent at leisure
• Simple concepts – low technical skills needed to get started
• FTP products seem “free”, simple, intuitive and ubiquitous
• Legacy File Transfer products
• A combination of products often used to provide silo solutions
• Often based on proprietary versions of FTP protocol
• Can’t transport other forms of data besides files
• Usually well integrated with B2B but rarely able to work with the
rest of the IT infrastructure – especially with SOA
• People
• From IT Staff to Business staff and even Security Personnel
• Using a combination of email, fax, phone, mail, memory keys…
Most organizations rely on a mix of home-grown code,
several legacy products and different technologies … and
even people!

Shortcomings of Basic FTP
Limited
Flexibility
Limited
Security
Limited visibility
and traceability
Limited
Reliability
 Unreliable delivery – Lacking
checkpoint restart – Files can
be lost
 Transfers can terminate
without notification or any
record – corrupt or partial
files can be accidentally used
 File data can be unusable
after transfer – lack of
Character Set conversion
 Often usernames and
passwords are sent with file –
as plain text!
 Privacy, authentication and
encryption often not be
available
 Non-repudiation often lacking
 Transfers cannot be monitored and managed
centrally or remotely
 Logging capabilities may be limited and may only
record transfers between directly connected systems
 Cannot track the entire journey of files – not just from
one machine to the next but from the start of its
journey to its final destination
 Changes to file transfers often require updates to many
ftp scripts that are typically scattered across machines
and require platform-specific skills to alter
 All resources usually have to be available concurrently
 Often only one ftp transfer can run at a time
 Typically transfers cannot be prioritized

FTP introduces risks in data movement
Process Risk
 Delays in transferring files impacts
collaboration with customers/partners
 Integration files that are delayed impact SLAs
 Failure of file delivery impacts the processes
themselves
Security Risk
 Data encryption and governance of sensitive
information transmitted in files
 Inability to apply corporate security policies to
person-initiated file transfers
 No visibility over the type and sensitivity of the
data being transferred
 No ability to support audit requirements
IBM’s Managed File Transfer solution addresses all of these risks

Who benefits from Managed File Transfer
• Application Owners
• Producers and consumers of data held in files
• Application developers likely to own files, own code and own existing file transfer
mechanisms
• Increase reliability, improved timely access to data
• Infrastructure owners
• Currently provide connectivity between systems, through middleware solutions
• Provide technical expertise to assist application owners
• Reduce recurring error handling and recovery, leverage middleware tools
• CxOs
• Need to improve productivity of staff and IT
• Speed up business performance without impacting security
• Customers
• Less risk of loss or exposure of data
• Improved business effectiveness and better, more accurate fulfilment

IBM MFT Vision
Accelerate and simplify governance of the growing volume of business-
critical data movement within and beyond the enterprise with Smarter MFT
Maximize the agility and performance of dynamic business networks by reducing
the complexity, risk, and cost of file transfer
Visibility
•Single view of transfer activity
•Transaction and business monitoring
•Dashboards, analytics, and scorecards
Usability & Management
•Persona-based, easy-to-use interfaces
•Unified control and configuration of
infrastructure
•Community on-boarding and coordination
Universal
•Any transport, any protocol, and any
partner
•Global and cloud-enabled deployment
•Broad platform coverage and industry
standards
Security & Performance
•Assured delivery and high availability
•Protection of file data in transit and at rest
•Accelerated transport and low latency
Connectivity
•Integration with BPM to drive business processes
•Leveraging ESBs to enable service orientation
•SOA Registry/Repository for lifecycle governance

Comprehensive IBM Managed File Transfer
Monitor file transfer activity & SLAs
IBM® Sterling Control Center
Peer-to-peer file transfers via file
system
IBM® Sterling Connect:Direct®
Message Centric
Transfers
MQ MFT
Scope of this presentation
• A single packaged offering for IBM Managed File Transfer
• Sterling Connect:Direct and Sterling Control Center are packaged with
IBM MQ Managed File Transfer as WebSphere Managed File Transfer
• IBM MQ Advanced also includes these additional capabilities
B2B Onboarding and file transfer via
mailboxing
IBM® Sterling File Gateway
Cloud service for B2B file exchange
IBM® Sterling File Transfer Service

IBM offers comprehensive MFT Capabilities
 IBM MQ Managed File Transfer provides file
transfer optimized for data delivery across IBM MQ
networks
 Sterling Connect Direct provides peer-to-peer file
transfer optimized for data delivery within and
between enterprises across Connect:Direct
protocol
 Sterling Control Center Manage file transfer
activity across your file transfer servers including
Connect:Direct, FTP, MQ MFT and Sterling File
Gateway
Addressing multiple use cases and scenarios for both internal and multi-
enterprise file transfer

MQ V8 Advanced – Universal Messaging including
Managed File Transfer
WebSphere Managed
File Transfer
All functions available
for one single price
Sterling C:D
Sterling C:C
MQ V8
MQ Telemetry
MQ AMS
MQ MFT
Sterling C:D
Sterling C:C
MQ MFT
MQ Advanced V8
 Enterprise Messaging with publish/subscribe and
queuing for any application, on any OS, using
any language
 Connects applications reliably and securely to
send data anywhere to any solution
 Extends application messaging to Mobile,
Internet of Things and Managed File Transfer
 Single, simplified licensing to provide all the
capabilities to connect the business, and
maximize data value
 Do more with your MQ investment, lowering
operational overheads, and raising efficiencies
 Ensures all possible functions and capabilities
are available instantly to allow the business to
respond faster to changing needs
 Moves data from anywhere to anywhere with
included end to end monitoring and management
MQ Advanced V8
Available as WebSphere Managed File
Transfer Service, or WebSphere Managed
File Transfer Managed Endpoints

A consolidated transport for both files and messages
• Traditional approaches to file transfer
result in parallel infrastructures
• One for files – typically built on FTP
• One for application messaging – based on
IBM MQ, or similar
• High degree of duplication in creating
and maintaining the two
infrastructures
• MQ MFT reuses the MQ network for
managed file transfer and yields
• Operational savings and simplification
• Reduced administration effort
• Reduced skills requirements and
maintenance
File Transfers
Application
Messaging
Consolidated Transport
for Messages & Files

Applications exchanging file data
Components of a typical MQ MFT network
 Agents
– The endpoints for
managed file transfer
operations
 Commands
– Send instructions to agents
 Log database or file
– A historical record of file
transfers
 Coordination queue manager
– Gathers together file
transfer events
IBM MQ
Agent Agent Agent
“Coordination”
Queue Manager
Commands Log database
or file

Log database
or file
Agents
 Act as the end points for file
transfers
 Long running MQ applications that
transfer files by splitting them into
MQ messages
– Efficient transfer protocol avoids
excessive use of MQ log space or
messages building up on queues
 Multi-threaded file transfers
– Can both send and receive
multiple files at the same time
 Generate a log of file transfer
activities which is sent to the
“coordination queue manager”
– This can be used for audit
purposes
 Associated with one particular
queue manager (or MQ Appliance)
 Agent state on queues
IBM MQ
Agent Agent Agent
“Coordination”
Queue Manager
Commands

Log database
or file
Commands
 Send instructions to agents
and display information about
agent configuration
– Via MQ messages
 Many implementations of
commands:
– MQ Explorer plug-in
– Command line programs
– Open scripting language
– JCL
– Documented interface to
program to
IBM MQ
Agent Agent Agent
“Coordination”
Queue Manager
Commands

Log Database & File
 Keeps a historical account of
transfers that have taken place
– Who, where, when… etc.
 Implemented by the ‘logger’
component which connects to the
coordination queue manager
– Stand alone application
- Can log to database or file
– Or JEE application
- Can log to database only
 Queryable via Web Gateway
– Also a documented interface
IBM MQ
Agent Agent Agent
“Coordination”
Queue Manager
Commands Log database
or file

Log database
or file
Coordination Queue Manager
 Gathers together information
about events in the file transfer
network
 Not a single point of failure
– Can be made highly available
– Messages stored + forwarded
 MQ publish / subscribe
– Allows multiple log databases,
command installs
– Documented interface
IBM MQ
Agent Agent Agent
“Coordination”
Queue Manager
Commands

Log database
or file
MQ MFT and the MQ Appliance
 The MQ Appliance can be the Queue
Manager to provide both regular MQ
Queue Manager capabilities
 No other MQ deployment needed
 Also Coordination Queue Manager
capabilities
 No files are stored on the appliance
 No MQ MFT Agent needed on
appliance to support this
 Highly available and robust
 Secure with MQ AMS entitlement
built in
– Content encrypted based on policies
IBM MQ
Agent Agent Agent
“Coordination”
Queue Manager
Commands

Example usage of monitoring + program execution
1. Application writes
file to file
system
Existing
Application
MQ
MFT
Agent
MQ
MFT
Agent
Existing
Application
2. Agent monitors file
system, spots arrival
of file and based on
rules, transfers the file
3. MFT transports file
to destination
4. At destination MQ MFT
writes file to file system
5. MFT can also start another
application to process the file

Securing file data with SSL and IBM MQ AMS
 MQ MFT supports transport
level encryption using SSL
 Data is encrypted before it is
sent over a channel and
decrypted when it is received
IBM
MQ
Queue
Manager
IBM
MQ
Queue
Manager
svrconn
channel
sndr/rcvr
channels
IBM
MQ
Queue
Manager
IBM
MQ
Queue
Manager
svrconn
channel
sndr/rcvr
channels
 When combined with MQ
Advanced Message Security
– Allows file data to be encrypted
at the source system and only
decrypted when it reaches the
destination system
– Data is secure even when at
rest on a queue
Agent Agent
Agent
Agent
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Handling both files and messages across MQ MFT
One file to one message
MQ
MFT
One file to a group of messages
One message to one file
A group of messages (or all messages on the queue) to one file
• File can be split based on:
• Size
• Binary delimiter
• Regular expression
• One message becomes one file
• Optionally, a delimiter can be
inserted between each message
used to compose the file
• One file becomes one message
MQ
MFT
MQ
MFT
MQ
MFT

Universal
messaging
backbone
IBM MQ Advanced V8 Architecture Summary
WebSphere Managed File Transfer
(Includes MQ MFT, Sterling C:D,
Sterling C:C)
• End-to-end audit trail across file transfers
• Reliable and efficient transfer of file data
regardless of size
• Centralized monitoring of transfer events and
management of transfers
MQ Advanced Message Security
 Signs and encrypts data sent over MQ
to provide privacy and integrity
IBM MQ
 Scalable, reliable, and efficient transport
for data
File-to-File
Message-to-File
File-to-Message
Message Level
Security
Mobile & M2M
Messaging
IBM MQ Telemetry
 Lightweight, low power, low bandwidth
messaging to mobiles and sensors

A grocery retailer
IBM messaging backbone delivers transaction data to central hub in
near-real time
The need:
At this company, transaction data from more than 2,400 grocery stores
reached a central data warehouse via daily batch transfers, delaying
analysis and hampering theft prevention efforts.
The solution:
The company implemented an integrated message queuing
infrastructure that can transfer data from any store endpoint to the
central hub in near-real time
IBM MQ MFT software transfers files between the central hub and the
stores’ ESBs and in turn to other endpoint applications in the store.
The benefit:
 Dramatically reduces time between customer transaction in
store and data reaching data warehouse
 Provides a rock-solid messaging integration engine in a small footprint
 Delivers a reliable infrastructure for transaction data and
file-based information
“WebSphere Message
Broker is rock-solid. It has
a relatively small footprint,
and it is a world-class
integration engine.”
—A software engineer,
grocery retailer
Solution components:
Software
 IBM® Integration Bus
(formerly known as
IBM WebSphere®
Message Broker)
 IBM MQ
 IBM MQ Managed File
Transfer

networks
protocol
Gateway
Addressing multiple use cases and scenarios for both internal and multi-enterprise file transfer

IBM® Sterling Connect:Direct
• What it does
– High volume, large size, mission-critical file transfers
– Automation, retry-restart, for unattended operation, with never breached security
• What it allows clients to do
– Move files with confidence and upgrade unreliable, unsecured FTP
– Handle growth in data volume and size without increase in staff
• How do I know I need it?
– Regulatory, industry, or company security/compliance requirements continue to grow
– Business operations require assured delivery of critical data
Reliable and high performance solution for secure, point-to-point,
bulk data transfers
Peer-to-peer file transfers
IBM® Sterling Connect:Direct®

Detail: IBM® Sterling Connect:Direct
• MFT solution using peer-to-peer file transfer to move data across the
enterprise and between trading partners
• Remediates FTP and failed audits by adding security, monitoring, and
reliability without replacing FTP scripts
• High-volume, bulk data transfers for corporate-to-bank and financial
data connectivity
• Data movement across a broad range of platforms, including
mainframe, midrange, and distributed
• Small footprint, robust integration with 3rd party schedulers, and rapid
deployment

Trading Partner
Integrating IBM Sterling Connect:Direct and IBM MQ MFT
MFT
Audit
Agent
IBM MQ
Agent Agent
C:D
Bridge
Agent
C:D
Node
C:D
Node
C:D
Node
C:D
Node
C:D
Audit
Reference
Inside the MFT audit trail…
The audit information for each MFT transfer
references related C:D audit information
 The Connect:Direct Bridge
capability supports managed file
transfers that span MFT and
C:D with a joined up audit trail

Bridging MQ and C:D networks at a large
publisher
Solution architecture for a large publisher using the C:D bridge as a way to consolidate its IT
infrastructure while still retaining the communication protocols used to communicate with
partners
MQ
Pain Points
 Existing solution is a hodgepodge of
different data transports from different
vendors
 Difficult to integrate existing applications,
built on MQ messaging, with file data
arriving from business partners
IBM’s MFT suite helps
 Bridge the MQ and C:D environments
 Leverage existing MQ skills and investment
 Message-to-file and file-to-message
 End-to-end visibility of files and messages
 Modernize batch applications
 Modernize MFT with RESTful Web 2.0
interfaces
Internal connectivity standardized
on an MQ-backbone
Existing MQ applications
Customer #1
Customer #2
Customer #n
…
C:D bridge
Customers
request that
publications
can be
submitted to
the publisher
via the C:D
protocol
Publisher
28

networks
protocol
Gateway

Delivering higher levels of service for key integration and transfer services
• What it does
• Consolidated logging, reporting, and analytics for all transfers and integration
processes
• Rule-driven service level management
• Alerts and notifications
• Configuration management
• How it is delivered
• Java-based solution for management and visibility of the file transfer and B2B
integration infrastructure
• Engine, agents, and user consoles
• Interfaces to existing system management tools

• What it allows customers to do
• Have visibility into all file transfer activity including Sterling Connect:Direct and
IBM MQ MFT from a central console
• React to transfer events before they impact SLAs
• Easily provide compliance reporting and mobile monitoring
• Central configuration management for Sterling Connect:Direct® servers
• How do I know I need it?
• Increasing numbers of transfers or B2B interactions are governed by SLAs
• Increasing compliance, governance and audit requirements
• Pressure to decrease IT operational cost for B2B or file transfer operations
• What differentiates IBM Sterling?
• Product specific knowledge of file transfer events, business processes and SLAs
to build rules around
• Access from mobile devices
• Scale and performance – test environment with moderately-sized hardware
performed well with 5K servers producing 540K processes and 4.3M events
per day

networks.
protocol
Gateway
Available together as WebSphere Managed File Transfer, or as Sterling
Connect:Direct Advanced. These entitlements are also combined inside the
IBM MQ Advanced offering

Adding MQ Managed File Transfer to your
infrastructure
• Key benefits and highlights
• Add reliability, manageability, security when moving your file
data
• Infrastructure team can manage a wider set of data movement
through a single middleware layer
• Speeds delivery of value to businesses from file-based assets
– File to message; message to file
– File to file transfer also available
– Also bridge to FTP
• Deploy flexibly throughout your infrastructure to match your MQ
environment
• Deploy MQ MFT agents where your files are
• Deploy MQ Advanced or MQ MFT Service on your MQ Queue
Managers
• Leverage the MQ Appliance to provide MQ services in a MFT
solution

1990s 2000s 2010s
V2 V5 V5.1 V5.3V5.2 V6 V7 V7.0.1V1.1
Multi-platform Managed
File Transfer
V7.1 V7.5
System Pattern
Application Pattern
MQI
Assured
delivery
Integrated
Messaging
Hypervisors
JMS 1.1
RCMS
Common criteria
Eclipse
HTTP
AJAX
REST
Web 2.0
.NET
SSL
SOAP
JMS
XML
Mobile
V2.1
Pub/sub
Multiple cluster
XMIT queue
Multi-instance
QMGR
20th
Anniversary
of MQ at
IMPACT
Timeline for MQ and Messaging product releases
V8
IBM MQ
Advanced for
Developers
IBM MQ
Advanced
IBM
MessageSight
IBM MQ
Advanced
Message
Security
IBM MQ
Managed File
Transfer
IBM MQ Low
Latency
IBM
MQSeries IBM MQTT
IBM MQ
Everyplace IBM MQ
Appliance

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