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Status Delivered
Categories Design Studio
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 8, 2018

deploy (Integration Flow Designer + sdeploy.exe) only support FTP. Can support for SFTP be added ?

We are working with WTX 8.4.1 with launcher on AIX.  To deploy from Windows to AIX only FTP is supported in both sdeploy.exe and Integration Flow Designer. It would be more secure if SFTP could be chosen as protocol for transferring .mmc,.msl and user-files. 

What is your industry? Banking
How will this idea be used?

Our security officers really insist on only using secure protocols between servers as does our infrastructure provider IS4F (who is largely controlled by IBM). It would be nice if IBM's own products are compliant.