Making a connection

Day 4

For a quick test of the connection you can double click on the “Send/Receive File” in the left hand pane of the C:D Requester. You should be presented with something that looks like this:

In the main tab here you can see the key information for the test transfer. The SNODE is the secondary node i.e. the other node called “CD.REMOTE” in my example. The location of the file to transfer is next, and then the destination file name. 

It would be a good idea to agree on the destination file name with your corresponding number in charge of the other Connect:Direct node. This is so there are no surprises, like overwriting an important file or accidentally having your file processed. Ideally the file being transferred should not contain any actual data, and the name of the file should make it clear that it is not a data file. The other node can be configured to have a default download directory that is separate from any real data directories if his system is a production machine.

The Connect:Direct administrator of the other node will need to know which user name you are using for the Connect:Direct process so he can configure his system to allow your transfer to go through. You will probably already know who you are logged on as, but it is also displayed in the bottom right hand corner of the Connect:Direct Requester application window.

For now press the “OK” button and you should see something like the next image on your display:

Here you can see that the bottom horizontal pane in the Requester is showing a Connect:Direct process called “SENDRECV” from a node called “NICKE” to another node called “CD.REMOTE”. The “Status” & “Queue” columns may change quickly. In this screen above you see the process is pending execution. When the process finishes the “Status” & “Queue” will be blank as the process is no longer running and therefore is not in a queue.

The question is though was it successful or not? Double click on the 'Select Statistics' in the left pane and select a time period and press enter. You will see a lot of horrible information. The good news is that you are only really interested in the column labelled 'CC' which stands for 'Condition Code' which should be 0 if everything is OK. 

The rows that you are interested in are those that have a RecID column of 'CTRC' which stands for Copy Termination ReCord. If you see the row that is associated with your process number when you submitted the process when you clicked 'OK' on the 'Send/Receive File' form, you can double click it to get all details of the transfer. 

You can scroll down to see source/destination file names bytes transferred etc. So hopefully now you have proved that you can send a file to the other side.