With file transfer advisor (FTADV) any SFTP client, on any platform, can tell the Tectia z/OS SFTP server exactly how to process and handle the file transfer. A lot like SITE commands, FTADV works the same no matter what platform the client runs on.

In the following sections we describe two different ways to take advantage of FTADV for you convenience: entering the FTADV data directly into the file transfer command, or using file transfer profiles in the FTADV configuration file.