To Create a Custom Heuristics Configuration File

1. Using a text editor, create a user defined configuration file containing the property settings required to interface with your target platform. You can do this by copying a section (style) from the FtpHeuristics.cfg file that is similar to the style (platform parameter settings) that you are creating, or you can copy the format provided under Heuristics Configuration File Format.

2. Save your user defined configuration, as a CFG file, to a safe location on the application server.

3. From the BatchFTP Environment properties, select the FTP ⇒ User Defined Heuristics Configuration File property, and enter the location and name of your user defined heuristics configuration file (for example C:\USER_DEFINED_HEURISTICS\UDH.cfg).

4. From the BatchFTP Connectivity Map properties, select FTP ⇒ User Defined Directory Listing Style, and enter the name of your user-named style (for example MY AS400-UNIX). You are allowed to list one user-named style. This style is now the configured Directory Listing Style, superseding the value of the Directory Listing Style property.

   You can use this method to create multiple user-named styles by adding the styles to your user defined configuration file, and entering the different user defined style names in the Connectivity Map properties for each of your various FTPBatch component Adapters.

   You can also create multiple user defined configuration files if necessary, but this requires the creation of additional BatchFTP External Systems in the Environment. If you chose this method, you must copy your Environment components (drag-and-drop) to the correct BatchFTP External System before applying Automap.