Chapter 1 HP FTAM/9000 Overview

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Open Systems Interconnection (OSI)
ISO/IS 8571 FTAM
Manufacturing Automation Protocol (MAP) 3.0
NBS (NIST) Implementors Agreements
Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement (PICS)

The Virtual Filestore (VFS)
Regimes
FTAM Communication
Document Types
FTAM File Structure Model

File Transfer, Access and Management (FTAM) is an international standard for transfer, access, and management of files in an open network. HP FTAM/9000 is an HP implementation of this standard; it offers the C language programmatic interface defined for MAP 3.0 FTAM, which in turn, provides you with the following capabilities.

Multivendor connectivity
Text and binary file transfers
File access (record level locate and read)
File management, including the following:
- File creation and deletion
- File attribute manipulation (read and change)
- Security mechanisms such as file locking, filestore passwords, and concurrency control, and file access control

Chapter 1 HP FTAM/9000 Overview

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