File Transfer Glossary

Welcome to the File Transfer Glossary, a complete collection of terms commonly used by IT operations and architects in and around the managed file transfer industry.

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Double Post - the act of sending a file in for processing twice on a production system. (More...)

Map - usually short for “transformation map“, which provides a standardized way to transform one document format into another through the use of pre-defined document definitions. (More...)

Non-Repudiation - the ability to prove beyond a shadow of doubt that a specific file, message or transaction was sent at particular time by a particular party from another party. (More...)

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