OATS Secure Transport Upgrade
On April 16, 2018, FINRA will be upgrading Axway Secure Transport in the Production (PD) environment from the current version of 5.1 to version 5.3. These changes will be available in the Certificate Test (CT) environment on March 19, 2018. Order Sending Organizations transmitting to OATS via SFTP, FTP and IFT are strongly encouraged to test connectivity in the CT environment prior to the upgrade in Production. The chart below provides additional details of the upcoming change.
| Transmission Method | Details |
|---|---|
| IFT | OSOs connecting to ift.finra.org (PD), iftcert.finra.org (CT) or using a Secure Transport client are required to use the browsers supported by Axway Secure Transport 5.31 |
| SFTP | OSOs connecting to oats-sftp.finra.org (PD), oatstest-sftp.finra.org (CT) or using a Secure Transport client are required to use the client software supported by Axway Secure Transport 5.32 |
| FTP | OSOs connecting to oats-ftp.finra.org (PD), oatstest-ftp.finra.org (CT) or using a Secure Transport client are required to use the client software supported by Axway Secure Transport 5.32 |
| Web | No impact |
Please contact FINRA at the numbers below with any questions regarding this transition.
| Contact | Business and Technology Support | Technical Support Business Support |
|---|---|---|
| Telephone: | (800) 321-6273 | (800) 321-6273 |
| Fax: | (240) 386-6499 | (240) 386-4841 |
| Email: | FINRA Support Services | FINRA Support Services |
| Web: | FINRA.org | FINRA.org |
1. Axway Secure Transport 5.3 Supported Browsers
https://docs.axway.com/bundle/SecureTransport_536_WebClientUserGuide_allOS_en_HTML5/page/Content/STWebClientUserGuide/general/prerequisites.htm
2. Axway Secure Transport 5.3 Supported Clients
https://docs.axway.com/bundle/SecureTransport_536_AdministratorGuide_allOS_en_HTML5/page/Content/AdministratorsGuide/introduction/r_st_Axway_and_third-party_software_support.htm#Software