MFT Connections define the names and connection properties of the remote partner servers, and other data sources, that Informatica Managed File Transfer can interact with.
You create an MFT Remote Send Endpoint to use Informatica Managed File Transfer to receive files from the organization to a remote partner server. You create an MFT Remote Receive Endpoint for the organization to receive files from a remote partner server.
Before you create an MFT Remote Send or MFT Remote Receive endpoint, you create an MFT Connection. The MFT Connection defines how Informatica Managed File Transfer communicates with the remote partner server. The defined MFT Connections can be used with Informatica Managed File Transfer Remote endpoints by choosing the MFT Connection names from the project variables drop-down lists.