RE: Creater header/footer records for a physical file

I would think the easiest way would be with CPYFs.

On Wed, 12 May 2004 14:44:39 +0100, "McCallion, Martin"
<martin.mccallion@xxxxxxxxx> said:
> oliver.wenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote 
> 
> > one customer requires us to ftp a file with header/footer 
> > records, so he 
> > can see if the transfer
> > is complete.
> > 
> > What is the easiest way to insert a record at *top* of a 
> > physical file 
> > (without keys). Manually,
> > I create an empty file with a header record, then copy the 
> > actual file 
> > with *add, and then do the
> > footer record.
> 
> Short of writing a program to read and write all the records, I can't
> think
> of another way.  However, perhaps you could convince your customer to
> accept
> an alternative solution.  Instead of marker records _in_ the file (which
> would have to be removed by whatever application processes the file,
> adding
> complexity) write a pair of marker _files_.  They wouldn't have to have
> any
> data, just suitable names.  So your FTP script might have lines like
> this:
> 
>       put FTPSTART
>       put DATAFILE
>       put FTPFINISH
> 
> You might want to delete them first if they are already there, but if
> not,
> then their timestamps would show when the process last ran.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Martin.
> 
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