Re: FTP Question

On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 AprAlexa@aol.com wrote:

> Is there a way to tell the AS400 a file as been received on a separate
> server and is ready for processing?  I have a customer who will be
> sending me data via FTP to an NT Server.  Once the file is on the
> server I would like it to send something to the AS400 to tell it data
> has arrived so the AS400 can retreive the data and begin running the
> jobs. Any ideas? 

Hmmm...  It seems to me that your first problem is finding a way for the
NT server to realize it has received a file, and to send some sort of a
message to the AS/400.   Since I'm not an NT person (and this is not an
NT mailing list) I can't help you there.

Your next problem will be a way for the AS/400 to receive this message and
act upon it.   Without having addressed the first point, however, we can't
even BEGIN to address this point!

Without any concept of what you're able to do on the NT side, here's all
I can suggest:

1) Have the customer FTP directly to your AS/400, and use "quote rcmd"
     to kick off a program to process things.

2) Have a program run on the AS/400 that "polls" the FTP server to see if
     a new file has appeared.  (in other words, checks every few minutes)
     I've been developing a set of FTP APIs that could be used to do this
     in RPG quite easily.

     If that interests you, see:

     http://klement.dstorm.net/ftpapi/


Good Luck.


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