Re: Best options for polling a file

Pascal,

You could have a trigger program on the file fire when a record is added to
the file.  All the trigger program does is a SMBJOB of the processing job.
This gets a new processing job started up whenever records get added.  You
do have a trigger program and a job queue but no use of data/message/MQ
queues.

Your submitted processing job can just process the one record that caused it
to get submitted (possible problem if it's ever cancelled on the job queue)
or it can process all possible records available on the file.  If you
process all possible records available then subsequent submitted jobs would
find no records and end up doing nothing.  Put these submitted processing
jobs on a single threaded dedicated job queue so you don't get more than one
processing job active at a time.

Paul