Re: monitor for the existence of a file on the IFS

Rick, Simple

Subsystem Prestart Job,   CLLE waits xxx seconds,  Calls RPGIV program,  It
does a opendir on a directory name,  then does a readdir on the directory,
Calls Stat for each of the files,  Looks at the creation/modified date,  If
it's new,  Call program to CPY it to where you want it.

If you want sample of RPGIV opendir, readdir, stat send me a private email.

I wrote a IFS logging utility for my shop that takes a snapshot each month
of the Whole IFS and tracks trends by directory.  (sizes, owners, etc.)

Snapshot could be run anytime to diagnose problems like "Where'd the heck
did the disk space go over night?"

John Carr
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Hey all,

I'm looking for a way to have an NEP batch job periodically (say, every 5
min or so) monitor for the existence of a file (any file, any name) in a
specific folder on the IFS.

what I want to do is to monitor for a situation - a user moves/copies a
file into a folder on the ifs - and have that action start a process where
the as/400 uploads the file, deletes it off the ifs and processes the file.

most if this stuff is pretty basic, but the piece i'm clueless about is how
an rpg program (or clp, or whatever) can go looking for files in the IFS,
without knowing the name.  The file could be named anything, but then I
will need to determine that name so I can upload it to the 400 (via
cpyfrmimpf).

any ideas?

thanks,

Rick