RE: Commitment control

Hi,

On 22 Jul 2003 at 9:11, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Let me guess what the application is:
> Customer ftp's a file to you.  This is on your iSeries in your DMZ.
> Your primary iSeries, outside of your DMZ, polls for the existance of this 
> file.  And tries to read it.
> You have no control over header records to another file, etc because the 
> data is EDI format, and the header is written first, etc.

Nice, but wrong ;)

Headquarter wants to know where all the goods are world-wide. So, when a 
shipment between 
locations arrives, it will be booked into the shipment file. HQ polls all 
locations shipment files 
and updates its global database. Naturally, different locations have different 
software 
environments.

We have no control over HQ's software, so we have to keep it as simple as 
possible. We 
already FTP other stuff to them, and that is complicated enough. They send a 
warning e-mail 
when they didn't get a file - ok. But they also send these e-mails on sat- and 
sunday, when we 
don't send any files. We never got them to stop these useless mails.

I was just wondering if we could use Commit control like my colleague suggested.

Regards,

Oliver