Re: How to determine if a file transfer is complete

Not knowing if there is such a thing as object locks in the ifs, i
could check the object size, wait 10 seconds, and if not increased
then process? just a thought. There have been programs posted either
here or RPG list to get file info on ifs files.
jim
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From: <michaelr_41@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 4:53 PM
Subject: RE: How to determine if a file transfer is complete


> Well...you could monitor the connection between their system and your
> system, and when it stopped, you could assume the file was there.
> Otherwise, there isn't a way that I know of to determine if a file has
> completed being transferred.
>
> I have a similiar issue with a trading partner, and ran into the same
> type of problem. I don't know if this solution would help, but we
> transfer the file (via FTP) with a .tmp extension, and then when the
> file is completely transferred, we rename the file to a .dat extension.
> That way if there are any files in a given directory with the extension
> of .dat, they know the file has completed being transferred.
>
> On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 13:42:51 -0700, "Bruce Barrett"
> <bruce.barrett@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> > We receive this file via FTP.
> >
> > Bruce Barrett
> >
> >
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> > michaelr_41@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 1:32 PM
> > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> > Subject: Re: How to determine if a file transfer is complete
> >
> > How is it sent?
> >
> > On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 13:23:34 -0700, "Bruce Barrett"
> > <bruce.barrett@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> > > We have one large file that is sent to us monthly, that goes to the
> > IFS.
> > > We then have an automated process to decrypt the file for internal
> > > processing.
> > > On this file only, the decryption process fails.  All I have to do is
> > to
> > > move the file from an archived folder back to the original folder and
> > > our automated processing will decrypt the file successfully.
> > > We think that this is a timing issue as this is the largest file we
> > > receive.  Our automated process runs every sixty seconds to check for
> > > files to process.  We can not increase the time between when this
> > > automated job runs.  All other files that we decrypt using these
> > > procedures process successfully the first time.
> > > Is there an API or a trick that we can use to verify that the file
> > > transfer is complete to the IFS before we try to decrypt the file?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Bruce Barrett
> > > PMI Mortgage Insurance Co.
> > > 3003 Oak Road
> > > Walnut Creek, CA 94597
> > > 925-658-6152
> > > Fax 925-658-6412
> > > Cell 510-520-4263
> > > bruce.barrett@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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