Re: Job Triggering on FTP Completion

The simplest is if you can get the vendor to send a tiny (1 byte?) file as the last file in the transfer. When that file exists they are done. Other options are for them to send the data file with a .tmp or .part extension and then rename it when done. Of course you could get more complicated and use APIs to watch for TCP connections from their address and monitor them but that's no fun either. I very much like the tiny 'flag file' option when I can convince the sender.

- Larry

On 1/7/2010 2:30 PM, Brian Piotrowski wrote:

Hi All,

Are there any processes or method in the 400 that will cause a job to be executed once an FTP job has been completed? We have one of our suppliers send us a series of FTP files that we process at a set time through the job scheduler. Although the file transfers end usually at a specific time, there are times where the file is delayed and it might not finish until later. We are looking to execute a processing job as soon as the last file is transferred to us. So with that said, what's the easiest way to accomplish this task?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks!

/b;

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