Re: Start a job based on a file being placed in a directory in the IFS

Louis,
I looked at the MONIFS program and it will retrieve one record from the
QAUDRJN each time it is called and put it in a data file.
I was looking for a method that would notify me that a file was created in
a specific folder and that the file was complete.

Is there any simple way to determine this?

Thanks,



On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Luis Rodriguez <luisro58@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jeff,

The guys a www.easy400.net have some utilities for the IFS (free, open
source, etc) under the name of IFSTOOLS. One of those routines is called
MONIFS, which works like Alan explained.

HTH,

Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert — eServer i5 iSeries
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On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Jeff Young <jyoung0950@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Alan,
Could send me a sample of how that would work?
How would I setup the journal? Do I just specify the folder name?

Thanks,

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

The simplest way I know to do this with journaling. You journal the
directory and you submit a job to execute the command RCVJRNE that
waits for files to be added. When this are added you get a record into
your program that you can process. Never any concerns about a partial
file.

Used on a previous job. Have code if you are interested.

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Jeff Young <jyoung0950@xxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

All,
Is there any way to automaticaly start a job based on when a file is

placed

in a directory on the IFS?
I have a client that will be uploading a file from an external system

(MS

SQL Server) and they would like to have a batch job startup on the i

when

the file is uploaded.
I know that I can have a program monitor the directory by reading the
directory and when the file is present, fire off the batch job, but

is

there an easier method? If not, how can I determine that the file

upload

has completed before I start the batch job?

All suggestions will be appreciated.

Thanks,


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