Re: Process FTP Output log

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Don't bother...

Instead use Scott Klement's FTP API project to send the files.  You'll have
much better control and feedback during the process.
http://www.scottklement.com/ftpapi/


Charles





On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Gary Thompson <gthompson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I am looking for a quick way to process output FTP session
> "logs".
>
> We have a "never-ending" job which monitors for customer
> deliveries which are ready and creates and sends an EDI 856
> ASN (actually an imitation) via FTP.
>
> One need is to know if the FTP was successful.
>
> This job creates two spool files for each FTP step, one with input
> commands and the other with output.  During the course of a day
> there are over 200 of these files so I need to read the most recent
> FTP output spool, which can be identified by the three parts of file:
> Name,  Device or Queue and User Data.
>
> My current idea is to scan for 'bytes transferred'
>
> I've worked with spool API's but not here and not for some time but
> a link to the API name and any/all hints will be much appreciated.
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