You can journal the IFS but you need to process the journal. Same issue you currently have as far as resource.
Another option might be to have an FTP logon exit program that could wake up your monitor process. Still doesn't help with knowing the transfer is complete. Any chance the sender can send a "sentinel" file at end to let your program know it is done?
For a third-party we were sending to, I had a similar issue. They monitored for CSV files arriving so I transferred it with a "WIP" extension and then renamed it to CSV when done so they would not pick it up too soon.
It's been discussed here before....
http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/201402/msg00300.html
http://www.easy400.net/ifstool/html/ifstool.htm#C5
Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power
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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Paula Rice <paulajrice@xxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 2, 2016 3:49 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Automated Job Processing
We are trying to automate a job on the 400. I've done it in Windows, but
can't figure out how on the 400.
General idea is that anytime a file appears in a folder it triggers the
designated program to run. Only similar idea is to set a program to run
every few minutes to check the folder, but that is very system intensive for
files that may only be processed once a day. I'm also concerned about
making sure the file has been completely transferred as they are coming
through FTP. Don't want to start processing half a file.
Any suggestions/ideas would be appreciated.
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