Re: Automated Job Processing -- MIDRANGE-L

Have done exactly the same thing. The trick is to use journaling and set up
batch program that sits and awaits journal entries to arrive so that you
can process them,

The journal entry is not generated until the files closed so you never have
a problem with picking up a file that is in partial state.

I have source code I can send you that will wait for the journal entries to
arrive and process if you want. The only trick is to watch for duplicates.

What release level are you at if you request source code?

On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 4:28 PM, Roger Harman <roger.harman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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
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Sent: Monday, May 2, 2016 3:49 PM
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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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