RE: Force refresh on Netserver Shared Folder on Windows

[Richard Schoen <Richard.Schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I suppose FTP is a workaround. Definitely more reliable than IFS shares 😊

Better yet, have them fix their code.  I don't ever fully trust the File System Watcher events which I suspect they are using. 

They have always been problematic on regular Windows shares and I would suspect with IFS for shares as well since NetServer has always been a sub-par file sharing mechanism.

FWIW - I recommend listing the directory at each pass. Very fast and most likely eliminates the problem every time.

Regards,


Richard Schoen 
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date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 12:11:59 -0500
from: Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Force refresh on Netserver Shared Folder on Windows

Thanks, Richard.

It's a 3rd party redaction app running as a service on the PC.

Normally for other projects we used QNTC and it worked fine, but we wanted to try something easier.  The PC application guys are looking into what they can do.  I'm surprised it doesn't work though... their software watches a directory for a new file to process.  Apparently their app is doing something odd or different to trigger the process when it sees a new file (which, as mentioned, is a Netserver share on the IFS of the IBM i).



Bradley V. Stone
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On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Richard Schoen < Richard.Schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It seems that your PC app might be based on the FileSystem watcher 
> event perhaps ? What PC app are you using ?
>
> If it's something you coded yourself, just list the files yourself as 
> any good polling app would do and problem solved.
>
> Regards,
>
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