"McKown, John" wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > > Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 2:35 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Multiple FTP Problems > > > > > > In a recent note, McKown, John said: > > > > <snip> > > > > > > What about: > > > > put mainframe.file temp.output.file > > put empty.file output.file > > del output.file > > rename temp.output.file output.file > > > > Not perfect, but it reduces the timing window to the duration > > of transferring an empty file, and the Windoze side can be > > instructed to try again if: > > Interesting. That may be acceptable to the people who will make the > decision. Thanks. And the Windows people might even be convinced to > check for and ignore a file with 0 bytes. >
I don't know much about Windows, can it read the file while it is being updated? If not, why not APPEND the file rather than PUT. If the file doesn't exist it will be created, and if it does the data will be added to the end of it. Depending on how your processing works, maybe this isn't acceptable. Richard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
