Hi Howie,
Slow reply, lunch and a visit from our finance guy got in the way (the cost
of Cisco routers is scary these days) :-)
> > Just make the file format nice and easy to parse out with ColdFusion :-)
> >
>
>Example? The queue only holds the next delivery attempt date/time and the
>name of the control file...
OK, that is simple then. All you need is a decent, non-ambiguous delimiter
between the datetime and the name.
I'm just thinking back to when we used to get control files that were never
read, with a:
Start=20010605122201
Next=20010605122201
that just sat there. Does the control file have the original time or just
when it thinks the next delivery is?
As an aside that file I copied the times from is the original of a "95er".
We are still getting them occasionally with a control file in the queue
that is like so:
[Delivery]
Start=20010605122201
LastWarning=20010605122201
Next=20010605122201
Priority=5
and nothing else in the file, ie its a bit short :-) (95 is the length of
the file). We have an engine that parses the queue folder every so often
and deletes these and then the original control file gets copied across again.
> > Following on with your second post it probably would be a good idea to
> > (variably) restrict the size of the dump. Would it be possible to time sort
> > the queue and then have a startrow/maxrows type of thing? Maybe make the
> > semaphore file have content with the parameters in it.
> >
>
>The queue is sorted :-)
I had a feeling it was :^)
>I'm not sure how to do the startrow thing because the queue is dynamic so
>if you view the first 20 records, for example, and then
>decide to view the next 20 then the queue will more than likely have
>changed by then.
I was just thinking of a mechanism to keep the load off the server whilst
doing this. Possibly wanting to read the end of the file, not the
beginning, that sort of thing.
>Also, I would allocate this function to a
>background process that would not print this out immediately anyway.
Fair enuf.
--
Yours,
Kym
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