On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:15:23 -0600, McKown, John wrote:
>Good point on the rename. I have a fuzzy recollection of a problem when the
>server is Windows. In UNIX, a RENAME will delete the new name if it already
>exists. IIRC, Windows gives a "name in use" error. But I could be
>misremembering.
>
>Oh, and if you just decide to delete before renaming, then the delete will
>give a message if the file does not exist. And that causes the z/OS ftp step
>to get a non-zero return code. Which makes our production scheduling system
>regard it as having failed. Which causes a discussion during the production
>abend meeting in the morning. Which ... (you get the idea).
>
PUT junk target-name
DELETE target-name
RENAME temp-name target-name
Sigh. But this leaves a window during which client C might observe
target-name not to exist. UNIX rules!
-- gil
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