Ah! The "not on a weekend" schedule.
Have you considered initiating the file transfer the other way around?
Let your trading partner accumulate the data until you pick it up and have your
program include a jobstep to pick up the file when it is ready to use it?
Hopefully the file is not too big. If it were really big, the transmission
might delay your schedule.
My $0.02, Ed
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:04:03 -0600
From: Frank Swarbrick <fswarbr...@gmail.com>
Subject: New GDG question
Consider the following...
A file is received (via FTP) 7 days a week from somewhere. The FTP writes to
generation +1.
Problem: The program that uses the file(s) runs only every business day. On
a regular Tuesday-Friday it needs to only read the most recent generation
(0). But on Monday it needs to read (0), (-1) and (-2). And of course there
are holidays to consider.
Thoughts on how this can be addressed?
Thanks,
Frank
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