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[Rob Lahey]

Gents:

External businesses need to send daily sequential data-files to our host via a leased line using FTP. Since we don't reveal the IP address of our host (security reasons) they must send them to our file server running Unix.

All files use a date (yyyy.mmdd) in the actual DSN in-case they repair & re-send previous days non-conforming files.

We want incoming files arriving at our server to automatically upload to our mainframe. Since we can't predict which prior day's files get re-sent to us, we can't schedule a host batch job to collect them.

We need:

1: An FTP technique that overlays any like-named files on our server (a "replace" option ?), as well as creating normal new daily files.

2: A way for the server to trigger an immediate host upload job when new or replacement files arrive.

3: A way to replace the hyphenated DSN on the server ie: hlq-yyyy-mmdd-data with one using host-friendly periods ie: hlq.yyyy.mmdd.data.

Any insight on how to do this would be greatly appreciated. Even more appreciated would be a sample of whatever Unix script might do the job.

Any help appreciated.
Rob

[Rob Lahey]

PS:

The host files likewise will need to be overlaid if they are being replaced.

Rob