RE: Commands on Remote FTP

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:21 AM 12/02/2000, you wrote:
>I have been told its not possible and have been reduced to writing DOS batch
>files. Apparently the NT side of things uses a third party product to suck
>data in, but (for some reason) is not reliable enough and I could control it
>better from
>the AS/400 by pushing and pulling files as I require them. By gaining
>control of the transfer I loose the power to be able to hook into
>standard programs on NT side.

While not triggering a java program, I have been involved with projects 
that ran on NT server where the AS400 triggered a task on the remote system.

Bascily we had a very small, low priority, job running on the NT server 
that watched a pre-determined file for changes.  When that file changed, it 
triggered some function on the NT box.

The AS/400 pushed the files to the NT server via ftp, and put the trigger 
file on the system LAST.

Of course, both the AS400 and the NT server had to have a lot of validation 
to make sure the transfer occurred successfully, but that wasn't a big deal.

david

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