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Re: What is the best, most graceful way to import PC data and then run a CLP program?

I wrote a monitor service on the iSeries that looks at any IFS location (QNTC shares) and executes a command based on values in a configuration file, very loosely similar to (and considerably less flexible than) crontab. After each polling interval, if the target file existence condition matches the configuration setting, it executes the command. To keep things simple, I usually have my PC processes write a known file (like ready.mkr) in their output location, and use that to trigger the iSeries process. The marker file serves two purposes. It's a semaphore which makes sure that the PC process is done (write ready.mkr last), and it prevents the PC process from running if it already exists. The iSeries job, of course, is responsible for clean-up when it terminates.

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