Re: FTP file naming issue

["Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

If you're using FTPAPI, you could get a list of the filenames and
would know the name. You can also do a dir into a file with IBM's FTP
client, but you would need to do it in two steps: get the dir list,
and then script the name into another FTP session's input.

On Feb 8, 2008 1:58 PM, Tim Gornall <tgornall@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm trying to automate a process that retrieves a file via FTP from a vendor
> that is named using a date/time stamp.  In other words, the file name will
> dynamically change each time it is created.  Can I rename this file on
> either end somehow?  If I use GET I must know the file name to begin with.
> If I use MGET with a wild card, I can get the file, but I can't specify the
> destination name, so now I have a file in my IFS but I don't know the name.
> It appears RENAME does not support wildcards, etc.  Is anyone doing
> something similar?  Thanks, Tim
>
>
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