RE: FTP file naming issue

["Urbanek, Marty" <Marty_Urbanek@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim,

As long as you know where the file went, you could use a SYSC subcommand
after your MGET to run a qshell command or shell script to rename the
file for you. I don't know if you could get a way with a simple mv
command with a wildcard, but you could certainly write a small shell
script that would do the job.

-Marty

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Gornall [mailto:tgornall@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 12:58 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:

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