Date:         Mon, 16 Apr 2001 10:54:51 -0400
Reply-To:     Jack Shoemaker <JShoemaker@ACCORDANT.NET>
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From:         Jack Shoemaker <JShoemaker@ACCORDANT.NET>
Subject:      Re: Run job in UNIX via ftp
Comments: To: "bramley.m@PG.COM" <bramley.m@PG.COM>
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Michael,

   No it doesn't.  This works under OS/390 (aka MVS) because of the way that
the job scheduler works in this OS.  Think punch cards.  Way back when you
"ran" a job by loading those pieces of stiff paper into the punch reader.
Over time this has evolved to a "virtual" punch reader.  That is, a bloody
electronic file.  Notwithstanding, you can still "load punch cards" to this
"internal reader".  This thread demonstrates how to do this using FTP which
is pretty cool, I admit.

   - Jack

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+ -----Original Message-----
+ From: Michael Bramley [mailto:bramley.m@PG.COM]
+ Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 9:29 AM
+ To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
+ Subject: Re: Run job in UNIX via ftp
+
+
+ Robert (or anyone else):
+
+ This "feature" sounds thoroughly intriguing...do you know if
+ it exists in the NT
+ flavour?
+
+ TIA,
+
+ Michael
+
+
+
+ From: robert.a.burnham@DARTMOUTH.EDU on 04/16/2001 12:26 PM GMT
+
+  robert.a.burnham@DARTMOUTH.EDU           To:   SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
+                                           Cc:    (bcc:
+ Michael Bramley-M/PGI)
+                                   Subject:      Re: Run job
+ in UNIX via ftp
+             04/16/2001 08:26 AM
+               Please respond to
+  robert.a.burnham@DARTMOUTH.EDU
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ >>>>> "Chung-Jung" == Chung-Jung Chung <cjc0121@YAHOO.COM> writes:
+
+     Chung-Jung> Is there any way to run jobs in UNIX via ftp ?
+
+ Karsten hit the major points, but I thought that I would throw out
+ one more option to you.  What I've done in the past is to write a
+ daemon process that basically sleeps most of the time, occassionally
+ waking up to see if any files had arrived since the last time that
+ it was awake.  If there are new files, then I have the daemon
+ remember the names and sizes of the files so that it can compare
+ them the next time that it wakes up.  When the daemon wakes up
+ again, it checks to see if the file sizes have changed in the
+ interim (bascially checking to see if the file is done being FTPd)
+ -- then it invokes a SAS program to operate on the new files.
+
+ (All this being said, I was never jealous of mainframe folks until I
+ saw the FTP option: RCMD="site filetype=jes"  Being able to FTP code
+ to an account and have it executed automatically can be pretty
+ handy.  I've never seen this option under UNIX.)
+
+ Cheers,
+
+ Bob
+
+ --
+ Bob Burnham
+ bburnham@dartmouth.edu
+ http://www.dartmouth.edu/~bburnham
+