scheduler - How to start a DataStage Sequence job when a when file comes to the server

Question

I’m looking to build a process that triggers a DataStage Sequencer job when any file comes to the server’s landing zone. CA7 is the scheduler and the file naming convention comes in many different flavors, including the file extensions. Also, some file naming conventions contain date timestamp. I’m new to this activity so please bear with me if I ask silly follow on questions.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Answer 1

Check out the Wait for File stage in the Sequence

It has options to wait fr a file to appear (or disappear) and a timelimit before it times out. So you have to start the job at a certain time but the processing will start ince the file appears. The stage expects a filename though - but you could do a ls or similar command to get the filename and send that as a parameter to your job.