DSWaitforfile - parameters for waittime & poll time

santoshkumar · Post by **santoshkumar** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 11:26 pm

We are using DSWaitForFile Function in a job sequence to wait for a particular file. The Inputarg is like "#$FTP_DIR_Parm#TEST.INC timeout:60/10". We want to parameterize the total wait time (60) and the poll time (10). We tried to give something like "#$FTP_DIR_Parm#TEST.INC timeout:#WAIT_TIME#/#POLL_TIME#". But the sequence aborts with a message like JobControl (DSWaitForFile): Invalid timeout string '#WAIT_TIME#' specified - did not wait. Is it possible to parametrize these two values?

santoshkumar · Post by **santoshkumar** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 11:53 pm

Sorry. I did not give the inputarg in the right format. Thats why it dint work earlier. The format had to be something like "#$FTP_DIR_Parm#TEST.INC timeout:": TOTAL_TIME :"/": POLL_TIME for it to work. I was able to parameterize these two variables. Thanks guys.

kumar_s · Post by **kumar_s** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 7:30 am

Its interesting to see timeouts can be parametereized.
Is it "#$FTP_DIR_Parm#TEST.INC timeout:":#TOTAL_TIME#:"/": #POLL_TIME#