Copy file From Unix to Windows

DeepakCorning · Post by **DeepakCorning** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 6:35 pm

Is there any way to copy flat files from an Unix system to Windows through ASCL?

Thanks

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 6:59 pm

If by "ASCL" you mean DataStage then yes. But there's no point. In DataStage you would use an FTP stage; you don't need DataStage in the mix to do this.

DeepakCorning · Post by **DeepakCorning** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 7:10 pm

Need to automate this thts why need to do it in Datastage... Clients don't have an scheduler...

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 7:47 pm

Clients DO have a scheduler. Every operating system has a scheduler. In UNIX it's cron or at and in Windows it's AT.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 7:56 pm

In other words, the same scheduler that DataStage would leverage. You could script the whole process and schedule it through cron, or if you're more comfortable with DataStage, use a Sequence job to run the file transfer then check and do the notification if there are problems.

DeepakCorning · Post by **DeepakCorning** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 12:10 pm

Sorry I must have clarified that... They do not want to use Windows Scheduler etc etc. I am aware of that Datastage uses the same , but we are gettign there... Will require some time to convince them.

Okay going back to the main question I blv Ftp is the only way I guess then.
Thanks !!

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 3:31 pm

No, but it's likely to be the easiest. If "they" don't want to use AT, they are almost certain not to want to use a tool like Samba to mount the disks of one operating system on the other. But it's do-able, in which case DataStage could read from the one and write to the other.