External Target Stage

[senthilt1]

Hi All,

I have a requirement such that, i need to FTP a file and pass that value inside the file to a dsadmin command. Important things is i shouldnt store the FTP file anywhere and i should dynamically pass the value to the dsadmin command.

Will FTP stage followed by external target do this task. In the ftp'ed file i have two fields and i need to take the second field and pass that to the dsadmin command.

Please give me a solution to this.

Thanks,
Senthil Kumar P

[ArndW]

The FTP Stage transfers data on a row-by-row basis without landing the data; unlike the FTP command which copies a whole to/from disk in one go.

From your description the FTP stage sounds like what you need.

What have your tried so far and with what sort of success?

[senthilt1]

Hi Arndw,

Thanks for your response.

I have done this using UNIX mkfifo - pipe to read from the file from other server and assigned this value dynamically to the dsadmin commands.

Thanks,

Senthil Kumar P

[chulett]

So... is that your resolution or are you looking for another answer?

[senthilt1]

Hi Chulett,

It would be really great if you could suggest the other way of doing this task.

Thanks,

Senthil Kumar P

[chulett]

First (for me at least) you'd need to clarify what exactly it is you are trying to accomplish. For whatever reason, neither your original post nor your fifo solution make much sense to me as I'm not really sure what you mean by 'assigned this value dynamically to the dsadmin commands'. Can you expand on that? Provide an example or two?

Thanks.