Problem:

I have an application on a Windows 2000 server that passes data to me (via
SAMBA) in a HFS directory on the HP3000 system.  Although, maybe not
important is \Share\Router\Read\yyyymmddhhmmss.

The file name that is put there will be different every time.  It will be
in MMDDYYHHMMSS format.

Every time a transaction on the Windows server is done, I need to grab the
file in a COBOL program that will do something with it.  After I am
finished with the file, I need to delete it or pick up the next available
file.

There can be several hundreds of these done within a day so having a
command file or something constantly searching for the next available file
is easy but I will constantly be opening and closing the COBOL program to
process these files which I believe will cause a extreme amount of overhead
on my HP3000/987 system.

What I would like to do is have a background job running on the HP3000 that
would wake up and pause say every 30 seconds to find a file, do something
with it (Beechglen (plug) said copy it and delete?), and delete it.  Thing
is, I’m not sure how I can do that in COBOL as far as detecting the file.
After I detect it and copy it, I should be good to go as far as the file
equate is concerned.  I just want to copy the detected file, delete it from
the HSF directory, do something with it, and delete the file.

The reason I am using SAMBA is that it is really neat that you can map an
area off on the HP3000 system and I can write files to the area (e.g.
\Share\Router\Send\yyyymmddhhmmss) so they can see my files coming back at
them.

Files I am sending back to them should easily be accomplished sending a
file equate through a call to the CICOMMAND.  I think right now.

Any thoughts or help would help.

Thanks

Dave Vogt
Information Services Manager
Miller Compressing Company
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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