I failed to post the following to the entire list so here it goes again:
 
 
Try the following in your monitoring program:
 
copy    FTPfile, FTPfilex  {Make copy in group & acct of monitoring job
purge   FTPfile            {Purge original file (with SM no problem
release FTPfilex           {User is creator
rename  FTPfilex, FTPfile  {In case processing job expects specific name
stream  FTPjob             {submit job which then can purge the released
                             file residing in group & acct of monitoring
                             job.
 
The above can be performed with the command intrinsic or with some command
files.
 
Hope this helps
 
Paul H. Christidis
 
 
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Subject: Changing File Creator
Author:  "Williams, Pete - Prog Analyst" <[log in to unmask]> at CCGATE
Date:    3/27/1995 12:38 PM
 
 
Help.....
 
The situation:  I have users who will be FTPing files into a specific group
on our HP 937 Rx, running MPE 4.0.  I am planning on running a JCL job to
monitor the group to see if any files show up.  If a file does show up, a
job relating to that file will be streamed, which simply copies the data
file from this group to another group and account.  The problem that I am
having is that I need to get rid of the original data file after it has been
copied to the new group and account.
 
This can be accomplished two ways:  either the monitoring job can purge the
file or the job that copied the file to the new group and account.
 
The monitoring job is signing on as the manager of the initial account, and
has SM, AM, and OP capabilities.  Unfortunately, it is not the same user and
the person FTPing the files in, thus a different creator.  I have tried,
with very little success, to try and alter the creator to be the manager, so
I could release the file.  NO GO.  If I can release the file, then the
copying job could very easily purge the file when it has completed copying
the file.
 
Since I don't seem to be able to alter the creator and thus be able to
release the file, I thought about comparing the last access date and time
with the creation date and time.  Once again, the brick wall.  It seems that
using Finfo, you can get statistics on just about everything else a file
has, except for the last access time.
 
Does anyone have any wonderful ideas?  Please, I beg of you, do not tell me
to just use MPEX.  I know how good it is, but management doesn't seem to
have the same valued opinion.  Also, I have been told that we will not be be
upgrading to MPE 5.0 until at least mid-summer.
 
Any suggestions will be gladly accepted and appreciated.
 
Pete Williams
Maritz Travel Company
St. Louis, MO
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