Dear Sir/Madam,

I am developing a DataPower multiple protocol gateway service as below

A sftp front side handler that will poll files with matching pattern from a ftp server folder

The service will send the file content as a message to a MQ queue. But we need to send the file name and file timestamp as 2 MQ headers with the message to the MQ queue.

My question is,

How to get file timestamp of the file picked by the ftp poller

How to send the file name and timestamp as MQ headers with the message to the MQ queue.

Thanks,

Bill

Hi,

I have never heard that the poller could retrieve the timestamp of the file. Would it be possible for the party that produces the file to append the timestamp as part of the filename? Otherwise you'll have make for example an url-open call to the FTP and retrieve the folder information. You might be able to parse the timestamp from the get-folder response (XML document that contains folder listing).

When sending the params as MQ headers you'll have to consider the capabilities of the receiver. You can for example use MQRFH2 header for relaying custom headers.

--HP

Hi HP,

Your suggestions should work for us. Thanks a lot for your help.

Bill