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souji
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Hi Everyone,

I would like to know how to append data in a shared location by using reportcasterjob daily.
I have a hold file in unix environment and the results i have to FTP to a windows shared path

For example
For run1 i have records 1,2,3 and FTP to shared path say run1.txt

For Run2 i have records 4,5 and 4,5 has to append to today.txt.Finally for run2 i want to see 1,2,3,4,5 record appended and FTP to shared path say run2.txt and so on....


Source: Unix

Destination: Windows

Any solutions is much appretiated

Thanks.

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Mighty Max
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Create a Report Caster job with two tasks. Task 1 FTP the file. Task 2 Execute a fex that appends the data using operating system commands.


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Francis Mariani
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Appending is easy using the APPEND keyword in the FILEDEF statement:

FILEDEF ddname DISK appname[/appnamea...]/filename [(APPEND] [LRECL n] [RECFM F]


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souji
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Thanks for the solution francis.So it worked fine from Windows to windows.Not from Unix to Windows.so i moved my reports to windows environment.

Thanks!


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