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Tom F
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User wants to FTP a file from Report Caster. Caster requests a filenemae when job is created. User would like this name to be dynamically created with date stamp like outputfile_may16_2008

Any ideas would be appreciated.
 
Posts: 18 | Registered: August 25, 2006Report This Post
ira
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Tom, check this link out. It worked great for me here. Good luck. Ira
http://techsupport.informationbuilders.com/sps/10962092.html


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Posts: 195 | Registered: October 27, 2006Report This Post
Darin Lee
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I didn't check out Ira's link, so I don't know if I'm repeating, but if you specify a Dynamic List in the distribution option then specify a procedure which exists in the server's path. In this procedure you will dynamically build the name of the distribution file to whatever specifications you need. In our case we concatenate a P or I prefix, a policy number, and a date. - You have complete control. Be sure to include ON TABLE PCHOLD. There are other specifics for the content of the output which I can't recall off the top of my head - you'll have to look them up in the RC manual under Dynamic List. We we used this technique for a few years with no issues.


Regards,

Darin


In FOCUS since 1991
WF Server: 7.7.04 on Linux and Z/OS, ReportCaster, Self-Service, MRE, Java, Flex
Data: DB2/UDB, Adabas, SQL Server Output: HTML,PDF,EXL2K/07, PS, AHTML, Flex
WF Client: 77 on Linux w/Tomcat
 
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Tom F
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Thanks for your suggestions. I will try the process. Appreciate all your time.
 
Posts: 18 | Registered: August 25, 2006Report This Post
cburtt
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Tom F,

I suggest FTP'ing the output separate from RCaster's FTP distribution facility.

Produce the report you want but output it to a FILEDEF'd location (so that you know it's name) or use the TEMPPATH(,) function to find it's path and construct it's name. Then generate the name of the target FTP file, includin the date and any input parameter supplied text.

Use WRITEs to create an FTP command string that includes both generated path/names: the report's and the FTP target's.

Lastly, use DOS commands to execute FTP and pass it the name of the previously prepared command stream.

Using the TEMPPATH(,) option for an EXCEL report, your procedure will look something like this:

  
-SET &REPORT_PATH = TEMPPATH(40,'A40')||'\REPORT.xls'
-SET &X=EDIT(&DATE,'99$99$20099');
-SET &FTPFILENAME='REPORT_OF_'||&X||'.xls'
TABLE FILE 
...
ON TABLE HOLD AS REPORT FORMAT EXL2K
END
-RUN

FILEDEF FTPCMDS DISK E:\IBI\APPS\...\TEMPFTPCMDS.FTP
-RUN
-WRITE FTPCMDSP open <ftptargetservice>
-WRITE FTPCMDS <ftpuserid>
-WRITE FTPCMDS <ftppassword>
-WRITE FTPCMDS <... other commands as needed ...>
-WRITE FTPCMDS &FTPFILENAME
-WRITE FTPCMDSP put &REPORT_PATH
-WRITE FTPCMDSP close
-WRITE FTPCMDS bye
-RUN

DOS ftp -i -s:E:\IBI\APPS\...\TEMPFTPCMDS.FTP
-RUN


Chris

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Posts: 154 | Location: NY | Registered: October 27, 2005Report This Post
FrankDutch
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Nice idea Tom, but how do you schedule this?




Frank
prod: WF 7.6.10 platform Windows,
databases: msSQL2000, msSQL2005, RMS, Oracle, Sybase,IE7
test: WF 7.6.10 on the same platform and databases,IE7

 
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