We recommend the CFTFOLDER method of configuring folder monitoring. There are two ways to implement Transfer CFT folder monitoring, either using UCONF or Transfer CFTВ objects. They relate to how you implement scheduling, and the method by which you move a file that is a ready transfer candidate. This section describes the key parameters that can alter the folder monitoring behavior.

For a multi-host installation, the METHOD=MOVE for folder monitoring is not supported on an NFS 3 shared disk due to synchronization delays.

Additionally, this feature is not supported in the obsolete UCONF folder configuration.

Folder monitoring using a different user (USERID)В is not available on Linux if the event mode is enabled (USEFSEVENTS=YES).

Presently the folder monitoring CFTFOLDER option is only available in command line.

When using the UCONF mode to enable folder monitoring, there is a limit to the number of folders due to the maximum length of the folder_monitoring.folders parameter being 512.

The WILDMATВ parameter is available on Unix/Windows/IBM i systems.

In an z/OS environment you can only use folder monitoring on UNIXВ file systems.

For a list of wildcard characters per platform, see Platform-specific characters and functions. Files containing wildcard characters in their file names are not be processed they remain in the scanning directory, and an error message displays in the log.

Directory scanning does not allow transferring a file whose name contains a wildcard character, for example the asterisk character (*) on UNIX-like platforms.

Transfer CFTВ supports this type of monitoring on: The operating system services for file-system event monitoring functionality only work on local file systems. Supported OS for file-system event monitoring

met files that are automatically created in the working directory.

When using the FILE method, do not delete the.

Do not define a work_directory as a subdirectory of a scan_directory.

Do not define a scan_directory that is the same as the work_directory.

There are 2 options (FILE and MOVE methods) the MOVE method is recommended as explained below.

The system user management feature ( USERCTRL) is not supported for Folder Monitoring configurations.

All of the folder monitoring parameters are dynamic.

Before configuring folder monitoring, read the following: This section lists the prerequisites and best practices for folder monitoring. Transfer CFT then automatically creates the corresponding sub-directories in the work_dir directory tree, as needed. You can set these as fixed parameter values, or extract them from the first or second sub-directory names.

In addition to the file path, the IDF and PART name parameters are supplied in the SEND command. This is called the FILEВ method in Transfer CFT.

Leave these files in place and create another file with the same name, which contains metadata, in the work_dir prior to submitting the transfer.

This is called the MOVEВ method in Transfer CFT.

Move these files to the work_dir (by renaming) prior to submitting them.To track scan_dir files that have been submitted, Transfer CFT can either: While Transfer CFT will not create the scan_dir directory, the work_dir is automatically created if it does not already exist. These two directories must be separate entities (the work_dir must differ from the scan_dir, and the work_dir cannot be a sub-directory of the scan_dir), and allow files to move from one directory to the other. This second directory is called the work_dir. A delay of zero seconds indicates that the files are immediately ready for submission.ДЇor each directory to be monitored by Transfer CFT, the scan_dir, there must be another directory for Transfer CFT to use for tracking information. If the state does not change within a certain delay in seconds, the file is considered to be available to submit for transfer. These two pieces of information constitute the state of the file. This section describes the underlying concepts for folder monitoring with Transfer CFT.ДЇor each monitored file, Transfer CFT tracks the file size and the date of its last modification.

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