Read from Windows share

You can setup InterformNG2 to read input files from a folder found via Windows share (Samba network/UNC). For that you need to create a workflow with the input type, Read from Windows share.

This can e.g. be useful, if you want to monitor a folder on a Windows machine from an IBM i without the use of QNTC.

 

Like many other functions in InterformNG2 this require a license code which enables this function.

A related workflow component is: To Windows share.

 

This input type has these parameters:

1. Input type
   The type of workflow file type.
2. Share 
   The name of the Windows share connection, that you want to use. Select the connection via the drop down list.
3. Sub directory
   This is optional. If specified this is the relative path from the share to the directory, that you want to read from.

The other fields are in common with the Read from file option.

Example of use

Here is an example how this can be setup:

There is an internal server with the IP-address: 192.168.151.250 and on this server there is a directory called: apf3812home. This is a shared directory.

InterformNG2 is setup to access this shared directory with this connection setting:

Above the Directory is /, which means that this Windows share connection access the shared apf3812home directory (and consider this the root).

Inside the apf3812home directory there is a sub-directory called NG2_input and we can monitor that directory for input XML files with this setup:

When files are processed in the NG2_input directory they are temporarily moved the 'processing' sub-directory and then to the 'processed' sub-directory, when the processing is done.

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