Comparing the mtime of two tFTPFileProperties components

[GMacLeod1633803101]

I have taken over support of a job which downloads files from a source FTP location, and transfers them to a target.

What I am trying to do is probably very simple when you know the product well.

I want to ensure that we only perform this transfer on files which are newer at source. I was thinking that if I could use two tFTPFileProperties components to get the mtime of the files on both source and target, I could compare these and then only process files where the source mtime is greater than the target mtime. I can't figure out how to compare the outputs of the two instances of the tFTPFileProperties components. tMap doesn't seem to want to accept more than one, same with tJoin.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi

Store the mtime value to context variable or global variable on tJavaRow for used in another subjob.

Regards

Shong

[GMacLeod1633803101]

Thanks Shong. That's done the trick. Much appreciated!

What I did was ran a Main line from the tFTPFileProperties component to the tSetGlobalVar component. Worked a treat.