Advantages of file watcher utility

[bullu]

Hey Friends,

Can any one of please list out the advantages of file watcher in control M in preventing job failures by sending alerts if file is not present in a particular inbound directory? Also how it is advantageous than writing unix scripts for file checking? I need to do some value add stuffs in my project so any help would be highly appreciated.

Thanks & Regards,
Karthik

[th_alejandro]

File watcher is just a 'listener'. it continously run (as cyclic job) 'searching' a specific file and then, when the file exist, it can process. Copy, rename, move, delete, etc.

This kind of ftp job are usually when your information system depends on data file from outer systems, normaly, external server and no specific time for a file is spected or when a file is generated by a external system that is not scheduling by Ctm.