Wait for file to arrive - SSIS package - ssis

we have a package that reads text files on an ftp server everyday, however we do not know exactly when the files will be added to the folder on the server, so we have to wait for the files and then fire the package manually. So is there any way to automate the process, so that the job will start whenever files are found?


Why don't you call the SSIS package when the file arrives. In one of my projects, we had a directory listener service that waits for the file to arrive. Once the file arrives, we used to call the SSIS package.
Vijay


Use the WMI Event watcher task. That could be of some help. Or, you can simply execute the package every 10 or 30 minutes. A script task can check if the file is available or not, if not, the package exits immediately and if available, execute the DFT.

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File System Move File doesn not work but Script Task System.IO does

I have an SSIS Package that as part of the process uses a File System Task to move a file to an archive folder.
The Source is a variable from a For Each Loop. The Destination is a File Connection with the connection string set to a Variable. The variable is static assigned in dev, and pulled from a package config when deployed.
Everything works in VS in the dev environment. I deploy to SQL Server and schedule with a SQL Job. Job fails. Immediately, I think it's a permissions issue but my Proxy has Modify to the destination and read on the source.
I then rewrite the package so the move file is done in a script task using system.io. Deploy that and it works with the same proxy account on the job, so it's not a permissions issue.
I'm happy it works, but want to know why it failed before.
The error I got when it failed was, "File or Directory "\destinationpath" represented by connection "archiveconnectioname" does not exist."
Has anyone any ideas?

WinSCP SSIS - Capture Exit Code in a Variable

I have an SSIS package that executes the WinSCP.exe via execute process task.
All works well.
However, i am working on a logging routine for the files that were successfully/unsuccessfully downloaded and i have a header and detail logging table to capture the data.
Is there a way in the execute process task to have the exit code returned into a variable?
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SSIS For Each Loop Container/File System task

I have a File System task that will move a folder if a process job fails. The process job bulk inserts from a set of files. If one file fails the subsequent job to move the folder fails. I'm presuming that the process job is locking a file in the folder as I am getting and Access to path denied. Any ideas would be great.

Instead of moving the folder contents as part of a single task I split the task into a copy and then deleted the directory contents. The problem has not reoccurred.

SSIS Execute Process task ability to kill children?

We are using SQL 2005, and the bundled SSIS.
An Execute Process task is running a standard Windows .BAT batch file.
Inside that batch file, a Java process may be started with something like:
%javapath%\java.exe -cp %classpath% com.mycompany.ToDo
We put a TimeOut value in the task, expecting it to kill the entire task if the job ran too long.
It does appear to terminate the batch file, but not the child Java program.
Options, or ways to kill the entire process tree?

If You are willing to write some code, maybe You could have use of these:
process tree
or
Kill process tree
If You do find solution on the first link, please vote up for both question and answer You used.
Note that code can be utilized from Script Task or You can build an executable program and start it from Execute Process Task.

SSIS package not running when called as step in SQL Job

I have a .dtsx file (an SSIS package) that downloads files from an FTP server and imports data. It runs fine whenever I run it manually. However, when I schedule calling the package as a step in a SQL server agent job, it fails. The step it fails at is the one where I call a .bat file. The error in the job history viewer says this:
Error: 2009-05-26 12:52:25.64
Code: 0xC0029151 Source: Execute
batch file Execute Process Task
Description: In Executing
"D:\xxx\import.bat" "" at "", The
process exit code was "1" while the
expected was "0". End Error DTExec:
The package execution returned
DTSER_FAILURE (1).
I think it's a permissions issue, but I'm not sure how to resolve this. The job owner is an admin user, so I've verified they have permissions to the directory where the .bat file is located. I've tried going into Services and changing the "Log On As" option for SQL Server Agent, and neither option works (Local System Account and This Account). Does anyone have ideas as to what other permissions need to be adjusted in order to get this to work?

I tried executing just the batch file as a SQL Job step, and it gave more specifics. It showed that it failed when I was trying to call an executable, which was in the same directory as my .bat file, but not in the windows/system32 directory, which is where it was executing from.
I moved the executable to the system32 directory, but then I had no clue where my files were being downloaded to. Then I found that there's a property for the Execute Process Task (the one that executes the .bat) called WorkingDirectory. I set this to be the directory where the bat is located, moved the executable back into the same one as the .bat file, and it's now working as expected.

For me it was a permissions issue. Go to Environment --> Directories, then change Local directory to something the SQLAgentUser can access. I used C:\temp. Click the dropdown for Save, and choose "Set defaults".

Are you executing the SSIS job in the batch file, or is the batch file a step in the SSIS control flow?
I'm assuming the latter for this answer. What task are you using to execute the batch file (e.g. simple execute program task or a script task). If the latter, it looks like your batch file is actually failing on some step, not the SSIS script. I'd check the permissions of what your batch file is trying to access
In fact, it might be a better idea to rewrite the batch file as a script task in SSIS, because you'll get much better error reporting (it'll tell you which step in the script fails).
You could try executing the batch file using the runas command in a command window. If you try and execute it under the local system or network system account, it should give you a better error. If it does error, you can check the error level by going "echo %ERRORLEVEL%".
If it wasn't the latter, and you're executing the SSIS package via a batch file, why?

Are you possibly accessing a mapped drive in your .bat file? If so, you can't rely on the mapped drive from within the service, so you'd have to use UNC path.

I had the same error and I resolved it by logging on to the user account that runs the job, opened Coreftp site in question there, test the site access, made the change there (in my case, I had to reenter the new password) and now it works.
So yes, it is an issue of file access. This one is file access to the coreftp site in question.