FTP sender adapter wait sometime before processing a message

Hi,
I want my FTP sender adapter to wait sometime before processing a message. This is needed in my case since the receiver of the message cannot consume message in, say two seconds, so I would like to configure a "time to wait before processing message" in PI since PI processes all of the files in folder without waiting another poll interval time if more than one exist.
Is this possible in PI 7.0 sp16?
Regards,

HI Tarik
BPM is the solution for this problem. If you are not willing to use BPM other solutions are Adapter module and Scripts
You can write adapter module and use the threads mechanism. Thread.sleep can help you achieve this but you need to set this properly.
Another method is Unix script. Let your actual directory be Dir1 and poll PI to Dir2. Use the script to write files from Dir1 to Dir2 one by one and with time gap. This will work for you.
If you have PI system on Windows i prefer to go with Adapter module.
Thanks
Gaurav

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