Renaming a file in Sender channel

Hi, a newbie here.
I have to pick up a file via ftp from a system and put it into an R3. I have also to rename the file in the sender with another extension for backup.
Is there any way to do this without creating another communication channel?
Thanks in advance!

Hi Ifiaki,
If you are on SP15 or later, you can run Operating System Command Before Message Processing.
See the details at the below link.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/e3/94007075cae04f930cc4c034e411e1/content.htm
Rgds,
Sam Raju

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But for this to work you have write UDF in your mapping, but as you are not using IR part, this approach can't be used.
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