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craig01
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Hi ALL,

We currently have a WLA(WORK LOAD AUTOMATION) schedule executing the following command in a .bat file:

E:\ibi\64bit\srv76\wfs\bin\edastart -x "EX E:\ibi\apps\REV_ACCTG\CA012-1N_dstrun.fex"

i want to add symbolic parameters to the second component,so can some one explain me the correct syntax on How the symbolic variables(var1=&symbolic1 var2=symbolic2) can be entered in a bat file.


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Waz
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You can supply valies to a BAT file with the % option, but I guess that you would have worked that out by looking at the edastart.bat file.


You should not use EX E:\ibi\apps\REV_ACCTG\CA012-1N_dstrun.fex, the EX command will not understand the windows path and name. You shoudl use EX fexname or EX appdir/fexname.

To pass a parameter to a fex, use EX {appdir/}fexname var1=var, var2=var, varn=var


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I'm not quite sure what you mean by symbolic variables.
But the 'normal' way to run a fex like you do is for instance:
c:\ibi\srv76\wfs\bin\edastart -x "EX c:\ibi\apps\session\test.fex VAR1=something,VAR2=somethingElse"
The test.fex will be executed using the two parameters specified. This can be seen if you put the command '-? &' in the test.fex.


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GamP
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the EX command will not understand the windows path and name

But it does ... at least that's what I just found out ...


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But it does ... at least that's what I just found out ...


Thats interesting..

I'll have to try it out...


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Very interesting, can't find it in the documentation.

Be wary of using it.


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Hi all,
thanx for the reply.

can you please specify if suppose i am getting the parameters from a excel file (some 100 parms) then i dont want to enter the parms manually.so can some one specify the method on how to link up the parm excel file to the .bat file.


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Maybe think up a way of storing those values in a file that is reachable by the server? You could even pass the location as a parameter to the proces ...


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Hi gamp,
could you please specify the syntax or any documentation i can refer to specify the location as i am pretty new to this batch files and scheduling..


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