Hi listers,<div><br></div><div>trying to run a batch file and have QTP prompt for a few parameters (after RTFM the QTP manual, page 137).</div><div><br></div><div>QTP will just stop cold and prompt without reading the parameters. What am I missing?</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The bat file is:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4">c:</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4">cd \foambin</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4">rem QTP auto=C:\FOAMbin\XFSPR20D < %PHTEMP%\FFSPARAM.dat</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4">QTP</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4">execute C:\FOAMbin\XFSPR20D</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4">02</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4">@</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4">@</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4">@</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4">execute C:\FOAMbin\XFSPR20Z</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4">exit</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4">QUIZ auto=C:\FOAMbin\XFSZR20Z</font></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The 'rem' statement is from a prior attempt, which works, of having QTP execute the run and get the values for the prompts from a file (FFSPARAM.dat).</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>when testing, the results are:</div><div><br></div><div>--------------</div><div><br></div><div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4">Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4">Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4">G:\>c:</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4">C:\>cd foambin</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4"><br></font></div><div><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace;font-size:large">C:\FOAMbin>dir jfsrp20a.bat</span></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4"> Volume in drive C has no label.</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4"> Volume Serial Number is 8C96-214D</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4"><br>
</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4"> Directory of C:\FOAMbin</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4">2012-06-07 11:15 264 JFSRP20A.bat</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4"> 1 File(s) 264 bytes</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4"> 0 Dir(s) 1,863,245,824 bytes free</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4">C:\FOAMbin>jfsrp20a</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4"><br></font></div><div>
<font face="courier new, monospace" size="4">C:\FOAMbin>c:</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4">C:\FOAMbin>cd \foambin</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4">C:\FOAMbin>rem QTP auto=C:\FOAMbin\XFSPR20D < C:\Users\madam\AppData\Local\PHTemp</font></div><div>
<font face="courier new, monospace" size="4">\FFSPARAM.dat</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4">C:\FOAMbin>QTP</font></div><div>
<font face="courier new, monospace" size="4">IBM(R) Cognos(R) PowerHouse(R) 4GL 8.41G - QTP</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4">(C) Copyright IBM Corp. 1982, 2010</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4"><br>
</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="4">></font></div><div><br></div></div><div>------------</div><div><br></div><div>and that is it. QTP just stops there and waits for input.</div><div><br></div>
<div>Is page 137 of the QPT reference manual accurate?</div><div><br></div><div>Michel Adam</div><div><a href="mailto:michel.adam@gmail.com">michel.adam@gmail.com</a></div>