QTP stdin redirection within jobstream

[Peter Bateman]

John:

  Some thoughts on using message files in QTP.

  I believe there are supportlink articles on creating message records
  in QUICK and processing them in QUIZ or QTP.

  I have always had to play around with message files in order
  to get them to work. QTP has a timeout set for STDIN so it is
  possible for QTP to timeout if there are no records to process.

  I believe the problem maybe that QTP in Batch is looking
  line numbers and it takes your data as such. I think it
  assumes line numbers if the last 8 characters of the stdin are
  numeric.

  You could one of two things

  1) put line numbers on your input records.

  or pad your input records with blanks.



Regards,
Peter Bateman

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>From: Guy Werry <guy.werry@hbms.ca>
>To: "'powerh-l@lists.sowder.com'" <powerh-l@lists.sowder.com>
>Subject: RE: QTP stdin redirection within jobstream
>Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 07:46:24 -0600
>
>John,
>
>We're on a Unix box, so I'm not going to speak to the explicit problem.
>What I'm going to suggest is that you investigate using operating system
>variables.  I believe that the later versions of MPE iX are very Unix-like
>and have operating system variables.  I know that when we moved from MPE to
>Unix we tried to keep the parameter file style of input, similar to what
>you're trying to do, but found that OS variables worked FAR better.
>
>Guy Werry.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Penney, John [mailto:John.Penney@corr.ca.gov]
>Sent: March 8, 2004 4:50 PM
>To: 'powerh-l@lists.sowder.com'
>Subject: QTP stdin redirection within jobstream
>
>
>Listers:
>
>I'm trying to do something (in my way of thinking) simple: build a Msg file
>and use it to pass date, and string of customer numbers parms to an
>interactive type QTP  routine. Works fine in interactive mode but in
>Jobstream, prompts for the date and then quits process 'no records will be
>selected' at the Choose statement. Powerhouse 8.19C2, MPE/iX 7.5,
>Image/3000, ...
>syntax: qtp auto=xxx.yyy < parmfil
>
>parmfil is a std MPE 8FB Msg file...
>
>I've tried stdin=parmfil but the obscure syntax escapes me.
>
>Why does it work OK in interactive but fail in Job, eh? Thanks!
>
>John M Penney
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