Running Quiz witin QTP WAS: (Anyone have Moved from VMS to WINDOWS?)

[Deskin, Bob]

Actually, in researching Ken's request I found that on UNIX, when you
start a component, a temporary directory is created, but it is shared by
all components until the original one is exited. So if you start QTP,
you might get something like ph7658.tmp. If you run QUIZ from QTP, QUIZ
will share the same directory. Once you exit the original QTP, the
directory is deleted. This means that you can use the technique for
running QUIZ from QTP.

The downside of this is that if you run QUIZ from QUIZ, there's only one
quizsave.qzs file and the original QUIZ's source is lost.

On Windows, each component creates its own unique folder. So there's no
problem with sharing files. On the other hand, there's a problem in that
you can't share files.

What I'm thinking of is a new program parameter that does two things.
First it specifies the name of the folder within the folder specified by
the PHTEMP environment variable. Second, it instructs the various PH
components NOT to delete anything when they terminate. The user would be
responsible for deleting the folder once they were finished. This would
be intended for batch/bulk compiles and would be available on both UNIX
and Windows. It would be quite simple to specify a name for the folder
and then delete it automatically in the bulk compile process.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Darren Reely [mailto:darren.reely@latticesemi.com] 
Sent: March 9, 2005 1:44 PM
To: Deskin, Bob
Cc: powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
Subject: Running Quiz witin QTP WAS: (Anyone have Moved from VMS to
WINDOWS?)


Bob,

How does this affect Unix? I perform this action during compiling a few 
programs with no ill effect. Even in batch mode.  I do not do this 
during run time as far as I can recall.

We are using Solaris 8 and PH 8.23.D7.

Darren


Deskin, Bob wrote:
> Thanks Stephen. This should help anyone migrating to Windows, 
> regardless of the source platform. And I'll bet it can be modified for

> UNIX.
> 
> Bob
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com] On Behalf Of 
> shulbert@littlejohnfrazer.com
> Sent: March 9, 2005 9:43 AM
> To: Ken@Langendock.com
> Cc: powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
> Subject: RE: Anyone have Moved from VMS to WINDOWS?
> 
> 
> ken,
> you can run quiz from inside qtp, but the temporary folders used by 
> each will be different, so you can't by default use the subiles from 
> one in the other. we solved this problem by using a batch file to copy

> the subfile definitions from the temporary folder from qtp into the 
> one for quiz. if you run quiz from inside qtp the folder structure 
> looks like
> this:
> 
> <current>
> -> tmp<number1>  (qtp temp folder)
> ---> tmp<number2>  (quiz temp folder)
> 
> so you have to copy all the files from tmp<number1> to 
> tmp<number1>\tmp<number2>. in dos terms this becomes (win2k):
> 
> 	if not "%phtemp%"=="" copy %phtemp%\..\*.sfd %phtemp%
> 
> you'll get an error on exiting quiz if you don't then delete these, so
> use:
> 
> 	del /q /f %PHTEMP%\*.sfd
> 
> put these in batch files and call them inside quiz.
> a generic compile script is included (.txt to get round daemons). hope

> this helps. regards, stephen.
> 
>    
> 
> 
> 
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	ken.langendock@rogers.com
[mailto:ken.langendock@rogers.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, March 09, 2005 2:23 PM
> To:	powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
> Subject:	RE: Anyone have Moved from VMS to WINDOWS?
> 
> Ok guys, it's been almost a year since I tried to
> resolve the issue I had. How did you guys solve the
> problem of compiling all your code in batch (bat
> file)?
> 
> On and HP3000 the subfile definitions stay in memory
> (temp). On a Vax you can call $QUIZ from within QTP to
> retain the subfile definitions. Neither of these tricks/options work 
> on "Powerhouse for Windows"
> 
> BTW, I worked with Steve B at Cognos for a week on
> this problem back when I was converting and we both
> agreed at the time that it would be easier to run
> interactive quiz until a solution could be found. Now
> I guess I should go back to see if I can work through
> it since everything else is done.
> 
> Ken
> 
> 
> 
>  --- Joe Boyle <atla38@dsl.pipex.com> wrote: > I beg to differ :)
> 
>>>Quiz runs fine in compiled form and you can use the
>>
>>AT ( or schedule )
>>command for the batch processor.
>>
>>>Not sure about 'do external' calls to Cobol; you
>>
>>might have to look into
>>using 'run command' as with VB scripts.
>>
>>>Regards, Joe.
>>
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