QTP in batch file (job ?) in Windows ?

[Michel Adam]

Ken replied as well that it doesn't work.

Can I get a definitive answer from the folks at Cognos, about the example
on page 138? I include it below. Is it flat out wrong, or are there magic
parameters that would make it work?

Windows:

QTP
SET DICTIONARY MYDICT
ACCESS FILEA
CHOOSE FIELDA PARM
SUBFILE FILEB KEEP INCLUDE FILEA
GO
10
EXIT


On the same page are example with VMS and Unix, which all seem to imply a
behaviour similar to that of a 3000 JOB.

The paragraph on page 137 seems pretty clear:

*Submitting Jobs as Text Files*
The text file that you create for your batch job must include
execution-time values (responses) for
all CHOOSE, DEFINE, and GLOBAL TEMPORARY statement prompts. These values
are placed
in the file starting on the line below the GO statement (or the EXECUTE
statement, if compiled
reports or runs are used).


Should this not work?????

Michel

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Brian Stephens <bws001 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Windows does read data from the batch file.  After it executes a command
>  it expects it to go away and do its thing.  Next line in the batch file is
> the next command it will execute.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 2012-06-07, at 12:34, Michel Adam <michel.adam at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry, that should have been page 137 to 139, especially the example on
> page 139.
>
> Michel
>
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Michel Adam <michel.adam at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi listers,
>>
>> trying to run a batch file and have QTP prompt for a few parameters
>> (after RTFM the QTP manual, page 137).
>>
>> QTP will just stop cold and prompt without reading the parameters. What
>> am I missing?
>>
>>
>> The bat file is:
>>
>>
>> c:
>> cd \foambin
>> rem QTP auto=C:\FOAMbin\XFSPR20D < %PHTEMP%\FFSPARAM.dat
>> QTP
>> execute C:\FOAMbin\XFSPR20D
>> 02
>> @
>> @
>> @
>>
>> execute C:\FOAMbin\XFSPR20Z
>> exit
>> QUIZ auto=C:\FOAMbin\XFSZR20Z
>>
>>
>>
>> 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).
>>
>>
>> when testing, the results are:
>>
>> --------------
>>
>> Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
>> Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
>>
>> G:\>c:
>>
>> C:\>cd foambin
>>
>> C:\FOAMbin>dir jfsrp20a.bat
>>  Volume in drive C has no label.
>>  Volume Serial Number is 8C96-214D
>>
>>  Directory of C:\FOAMbin
>>
>> 2012-06-07  11:15               264 JFSRP20A.bat
>>                1 File(s)            264 bytes
>>                0 Dir(s)   1,863,245,824 bytes free
>>
>> C:\FOAMbin>jfsrp20a
>>
>> C:\FOAMbin>c:
>>
>> C:\FOAMbin>cd \foambin
>>
>> C:\FOAMbin>rem QTP auto=C:\FOAMbin\XFSPR20D <
>> C:\Users\madam\AppData\Local\PHTemp
>> \FFSPARAM.dat
>>
>> C:\FOAMbin>QTP
>> IBM(R) Cognos(R) PowerHouse(R) 4GL  8.41G - QTP
>> (C) Copyright IBM Corp. 1982, 2010
>>
>> >
>>
>> ------------
>>
>> and that is it. QTP just stops there and waits for input.
>>
>> Is page 137 of the QPT reference manual accurate?
>>
>> Michel Adam
>> michel.adam at gmail.com
>>
>
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