[Bulk] Re: QTP in batch file (job ?) in Windows ?

Thu Jun 7 14:47:11 CDT 2012

How can I say this without being to being too vague or controversial..lol

NO, It doesn't work on Windows and on Unix/Linux

I don't care what the manual says.

The manuals came from the HP/Vax era and I could never get that to work.

Ken

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[mailto:powerh-l-bounces+ken.langendock=rogers.com at lists.sowder.com] On
Behalf Of Michel Adam
Sent: June 7, 2012 3:21 PM
To: power-l
Subject: [Bulk] Re: QTP in batch file (job ?) in Windows ?

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]

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  <tel:2012-06-07%20%C2%A011>  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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