batch file problem

[Bob Deskin]

There is no such list other than what's in the defect tracking system. I 
believe that there is customer web access. There are two issues here. The 
first is whether a feature works as documented and the other is whether 
the feature works as designed. Ideally, the two are the same but they may 
not be for a variety of reasons. I would suggest that 99%+ features work 
as documented and designed. For the remainder, there is a percentage where 
the example is incorrect or misleading. And there is a smaller percentage 
where the product does not work as per the example. This is one of those 
cases.

As to why it has gone this long without being corrected, I don't know. 

Bob



From:   Michel Adam <michel.adam at gmail.com>
To:     Bob Deskin/Ottawa/IBM at IBMCA, 
Cc:     ken weiland <ken_weiland at yahoo.com>, "powerh-l at lists.sowder.com" 
<powerh-l at lists.sowder.com>
Date:   2012-06-08 01:06 PM
Subject:        Re: batch file problem
Sent by:        powerh-l-bounces+bob.deskin=ca.ibm.com at lists.sowder.com



As one of the 'rem-ed' out line indicated, that had been my early 
approach. I was trying to minimize the changes to the code, which would 
have been possible to a greater extent had this 'feature' not been a 
feature :-(

Which brings to mind the next question, Bob:

Is there a list of unresolved 'features' for PH that you could share?

We could then have a list of codearound for those.

It would certainly save time knowing what is a feature ...

m.

Envoyé de mon iFun

Le 2012-06-08 à 08:24, Bob Deskin <Bob.Deskin at ca.ibm.com> a écrit :

> From a variety of inputs and my own testing, the example in the manual 
> does not work.
> 
> There are a couple of suggested approaches. Both require putting the 
> responses into a file. Then you can target that file as the input source 

> when prompting using < or you can use the parmfile program parameter.
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> 
> From:   Michel Adam <michel.adam at gmail.com>
> To:     ken weiland <ken_weiland at yahoo.com>, 
> Cc:     powerh-l at lists.sowder.com
> Date:   2012-06-07 07:40 PM
> Subject:        Re: batch file problem
> Sent by:        powerh-l-bounces+bob.deskin=ca.ibm.com at lists.sowder.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Nope. the blank line is actually not needed, since there are exactly as 
> many individual values supplied as are prompted.
> 
> Simplifying, the following does not work:
> 
> Created a batch file, xyz.bat, and tried it:
> 
> C:\FOAMbin>type xyz.bat
> QTP
> ; comment
> E
> 
> C:\FOAMbin>xyz.bat
> 
> C:\FOAMbin>QTP
> IBM(R) Cognos(R) PowerHouse(R) 4GL  8.41G - QTP
> (C) Copyright IBM Corp. 1982, 2010
> 
>> e  ; I am typing the 'e' manually, since QTP is just waiting with a '>' 

> prompt
> 
> C:\FOAMbin>comment
> 'comment' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
> 
> C:\FOAMbin>E
> 'E' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
> 
> C:\FOAMbin>
> 
> Michel
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 5:09 PM, ken weiland <ken_weiland at yahoo.com> 
wrote:
> 
> in your example you are doing the following
> I have done a lot of mbatch qtp and quiz files with no problems
> 
> if seems you are calling a quiz routine inside a qtp routine
> then means you would need 2 exits are the end
> c:
>> cd \foambin
>> rem QTP auto=C:\FOAMbin\XFSPR20D < %PHTEMP%\FFSPARAM.dat
> -- calling qtp at this point
>> QTP
>> execute C:\FOAMbin\XFSPR20D
>> 02
>> @
>> @
>> @
>> 
> -- calling quiz at this point but have not exited the qtp process
>> execute C:\FOAMbin\XFSPR20Z
> 
> this exits the quiz process that was started
>> exit
> 
> -- you are calling a quiz routine while still withing the qtp call
>> QUIZ auto=C:\FOAMbin\XFSZR20Z
> -- your are now back to qtp routine
> 
> -- question why are you running XFSPR20Z twice?
> 
> 
> let know if my thinking  is correct
> - you commented out the qtp auto that would have started qtp and shut it 

> down after it ran
> and now call qtp  manually
> thus you have to add an exit qtp
> 
> it looks like the batch stream is not correct
> qtp auto...
> quiz auto ...
> 
> or
> 
> qtp
> execute ....
> exit
> 
> quiz
> execute ...
> exit
> 
> or
> 
> qtp
> execute .....
> 
> quiz
> execute ....
> exit
> 
> exit
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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