batch file problem

Michel Adam michel.adam at gmail.com
Fri Jun 8 13:10:38 CDT 2012


I am reminded again that humour doesn't travel well by email.

I was using the word 'feature' in the Microsoft sense of 'a bug that has been documented' :-)

The list of unresolved defects you could access on the defect tracking system is exactly what I was after. You mentioned it may be accessible by customers. That would work. How do I get access ?

m.

Envoyé de mon iFun

Le 2012-06-08 à 11:35, Bob Deskin <Bob.Deskin at ca.ibm.com> a écrit :

> 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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