DXL "System" command on Windows

Mathias Mamsch - Wed Feb 24 14:02:11 EST 2010

You might want to try the

int win32SystemWait_ (string commandString, string& sResult, int waitTime, Skip envString)

perm which will do exactly what you want (I think waitTime=0 will make it wait forever) ...

Regards, Mathias

ZenMonkey760 - Wed Feb 24 15:03:46 EST 2010
Where can I find some reference to this?

How does it get used? I have tried a few different ways to call it, but got nothing but errors.

llandale - Wed Feb 24 15:31:19 EST 2010
I was unable to make that win32Wait stuff work; perhaps some Windows settings I do not understand. Other folks have used it with success.

I've got a 'system' command that I must wait for, so after the 'system' call I just issue an 'ack(Wait for black window to close...). You could do the same, with some detailed instructions to the user about getting out and back into the folder to make sure its empty, and THEN OK the ack.

• Louie

C124id - Sat Jan 22 10:58:58 EST 2011

Your post was helpful for us.

We have a similar problem !!

If you have deleted the Windows files from a DXL script, can you share the method with me. Following code does not work for me. I use a Windows XP OS - NTFS; we are trying to delete a file from a Windows share.

This does not throw any error; a console pops-up and closes immediately.
 

string Windows_Share = "//srti008a.xyz.com/Testing/*.*"
string commandexe = "c:/windows/system32/cmd.exe /c del /Q /F " "\"" Windows_Share "\""
system (commandexe)

Mathias Mamsch - Sat Jan 22 12:36:07 EST 2011

I have never seen "/" used as a path separator on a windows shell. Maybe replace it by "\" ?

This happens when I try on the shell:

C:\>c:/windows/system32/cmd.exe /C "echo Hallo"
Syntaxfehler.
 
C:\>c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /C "echo Hallo"
Hallo

Regards, Mathias

Mathias Mamsch, IT-QBase GmbH, Consultant for Requirement Engineering and D00RS

C124id - Sat Jan 22 10:58:58 EST 2011

Your post was helpful for us.

We have a similar problem !!

If you have deleted the Windows files from a DXL script, can you share the method with me. Following code does not work for me. I use a Windows XP OS - NTFS; we are trying to delete a file from a Windows share.

This does not throw any error; a console pops-up and closes immediately.
 

string Windows_Share = "//srti008a.xyz.com/Testing/*.*"
string commandexe = "c:/windows/system32/cmd.exe /c del /Q /F " "\"" Windows_Share "\""
system (commandexe)

llandale - Mon Jan 24 16:34:18 EST 2011
You can delete a Windows file directly from DXL:
string ErrMess = deleteFile(NameFileFull)

• Louie

Mathias Mamsch - Wed Feb 24 14:02:11 EST 2010

You might want to try the

int win32SystemWait_ (string commandString, string& sResult, int waitTime, Skip envString)

perm which will do exactly what you want (I think waitTime=0 will make it wait forever) ...

Regards, Mathias

jester76 - Thu Oct 17 17:32:49 EDT 2013

Hello,

Is there a way to supply arguement to this command. For example if I have to run a program and supply som arguements to it.

This command does not seem to work.

Please reply back if this can be done

Thanks

jester

Mathias Mamsch - Fri Oct 18 06:02:30 EDT 2013

If you read that post to the end, there is actually an example for having arguments to the command. If in your special case it does not work, why not post some code? Regards, Mathias

jester76 - Thu Oct 24 15:34:51 EDT 2013

Sorry, here is the code:

Object obj = current
string sProbNumber1 = obj."A1"""
string sProbNumber2 = obj."A2"""
string strValue = ""
string result = ""
string strCMD =  "C:\\1Pradeep\\condoors.exe " "\"" sProbNumber1 "\" " "\"" sProbNumber2 "\" " "\"" "*" "\""

system(strCMD) to be replaced with win32SystemWait(strCMD, string& sResult, int waitTime)

If possible I want to hide the command windows flying around.

Thanks

Jester

Mathias Mamsch - Thu Oct 24 16:04:36 EDT 2013

See this post for an alternative way to launch executables: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/topic?id=77777777-0000-0000-0000-000014702144. Maybe the shell.inc file can help you with the flying windows. The win32SystemWait uses the shell to launch commands, therefore you will always have shell windows flying around with this one.

Regards, Mathias

jester76 - Thu Oct 24 16:27:39 EDT 2013

Hi,

I found this code other day and it does not seem to wait. Here is my code:

Object obj = current
string sProbNumber1 = obj."A1"""
string sProbNumber2 = obj."A2"""
string strValue = ""
string result = ""
string strCMD =  "C:\\1Pra\\condoors.exe " "\"" sProbNumber1 "\" " "\"" sProbNumber2 "\" " "\"" "*" "\""

fnInvokeFile(strCMD)

Stream fInput = read  "c:\\temp\\doorscal.txt"  // load path to variable
flush fInput
while (true)
{
   fInput >> strValue
   if(end fInput) break
}

obj."A6" = strValue
close fInput

Added the following function in the inc.

//- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  - - - - -
void fnInvokeFile(string strArg)
{
   Shell cmd  = create (strArg, true)
}

Am I doing anything wrong?

I have a c# program doing calculations and storing them in a file.

jester76 - Thu Oct 24 16:27:39 EDT 2013

Hi,

I found this code other day and it does not seem to wait. Here is my code:

Object obj = current
string sProbNumber1 = obj."A1"""
string sProbNumber2 = obj."A2"""
string strValue = ""
string result = ""
string strCMD =  "C:\\1Pra\\condoors.exe " "\"" sProbNumber1 "\" " "\"" sProbNumber2 "\" " "\"" "*" "\""

fnInvokeFile(strCMD)

Stream fInput = read  "c:\\temp\\doorscal.txt"  // load path to variable
flush fInput
while (true)
{
   fInput >> strValue
   if(end fInput) break
}

obj."A6" = strValue
close fInput

Added the following function in the inc.

//- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  - - - - -
void fnInvokeFile(string strArg)
{
   Shell cmd  = create (strArg, true)
}

Am I doing anything wrong?

I have a c# program doing calculations and storing them in a file.

jester76 - Thu Oct 24 20:30:47 EDT 2013

It did work. but shell/command windows are flying.

Is there a way to hide these windows

Thanks

Jester