activate() session in LN with Arguments

[RobertP]

Hello,

I want to start exchange session "create import programs" via a script and pass it Exchange scheme from/to and Batch from/to. AFS is not an option because I want the session to actually startup in order to view the errors if any. start.session does not have option to add arguments but apparently wait.and.activate() and activate() do. I tried below code. The session starts but without arguments. How can these arguments be passed?

wait.and.activate( "daxch0227m000",
"MYXCH", "MYXCH", |exchange from / to
"MYBATCH", "MYBATCH", |batch from to
"1", |Debug y/n
"2", |profile y/n
"1" ) |display error y/n

FYI - the arguments were passed in order of sequence of form fields.

Thanks

[mark_h]

I only recall seeing this a couple of times and the programs I saw used something like pdno.f = val(ARGV$(1)) to pull in the passed arguments. So what you could do is try like the source extender to add code to the program to import the variables. Hopefully someone else has a better solution or another way to activate an exchange scheme.

[vahdani]

Hi,

please take a look at processes overview and synopsis functions

I wrote the following 3GL Script which starts a different session:

	long	g.processno

function main()
{
	g.processno = act.and.sleep("tccom0401m000")

	if g.processno > 0 then
		 put.var(g.processno, "emno.f", "dude")
		 put.var(g.processno, "emno.t", "dude")


		reactivate(g.processno)
	endif
}

and it seems to work (see below) .

Of course you have to know the name of the external variables used on your form.
In your case these would be: cxch.f, cxch.t, cbat.f, cbat.t, debug.yn, profile.yn and disp.error

[RobertP]

This is fantastic Vahdani.

Thanks, I'll give it a try. Hope to finally blackbox exchange.

Cheers

[RobertP]

Vahdani,

How would you have the program click the "Print" button? I kicked off session daxch0228m000 (tuxch0228m00 in B4) with corerct args, but the session does not continue the process. Activate() does this tho but without ARGS.

Any idea?

Originally Posted by vahdani

Hi,

please take a look at processes overview and synopsis functions

I wrote the following 3GL Script which starts a different session:

	long	g.processno

function main()
{
	g.processno = act.and.sleep("tccom0401m000")

	if g.processno > 0 then
		 put.var(g.processno, "emno.f", "dude")
		 put.var(g.processno, "emno.t", "dude")


		reactivate(g.processno)
	endif
}

and it seems to work (see below) .

Of course you have to know the name of the external variables used on your form.
In your case these would be: cxch.f, cxch.t, cbat.f, cbat.t, debug.yn, profile.yn and disp.error