Using of user defined activities in process flow: issue

Hi out there,
there is a problem in my environment which I don't understand and which I want to share with you. Hopefully there is somebody who can help me.
I have a user defined activity in my process flow with the following parameters (where <empty> means no value):
COMMAND: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
PARAMETER_LIST: <empty>
RESULT_CODE: <empty>
SCRIPT: C:\oracle\bise1\scripts\source_file.bat
SUCCESS_THRESHOLD: 0
The bat-file is containing the following:
cd c:\oracle\bise1\owb\owb\bin\win32\
ombplus.bat c:\scripts\source_files.tcl
exit
When I execute the bat-file in the cmd-shell manually it works perfect (the tcl-script copies and renames sourcefiles to naming conventions). But when I want to execute this from the process flow nothing happens. The process is running without reading the correct source files and therefore ends in errors.
Is there anything wrong in the usage of the user defined activity? I prepared the runtime properly.
Any help is appreciated. :-)
Kind Regards,
Jens

Hi Detlef,
thanks for the input. I tried it but then I get the following error message (in german) in the logfile of the process flow:
"Der Befehl "chcp" ist entweder falsch geschrieben oder konnte nicht gefunden werden."
My scripts don't contain letters in this combination. The scripts are working fine when I start them manually from the command shell. Is there maybe something else I need to consider? Is it possible to start omb tcl-scripts via this feature?
Kind Regards,
Jens

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