About External Process Fail in OWB 9.04

Hi All,
Under the Process Flow Editor, I have tried to call an external process ( batch file ) to do a copy action with following input value for the external process.
COMMAND - C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\CMD.exe
PARAMETER_LIST - ?/c?c:\\temp\\copytest.bat
within copytest.bat, the content is :
copy c:\temp\temp.txt c:\temp\temp2.txt
I found that even the temp.txt is not exist, the transition condition is still be considered as success rather than warning or error.
So how could I let Oracle Workflow know that the external process has error. And does the mechanism is the same for all other commands e.g. calling a java application through batch file, or do a file rename using rename command e.g.
Thx in advance for any help could provide.
Best Regards
CH

The success or error condition of the external process is established based on the return code from the operation system. This is in turn controlled by the success_threshold parmeter of the external process operator. If the OS returns a value that is higher than the one specified in this parameter, the external process has failed. To connect this to the success/error/warning transitions, as the output of this operator, you might want to configure the Use return status as 'true' when you set the process flow configuration parameters. For more details, see the chapter 'Configuring Process Flows' (page 10-28 of the user's manual).
Regards:
Igor

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