Executing batch files via ODI cmd line tool

Hi,
I'm experiencing an issue when trying to run batch files via the ODI Cmmmand line tool with any agent that isn't the local agent. My call is simply the full filepath of the batch file. When I run with local agent everything works fine. However when I run with an agent configured in the Topology the process just hangs in the operator indefinately in a running state but never executes or produces any output and I have to kill it. Any ideas? The agent is installed on the same server as the ODI Studio instance I use when running the local agent

Sounds like that on the remote agent, the batch job is waiting for a user key input and hence it appears in a hung state. You can add try to trace from Agent logs and echo combinations to know where is this happening
In unix environment you can send keys programmatically. Not sure how to do that in the Windows environment.

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Scenario 1+
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mkdir d:\test\test4;
mkdir d:\test\test5;
mkdir d:\test\test6;
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mkdir d:\test\test8;
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Scenario 2+
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carrera wrote:
Then can u suggest any other way how i can invoke a batch file from html/jsp.I think what some of the previous posters wanted to make clear is that jsps are not the place to go calling batch files. Jsp's are normally the view part and don't actually trigger these type of actions directly. Call a servlet to do non-view things...
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Executing batch files from websevice using ODI OS Command

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Is it possible to execute the batch files using odi os command from webservices.
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From the FAQ:
2. How do you launch an external program on a Microsoft Windows platform from a program developed on the Java [tm] programming language?
The following will launch notepad in Microsoft Windows NT:
Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd /c notepad.exe");
To launch a program in Microsoft Windows 95/98 use:
Runtime.getRuntime().exec("c:\\windows\\notepad.exe");
The Runtime class allows interaction between a program and its environment. The first string command instructs the command line interpretor, cmd to open up the calculator application.
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For example, to run a shell on the UNIX� platform, type:
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Dear Peter,
You are totally right, I got this as mistake copy paste. I'm just having a Java utility for running external files outside Oracle DB, this is the method runFile()
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To limit the problems with the class itself and cfobject, I've created a batch file to run the class. The batch file runs the class fine, so long as I execute the batch via command line. But coldfusion doesn't execute the batch with cfexecute. the same exact problem with absolutely no error messages.
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