Executing external commands(vbscript from network drive)

Question

Hello All,
There is a client requirement where a certain number of steps need to be automated as a background job. The current manual process is such that first a vbscript is run, which creates a temporary folder and connects to a FTP location and pick data and dump it into this temporary folder on the network drive. Then a standard SAP program uses this file from the defined path and is executed. Then another vbscript is run, which basically archives the files to a different folder. These steps need to be automated.
Now we can use the cscript command in DOS to execute a .vbs script file. but this will not work with GUI_EXEC as this will fail in background. Will SXPG_COMMAND_EXECUTE/SXPG_CALL_SYSTEM fucntion modules work in this case ? I have not used them, so will they execute the command on the presentation server as I am guessing these work on the application server with the command created in SM69 ?
Thanks and Regards,
Sachin

Answer 1

hi all,
You don't have to create a System Commands in transaction SM69 to be able to execute the VBScript or other script within the program in background mode.
When calling function "WS_EXECUTE" just add the "In Background Task" at the end to execute the VBscript or other scripts.
This  extra line "In backround task" should not raise the exception
CL_GUI_FRONTEND_SERVICES======CP.
it should look like this.
data: commandline(1000).
commandline = 'P:\sapfrontend.vbs'.
  call function 'WS_EXECUTE' in BACKGROUND TASK
       exporting
            commandline    = commandline
            program        = 'WSCRIPT.EXE'
       exceptions
            frontend_error = 1
            no_batch       = 2
            prog_not_found = 3
            illegal_option = 4
            others         = 5.