Executing MaxL using startMaxL.cmd similar to ESSMSH in 11.1.1.x

Question

Prior to 11.1.2.x, it was possible to read in values (for example server name, username and password) and then pipe dynamically-generated MaxL straight to ESSMSH and execute, all within a batch script. For example:
Batch Script (cut-down example):
FOR /F "eol=; tokens=1,2,3 delims=, " %%i in (\\<servername>\Folder1\Folder2\File.txt) do SET SERVER=%%~i & SET USER=%%~j & SET PASS=%%~k
( @echo login %USER% identified by %PASS% on %SERVER%; & @echo display variable all; & @echo exit; ) | essmsh
However, one now has to use "startMaxL.cmd", by calling it and passing the MaxL as a saved script as a paramter. This relies on the script being in a fixed state (i.e. not dynamically generated):
c:\Oracle\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1\products\Essbase\EssbaseClient\bin\startMaxl.cmd c:\MaxLScript.mxl
It there a way to return to something more like the previous example? I would like to continue to read in values (for example server name, username and password) from a separate text file, and to dynamically-generate the MaxL before executing ESSMSH as before, but I haven't yet found a way to do this. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Hi James,
There are a number of different ways of doing this, if you want to stick to way you are going about then you can still call essmsh, all that startMaxl.bat is doing is setting environment variables before calling essmsh, just edit it and have a look.
So you could take the variables out of the startMaxl.bat and put them in your script or call a script with them in e.g.
set ESSBASEPATH=C:\Oracle\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1\common\EssbaseRTC-64\11.1.2.0
set ARBORPATH=%ESSBASEPATH%
set PATH=C:\Oracle\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1\bin;%ESSBASEPATH%;%ESSBASEPATH%\BIN;%PATH%
FOR /F "eol=; tokens=1,2,3 delims=, " %%i in (\\<servername>\Folder1\Folder2\File.txt) do SET SERVER=%%~i & SET USER=%%~j & SET PASS=%%~k
( @echo login %USER% identified by %PASS% on %SERVER%; & @echo display variable all; & @echo exit; ) | essmsh
I added %ESSBASEPATH%\bin to the set PATH instead of using %ESSBASEPATH%\bin\essmsh.exe like in startMaxl.bat but it doesn't have to be like that.
Cheers
John
http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/