User defined activity problem in process flow

Hi ,
any one can help me out
I have added a user defined activity in process flow , and given command values as \\windows\system32\cmd.exe
and parameter list : ${input.value}
and in script : kpi.bat
where i written
cd \kpi_sap
for /f "tokens=1-5 delims=/ " %%d in ("%date%") do copy "c:\kpi_sap\kpi_sap.csv" %%e-%%f-%%g.dat
but its not working ...
can any one give me direction to get success in this activity
best regards,
mahi

Hi Mahi,
I see that your post is a few days old and you might have resolved this issue, but if you haven't you might want to change the command value to c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe instead. Its been a while since I worked with commands, but I remember that I had a lot of problems when I defined paths with '\\'. What I found out was that OWB jobs was run under the windows system account and the system account don't have access to networkshares (even if its really not on the network).
I can't say whether the script in the kpi.bat is wrong, but as long as you can run it manually using cmd.exe you should be ok.
If this doesn't help it might be helpful with some more specific error messages.
regards Ragnar

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