Data Transformation Engine Services Guide

Chapter 10 – Using Utility Adapters

General Rules for Adapter Commands

♦ On the command line, append execution commands -IA and -OA with the application alias and

card number (for example, -IABAT1 or –OABAT1) for the Batch File adapter. Also see the

section On the Command Line Using Adapter Aliases and Execution Commands on page 82.

♦ Each command must begin with a hyphen.

♦ Commands can be upper, lower, or mixed case.

♦ Command strings are parsed in left to right order.

♦ At least one space between commands is required (for example, -KEEP -TRACE)

♦ Spaces preceding the first command are ignored.

♦ A space preceding a variable value is required (for example, -TRACE+S

filename

♦ Arguments that contain one or more space characters must be enclosed in quotation marks.

♦ The order of commands is not important.

♦ Command files can contain multiple lines. Line breaks can be used in place of the required space

between commands. The line breaks are converted to spaces prior to processing.

Note Single quotes surrounding double quotes are necessary in cases where there is a space in the path

or filename: -C ’”c:\mercator5.0\Run Batch\runbatch.cmd”’ .