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Former Member
December 4, 2013
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Executing a job by another job in

BODS 4.1 using simple script
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Step1:
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In DATA SERVICES MANAGEMENT CONSOLE goto Batch Job Configuration Tab and
click on Export Execution Command.
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This will create a .bat file with the job name (Job_TBS.bat) in the following path:

D:\Program Files (x86)\SAP BusinessObjects\Data

Services\Common\log\
Step2:

Use the below script to check whether the respective .bat file exist in the below path.

exec(‘cmd’,’dir “D:\\Program Files (x86)\SAP BusinessObjects\Data

Services\Common\log\”*>\\D:\\file.txt’);

Step3:

Create a new job (J_Scheduling) to trigger the job which needs to be executed
(Job_TBS).

Use the below script to trigger the job.

exec(‘cmd’,’D:\\”Program Files (x86)”\”SAP BusinessObjects”\”Data

Services”\Common\log\Job_TBS.bat’);

Now the job J_Scheduling will trigger the job Job_TBS using simple script
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Former Member
December 5, 2013 at 6:21 am

Good One..!!

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Former Member
December 10, 2013 at 12:25 pm

Thanks for Sharing

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 Ramesh Murugan
January 7, 2014 at 2:39 pm

useful tips.

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Ahalya Inturi
November 12, 2014 at 7:53 am

Very Good document

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Swetha N
June 24, 2015 at 9:56 am

hi,

my requirement is to generate a .bat file.

but when i go to management console and export , it generates a .txt file and it is also a password protected.
we are not even able to open it.

this was the message that was showed up.

Export was successful.Password file created on Job Server mxtestdev00000:3500, at /maxdsq/dataservices/conf/BODS_dev_repo1.txt.

can anyone suggest?

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Former Member
January 14, 2016 at 8:16 am
if the called job (Job_TBS) has global variable, how i can pass these variables from the master job
(J_Scheduling) to the called job (Job_TBS)??

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Rama Shankar
March 20, 2019 at 9:51 pm

Useful steps- thanks

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