Hi friends

I need to call a baan session (customised session) through a shell
(Unix) and pass a parameter (eg Item code as input field ) and get a report based on this item (which i have already prepared.
the basic intention being i need to access baan only for the instance to get data and redirect the output to a temp file .
So that my license usage is restricted .
I need to call the baan session through shell and not the shell through baan.
I know there is one way by using connectkit , but then it fails if i have dumb terminals where in i dont have browser or cant open
visual basic components .
what i want to do is something like this in the shell
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
ba6.1 tddev0401m000 ITEMCODE1 > /tmp/tempfile
exit
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
how do i get a report out of it ?????????????
regards Ankur

Hi Ankur,

Yes you can do it. You have to use a 3-GL program and called that session with a shell program. If you have a session, which needs inputs for the form fields, then you have to make a AFS dll for that session and pass the variable from the 3-GL program to that DLL to start the session.



function main()
{
long no.of.args
string arg1(10)
string arg2(10)

no.of.args = argc()
arg1 = argv$(0)
arg2 = argv$(1)
…
|* your function….
}

Hi prashanth
Didnt undersand ,
can you make it more clear ?
I want to pass an item code to the session which will explode the
bom for it , this thing i want to do it in shell and get the report in a file format
any help will be of great help
regards Anky

What NPR was saying was that you could write a 3gl script that would capture your parameters and do what you want. Here is an example:


function main()
{
long no.of.args
string arg1(10)
string arg2(10)
domaint tcitem some.item

no.of.args = argc()
some.item = argv$(0)

| Now run function server to print BOM report
spool.device = "ASCIF"
| Put you stpapi commands here.
stpapi.put.field(....)
}


Then when the program is done do a exit. I believe you might also be able to do a exit(1) for your script to know that there was an error.

Good Luck!

Mark

Thanks for the tip Mark...

Ankur, I am not much into functional stuff... so I couldnt explain you more...

In your 3-GL script you can use the Function Server/API calls to the BOM sessions/reports or build your own logic which also writes an output file, using seq.open, seq.puts etc functions.

I dont think we can pass the return values from the BaaN 3-GL code to the OS shell scripts. Hence you have to write a log file to the OS to check of the process went fine or not, you can write some status like "OK", "Problem", "Item not found" etc... possibilities.

Good Luck!

Ankur,
I am also interested in doing the same for my barcode project.
If you manage to pass the parameters to a temp file,Let me know
Thanks
Richard