Progress
Installation and Configuration Guide
Version 9
for Windows
Starting Windows NT Multi-user Progress In Batch Or Background Mode
Follow these steps to use the ProControl utility to create a task that starts multi-user Progress in batch or background mode on a Windows NT system:
- Access the ProControl utility and start ProService (if it is not already started).
See the "Starting ProService" section earlier in this chapter for information on how to do this.
- From the ProControl Main Window, choose Detail, then choose the OtherTasks folder.
- ProControl displays the OtherTasks dialog box.
You can specify that this task autostart by selecting AutoStart in the OtherTasks General folder.
- Choose Insert. ProControl displays the OtherTasks General folder:
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- Enter information for the following boxes, then choose OK:
- Identifiers — Provides a unique name to identify the task. The name must be unique to the Windows NT host. The Identifier can be up to 30 characters long. For example, you might name a single-user batch session
Multi-user Batch 1
. Once you have defined the task, ProControl inserts this name in the selection list. Note that this corresponds to the Identifier-name used with the PCCmd command.- Executable Name — To start a single-user batch session, the executable name is:
- Working Directory — Specifies the directory that the batch session uses.
- Browse — Specifies the executable file and working directory to run.
- Startup Parameters — Specifies the Progress startup parameters that you want to use. To start a batch session in multi-user mode, you must supply the -
b
and the -p
startup parameters. For example:
- From the OtherTasks folder, select the task that you want to start from the OtherTasks selection list and choose Start:
NOTE: You cannot run any task that requires user input or a response to any message. You can only run background or batch tasks that do not require any user action.Once the task is defined using ProControl, you can use the PCCmd command to start it.
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