topic Re: External command not working. in Application Development and Automation Discussions

External command not working.

Former Member — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 11:07:00 GMT

Hi,

I have written a batch program which copies files from SAP Application Server(4.6B) to external machine in LAN. This machine is mapped on SAP App Server. The contents of this file are:-

@ECHO OFF

FOR /f "delims=" %%a in ('date /t') do set DATE=%%a

SET CUR-DATE=%DATE:~4,10%

XCOPY H:\source
ust-ght3dxp0097\fullc /D:%CUR-DATE%

XCOPY H:\source Z:\ /D:%CUR-DATE%

where ust-ght3dxp0097 is the external machine and Z is the mapped drive on SAP App server.

Now this batch file works fine when executed from commandline. I want to execute this from my ABAP program.

Hence I created an external command from SM69 as follows:

Operating system command

C:\CopyFilesCreatedToday.bat

This batch file is place in C drive of SAP Application Server.

When I try to execute this external command from SM49 it gives the following error.

Invalid Drive Specification

0 files copied

Invalid Drive Specification

0 files copied

Can somebody help me with this error.

Re: External command not working.

Former Member — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 11:14:17 GMT

Hi,

are you sure that you are on the correct application server? If you have more than one app-server running, this might be the error.

regards

Siggi

Re: External command not working.

FredericGirod — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 11:15:47 GMT

Hi Stephen,

It's little hard to read your code, but I see a lot of time the same error in shell script : do you check there is no space in your file / directory name ?

Frédéric

Re: External command not working.

Former Member — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 11:21:47 GMT

Hi Frederic/Siggi,

There is no space in between file / directory name.

And also there is only one Applicaion server running.

Stephen

Re: External command not working.

FredericGirod — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 12:21:20 GMT

Do you try to do an echo ?

Don't know Microsoft Shell, but in Unix shell that display the content of a data.

Frédéric

Re: External command not working.

Former Member — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 13:37:46 GMT

Hi,

if echo is not possible, you can try to output variables from your batch file to some output/file in order to check if they kept the values you expect, or even more, to check the existence of the files in your directories - calling dir <myDirectoryVariavle> or similar depending on your os. I've similar problems in the past - not with SAP appl. server, but with MS SQL server and execution of the batch-files via stored procedures - in some Windows (w2k, xp, 2003).

HTH

Ivaylo

Re: External command not working.

Former Member — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 21:28:54 GMT

Are you sure your 'H' and 'D' drives are also accessable from SAP server?

Srinivas

Re: External command not working.

Former Member — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 06:19:59 GMT

Hi Srivivas,

"H:\Source" is on SAP server from where it is copied to

"
ust-ght3dxp0097\fullc".

The Drive "Z" is the mapped drive on SAP server of "
ust-ght3dxp0097\fullc".

Re: External command not working.

Former Member — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 13:47:06 GMT

Hi Peter,

The critical point maybe is this:

"Operating system command

C:\CopyFilesCreatedToday.bat"

Dont't use the local drive C:! Use a network-drive instead.

Michael

Re: External command not working.

Former Member — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 13:53:58 GMT

> Hi Peter,

> The critical point maybe is this:

> "Operating system command

> C:\CopyFilesCreatedToday.bat"

> Dont't use the local drive C:! Use a network-drive

> instead.

> BR

> Michael

Hi Michael,

Are you family of Jack Bauer? Just kidding sorry for the inconvenience

Stephan