how to call UNIX script from tokendef

Well, we also migrated from Unix to Windows.... although the process has not been without it's challenges, I can tell you what I've found so far. It's probably far easier and less time consuming to just create a custom program that calls your Unix script... 1 program to 1 script relation is how we have it set up here. You really only need a couple pieces of information to do this: 1) In your WS file: 000100****************************************************************** 000200* GH190WS * 000300****************************************************************** 01 GH075WS. 02 WS-CONVERT-SCRIPT PIC X(50). In your PD file: 000100****************************************************************** 000200 050-EDIT-PARAMETERS SECTION 10. 000300****************************************************************** 000400 050-START. 000500 000600 050-END. 000700 000800****************************************************************** 000900 100-PROGRAM-CONTROL SECTION 10. 001000****************************************************************** 001100 100-START. 001200 001910 MOVE "D:\LSFPROD\LAW\PROD\SCRIPT\APCHECK.BAT" TO 001920 WS-CONVERT-SCRIPT. 001930 CALL "SYSTEM" USING WS-CONVERT-SCRIPT. 002000 002100 100-END. 002200 002300****************************************************************** 002400 1000-SEL-REPORT SECTION 50. 002500****************************************************************** 002600 1000-START. 005600 012500****************************************************************** 012600 1000-END. 012700****************************************************************** Replace the MOVE statement with the path and name of your script. Add security to LS Compile and you should be set... then the users can just call those as they do normal programs. There is a way to get scripts working from tokendef too... but I had to spend way too much time figuring it out to explain it all in a message.

Include "cmd" at the beginning of the token string

I have two clients with this issue.  One has written a custom program to execute "ksh prm-scriptname" and it does the command call with their script directory in place.  For the other client who was already on Windows, I wrote one with four 78 character input lines and allow the Lawson administrator/system maintenance person access to that program only.  It can basically do anything you would from a LID command prompt.  This lets you define a multi-step job which is essentially a program itself.  It is used heavily to create extract files for interfaces using a small collection of batch files in the Lawson user home directory for things like copying and date time stamping files into an archive directory, renaming files from vendors to a standard name for import &c.  Some of these extracts are created via sqlcmd with a T-SQL file as well as some being a 4 G/L program.

 

In tokendef

Go to "User Form IDs"

Create a category if you don't have one

Add a form ID to your category

Define form

In the Command field enter the full path to scripts (ie. /lawson/nhscripts/sample.sh)

Save and exit

 

In jobdef

Create a job

Tab down to first Step # line

In Form ID hit F4

In Type hit F4, select User

Tab down to Category, F4, select your category (from tokendef)

Tab down to the token you created for your script and select

Save job

Submit job

 

To create/submit job in Portal you may need to use the "Multi-Step Job Definition" screen, leave the Data Area field blank and type the Token name into teh Form field (drop down won't work).

Don't forget to add your token to the security role(s) as needed.

 

 

EDIT: Just realized that you said you were migrating to Windows from Unix - I had originally read it eh other way around.  I am unfamiliar with how intluu works, so my response above may be completely worthless.

Running Unix scripts on a Windows environment is mainly depended on what Windows version you are on. We moved from unix to Windows 2008 R2 and I was able to get all the scripts to work but we recently upgraded to 2012 R2 and i could not get the scripts to run hence I had to convert all the script to batch. Thought  I can run the batch scripts as tokens, i decided to have a single program which allows user to enter parameters and that allows them to run the scripts without worrying about updating userratts when they change passwords.

Let me know what Windows version you are running.