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Execution commands
This documentation includes information about the various ways to use execution commands and their options when executing maps. Execution commands are used to specify how to execute a map.
Examples
This documentation presents a variety of examples involving the execution of maps using various execution commands in a RUN() function and from the command line in UNIX™ and Windows™ environments.
Executing multiple maps from a single command
From a Windows™ command line, enter:

Execution commands
This documentation includes information about the various ways to use execution commands and their options when executing maps. Execution commands are used to specify how to execute a map.
- Command Server overview
  Use execution commands to override the map settings or card settings in a compiled map when a map is run using one of the following methods:
- Using Command Server commands
  When you run a map, you can:
- List of execution commands
  This documentation contains information about the execution commands and associated options, including the syntax of each command and its particular usage.
- Examples
  This documentation presents a variety of examples involving the execution of maps using various execution commands in a RUN() function and from the command line in UNIX™ and Windows™ environments.
  - Running a map located in a different directory
    From a UNIX™ command line, enter:
  - Creating work files in an alternate directory
    From a Windows™ command line, enter:
  - Executing multiple maps from a single command
    From a Windows™ command line, enter:
  - Overriding a database target
    Suppose you want to run the map multitran.hp, overriding some of the settings for the fourth output card, which is a database target.
  - Overriding the schema location at run time
    When you have a map that is designed to parse input XML data, but want to use a different schema location than what was set up in the Metadata location setting for the root type on the input card in the Map Designer GUI, run the map from the command line and override the map settings.
  - Executing a command file
    As an alternative to typing execution commands on the command line, you can run maps using maps and execution commands in a command file.
  - Using a run function and echoed outputs in memory
    When using the Output Target Override - Echo execution command (-OE) with the X option, the output is stored in memory and is not echoed back to the calling map or application.
  - Audit Log in memory
    Similar to how the data built for an output card can be echoed back to a calling map or application, the audit log, including Data and Execution information, can be placed in memory using the MapAudit execution command (-A) with the M option and echoed back to its calling map or application with the E option
- INI commands for debugging maps
  This documentation presents the dtx.ini (INI) file commands you can use for the debugging of adapter connections for maps run using non event-driven execution methods.

Executing multiple maps from a single command

From a Windows™ command line, enter:


dtxcmdsv mymap.mmc -R2 -D1949 flatfile.mmc -F -Y10:2

Option: Description
mymap.mmc: This specifies the name of the first map to be executed, mymap.mmc.
-R2: This causes the server display to be updated two times per second.
-D1949: This command option specifies that dates without a century value should be converted. Years between 00 and 49 are interpreted as 20xx and years between 50 and 99 are interpreted as 19xx.
flatfile.mmc: This command option specifies the name of another map to be executed, flatfile.mmc. When flatfile.mmc is executed, it uses the default options, not the options that precede it on the command line.
-F: Fail on the return of any warning code.
-Y10:2: If any non-data file resource is unavailable, such as the map file, audit log file, work file, and so on, up to ten attempts should be made at two-second intervals to access the unavailable resource.