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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 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.

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 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.

To use a command file named cmd_file.txt, from a UNIX™ command line, enter:


dtxcmdsv @cmd_file.txt

A command file can contain spaces and new lines to separate arguments and maps to be run. The following is an example of a command file to be executed on a UNIX™ platform:


/x12/edi.mmc -TIO -IF2!WXR5:1 dtin -OF1B out.txt
/maps/invoices.mmc -AE -T -WD=/tmp
mymap.mmc -R2 -D1949
flatfile.mmc -F -Y10:2
/maps/daily/multitran.hp -G -OD4R5:3B `-DELETE -TRACE ERROR'

Using this command file, the maps are executed sequentially.