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  • 1.  Adding Conditional Flow Control to a Process Flow that calls an External Program on Windows

    Employee
    Posted 04-22-2019 08:44
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    The Run Program activity in a Process Flow that calls an external program can't access the return code provided by that program

    One way to implement this constraint is have the external program write that exit-code to a control file (on the OS) or to a DB control table and then have the Spectrum job read that control file/table in order to chart the path based on that specific code. Please see attachment for more details.



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    Jeremy Peters
    PITNEY BOWES SOFTWARE, INC
    Troy NY
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  • 2.  RE: Adding Conditional Flow Control to a Process Flow that calls an External Program on Windows

    Employee
    Posted 04-24-2019 03:26
    Great workaround / enhancement! This can also serve as a log file, I suppose?

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    Marcus Enger
    Director Partner Management EMEA
    PITNEY BOWES SOFTWARE, INC, Germany
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  • 3.  RE: Adding Conditional Flow Control to a Process Flow that calls an External Program on Windows

    Employee
    Posted 04-28-2019 06:53

    A Process Flow will recognize a Windows batch file exit code specified as follows: (exit /b 1) where 1 can be replaced with the desired exit code.



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    Jeremy Peters
    PITNEY BOWES SOFTWARE, INC
    Troy NY
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