Databases Reference
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In interactive mode you manually enter commands on the command line and
respond to returned prompts. This is useful when you are performing simple tasks
that require few commands. If you are performing more complex tasks that require
many commands as well as error handling, consider creating an EssCmd script file
to run in a batch job. To launch the EssCmd command line application simply open
a DOS command line window and enter the fully qualified path and file name for
the
esscmd.exe
as shown in the following screenshot:
If you have Essbase installed on a Windows client you can register
the
esscmd.exe
file as you would a DLL. The registration process
alerts you that is has failed yet it still registers the executable.
The benefit here is that you can now call the
esscmd.exe
by its
name only. No extension or path needs to be included. This makes
starting a command line session easier and if you register it on your
application server as well, then it makes coding batch jobs and shell
commands easier too.
Once you have entered the
esscmd.exe
command in the command line screen
you will see the following:
