Problem with dscmdexport.exe exit status

mavrick21 · Post by **mavrick21** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 3:51 pm

Hi,

I'm unable to capture the correct exit status of dscmdexport.exe in a Windows batch file. I searched this forum and found a lot of posts but it wasn't helpful.

Below is my code. Irrespective of failure or success ERRORLEVEL value is set to 0 and both "Success" and "Fail" lines are echoed.

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@echo off
echo "Export started"
C:\apps\ibm\InformationServer\Clients\Classic\dscmdexport.exe /D=<domain>:<port> /H=<Host> /U=<Usrname> /P=<password> <Project>"C:\temp\DSX_Backup.dsx"
IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 0 GOTO Fail
echo "Success"
:Fail
echo "Fail"

Can anyone please help me out with this?
Thanks for your time.

kduke · Post by **kduke** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 4:27 pm

None of the command line commands support this. Makes it difficult to trap errors.

mavrick21 · Post by **mavrick21** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 4:41 pm

Kim,

Please correct me if I'm wrong. Do you mean to say that dscmdexport.exe doesn't return exit value to ERRORLEVEL?

Thanks.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 5:44 pm

Your success code falls through to the failure code, that's why you get both echoes when things go well. What happens if you force a failure?

kduke · Post by **kduke** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 7:55 pm

I could never get ERRORLEVEL to trigger in 7.5.3 or older versions.