Howde Guys and Girls, I'm not even a beginner when it comes to Perl, I'm the flea on the Plebs back who's making coffee for the Perl beginner actually.
However, I am going through the O'Reilly "Lama" book which seems to be going at a pace I can follow... I have been massively impressed with the resourcefulness of this group, and just by trying to make sense of some of the topics floating about has already given me some fantastic ideas. At work, we run nightly shedules on Win32 systems. We have recently upgraded our data warehouse software (Kalido) which uses XML to allow users to configure various aspects. The data loads we were previously running required us to present an internal schedule number to a generic Kalido executable, which would then go off and spawn of several smaller reference loads internally. With the new version of Kalido, we can no longer do that, we need to run these smaller reference loads individually from our Scheduling software. We are now faced with over 100 induvidual jobs for some parts of our overnight batch, which is not only ugly to look at, cumbersome to maintain. Is it possible to run some of these jobs via Perl script, with Perl managing these return codes and providing our scheduling software (Control-M) with it's own return code. Hence on our overnight batch suite we call one or two peal scripts as oppose to hundreds of Kalido executables.... I don't want to know how this is done, as half the fun will be learning how, just need to know if Perl can handle this type of task efficiently. Thx Chris Khoury Operational Support Shell International Petroleum Company Limited Shell Centre, London SE1 7NA, United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)20 7934 4190 Fax: 7351 Email: Internet: http://www.shell.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
