XI: Operation system command – error catching

There’ve been many posts on the XI forum

where some of you where asking why your OS command

doesn’t get executed inside your Adapter and you don’t know what’s wrong.

I decided to check if there’s any simple way of dealing with this problem 🙂

Here’s my solution:

Once you set your communication channel (in my case it’s file/ftp)
you can set it to store the file on the File system (Transport Protocol).

Then you set target directory on the Server and the filename

Now the fun part:)

If your command isn’t executing correctly you can easily
store the error message in any file you want.

In my example I’m using the same folder as the one in which
I store my XML files from the Receiver adapter.

As you can see I execute a non existing command “echooo”

When I run my scenario apart from the XML file I can find
demo1.txt file with the descripion of the error :

I was working in the Windows NT environment (server)

but this should also be possible on Unix systems

I hope this little “trick” will be helpful to some of you.