The Process of Connecting UNIX and NT Directories

If your application runs on UNIX, exporting and importing packages involves additional considerations. You can create data mover scripts on the UNIX machine, but the data mover used for importing and exporting packages can only be run through an NT Process Scheduler.

Important:

Any job or process that uses data mover in a UNIX environment must run on an NT Process Scheduler.

Because UNIX and NT reference directories differently, you must define a shared directory that can be accessed by both platforms. In order to do so, the same paths must be mounted on both platforms. The path name must be defined identically on both machines. For example, we have defined the following directory structure to store datamover files:

• NT system: \\xx-xxx\hcm\datamover\

• UNIX system: /xx-xxx/hcm/datamover/

When you specify the path names before creating scripts, importing packages, or exporting packages, you must always use the NT notation including the double back slash. PeopleCode automatically transcribes the path name to the appropriate platform notation when needed.

Important:

You must add the location of your scripts to the psprcs.cfg file in the NT Process Scheduler. You should verify that the section marked [Data Mover] has the Input and Output paths pointed to the same drive.