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rtstsee.exe window from a batch file at execution time

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Question

An IBM® Rational® TestManager suite contains an IBM Rational Robot graphical user interface (GUI) script. This script starts a Microsoft® Windows® batch (.bat, .cmd). When you run the suite on a Master or an Agent computer, an rtstsee.exe window opens. How do you run the suite without an rtstsee.exe window?

Answer

Move the functions of the Windows batch to a Visual Basic Script (.vbs).

The following situation serves as an example.

You have the batch file C:\MyBatches\MyBatch.bat, that has the following line:


@Notepad.exe %RATL_RTHOME%\tssmetadata.xml

The batch opens the file tssmetadata.xml in Notepad. Your Robot script starts the batch with the Shell function:


Shell ("C:\MyBatches\MyBatch.bat")

When the TestManager suite runs, the rtstsee.exe window is visible. To run the Robot script functions without the rtstsee.exe window, you create a .vbs file C:\MyVBS\MyVBS.bat with the following code:


Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.Run "Notepad.exe %RATL_RTHOME%\tssmetadata.xml", 1, true
Set WshShell = Nothing


In your Robot script you code:

    Shell "WScript.exe "C:\MyVBS\MyVBS.bat")

Notes
  • You can run the command in such a way that the .vbs script waits for the program to finish before the .vbs script continues. Consider the syntax of the Run method.

    WshShell.Run(strCommand, [intWindowStyle], [bWaitOnReturn])

    If you set bWaitOnReturn to true, script execution halts until the program finishes.
  • More information about the Run method is the Microsoft web page Run Method (Windows Script Host) .

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Modified date:
16 June 2018

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swg21281420

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