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What Is Host Program? How To Create Host Program? and What Is .Prog File?

To run a shell script as a concurrent program in Unix, it must be registered as a "host program" by ending the executable file name with .prog and creating a soft link. An example creates a XX_TEST_HOST_PROG.prog file that echoes the default parameters passed by the concurrent manager ($0-4) and any additional parameters ($5+). The file is uploaded and a soft link is created to allow the concurrent manager to recognize it as a host program and pass the default parameters to run the script concurrently.

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What Is Host Program? How To Create Host Program? and What Is .Prog File?

To run a shell script as a concurrent program in Unix, it must be registered as a "host program" by ending the executable file name with .prog and creating a soft link. An example creates a XX_TEST_HOST_PROG.prog file that echoes the default parameters passed by the concurrent manager ($0-4) and any additional parameters ($5+). The file is uploaded and a soft link is created to allow the concurrent manager to recognize it as a host program and pass the default parameters to run the script concurrently.

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What is Host Program?

How to create
Host Program? and What is .Prog file?
To run a unix based shell script as a concurrent program, the executable of the
concurrent program should be registered as a Host program.
The execution file name of the host program should end with .prog extension and a
soft link should be created for the .prog file.
Here is an example of creation of host program with one parameter:
Step 1:
Create a prog file XX_TEST_HOST_PROG.prog as shown below
#=======================================================================

# Program : XX_TEST_HOST_PROG.prog

# Description : Host program example to print $0 to $4 parameters

# Author : Shailender Thallam

#=======================================================================

#Parameters 0 to 4 are default parameters and values are

#passed from Concurrent manager

echo "0 Shell script name along with Path : " ${0}

echo "1 Oracle Apps User Name and Password : " ${1}

echo "2 Application user_id from FND_USER : " ${2}

echo "3 Application user_name from FND_USER : " ${3}

echo "4 Concurrent Program Request ID : " ${4}

#Parameters from 5 are concurrent program parameter

echo " "

echo " "

echo "5 Concurrent Program Parameter 1 : " ${5}

#End of script
Step 2:
Upload the .prog file to the bin folder of respective application top and give
necessary file permissions

Step 3:
Create Soft Link:
ln -s $FND_TOP/bin/fndcpesr XX_TEST_HOST_PROG
Soft link will be created against fndcpesr so that concurrent manager will
recoganize as host program.
Step 4:
Create Executable and Concurrent Program
Run the Host Program

Program Output

Why should we create host program executable file with .prog extension?
We can even a create the executable file with .sh extension but the concurrent
manager will not pass any default parameters. Concurrent manager will pass default
parameters only to the host program executable with .prog extension. Below are 5
default parameters of a host program, whose values are passed by concurrent
manager

The first five parameters refer to the following:


$0: The shell script to be executed
$1: Oracle user/password
$2: Applications user_id
$3: Application user_name
$4: Concurrent program request_id
The parameters which we have on the concurrent program can be accessed from $5
Note: It is always suggestible to access parameters in this format ${0} rather
than $0. The reason behind this is, the shell script wont recognize double-digit
parameter when accessed in this format $10, so we need to use ${10}

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