The Microsoft Windows Script Host allows you to execute scripts written in various languages under a single, unified framework. Microsoft provides the VBScript and JScript scripting languages; other vendors have supplied additional scripting languages (such as PerlScript).
adTempus uses the Windows Script Host to provide extensive support for scripting. This means that adTempus supports any script in any scripting language installed on the adTempus server.
adTempus allows you to create jobs that execute scripts to accomplish external tasks (e.g., running a script that handles FTP download of data), but also allows you to use scripts to customize the behavior of adTempus. Scripts can be used:
As conditions, to determine whether a job or job step should run.
As actions, to perform quick tasks within adTempus, such as changing environment variables or sending keystrokes to applications.
To dynamically determine the command-line parameters for a program to be executed by adTempus.
Scripts are represented within adTempus by the Script object, which allows you to share scripts among jobs and users, and to restrict the use of scripts with security settings.
If you have subroutines or data that needs to be shared among scripts, you can place this code and data in Script Libraries, which can be referenced from any script.
Information can be shared between scripts within a job by using parameters.
Additional scripting topics:
Global variables and procedures available to adTempus scripts
Returning a result from a script
Sending keystrokes to an application
Setting environment variables with a script