Creating Soft link or Symbolic link for Concurrent Manager program files

Creating Soft link or Symbolic link for Concurrent Manager program files

Soft Link or Symbolic Link is required to read a shell script (.prog file) through a concurrent program.

We can create soft links or symbolic links for Concurrent Manager program files as follows:

Step 1:Go to the custom top as below:

>cd $xxtest_TOP/bin
testapp01(APPDEV) /product/appl/apps/apps_st/appl/xxtest/12.0.0/bin

Step 2: Use 'fndcpesr' command to create soft link

Lets say we have to create two symbolic links for two .prog files xxtest_techtest_ets_loader.prog and xxtest_techtest_points_loader.prog respectively,than we can proceed as follows:

$pwd
testapp01(APPDEV) /product/appl/apps/apps_st/appl/xxtest/12.0.0/bin
$ln -s $FND_TOP/bin/fndcpesr xxtest_techtest_ets_loader

$ln -s $FND_TOP/bin/fndcpesr xxtest_techtest_points_loader

Note:prog_name should be without .prog extension while creating symbolic link for .prog files.

Step 3:Verify the two created symbolic links:

$ls -altr xxtest_techtest*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 applmgr oinstall 55 Feb 7 14:29 xxtest_techtest_ets_loader -> /product/appl/apps/apps_st/appl/fnd/12.0.0/bin/fndcpesr
lrwxrwxrwx 1 applmgr oinstall 55 Feb 7 14:29 xxtest_techtest_points_loader -> /product/appl/apps/apps_st/appl/fnd/12.0.0/bin/fndcpesr
As we see above,after creating symbolic link the new attribute 'l' is added that is nothing but symbolic link.

Note:
1)'fndcpesr' is a standard utility available in $FND_TOP/bin directory.
2) Its mainly used by the application to parse arguments for shell scripts.
3)It is located in $FND_TOP/bin path along with other FND Utilities.
4)'fndcpesr' is an executable and read only file.