Running ax batch jobs in command line

Finance and Operations/AX Developer Forum
1

Hello Everyone,

Is there any possibilty to stop and start ax batch jobs in running ax session using command?

2

Can you elaborate your requirements? What “starting” and “stopping” means for you? Changing the status?

What’s your version of AX?

3

Hi Martin,

Is it possible to get a command to start and stop batch jobs(changing status) in running Ax application. My Ax version is 4.0 SP2.

4

Hi Martin,

My requirement is, Ax batch jobs sometimes stop processing files from a location because of db connectivity issues. So we need a command line to start the stopped batch jobs in running application. Is it possible to do in Ax 4.0 SP2?

5

Everything is possible with a piece of code. [:)]

I would use Business Connector and call it directly from Powershell. This is how I opened AX 2009 BC in Powershell:

$connectorDllPath = 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics AX\50\' `
    + 'Client\Bin\Microsoft.Dynamics.BusinessConnectorNet.dll'
$configFile = …

try
{
    [void][reflection.Assembly]::Loadfile($connectorDllPath)
    $ax = New-Object Microsoft.Dynamics.BusinessConnectorNet.Axapta
    $ax.logon('', '', '', $configFile)
}
6

Hi Martin,

Thank you. May I know how does it work? What is the purpose of $configFile?

7

I used $configFile to point to a specific .axc file. You don’t need it if you want to use the default AX configuration.

Here is the MSDN documentation for Logon().