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Few days back, I had an opportunity to discuss on capability of Calc Manager to trigger .bat files. A fellow colleague of mine happen to have this requirement and had written a CDF to call a batch script. I was not convinced to write a CDF to perform such activity and believed to have some option using which we can avoid writing CDFs. Most of us have used Maxl and must be aware of the command ‘Shell’. This command triggers underlying operating system commands from within Maxl shell session. This is our easy way to do what we want. With the introduction of Calc Manager CDFs @CalcMgrExecuteEncryptMaxLFile and @CalcMgrExecuteMaxLEnScript , we now have ability to trigger Maxls from within Calc Manager. All we need to make sure is all such requests are sent to Essbase Server and bin folder under Essbase path is our starting point. Lets use Oracle sample application Vision and Calc Manager to test out. Create a batch file Test.bat . This file accepts a run time parameter and simply w...