How to Trigger EIM Job from UNIX?

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Everybody knows that EIM is usually used in Siebel to import data from external applications. I am not going to go into details of EIM in this article. This article assumes that you already have an EIM Job created and running successfully and your requirement is to run this EIM at regular intervals.

One way to achieve this requirement is to create a RCR for EIM Component and configure it to trigger it at your desired interval but I have found RCR to be error prone and unstable. Sometimes they just don’t get triggered and some they trigger too often.

One of the stable but difficult to manage, solution of this problem is using a shell script to trigger that job from Unix OS. Here is the script that you can use to execute EIM Job.

EIM_JOB_SCRIPT

*Please change the extension to ksh from txt before trying to execute the script

You can then schedule this shell script through crontab to run at your desired time. For example to run this file every day at 2:00 AM you will need to create following entry in crontab.

00 02 * * * /usr/bin/ksh -x "/usr/scripts/EIM_JOB_SCRIPT.ksh"