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Pass Positional Arguments in a Windows Job

When running workload, you might need to pass data between jobs and across platforms. You can pass positional arguments to a command in your job definition. Positional arguments are variables that can be passed to a program at the time the program is invoked. The arguments are assigned in the order they are passed.

To pass positional arguments to a command, specify the ARGS statement in the job definition. You can specify multiple ARGS statements within a single job definition.

Example: Pass Positional Arguments to a Windows Program

This example passes three arguments to a Windows program. The argument "C:\Pay Data\salary.dat" is enclosed with double quotation marks because it contains a space.

ARGS "C:\Pay Data\salary.dat" 341 749

When the program runs, the arguments are set as follows: