Command line args for hciguismat

[Mark Thompson]

Running CL 5.5: Does anyone know what command line arguments can be used with the new improved (but unsupported) hciguismat?  We have scripts that run the older hcismat and use the -i argument to load a particular smat file.  It would be really nice to do that with the new smat tool also.

- Mark Thompson
HealthPartners

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[John Hamilton]

I don’t know if you ever got this answered.

With 5.5 you can still get a listing of all command line argument just by typing “hcismat -?” which give you and error but tells you all the options

[Mark Thompson]

Thanks John, but hciguismat appears to work differently (or at least have different command line options) than hcismat.  What I am trying to do is build a smat file then trigger hciguismat to run and load the file.  We are running CL on AIX 5.3.

- Mark Thompson
HealthPartners

[Russ Ross]

We are at QDX 5.2.1P2 and have scripts that use the old hcismat with command line args, too.

For example, one of our scripts (ascii_smat_to_nl.ksh) runs

hcismat -i $idx_file -orsf $len10_file -sall

So my question along these lines I hope someone can answer is, “Can I continue using the old hcismat when I upgrade to QDX 5.5 or higher; or should I start using something else like hciguismat and figure out how to get it to do the same thing that hcismat does?”

Russ Ross
RussRoss318@gmail.com

[Mark Thompson]

Russ,

The old hcismat scripts still work at 5.5.  We are trying to phase out our X-windows dependency and use the supported hciguismat.  Quovadx has improved the GUI smat to the point where we are ready to move that direction.  We are trying to figure out a way to get hciguismat to automatically load a file a startup the way our hcismat scripts did.

- Mark Thompson
HealthPartners

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