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pwxcmd fileswitch Command

Closes open PowerExchange Logger for Linux, UNIX, and Windows log files and then switches to a new set of log files. If the open log files do not contain any data, the file switch does not occur.

You can perform an automated file switch before the next file switch is due to occur to make change data available for extraction processing. If you run extractions in batch extraction mode, include the pwxcmd fileswitch command in a script and then run that script before the batch extractions.

For example, to extract change data hourly from PowerExchange Logger log files, first set the FILE_SWITCH_CRIT and FILE_SWITCH_VAL parameters in the pwxccl.cfg file such that a file switch does not automatically occur before the extractions run. For example, you might set the parameters to perform an automatic file switch after every 1,000,000 record updates. Then include the pwxcmd fileswitch command in a script that runs shortly before the scheduled extraction processes.

Usually, you do not need to perform file switches manually if you use continuous extraction mode.

Use the following syntax:

pwxcmd fileswitch {-service|-sv} service_name 
                  [{-user|-uid|-u} user_ID] 
                  [{{-password|-pwd|-p} password|{-epassword|-e} encrypted_password}]

The following table describes pwxcmd fileswitch options and arguments:

Option	Argument	Description
-service -sv	service_name	Required. Service name for the PowerExchange Logger for Linux, UNIX, and Windows process.
-user -uid -u	user_ID	Required if you enable security. A valid operating system user ID on the system that is the target of the command. For a PowerExchange Logger on a supported Linux, UNIX, or Windows system, if you have enabled PowerExchange LDAP user authentication, the user name is the enterprise user name. For more information, see the PowerExchange Reference Manual .
-password -pwd -p	password	Plain text password. If you specify a user ID, you must specify a plain text password or an encrypted password.
-epassword -e	encrypted_password	Encrypted password. If you specify a user ID, you must specify a plain text password or an encrypted password.

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