Cipar

The example in abcd-advanced/isisscript/guides/loops.md assumes that the CDS database is held in the same directory as the Isis script. Usually this is not desirable – you want to keep the database(s) in one directory and the scripts in the /cgi-bin directory.

So you need to tell WXIS where to find the database. This is done using a parameter called cipar.

It is convenient to place it at the beginning of the script before the tasks. An example would be:

<parm name=cipar> cds.*=c:\bases\cds\cds.*</parm>

This indicates that when files with the name cds and any extension are referred to in the script they are to be found as files with the same name in the c:\bases\cds directory. (In technical terms, you are saying that the logical name cds.* is equivalent to the physical name *c:\bases\cds\cds.**)

Any other files not in the cgi-bin directory should be specified in the same way. To specify more than one equivalence you can use the <pft> tag and make each one a literal, e.g.

<parm name=cipar>
    <pft>
        ‘cds.*=c:\bases\cds\cds.*’/
        ‘short.pft=c:\bases\cds\short.pft’/
        ‘error.htm=c:\httpd\docs\error.htm’/
     </pft>
</parm>