About Editing File Parameters on the Design Gateway

After you add a file parameter through the OS Command component, you can use the Design Gateway Files tab to edit the parameter.

The following figure shows a file parameter opened on the Files tab.



Isight copies the file parameter into the working directory with the same name as the original file. When the command is run, the full path to this file is passed to the operating system (and the file is made an executable on Linux).

If the executable that you entered is large, you can change the Source area from In Model to File to reduce the size of the model file. Doing so, however, requires that all SIMULIA Execution Engine stations that are to run this program have access to the specified file system. Alternatively, the affinities for the OS Command component can be set so this component runs only on the one computer where this program has been installed.

If the Source location is an absolute path, you can change the Destination location from Fixed file name to Automatic to avoid copying the file; instead, the absolute path of the Source file will be passed to the operating system as the name of the program to run. This is the equivalent to not distributing the program.