Use OBEY to process a file that contains a list of Oracle GoldenGate commands. OBEY is useful for executing commands that are frequently used in sequence.

You can call one OBEY file from another one. This is called a nested OBEY file. You can nest up to 16 OBEY files. To use nested OBEY files, you must enable the functionality by first issuing the ALLOWNESTED command, see ALLOWNESTED.

Syntax

OBEY file_name

file_name

The relative or fully qualified path name of the file that contains the list of commands.

Examples

OBEY ./mycommands.txt

ADD EXTRACT exte, TRANLOG, BEGIN NOW
add exttrail east/ea, EXTRACT exte
ADD EXTRACT extw, TRANLOG, BEGIN NOW
ADD EXTRACT west/ew, EXTRACT extw
ADD REPLICAT repe, EXTTRAIL east/ea, BEGIN NOW
ADD REPLICAT repw, EXTTRAIL west/ew, BEGIN NOW 

The preceding command executes the mycommands.txt file and dispalys its content with the ADD commands.

The following example displays the content of the startcmds.txt file.

OBEY ./startcmds.txt

START EXTRACT *
INFO EXTRACT *, DETAIL
START REPLICAT *
INFO REPLICAT *, DETAIL