(v4.1 2) Unofficial Support for running S2PX on macOS

Owned by John McKeever
May 08, 2024
3 min read

IMPORTANT NOTES

No components of MettleCI or S2PX are officially supported on macOS, however there is no reason why the Java-based MettleCI Command Line Interface should not be able to execute on a suitably-specified macOS environment. Both of the S2PX plugins have been used with success on macOS platforms, but have not been formally tested or released on that platform.

NOTE THAT NOT ALL PLUGINS WILL WORK! Some of the MettleCI non-S2PX CLI plugins rely on access to co-resident DataStage Client Tier components which are only available on a Windows platform. Using one of these plugins on a macOS platform may produce unpredictable and undocumented results. See ‘Windows-Only Commands’ on this page for more details.

Installing S2PX on macOS

Much of this is the same as the regular MettleCI CLI installation process, except with macOS we start with the Windows distributable.

  1. Download the Windows S2PX Command Shell distributable (e.g. dm-mettleci-command-shell-1.1-205-dist.zip)

  2. Unzip it to a convenient location and rename the folder to something memorable like mettleci.

  3. You should now have a directory like this…

    $> tree /Users/johnmckeever/mettleci /Users/johnmckeever/mettleci ├── bin │   ├── bcpg-jdk15on-1.67.jar │   ├── bcprov-jdk15on-1.67.jar │   └── command-shell-1.1-133.jar ├── config.properties ├── docs │   <SNIP> ├── lib │   ├── commons-io-2.5.jar │   ├── commons-lang-2.6.jar │   ├── commons-lang3-3.10.jar │   ├── org.eclipse.emf.common-2.18.0.jar │   ├── org.eclipse.emf.ecore-2.21.0.jar │   └── org.eclipse.emf.ecore.xmi-2.16.0.jar ├── log │   └── stdout.log ├── mettleci ├── mettleci-debug ├── mettleci-debug.cmd ├── mettleci.cmd └── plugins ├── dm-bamboo-sftp-plugin-1.0-47.jar ├── dm-ccmigrate-plugin-1.0-335.jar ├── dm-compliance-plugin-2.1-364.jar ├── dm-dsadmin-plugin-1.0-448.jar ├── dm-dscompile-plugin-1.0-522.jar ├── dm-dsdeploy-plugin-1.0-634.jar ├── dm-dsexecute-plugin-1.0-385.jar ├── dm-dsmsgh-plugin-1.0-45.jar ├── dm-dstest-plugin-1.0-374.jar ├── dm-isxexport-plugin-1.0-575.jar ├── dm-isximport-plugin-1.0-538.jar └── dm-properties-config-plugin-1.0-178.jar 12 directories, 77 files

  4. Add executable permissions to the file mettleci

    $> chmod u+x mettleci $> ls -l total 40 -rw-r-----@ 1 johnmckeever staff 1.4K 18 May 11:09 mettleci.cmd -rw-r-----@ 1 johnmckeever staff 1.5K 18 May 11:09 mettleci-debug.cmd -rw-r-----@ 1 johnmckeever staff 1.6K 18 May 11:09 mettleci-debug -rwxr-----@ 1 johnmckeever staff 1.5K 18 May 11:09 mettleci -rw-r-----@ 1 johnmckeever staff 1.2K 18 May 11:09 config.properties drwxrwxrwx@ 8 johnmckeever staff 256B 18 May 11:09 lib drwxrwxrwx@ 5 johnmckeever staff 160B 18 May 11:09 bin drwxr-x---@ 14 johnmckeever staff 448B 18 May 11:13 plugins drwxr-x---@ 3 johnmckeever staff 96B 18 May 11:13 log drwxrwxr-x@ 9 johnmckeever staff 288B 18 May 11:13 docs $>

  5. Copy your MettleCI license file (mettleci.lic) into your directory

  6. Edit the config.properties file to point to your MettleCI license file.

    1. Be careful if you’re using a relative path in your config.properties file to point to your license file. This is a common source of error.

    2. Ensure the MettleCI license file has both read and write permissions.

  7. Download the two S2PX plugins and place them in your plugins directory.

  8. Test it. The Command failed messages in the examples below means you didn't provide all the required options for each command.

    $> ./mettleci s2px analysis MettleCI Command Line (build 133) (C) 2018-2022 Data Migrators Pty Ltd The following options are required: -isx -report Usage: s2px analysis [options] Options: * -isx the ISX extract or directory of extracts to be analysed * -report output report (XLSX) Command failed. $> ./mettleci s2px convert MettleCI Command Line (build 133) (C) 2018-2022 Data Migrators Pty Ltd The following options are required: -target-dsx -source-dsx -config Usage: s2px convert [options] Options: * -config Path to server to parallel configuration file * -source-dsx Source DSX export to be converted from server to parallel * -target-dsx Target DSX that will contain all converted jobs Command failed. $>

  9. Done 🙂

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