It would be nice to know what happened with the script when it runs early in the morning.

I found  that if you call the script from the Windows Task Scheduler that you [...]]]> I needed to have a script list and kill processes and I needed that script to run out of a scheduled task.

It would be nice to know what happened with the script when it runs early in the morning.

I found  that if you call the script from the Windows Task Scheduler that you can give the job a few more options.

Change the scheduled tasks to read as
cmd /C NightlyBatchJob.bat > NightlyBatchJob.output.txt 2>&1

The output should be placed in the same directory as the script.

I also should include the script that stops all of the java processes for Wallstreet systems CMM/TRM application.

REM Win 2003 systems have the sleep command
REM sleep 40
REM XP systems don't.
REM The ping command times out at 20 seconds, goofy way to create a wait.
REM Comment out either the ping or the sleep depending on which works
cd \<install_path>\pmm\bin
REM force PMAD/PMSD to start, in case they are not running

net start "Wallstreet Suite - pmad"

net start "Wallstreet Suite - pmsd"
.\pm_cmd admin_account/password@localhost:8887 stop SDM@test1

.\pm_cmd admin_account/password@localhost:8887 stop ACM@test1

.\pm_cmd admin_account/password@localhost:8887 stop websuite_appserver@test1

.\pm_cmd admin_account/password@localhost:8887 stop WebSuite@test1

.\pm_cmd admin_account/password@localhost:8887 stop cmm_tcmd_appserver@test1
REM sleep 40

ping 10.10.10.254 > NUL

ping 10.10.10.254 > NUL
.\pm_cmd admin_account/password@localhost:8887 stop TRM@test1
ping 10.10.10.254 > NUL

ping 10.10.10.254 > NUL
.\pm_cmd admin_account/password@localhost:8887 stop messaging@test1

.\pm_cmd admin_account/password@localhost:8887 stop active_mq@test1

.\pm_cmd admin_account/password@localhost:8887 stop trm_mdsd@test1

.\pm_cmd admin_account/password@localhost:8887 stop omninames@test1
REM Only stop  pmad/pmsd if really necessary

REM net stop "Wallstreet Suite - pmsd"

REM net stop "Wallstreet Suite - pmad"
REM sleep 20

ping 10.10.10.254 > NUL
REM Display processes status if needed

.\pm_cmd admin_account/password@localhost:8887 proc
REM sleep 40

ping 10.10.10.254 > NUL

ping 10.10.10.254 > NUL
REM Make sure everything is down by killing any hung processes.

.\pm_cmd admin_account/password@localhost:8887 kill WALLSTREET_SUITE@test1
REM sleep 40

ping 10.10.10.254 > NUL

ping 10.10.10.254 > NUL

REM List out the remaining running tasks owned by SYSTEM

tasklist /S localhost /U SYSTEM

REM Kill any left over java processes. NOTE: will kill ALL JAVA processes on the system

taskkill /F /FI "IMAGENAME eq java*"