Console Script in SAP BODS

Question

I found the below in SAP Data services designer Script Editor. Can somebody explain what does it mean????? Is it downloading the .txt file from the server to the local drive?????????? How do I do the same in SSIS????

    # Download Daily file from Exchange server thru FTP  

    $GV_SERVER = '\\\\Fgppobne01\ft_etl_file_staging';  

    $LV_FTP_COMMAND = 'C:\Program Files (x86)\WinSCP\WinSCP.exe';  

    exec('[$LV_FTP_COMMAND]', '/console /script=' || '[$GV_SERVER]' ||'\Exchange.txt',0);

Answer 1

What does WinSCP.exe do?

A useful debugging technique is to print the output of the EXEC function, for example print(exec('fgfg.exe', 'ggg ddd', 8));

The script that you provided is assigning values to two variables and executing WinSCP.exe. Flag 0(third parameter of exec function) returns standard output if successful ,else System Failure Exception.