You can initiate running a Processing Sequence in several ways.

While you are designing and testing your LANSA Composer solutions, you will usually run a Processing Sequence from within the LANSA Composer client application or from a "shortcut" on the LANSA Composer client computer.  Refer to the following sections for more information:

• Run a Processing Sequence from the LANSA Composer client
• Run a saved Processing Sequence "shortcut" from a client computer

In a production environment, you will usually run a Processing Sequence outside the LANSA Composer client application. This allows you to:

• Initiate running Processing Sequences from your own applications

• Create shortcuts to run Processing Sequences

• Submit Processing Sequence runs as batch jobs on your IBM i server

• Plug-Processing Sequences into your job scheduler of choice.

Depending on your requirements and circumstances, you can choose from one of several means of initiating a Processing Sequence run:

• Run a Processing Sequence using the COMPOSER command
• Run a Processing Sequence using a Run Control File
• Run a Processing Sequence from a LANSA application
• Run a Processing Sequence by calling the Web Service function
• Run a Processing Sequence using the DXP1FN1 function

For information on scheduling Processing Sequence runs using your job scheduler, refer to the one of the following topics appropriate to your LANSA Composer server:

• Scheduling Processing Sequences on IBM i Servers
• Scheduling Processing Sequences on Windows Servers