The task wrapper file does not normally need many changes, if the task designer sticks to the KISS principle, focusing on the functional aspect of the task.

• The file name is changed, ending with .ecf instead of .sms.

• simply copy or link the original file from .sms into .ecf

• alternatively, define a variable ECF_EXTN in the definition file:: edit ECF_EXTN .sms

  This requests that the ecFlow server uses .sms wrappers as the task template. In some cases, no files will need translation (no SMS variables, no CDP calls)

• smsmicro is replaced with ecf_micro, when needed

  SMS	ecFlow	location
  SMSMICRO	ECF_MICRO	definition file
  %smsmicro	%ecf_micro	script .ecf .h

• In ECMWF Operations, in the main branch, amongst 1394 files, only 43 use SMS system variables, i.e. variables whose name starts with SMS. Among all the suites MetApps is in charge of, amongst 3738 files, 216 are affected. Extracting these variables, we have:

  ============
  %SMS in .sms
  ============
  SMSCHECK
  SMSCHECKOLD
  SMSDATE
  SMSFILES
  SMSHOME
  SMSHOST
  SMSINCLUDE
  SMSJOBOUT
  SMSLOG
  SMSNAME
  SMSNODE
  SMSTRYNO
  SMSURLBASE
  SMS_PROG
  ============

  Similarly, we can identify all scripts that call the CDP text client.

  It is a good design principle to create tasks that are independent of SMS system variables. Only the tasks in charge of “advanced use” are concerned: SMSTRYNO was used to make a job aware of its instance number, enabling verbose output in case of rerun.

  One step translation consists of running the scripts through a filter that can be used for both expanded SMS definition files or for task wrappers:

  > sed -f sms2ecf-min.sed X.sms > X.ecf

  #!/bin/sed -f 
  /^  *action  */d 
  /^  *edit ECF_DATE  */d
  s:SMSNAME:ECF_NAME:g
  s:SMSNODE:ECF_NODE:g
  s:SMSPASS:ECF_PASS:g
  s:SMS_PROG:ECF_PORT:g
  s:SMSINCLUDE:ECF_INCLUDE:g
  s:SMSFILES:ECF_FILES:g
  s:SMSTRYNO:ECF_TRYNO:g
  s:SMSTRIES:ECF_TRIES:g
  s:SMSHOME:ECF_HOME:g
  s:SMSRID:ECF_RID:g
  s:SMSJOB:ECF_JOB:g
  s:SMSJOBOUT:ECF_JOBOUT:g
  s:SMSOUT:ECF_OUT:g
  s:SMSCHECKOLD:ECF_CHECKOLD:g
  s:SMSCHECK:ECF_CHECK:g
  s:SMSLOG:ECF_LOG:g
  s:SMSLISTS:ECF_LISTS:g
  s:SMSPASSWD:ECF_PASSWD:g
  s:SMSSERVERS:ECF_SERVERS:g
  s:SMSMICRO:ECF_MICRO:g
  s:SMSPID:ECF_PID:g
  s:SMSHOST:ECF_HOST:g
  s:SMSDATE:ECF_DATE:g
  s:SMSURL:ECF_URL:g
  s:SMSURLBASE:ECF_URLBASE:g
  s:SMSCMD:ECF_JOB_CMD:g
  s:SMSKILL:ECF_KILL_CMD:g
  s:SMSSTATUSCMD:ECF_STATUS_CMD:g
  s:SMSURLCMD:ECF_URL_CMD:g
  s:SMSWEBACCESS:ECF_WEBACCESS:g
  s:SMS_VERS:ECF_VERS:g
  s:SMS_VERSION:ECF_VERSION:g
  /edit ECF_INCLUDE/ {
  s:/include:/include_ecf:g
  }
  /edit ECF_INCLUDE/ {
  s:_prod:_prod_ecf:g
  }
  /edit ECF_FILES/ {
  s:_prod:_prod_ecf:g
  }
  s:smshostfile:ecf_hostfile:g
  s:sms_hosts:ecf_hosts:g
  
  

  Applying such a filter to all sms tasks can be simplfied:

  #!/bin/ksh
  files=`find -type f -name "*.sms"  ## all sms wrappers
  for f in $files ; do
  ecf=$(basename $f .sms).ecf        ## ecf task name
  sed -f sms2ecf-min.sed $f > $ecf   ## translate
  diff $f $ecf > /dev/null && rm $ecf && ln -sf $f $g ## or link
  done

  SMS wrappers links can be preserved:

  #!/bin/ksh
  files=`find -type l -name "*.sms" `
  for f in $files ; do
  ecf=$(basename $f .sms).ecf        ## ecf task name
  link=$(readlink $f)
  dir=$(dirname $f); cd $dir
  ln -sf $link $ecf
  cd -
  done

  Special attention is needed for the variables renaming:

  SMS	ecFlow
  SMSCMD	ECF_JOB_CMD
  SMSKILL	ECF_KILL_CMD
  SMS_STATUSCMD	ECF_STATUS_CMD
  SMS_URLCMD	ECF_URL_CMD

  It is not a good idea to systematically replace SMS with ECF_, for example, we use the variables NO_SMS and LSMSSIG which are not related to SMS.

• If we want to run the the same job using both SMS and ecFlow, %SMSXXX% may be replaced with shell variables ECF_XXX. Then in a header file, we will define ECF_XXX=%SMSXXX:0% for sms mode and ECF_XXX=%ECF_XXX:0% for ecFlow mode.

• All tasks calling CDP directly must be treated carefully and text client commands replaced with their ecFlow counterpart. They may force complete a family or a task, requeue a job or change a variable value:

  #!/usr/bin/env cdp
  cdp << EOF
  define ERROR {
    if(rc==0) then exit 1; endif
  }
  
  set SMS_PROG %SMS_PROG%
  login %SMSNODE% %USER% 1 ; ERROR
  suites -s %SUITE%
  loop task ( $missing ) do
    force -r complete /%SUITE%/%FAMILY%/tc\$task ; ERROR
  endloop
  exit
  EOF

  The ECF_PORT variable gives us the ability to discriminate between jobs under ecFlow control or not:

  #!/bin/ksh
  
  if [ %ECF_PORT:0% -gt 0 ] ; then
    for task in $missing; do
      ecflow_client --force complete recursive /%SUITE%/%FAMILY%/tc$task
    done
  else
  
  cdp << EOF
  define ERROR {
    if(rc==0) then exit 1; endif
  }
  
  set SMS_PROG %SMS_PROG%
  login %SMSNODE% %USER% 1 ; ERROR
  suites -s %SUITE%
  loop task ( $missing ) do
    force -r complete /%SUITE%/%FAMILY%/tc\$task ; ERROR
  endloop
  exit
  EOF
  fi
  

• sms child commands may also be called in few sms task wrappers. These should again be replaced with their ecFlow equivalents.