https://community.qlik.com/t5/Talend-Studio/resolved-Call-and-execute-an-external-application-from-within-a/m-p/2362676#M126770 No. But I solved the problem in a better way. <BR />See <A href="https://community.qlik.com/s/feed/0D53p00007vCoy3CAC" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://community.talend.com/t5/Design-and-Development/resolved-tSystem-gets-CreateProcess-error-2/td-p/98531</A> for the problem with the tSystem, which remains unresolved, but moot. <BR />Thanks, anyway - it should have worked. Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:31:38 GMT Anonymous 2013-03-07T16:31:38Z https://community.qlik.com/t5/Talend-Studio/resolved-Call-and-execute-an-external-application-from-within-a/m-p/2362672#M126766 I need to decode a row input (a string) from Base64 inside a Job. <BR />I have a .exe that does it. It's executable from a Windows command prompt. How can I call this .exe from a within a TOS component? Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:30:17 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/Talend-Studio/resolved-Call-and-execute-an-external-application-from-within-a/m-p/2362672#M126766 Anonymous 2013-02-25T14:30:17Z https://community.qlik.com/t5/Talend-Studio/resolved-Call-and-execute-an-external-application-from-within-a/m-p/2362673#M126767 hi,<BR />use tSystem component for that.<BR />regards<BR />laurent Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:52:33 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/Talend-Studio/resolved-Call-and-execute-an-external-application-from-within-a/m-p/2362673#M126767 Anonymous 2013-02-25T14:52:33Z https://community.qlik.com/t5/Talend-Studio/resolved-Call-and-execute-an-external-application-from-within-a/m-p/2362674#M126768 <BLOCKQUOTE><TABLE border="1"><TBODY><TR><TD>I need to decode a row input (a string) from Base64 inside a Job. <BR />I have a .exe that does it. It's executable from a Windows command prompt. How can I call this .exe from a within a TOS component?</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></BLOCKQUOTE><BR />You can execute it using the tSystem component or alternatively put the command in a batch file and execute the batch from tSystem component. Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:58:38 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/Talend-Studio/resolved-Call-and-execute-an-external-application-from-within-a/m-p/2362674#M126768 Anonymous 2013-02-25T14:58:38Z https://community.qlik.com/t5/Talend-Studio/resolved-Call-and-execute-an-external-application-from-within-a/m-p/2362675#M126769 Hi,<BR />Did it work for you?<BR />Regards,<BR />Diwakar Wed, 27 Feb 2013 04:44:28 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/Talend-Studio/resolved-Call-and-execute-an-external-application-from-within-a/m-p/2362675#M126769 Anonymous 2013-02-27T04:44:28Z https://community.qlik.com/t5/Talend-Studio/resolved-Call-and-execute-an-external-application-from-within-a/m-p/2362676#M126770 No. But I solved the problem in a better way. <BR />See <A href="https://community.qlik.com/s/feed/0D53p00007vCoy3CAC" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://community.talend.com/t5/Design-and-Development/resolved-tSystem-gets-CreateProcess-error-2/td-p/98531</A> for the problem with the tSystem, which remains unresolved, but moot. <BR />Thanks, anyway - it should have worked. Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:31:38 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/Talend-Studio/resolved-Call-and-execute-an-external-application-from-within-a/m-p/2362676#M126770 Anonymous 2013-03-07T16:31:38Z