Running .dtsx packages - sql-server

Question

I have recently installed SSMS 2022 V18 on my D: drive to conserve some space on the C:
When I try to execute the .dtsx file it says that there is no program available to execute it.
Is there some way to make this work or do I have to re install SSMS on the default C: drive.
10/27/22
Loaded SQL server 19 developer version. included the Integration service. Now I can import my dtsx files and execute them. So far so good. What I would like to do is run the .dtsx packages using DTexec.exe. I follow the example of executing dtexec running a file dtexec /f "d:\documents\sql\hits.dtsx" and it complains about the version numbers.
Package migration from version 8 to version 3 failed with error 0xC001700A "The version number in the package is not valid. The version number cannot be greater than current version number.".
THe dtsx file was created while running sql server 19 SSMS v 18.12.1. Should I load the SSMS package from SQL19?
Any other info would great.
Thanks

Answer 1

SSIS packages are executed by
DTEXEC.exe for command line runs (requires installation of SQL Server Integration Services Service to pass a licensing check)
Custom code referencing the SQL Server assemblies
The managed object model in the SSISDB https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/sql-server-integration-services/a-glimpse-of-the-ssis-catalog-managed-object-model/ba-p/387892
That's it, those are the three "runners" of SSIS packages. Using SSMS to run a package depends on "how" you were doing it versus what you're attempting now. Ultimately, you're connecting to a database and asking it to run a package.
If the package is in the SSISDB, it's using MOM.
It you were running a job, it's dtexec.exe
If you connected to the Integration Services connection node "thing" in SSMS, that's using dtexec, the 64 bit version I think?
If that's the case, changing SSMS likely also involved changing versions of SSMS which is version specific from what I can tell with that connector option.

Answer 2

OK so I came up with a solution for executing dtsx packages from another program.
the program that I want to run is DTExecUI.exe. In my case that's found in
"D:\Program Files\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\SSIS\150\Binn\DTExecUI.exe"
This program takes a parameter /f to indicate that is to get the data from a file and then the file location. example " /f D:\Documents\SQL\ipdata.dtsx.
Having figured all that out I wrote a little console app in VB that take the file name as a input parameter and launches DTExecUI to execute the file.
Imports System
Module Program
Sub Main(args As String())
Dim app As String = "D:\Program Files\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\SSIS\150\Binn\DTExecUI.exe"
Console.WriteLine(args(0))
Dim Arguments As String = "/f " & args(0)
LaunchProc(app, Arguments)
End Sub
Sub LaunchProc(fileNam As String, ByVal Optional arg As String = "",Optional wt As Boolean = True)
Dim p As New Process
p.StartInfo.FileName = fileNam
If arg > "" Then p.StartInfo.Arguments = arg
p.Start()
If wt Then p.WaitForExit()
End Sub
End Module
To make make it so I can run the dtsx file directly by double clicking on it. I associated the dtsx file extension with my little program. Works like a charm.