Help me in automating the recycling of UNIX server

Hello everyone...I am very new to UNIX hence needs your help in below.

i have written a script to change some configuration in property files and its working fine.but to reflect that change at the application i want to recycle WAS and ihs.i.e. run below start and stop commands at /usr/local/bin
./stop_was6 once it gets over ./start_was6 similarly ./stop_was6 followed by start_ihs

COuld you please help me in automating this.

Moderator's Comments:

edit by bakunin: please make sure you post to the correct forum next time. Further, please document more clearly your environment. From what you write i suppose you have a "WebSphere Application Server", which is middleware from IBM, but I am not at all sure about that. You might want to clarify. Transferring the thread to Web Programming Forum

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I am working in unix environment and sorry as i am not getting option for changing the forum and my goal is write a shell script to recycle the server.as i already have other script for some task in shell and wants to append this shell script with the previous one.