diff --git a/dhp-workflows/dhp-doiboost/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/doiboost/orcid/OrcidDSManager.java b/dhp-workflows/dhp-doiboost/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/doiboost/orcid/OrcidDSManager.java
index 05e280d417..daff696237 100644
--- a/dhp-workflows/dhp-doiboost/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/doiboost/orcid/OrcidDSManager.java
+++ b/dhp-workflows/dhp-doiboost/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/doiboost/orcid/OrcidDSManager.java
@@ -1,35 +1,30 @@
 package eu.dnetlib.doiboost.orcid;
 
-import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.net.URI;
-import java.util.Properties;
-
+import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
+import eu.dnetlib.dhp.application.ArgumentApplicationParser;
+
 public class OrcidDSManager {
 
 	private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(OrcidDSManager.class);
 	
 	private String hdfsServerUri;
-	private String hadoopUsername;
     private String hdfsOrcidDefaultPath;
     private String summariesFileNameTarGz;
     private String outputAuthorsPath;
     
-    public static void main(String[] args) {
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, Exception {
     	logger.info("OrcidDSManager started");
     	OrcidDSManager orcidDSManager = new OrcidDSManager();
-    	try {
-			orcidDSManager.initGARRProperties();
-			orcidDSManager.generateAuthors();
-		} catch (Exception e) {
-			logger.error("Generating authors data: "+e.getMessage());
-		}
+		orcidDSManager.loadArgs(args);
+		orcidDSManager.generateAuthors();
     }
 
     public void generateAuthors() throws Exception {
@@ -49,9 +44,6 @@ public class OrcidDSManager {
     	// Because of Maven
     	conf.set("fs.hdfs.impl", org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem.class.getName());
     	conf.set("fs.file.impl", org.apache.hadoop.fs.LocalFileSystem.class.getName());
-    	// Set HADOOP user
-    	System.setProperty("HADOOP_USER_NAME", hadoopUsername);
-    	System.setProperty("hadoop.home.dir", "/");
     	return conf;
     }
     
@@ -66,34 +58,18 @@ public class OrcidDSManager {
 		}
     	return fs;
     }
-    
-    private void loadProperties() throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
-        
-    	Properties appProps = new Properties();
-    	ClassLoader classLoader = ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader();
-    	appProps.load(classLoader.getResourceAsStream("orciddsmanager/props/app.properties"));
-    	hdfsServerUri = appProps.getProperty("hdfs.server.uri");
-    	hadoopUsername = appProps.getProperty("hdfs.hadoopusername");
-    	hdfsOrcidDefaultPath = appProps.getProperty("hdfs.orcid.defaultpath");
-    	summariesFileNameTarGz = appProps.getProperty("hdfs.orcid.summariesfilename.tar.gz");
-    	outputAuthorsPath = appProps.getProperty("hdfs.orcid.output.authorspath");
-    }
-    
-    private void initDefaultProperties() throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
-        
-    	hdfsServerUri = "hdfs://localhost:9000";
-    	hadoopUsername = "enrico.ottonello";
-    	hdfsOrcidDefaultPath = "/user/enrico.ottonello/orcid/";
-    	summariesFileNameTarGz = "ORCID_2019_summaries.tar.gz";
-    	outputAuthorsPath = "output/";
-    }
-    
-    private void initGARRProperties() throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
-        
-    	hdfsServerUri = "hdfs://hadoop-rm1.garr-pa1.d4science.org:8020";
-    	hadoopUsername = "root";
-    	hdfsOrcidDefaultPath = "/data/orcid_summaries/";
-    	summariesFileNameTarGz = "ORCID_2019_summaries.tar.gz";
-    	outputAuthorsPath = "output/";
+ 
+    private void loadArgs(String[] args) throws IOException, Exception {
+    	final ArgumentApplicationParser parser = new ArgumentApplicationParser(IOUtils.toString(OrcidDSManager.class.getResourceAsStream("/eu/dnetlib/dhp/doiboost/create_orcid_authors_data.json")));
+        parser.parseArgument(args);
+
+        final String hdfsServerUri = parser.get("hdfsServerUri");
+        logger.info("HDFS URI: "+hdfsServerUri);
+        Path hdfsOrcidDefaultPath = new Path(parser.get("hdfsOrcidDefaultPath"));
+        logger.info("Default Path: "+hdfsOrcidDefaultPath);
+        final String summariesFileNameTarGz = parser.get("summariesFileNameTarGz");
+        logger.info("Summaries File Name: "+summariesFileNameTarGz);
+        final String outputAuthorsPath = parser.get("summariesFileNameTarGz");
+        logger.info("Output Authors Data: "+outputAuthorsPath);
     }
 }
diff --git a/dhp-workflows/dhp-doiboost/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/doiboost/orcid/SummariesDecompressor.java b/dhp-workflows/dhp-doiboost/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/doiboost/orcid/SummariesDecompressor.java
index d8eb490133..2a8d6d6ded 100644
--- a/dhp-workflows/dhp-doiboost/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/doiboost/orcid/SummariesDecompressor.java
+++ b/dhp-workflows/dhp-doiboost/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/doiboost/orcid/SummariesDecompressor.java
@@ -122,14 +122,14 @@ public class SummariesDecompressor {
 						}
 			        }
 			        
-			        if ((counter % 1000) == 0) {
+			        if ((counter % 100000) == 0) {
 			        	logger.info("Current xml records parsed: "+counter);
 			        }
 			    }
     		}
 		} catch (IOException e) {
 			logger.error("Parsing record from gzip archive: "+e.getMessage());
-			e.printStackTrace();
+			throw new RuntimeException(e);
 		}
     	logger.info("Summaries parse completed");
     	logger.info("Total XML records parsed: "+counter);
diff --git a/dhp-workflows/dhp-doiboost/src/main/resources/eu/dnetlib/dhp/doiboost/create_orcid_authors_data.json b/dhp-workflows/dhp-doiboost/src/main/resources/eu/dnetlib/dhp/doiboost/create_orcid_authors_data.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bf992b5086
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dhp-workflows/dhp-doiboost/src/main/resources/eu/dnetlib/dhp/doiboost/create_orcid_authors_data.json
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+[
+  {"paramName":"n",   "paramLongName":"hdfsServerUri",	"paramDescription": "the server uri",   "paramRequired": true},
+  {"paramName":"d",   "paramLongName":"hdfsOrcidDefaultPath",	"paramDescription": "the default work path",	"paramRequired": true},
+  {"paramName":"f",   "paramLongName":"summariesFileNameTarGz",	"paramDescription": "the name of the summaries orcid file",	"paramRequired": true},
+  {"paramName":"o",   "paramLongName":"outputAuthorsPath",	"paramDescription": "the relative folder of the sequencial file to write",	"paramRequired": true}
+]
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/dhp-workflows/dhp-doiboost/src/main/resources/eu/dnetlib/dhp/doiboost/orcid.oozie_app/workflow.xml b/dhp-workflows/dhp-doiboost/src/main/resources/eu/dnetlib/dhp/doiboost/orcid.oozie_app/workflow.xml
index 5fb25a696d..36e0cdf1b4 100644
--- a/dhp-workflows/dhp-doiboost/src/main/resources/eu/dnetlib/dhp/doiboost/orcid.oozie_app/workflow.xml
+++ b/dhp-workflows/dhp-doiboost/src/main/resources/eu/dnetlib/dhp/doiboost/orcid.oozie_app/workflow.xml
@@ -29,10 +29,10 @@
             <job-tracker>${jobTracker}</job-tracker>
             <name-node>${nameNode}</name-node>
             <main-class>eu.dnetlib.doiboost.orcid.OrcidDSManager</main-class>
-            <!-- ENRICO FILL THE RIGHT ARG SECTION -->
-            <arg>-t</arg><arg>${workingPath}/input/crossref/index_dump</arg>
+            <arg>-d</arg><arg>${workingPath}/</arg>
             <arg>-n</arg><arg>${nameNode}</arg>
-
+			<arg>-f</arg><arg>ORCID_2019_summaries.tar.gz</arg>
+			<arg>-o</arg><arg>output/</arg>
         </java>
         <ok to="End"/>
         <error to="Kill"/>