Focal Point Banner


As of December 1, 2020, Focal Point is retired and repurposed as a reference repository. We value the wealth of knowledge that's been shared here over the years. You'll continue to have access to this treasure trove of knowledge, for search purposes only.

Join the TIBCO Community
TIBCO Community is a collaborative space for users to share knowledge and support one another in making the best use of TIBCO products and services. There are several TIBCO WebFOCUS resources in the community.

  • From the Home page, select Predict: WebFOCUS to view articles, questions, and trending articles.
  • Select Products from the top navigation bar, scroll, and then select the TIBCO WebFOCUS product page to view product overview, articles, and discussions.
  • Request access to the private WebFOCUS User Group (login required) to network with fellow members.

Former myibi community members should have received an email on 8/3/22 to activate their user accounts to join the community. Check your Spam folder for the email. Please get in touch with us at community@tibco.com for further assistance. Reference the community FAQ to learn more about the community.


Focal Point    Focal Point Forums  Hop To Forum Categories  WebFOCUS/FOCUS Forum on Focal Point     [SOLVED] Does WF read .max files?

Read-Only Read-Only Topic
Go
Search
Notify
Tools
[SOLVED] Does WF read .max files?
 Login/Join
 
Guru
posted
Hi there,

I have very little information regards to the .max files, and asked to find out if WF can read them.
I know many of you are very experinced in WF environment, even a "NO" would be appreciated.

Thanks,


Hua

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Kerry,


Developer Studio 7.6.11
AS400 - V5R4
HTML,PDF,XLS
 
Posts: 305 | Location: Winnipeg,MB | Registered: May 12, 2008Report This Post
Expert
posted Hide Post
What is the source of the .max files ?

What produced them ?


Waz...

Prod:WebFOCUS 7.6.10/8.1.04Upgrade:WebFOCUS 8.2.07OS:LinuxOutputs:HTML, PDF, Excel, PPT
In Focus since 1984
Pity the lost knowledge of an old programmer!

 
Posts: 6347 | Location: 33°49'23.0"S, 151°11'41.0"E | Registered: October 31, 2006Report This Post
Platinum Member
posted Hide Post
A quick Google search for '.max extension' ( http://filext.com/file-extension/MAX ) shows a bunch of scanner and 3D app type files, but nothing of a data association.

So I would guess that they might be typos of '.mas', which is a very common Focus extension.

Did you look inside a .max file to see what is there ?


Regards,
Dave

http://www.daveayers.com

WebFocus/Maintain 7.6.4-8
on Win2000 and 2003 Server
 
Posts: 165 | Location: Detroit Metro | Registered: September 17, 2003Report This Post
Virtuoso
posted Hide Post
And there appears also to exist a compression utility (much like winzip) by the name of Max. It might result in files with the extension of .max.
In that case you might want to try to uncompress the file(s) with the evaluation version of the program. Otherwise, I wouldn't know what it could be else than the suggestion Dave gave.


GamP

- Using AS 8.2.01 on Windows 10 - IE11.
in Focus since 1988
 
Posts: 1961 | Location: Netherlands | Registered: September 25, 2007Report This Post
Guru
posted Hide Post
I have not yet see the files. A wild guess is they are scanned engineering drawings.


Developer Studio 7.6.11
AS400 - V5R4
HTML,PDF,XLS
 
Posts: 305 | Location: Winnipeg,MB | Registered: May 12, 2008Report This Post
Virtuoso
posted Hide Post
How would you expect WebFOCUS to read a scanned drawing? It can only read data files. The only way you'll get that is to convert the image into a format that can be stored in a BLOB field, but you'll still need to have a database somewhere.


Regards,

Darin



In FOCUS since 1991
WF Server: 7.7.04 on Linux and Z/OS, ReportCaster, Self-Service, MRE, Java, Flex
Data: DB2/UDB, Adabas, SQL Server Output: HTML,PDF,EXL2K/07, PS, AHTML, Flex
WF Client: 77 on Linux w/Tomcat
 
Posts: 2298 | Location: Salt Lake City, Utah | Registered: February 02, 2007Report This Post
Platinum Member
posted Hide Post
Assuming the end-user has some application on their machine that can open the "Max" files, you could simply create a link to these files and allow the end-users PC to find the appropriate program and open them.

If you're looking to display the output of the max file in a report you will need to convert it to some other format as people have suggested.

I have generally found that the easiest way to convert formats is typically to convert something to PDF using a PDF printer:

e.g.
http://www.cutepdf.com/

or

http://www.primopdf.com/

Both the above resources are free and add a utility as a printer to "print" the PDF.

If you need it in some image format (e.g. JPEG, TIFF, etc), there are a lot of free utilities to convert a PDF to other formats.

While this does require many steps the chances of finding a max -> JPEG converter may be extremely unlikely, while you could print a MAX file and convert the PDF to another format relatively easily.

It might also be possible to create a batch file or something else that could automate this process.

Thanks,
Doug Logan


WF 71.x, 76.x, 7701, 8.0 Beta OS: Linux, Win2k3, Win2k, Win2k8, WinXP


 
Posts: 203 | Registered: November 19, 2007Report This Post
Guru
posted Hide Post
Thank you Doug for your reply.

As I mentioned before, we don't know much about the files. Now I found that these files are database files created by Maximizer. We have the backup files but do not have the application.
This is a one time process and things are still evolving.

I apologize for misleading you previously. Thanks everyone for your help.

Hua


Developer Studio 7.6.11
AS400 - V5R4
HTML,PDF,XLS
 
Posts: 305 | Location: Winnipeg,MB | Registered: May 12, 2008Report This Post
Platinum Member
posted Hide Post
Based on what I can find on the internet:

http://cicorp.com/maximizer/convert/FromSend/

.MAX files are in "Pervasive Data Engine" format.

This table might be useful to you:
http://cicorp.com/maximizer/files/index.htm

In Googling the "Pervasive Data Engine", this forum post makes reference to reading data in that format using their SDK:

http://cs.pervasive.com/forums...231/15828.aspx#15828

It also seems that Pervasive has trial versions of their database product:
http://www.pervasivedb.com/Dat...s/Pages/Default.aspx

Between the two of those it seems you should be able to put something together to get some sort of SQL database together that WebFOCUS should be able to query.

WebFOCUS can't read the .MAX files directly, but if there is a database that can read the files it should be able to report off of it.

Thanks,
Doug Logan


WF 71.x, 76.x, 7701, 8.0 Beta OS: Linux, Win2k3, Win2k, Win2k8, WinXP


 
Posts: 203 | Registered: November 19, 2007Report This Post
Platinum Member
posted Hide Post
Ok, in further research I believe that the "Pervasive Database Engine" uses btrieve format.

If this is in fact true, here are two tools I found on Download.com that might be able to extract the data directly from the file:

http://download.cnet.com/BtSea...0254_4-10065023.html

http://download.cnet.com/Conve...0254_4-10110067.html

Thanks,
Doug Logan


WF 71.x, 76.x, 7701, 8.0 Beta OS: Linux, Win2k3, Win2k, Win2k8, WinXP


 
Posts: 203 | Registered: November 19, 2007Report This Post
Guru
posted Hide Post
Doug

Thanks a lot for all the information. Let me take some time to look at it.

Have a nice day.

Hua


Developer Studio 7.6.11
AS400 - V5R4
HTML,PDF,XLS
 
Posts: 305 | Location: Winnipeg,MB | Registered: May 12, 2008Report This Post
  Powered by Social Strata  

Read-Only Read-Only Topic

Focal Point    Focal Point Forums  Hop To Forum Categories  WebFOCUS/FOCUS Forum on Focal Point     [SOLVED] Does WF read .max files?

Copyright © 1996-2020 Information Builders