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Jim Dale
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Does anyone know how I can create a file with the extension of txt from WebFocus? I just need a file with today's date for another application and they insist the extension has to be txt.

Thanks,
Jim

UNIX
Oracle
WebFocus 7.13 & ETL 7.13
 
Posts: 43 | Location: San Jose, California. | Registered: July 18, 2005Report This Post
Francis Mariani
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Do you want to create the text file via a ON TABLE SAVE or HOLD? If so, simply add a FILEDEF before the TABLE request:

FILEDEF S001 DISK demo/s001.txt
-RUN

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT MODEL
BY COUNTRY
ON TABLE SAVE AS S001
END
-RUN

In my example, the SAVE file is created in an APP folder called DEMO. you can alternatively code your FILEDEF like this to create the file in a particular folder:

FILEDEF S001 DISK C:\windows\temp\s001.txt
-RUN


Francis


Give me code, or give me retirement. In FOCUS since 1991

Production: WF 7.7.05M, Dev Studio, BID, MRE, WebSphere, DB2 / Test: WF 8.1.05M, App Studio, BI Portal, Report Caster, jQuery, HighCharts, Apache Tomcat, MS SQL Server
 
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Leah
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Use FILEDEF to define the file you are wanting to save the information to and call it what you want. Of course the filedef needs to point to somewhere the application has access to.

FILEDEF XYZ DISK D:\UNO\WEBDATA\XYZ.TXT

TABLE....
....
ON TABLE SAVE AS XYZ
END


Leah
 
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Glenda
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In the FILEDEF statement you tell it where to save it and what the name you want to save it as.

FILEDEF TIMER DISK /edadata/timer.txt

Then save it format LOTUS

ON TABLE SAVE AS TIMER FORMAT LOTUS


Glenda

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Production 8.2 Windows
 
Posts: 301 | Location: Galveston, Texas | Registered: July 07, 2004Report This Post
FrankDutch
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I remembered this issue was brought up before

It's interesting to see what that brought.

https://forums.informationbuilders.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/...691025312#4691025312

As always, many solutions...




Frank
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databases: msSQL2000, msSQL2005, RMS, Oracle, Sybase,IE7
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jgelona
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There's always the option if using the OS to copy/rename the file.

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT *
ON TABLE SAVE
END
-RUN
-* copy file
-UNIX cp save.ftm pathname1/save.txt
-* move/rename file
-UNIX mv save.ftm pathname2/save.txt


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Posts: 975 | Location: Oklahoma City | Registered: October 27, 2006Report This Post
Jim Dale
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Thanks everyone, this is exactly what I was looking for. Now I have 2 methods to choose from.

Jim
 
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dhagen
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If you want to do it the cool way:
APP MAP outdir C:\temp
EX -LINES 1 EDAPUT ,outdir/output.txt ,C,FILE,&YYMD


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FrankDutch
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quote:
Originally posted by dhagen:
If you want to do it the cool way:
APP MAP outdir C:\temp
EX -LINES 1 EDAPUT ,outdir/output.txt ,C,FILE,&YYMD



That looks cool, but what is the result, what are the C, FILE etc for?




Frank
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databases: msSQL2000, msSQL2005, RMS, Oracle, Sybase,IE7
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Posts: 2387 | Location: Amsterdam, the Netherlands | Registered: December 03, 2006Report This Post
dhagen
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The result is a file called C:\temp\output.txt that contains todays date. It's been so long since I've gone over this command I cannot remember what anything past the filename is for. I just use it for old time sake.

I use this command a lot when I need to create a fex or master on the fly that I need to keep around ... as well as other things.


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