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Efrem
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I'm trying to find a way to route the output of ? FILEDEF to a file so that it can
later be read in by -READ statements.
If anyone has an idea on how to do this please let me know.
 
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Danny-SRL
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In the good old days of Mainframe, you could allocate SYSPRINT to a file. I didn't find this feature existed in WF.


Daniel
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wf 8.202M/Win10/IIS/SSA - WrapApp Front End for WF

 
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GamP
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Check out this post on writing defines to a file, it may be of help to you.


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Efrem
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These commands give me the Reporting Server trace for the commands between turning on and off the trace.

I would like to find a way to just route the output from ? FILEDEF to a file.
 
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GamP
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That IS the way. There is no other method of getting it into a file....


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Rhonda
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Yes you can code a FILEDEF on all platforms in WebFOCUS so that it can be -READ.

FI[LEDEF] filename DISK appname/physical_name
-READ filename fld1.An, fld2.An

There are many examples on the IBI website and in the help section showing the syntax depending upon the platform. Hope this helps.


WebFOCUS & ReportCaster 8.1.05, 7.7.03 - AIX/LINUX, FOCUS 7.6.13 MVS, Output PDF, XLS-XLSX, DOCX and HTML
 
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GamP
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Rhonda,

Efrem knows that, I'm sure.
He was looking for a way to write the result of ? FILEDEF command to a file. And that is defenitely NOT in any help section.


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