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.

In the good old days of Mainframe, you could allocate SYSPRINT to a file. I didn't find this feature existed in WF.

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

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.

That IS the way. There is no other method of getting it into a file....

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.

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.