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FILEDEF error

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September 19, 2006, 09:33 AM
Mark1
FILEDEF error
Apparently after we moved from 4.3.6 to 5.3.3, we were unable to import .txt files using FILEDEF anymore. When you try to TABLE FILE PRINT on the .txt file that you just FILEDEFed, it just tells you that it cannot find the description for that file. Here's what my code looks like. Anybody got any ideas? Thanks!

FILEDEF MARK1 DISK \\SERVER1\FILE1\TEST.TXT
TABLE FILE MARK1
PRINT *
END


Windows version 768
September 19, 2006, 09:36 AM
Prarie
Is there a master for the File?


In Focus since 1993. WebFOCUS 7.7.03 Win 2003
September 19, 2006, 09:59 AM
KevinG
And is the master in the APP PATH?

Kevin


WF 7.6.10 / WIN-AIX
September 19, 2006, 10:14 AM
Francis Mariani
Run this command:

WHENCE MARK1 MASTER

It will tell you if it finds the Master for MARK1 in the APPS path.


Francis


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September 19, 2006, 10:25 AM
Mark1
There is not a Master for the file. Can I make one?


Windows version 768
September 19, 2006, 10:33 AM
KevinG
Yes,

Typically with a SUFFIX=FIX.

Kevin


WF 7.6.10 / WIN-AIX
September 19, 2006, 12:33 PM
Francis Mariani
If something worked before you migrated and then stops working after you migrated, you shouldn't need to make a new Master, you ought to try looking for it in the old App folders.


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
September 19, 2006, 01:07 PM
Mark1
It wasn't in the old app folders because I just created the text file today.


Windows version 768