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reFOCUSing
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I'm creating some castor jobs to FTP XML reports and I was wondering if there is a way that you can delay a job from running if another job is running?
Is there a way to have castor automatically re-run a job if it fails?
Is there a way to have WebFOCUS do notification if castor is down?
Is there a way to use variables in the output file name?

Basically does want one know any tricks to make ReportCastor smarter.

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After taking a look at the document 'ReportCaster Development and Administration Manual 5.2.3' I was able to answer some of my questions.

The one question I have not been able to find any thing on is if ReportCastor can FTP a file with a variable as part of the name.

For example say I wanted to send a file that had the date the report was ran as part of the name, rpt&YYMD.html
 
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well, you could always create a variable with the current system date or some adjusted version of it as part of the filename
-SET &OUTPUT = 'RPT' | &YYMD | '.HTML';
then ON TABLE HOLD AS &OUTPUT FORMAT HTML
...
but you don't even need a filename just to have caster send its output as an inline html.
 
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Does this work for other types of output? eg. XML, Excel, Word
 
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oh sure, you can make your output file name anyway you like.
you can just call it FRED
but you can filedef it
-SET &MYOUTPUT='D:\IBI\...\RPT' | &YYMD | '.XLS';
FILEDEF FRED DISK &MYOUTPUT
and then ON TABLE HOLD AS FRED FORMAT EXL2K
and then the real name of the file will be
RPT20040712.xls
Works like a charm.
 
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Susanna, to follow this all the way thru for a novice, would you name the output file FRED in reportcaster?


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Susannah was using FRED as an example. The file can be any name you choose.


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No, John. Fred is just the nickname used by the FILEDEF statement . this example parks the named whatever is &MYOUTPUT as an .xls file wherever the FILEDEF statement has designated.



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