-SET &TEMPPATH = TEMPPATH(80,'A80');
-TYPE &TEMPPATH

Waz...

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quote:

Originally posted by George Patton:
First of all, thanks for all the suggestions! It took me a while to get back to this and here are the results.

Krish: I'm not using Managed Reporting so your solution is out, unfortunately.

All 3 of the solutions from Jack, Tom and Waz worked beautifully.

Jack's:

FILEDEF * CLEAR
FILEDEF PEOPLE DISK './people.txt'

? FILEDEF
-GOTO DONE

Gives:
Lname        Device   Lrecl Recfm Append     Filename
 ============================================================
 PEOPLE        DISK        0 V                ./people.txt

The ? FILEDEF doesn't say where the physical file is stored, but it turns out to be in the expected temp directory.

Tom's:

FILEDEF * CLEAR
FILEDEF PEOPLE DISK 'FOCCACHE/people3.txt'

? FILEDEF
-GOTO DONE

Gives:
Lname        Device   Lrecl Recfm Append     Filename
 ============================================================
 PEOPLE        DISK        0 V                FOCCACHE/people3.txt

This turns out to be physically in: /home/iadmin/ibi/srv77/wfm/edatemp/foccache/ip000626010>

Waz's:

This is the most complex programatically, but does have one advantage in that the location is obvious without digging around on the server:

-SET &TEMPPATH = TEMPPATH(80,'A80') || 'people2.txt';

FILEDEF * CLEAR
FILEDEF PEOPLE DISK &TEMPPATH

? FILEDEF
-GOTO DONE 

Gives:

Lname        Device   Lrecl Recfm Append     Filename
 ============================================================
 PEOPLE        DISK        0 V                /home/iadmin/ibi/srv77/wfm/edatemp/ts000013/people2.txt

Thanks again everyone!