Focal Point Banner


As of December 1, 2020, Focal Point is retired and repurposed as a reference repository. We value the wealth of knowledge that's been shared here over the years. You'll continue to have access to this treasure trove of knowledge, for search purposes only.

Join the TIBCO Community
TIBCO Community is a collaborative space for users to share knowledge and support one another in making the best use of TIBCO products and services. There are several TIBCO WebFOCUS resources in the community.

  • From the Home page, select Predict: WebFOCUS to view articles, questions, and trending articles.
  • Select Products from the top navigation bar, scroll, and then select the TIBCO WebFOCUS product page to view product overview, articles, and discussions.
  • Request access to the private WebFOCUS User Group (login required) to network with fellow members.

Former myibi community members should have received an email on 8/3/22 to activate their user accounts to join the community. Check your Spam folder for the email. Please get in touch with us at community@tibco.com for further assistance. Reference the community FAQ to learn more about the community.



Read-Only Read-Only Topic
Go
Search
Notify
Tools
Agent and FOCSORT
 Login/Join
 
Frenz
Member
posted
Hello,

If several tscom300.exe are running at the same time (e.g. while running DOS batch in parallel), do they all use the same FOCSORT file ?

Thanks for your help.
 
Posts: 6 | Location: Luxemburg | Registered: May 09, 2003Report This Post
susannah
Expert
posted Hide Post
no..not to worry....each job runs in its own agent, an agent is a temp directory under
(in windows)
\ibi\srv71\wfs\edatemp\tn000nnn
where nnn is the agent number
you can open that directory and watch the processing of your fex...the creation of the focsorts, etc.
when the job is finished, the temp directory vanishes. you can SET TEMPERASE = OFF if you want to keep the contents of the agent dir for further examination...but there are consequences, as all agents will then be kept until you turn temperase back on.



In Focus since 1979///7706m/5 ;wintel 2008/64;OAM security; Oracle db, ///MRE/BID
 
Posts: 3811 | Location: Manhattan | Registered: October 28, 2003Report This Post
Frenz
Member
posted Hide Post
Thanks for your help Susannah.

The behavior you're describing here works well while running reports through dev. studio, Reportcaster and all related online stuff.
Nevertheless, we have done some testing by ourselves (from DOS batches running tscom300) and it appears that they do use the same focsort, created under the edatemp directory.

So, we found a workaround to be sure that each launch will use subdirectories as you mentioned it : we create it first in our DOS batch ! Then we set the edatemp value to point to it before launching tscom300. At the end we're doing the cleaning "manually" (i.e. delete in the DOS batch)

Hope this could help.
 
Posts: 6 | Location: Luxemburg | Registered: May 09, 2003Report This Post
hammo1j
Master
posted Hide Post
Frenz

I would guess that your focexecs have DOS CD coded in them and what happens is that this info is retained in the agent unlike most other info. Thus when it goes to create FOCSORT.FTM it doesn't create it in edatemp but the directory you changed to via another process that ran the agent.

Try running this a few times

DOS DIR
DOS CD C:\

Once you repeat use an agent it will start displaying the root directory!

It's very confusing behaviour and took me a time to work it out!


Server: WF 7.6.2 ( BID/Rcaster) Platform: W2003Server/IIS6/Tomcat/SQL Server repository Adapters: SQL Server 2000/Oracle 9.2
Desktop: Dev Studio 765/XP/Office 2003 Applications: IFS/Jobscope/Maximo
 
Posts: 888 | Location: Airstrip One | Registered: October 06, 2006Report This Post
  Powered by Social Strata  

Read-Only Read-Only Topic


Copyright © 1996-2020 Information Builders