WebFOCUS creates work files as required by your application.
WebFOCUS creates all extract files in a temporary directory on the
WebFOCUS Reporting Server, or in a user-defined location on the
WebFOCUS Reporting Server.
The available work files are:
-
FOCSTACK files
contain resolved Dialogue Manager procedures.
-
FOCSORT,
allocated as FOCSORT.FOC, may be required for sorting with the TABLE,
TABLEF, and MATCH commands. The maximum size of a FOCSORT file is
1G of 256K pages.
-
FOCPOST files
hold sequential output, which is saved by the POST command and read
by the PICKUP command.
-
FOCSML files
are used by the Financial Modeling Language (FML) facility.
-
OFFLINE sends
output to a file when the to send output to a file when the PRINT
parameter is set to OFFLINE in WebFOCUS Developer Studio. Allocate
the file to ddname OFFLINE using a FILEDEF command after the offline
has been closed with the OFFLINE CLOSE command.
Example: Sending Output to a File With OFFLINE Under Windows
The
following request sends report output to the file EMPL.OUT, which
is stored on the C: drive in the \tmp directory:
OFFLINE
FILEDEF OFFLINE DISK C:\TMP\EMPL.OUT
TABLE FILE MOVIES
PRINT TITLE BY DIRECTOR
WHERE CATEGORY IS 'ACTION'
END