Re: Reports 2.5 - IDX and DAT files

Mark,

Yes, these are temporary files. It was just annoying to find them lying around in whatever directory we happened to be running them. Another person on the internet correctly stated that a registry entry REPORTS_TMP can be added to point to the equivalent of /tmp - eg. c:\temp.

Thanks,
Leng.

mgumbs_at_hotmail.com wrote:

> These temp files are created by Oracle Reports when it needs to sort
> data, the .dat file being your data and the .idx file being the sort
> order the output needs to be in.
>
> In unix, they are usually stored in /tmp and should delete themselves
> after the report is complete. However, if the report terminates
> abnormally, they will remain on disk.
> If the timestamp on these files are a few days old, it should be ok to
> delete them, or create some kind of cron or timed process to do it for
> you.
>
> Mark
>
> In article <37C3289B.5BC617AE_at_yahoo.com>,
> Leng Kaing <lkaing_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm sure there is an expert among you guys.
> > I have this annoying problem with Report 2.5 reports.
> >
> > When running a Report 2.5 report, it automatically creates these
> > IDXnnnnnn and DATnnnnn files that were created ?
> > Is there an option to tell the Report 2.5 reports, to clean up it own
> > workfiles?
> >
> > Note: I'm not too sure what these files are... I'm pressuming these
> > files are the Report 2.5 's workfile.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Leng.
> > leng.kaing_at_hancorp.com.au
> >
> >
>
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Received on Sun Aug 29 1999 - 03:19:57 CDT