Re: Reports 2.5 - IDX and DAT files

Be sure to have full rights to the directory that you specify under REPORTS_TMP or the reports will not print.

Leng Kaing wrote in message <37C8ED2C.7C5EC069_at_yahoo.com>...
>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 - 19:16:34 CEST