Re: Where Are Reports Temporary Files Created?

From: V. Scott Anders <vscotta_at_primenet.com>
Date: 1996/08/08
Message-ID: <4uecoq$pip_at_nnrp1.news.primenet.com>#1/1


Tim McLellan <tmclellan_at_galaxy.gov.bc.ca> wrote:

>We have our Oracle software installed on a read-only Windows network
>drive. During development, our developers have been given write
>privileges to the network drive.
 

>When our users try to run a report (called by RUN_PRODUCT ...) they get
>the message: REP-0118 Unable to create a temporary file. We have
>determined it to be the user's inability to write to the network drive.
>Our developers can run the reports no problem.
 

>What ORACLE.INI path or variable points to the directory which Reports
>uses to create this temporary file? We can't find the file when our
>developers run a report. We've tried using the HOST command and setting
>the current directory to the workstation's temp directory, but that
>doesn't help.
 

>Any guidance would be appreciated.

>Tim McLellan
>tmclellan_at_galaxy.gov.bc.ca

Tim,
In all of the reports I have written in Oracle Reports 2.0 and 2.5 the temporary files are created in the working directory. Usually this was set to C:\temp for the user's individual machine. You may want to check the location of your application's working directory.

I hope this helps.

Scott Anders Received on Thu Aug 08 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST

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