Work Files Under Windows

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.

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