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change the work directory for a program

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pit

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11/1/2008 1:10 PM

Hi,

Is it possible to change the directory where a program stores it's temporary work files?

Currently our programs, during execution, create lots of small files in the $LAWDIR//work directory. I'd like one specific porgram create the files in $LAWDIR//work/XT100. Is it possible to do such change without any program customization? If not, dos the change require lots of coding?

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Pit

John Henley

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11/2/2008 6:32 PM

Yes, in most cases you can change it via workdef (for all jobs/instances for that program) or via jobdef (for just a specific instance).

pit

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11/3/2008 5:17 PM

It was exactly what I needed! Thank you very much.

Sam Simpson

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12/1/2008 3:04 PM

If migrating/copying into a new product line, here are four GEN tables that you can modify to do mass changes to file paths:
WRKFLOPTS JOBSTEP JOBSTEPWRK JOBSTEPRPT & USERRPT

All you have to do is do a rngdbdump into a csv file, edit the csv file then upload back using import db. Here's an example:

rngdbdump -c GEN WRKFLOPTS > WORKFLOPTS.csv

After editing WORFLOPTS: importdb -uf GEN workflopts WORKFLOPTS.CSV