Quiz question (.txt extension)
brian_matthewsbrian matthews
brian_matthews_bmw@hotmail.com
Thu, 02 Jun 2005 19:32:50 +0000
this is true of VMS and Windows, so why not enable Unix to work the same way
? if a user defined variable includes a file extention why does Cognos add
to it on Unix - but not on VMS or windows ?
regards Bri,
>From: "Thomson, Martyn EDUC:EX" <Martyn.Thomson@gov.bc.ca>
>To: "'Guy Werry'" <guy.werry@hbms.ca>, powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
>Subject: RE: Quiz question (.txt extension)
>Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 12:22:11 -0700
>
>I know you're talking UNIX, and on OpenVMS the default output also has a
>.TXT extension. But before running the Quiz program, you can name the
>report
>anything you like using -
>$ define qzoutput REP:RML43110.REP
>
>Martyn Thomson
>
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>Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 12:09 PM
>To: powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
>Subject: RE: Quiz question (.txt extension)
>
>
>There is a definitive answer, essentially from Cognos ... Quiz has behaved
>this way since forever - I've been using Quiz since about 1987 and it has
>done that since then. There's no way to influence that in the dictionary
>or
>Quiz itself.
>
>Guy L. Werry
>Senior Systems Analyst
>Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co., Limited.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Pat Shugart [mailto:ShugartP@trinity-health.org]
>Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 1:57 PM
>To: powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
>Subject: RE: Quiz question (.txt extension)
>
>
>Thanks to Brian and Oran for the rename suggestion. And also to Goparaju
>for the symbolic link suggestion. We thought of those, BUT...
>
>My question should have been: Why does QUIZ insist upon adding a .txt
>extension to a report file and how can I modify that behavior (within
>Quiz or the dictionary would be preferable)?
>
>Late breaking news... after searching through the archives, this
>question has been asked, but not answered by anyone from Cognos. But the
>answers from others indicates this .txt behavior is something that can't
>be changed. I'd love to get a definitive answer from someone from
>Cognos, though...
>
>Thanks,
>/pat
>
> >>> "brian_matthewsbrian matthews" <brian_matthews_bmw@hotmail.com>
>06/02/05 2:03 PM >>>
>how about going for export
>mbar0023="$AMISYS_SPOOL/${AMISYS_JOBNUM}_mbar0023" and then renaming
>$AMISYS_SPOOL/${AMISYS_JOBNUM}_mbar0023.txt produced by quiz to
>$AMISYS_SPOOL/${AMISYS_JOBNUM}_mbar0023.rpt.
>
>It looks like quiz has been designed to always add a .txt filke
>extention -
>or could this be a bug ?
>
>regards Bri,
>
> >From: "Pat Shugart" <ShugartP@trinity-health.org>
> >To: brian_matthews_bmw@hotmail.com, powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
> >Subject: RE: Quiz question (.txt extension)
> >Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 13:51:32 -0400
> >
> >Brian,
> >
> >That's pretty much what we're doing already. Maybe the code snippets
> >below will clarify things a bit...
> >
> >Job Script:
> >export mbar0023="$AMISYS_SPOOL/${AMISYS_JOBNUM}_mbar0023.rpt"
> >quiz << !EOQUIZ
> >USE $CQUIZ/mbar0023.qzc
> >EXIT
> >!EOQUIZ
> >
> >Quiz Program:
> >SET REP LIM 2000000 NAME $mbar0023 DEV DISC
> >
> >Output:
> >$ ls /aa/2/dev/jcl/spool/j405_mbar0023*
> >/aa/2/dev/jcl/spool/j405_mbar0023.rpt.txt
> >
> >/pat
> >
> > >>> "brian_matthewsbrian matthews" <brian_matthews_bmw@hotmail.com>
> >06/02/05 1:20 PM >>>
> >you could always try a setsystemval to create a variable
> >'QUIZREP'containing
> >the required file name and the then add the following to the quiz
> >report
> >'set report device disk name $QUIZREP'
> >
> >regards Bri,
> >
> > >From: "Pat Shugart" <ShugartP@trinity-health.org>
> > >To: powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
> > >Subject: Quiz question (.txt extension)
> > >Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 13:01:52 -0400
> > >
> > >Greetings Listers,
> > >
> > >Environment: HP-9000, HP-UX, v8.43D
> > >Amisys migration from HP3k to Amisys Advance2 on HP9k
> > >
> > >When we run Quiz reports, the reports have a .txt extension on
>them.
> > >We're trying to force another extension on the filename but are not
> > >having any success. We get filenames like <reportname.rpt.txt> with
> >that
> > >pesky .txt sticking around no matter what we do. We've reviewed the
> > >documentation, but are not finding anything that addresses this
> > >situation.
> > >
> > >Does anyone have any ideas?
> > >
> > >TIA,
> > >
> > >--
> > >Pat Shugart
> > >Trinity Information Services
> > >34605 Twelve Mile Road
> > >Farmington Hills, MI 48331
> > >248.489.6123
> > >248.488.9195 (fax)
>
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