Does anyone know how I can set the PR160 to output the PMTOUT file to a specific location no matter who runs the job?

hmmm.. There's no setting that will accomplish it, but you might set up a token to copy the PMTOUT file to your desired location, then include that as the last step in a multi-step job. If you're a Unix shop you can also create a script to capture the output and rewrite it elsewhere, then define it as a printer - adding the printer to the distribution group should get it where you want it with the name you want.

The secret really is the 9000-LAWDIRWORK-FILE-PATH routine called by PR160.

What I did was create a PD library routine to emulate 9000-LAWDIRWORK-FILE-PATH but added the directory I want.

Just make sure you don't modify PR160 but clone it.

Is it really such a bad thing to modify Lawson programs?

looking at the prlawdpd, the file should be going to the work directory, but it does not, it's being placed in the the user/job name/1/ directory. Maybe we're missing a parm or something? If it was going to the work directory, I would have no problem, but what I'm running into is that I am having a hard time automating the printing of the pmtout file because it could be anywhere.

Does this same type of logic apply to the tape/ach file?

I am using LSF9 on Sun Solaris and wrote a "cgi-bin" script to create a web page to copy files from a print directory to a predefined destination directory. Under LSF9 I was able to capture the user ID and have the ability to call Lawson commands such as cnvexp. (Under 8.0.3 technology you could not call Lawson commands using a cgi-lawson script).

I created separate scripts for ACH, the EEO-4 and the NewHire report. The user enters the job name and I handled the rest. This method sort of applies security in that a user can only copy their own output. I created a generic version for myself that promps for user name, job name and file name to copy.

I was planning on posting these scripts to schronce.net in the near future.

Just curious - our PMTOUT file does go to the work directory - do your users possilby have a path entered on the PR160 that they run (under the filename tab)?

I should probably just stay out of this....

Good luck

There are no paths entered on the jobs, and I would be so tickled if they went to the work directory. That would make my life so much easier, especially if the tape/ach file worked the same way.

I'm open for any and all suggestions.