What is the purpose of TMPDIR in Administrator.

nirdesh2 · Post by **nirdesh2** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 3:17 am

What is the purpose of TMPDIR in Administrator.This is avialable in Environment valiable under general category.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 4:49 pm

To find out about any environment variable in this dialog click on Variable Help button.

sjfearnside · Post by **sjfearnside** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 7:23 am

TMPDIR. This defaults to /tmp. It is used for miscellaneous internal temporary data, including FIFO queues and Transformer temporary storage. As a minor optimization, it can be better to ensure that it is set to a file system separate to the WebSphere DataStage install directory.

You can find information in the -
Parallel Job Advanced Developer Guide.pdf

nirdesh2 · Post by **nirdesh2** » Tue May 05, 2009 2:01 am

Thnaks a lot for your valuable response.