Originally posted by: ramya1

what are work files?why they are created?
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

WTX/Mercator creates temporary workspace as part of its internal memory paging scheme to allow more efficient access to data by the mapping runtime engine. A workspace is created for each input and output card. Depending on the workspace parameters you set, workspace can be file based or memory based. I would recommend checking the help contents and WTX guides for more info.
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Originally posted by: repanzer

Like Mikebixby mentioned, it's like the equivalent of the mainframes working storage, they are files that could be named after map, or uniquely. If you have two of the same maps in the same directory both running under a different instance of launcher, one will give an error “couldn’t open work files” because the other map is already using them, unless you set them to be named “uniquely” . This is a very basic concept of WTX and any developer should undoubtedly read the documentation related to this topic and anything involved.
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