Workspace > Destination

Specify whether to create workfiles, or to hold work data in memory. The default value for the Destination setting is File.

Value

Description

File

A work file is created for each input card. Use the Directory setting to specify the directory.

Memory

A memory-based workspace is created.

The Workspace settings allow you to optimize the speed of map processing.

• When the size of the input data a map is processing is large, file-based workspace using default paging is recommended (Workspace = File).
• When small amounts of data are processed, smaller page sizes and memory-based workspace is recommended (Workspace = Memory).
• When using burst processing, adjust the workspace configuration for the size of burst data.

  If a particular map card is not referenced by any map rules, no work area for that card will be created, and the audit log will indicate that the work area is not found.