Sometimes ".Result.Dat" files are generated for EDI transactions on the production server. This leads to disk space issue on the production server where interior server engines are deployed and it might impact Production if disk space reaches its threshold limit.

Why are ".Result.Dat" files generated? Can we disable the creation of these files?

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The ".Result.dat" result files are generated while EDI transaction is because of Instream and these are a segment by segment log of the EDI validation process. They are extremely helpful when debugging guidelines during testing. However, they do not need to be retained in the long term.

The EDI plug-ins do not write these files to disk by default.  This is set up in the workflow to write them to some folder location e.g. "E:\EDI\Result folder".

This path "E:\EDI\Result folder" is set in the Participants - Partner - Protocol - logging tab.

If these files are created, then it is safe to delete the files either immediately after they are consumed by the Transaction Insight process (usually queue reader) or after 24 hours if they are generated for debugging purposes.

NOTE - These files are also used for Insight reporting. Please be certain no other applications are using the files. The customer might have been setting up Transaction Insight, which relies on these files.

You can disable the creation of these files by un-checking the "Publish Information for Insight Reporting" within the Partner - Protocol - General tab.