Oracle 9i Reports and Text PDS

We are using Oracle 9i Reports for printing reports with text PDS on Windows NT.
We have developed our own textpds.conf and replaced with the file which is present at the following location.
ORACLE9iReportsHOME\reports\conf\
My problem is:
1. We are using comma separted text file. But what I gathered from the documentation is that I need to hardcode the name of data input text file in the text query while building the report rdf. Can this name not be supplied to rwclient as the paramter.
This hardcoding of the text file is imposing the problem of replacing the text input file everytime the new report is generated.
If somebody can help me in this regard then it will be great.

Hi Ashish,
Currently this is not possible using TextPDS. You can create a script which copies/moves the intended data file to the file name you specified at design time.
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