Can FME Server (FME Flow) pack a MapInfo table?

If your FME Flow has access to your file server, you can sure schedule a job to process your MapInfo file(s)!

You might be interested in Ressource Connections : 

https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME-Flow/WebUI/Manage_Resource_Connections.htm

Hi alexbiz,

Yes my FME Server (FME Server 2022.1.3
Build 22630 - win64) does have access to the file server

But what Transformer or Writer do I use to trigger a Pack of the MapInfo table?

I am looking at the Precisely MapInfo Extended TAB Writer

Precisely MapInfo Extended TAB Writer Feature Type Parameters

Which includes an option to Pack Table

However this option only allows the Pack table if the table has also been changed in some way.

Is there a different transformer that just does the Pack operation and nothing else?

I'm not too familiar with the format, but it sould like this might be something you can script and run from the command line with mapinfo? ( https://help.precisely.com/r/n/MapBasic/pub/2023/en-US/MapInfo-MapBasic-Reference/Pack-Table-statement ). If you could get a script running then you could 100% use FME to trigger it. 

The other option which seems silly but may work is just reading the whole file with fme and writing it out a new one. From what I've read this would be equivalent to a packed file. I'm not sure if you can preserve 100% of the information from MapInfo though with FME so that would be something to check.

There is no MapInfo installed upon the Server where MapInfo is installed. In my organisation, MapInfo is only installed upon user’s PCs. So I cannot trigger a mapbasic script.
I have considered doing the “output elsewhere and copy back” option, but it seems like a really clumsy work-around