Mike; These are very good tools and George James also has some very nice analysis tools, reM, a reverse-engineering tool for tracking the operations of routines and data in MUMPS (and also FileManager).
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Ginsburg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 12:49 PM Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] A Fileman 'spider'? > http://www.georgejames.com/tools/MTools.shtml > > Don't know how well these tools work with VistA. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin > Toppenberg > Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 3:43 PM > To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] A Fileman 'spider'? > > Well, actually both. > > First I would want to have a mapping of how files are inter-related. > I.e. is this file only connected to one other file and thus easily > replacable with an external global? Or is it linked to 500 other files, and > good luck trying to integrate it. > > Then, when I have established potential link patterns, I will also make a > process that scans the entire database for links in actual records/entries, > searching for mismatched data. It would take several days probably, but > wouldn't have to be done often. Perhaps over a weekend. > > Kevin > > > > On 11/4/05, Gregory Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Nov 4, 2005, at 10:42 AM, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: > > > > The FOIA release has missing entries in drug files etc. George > > Timpson pointed out how to verify the absence via the Fileman Verify A > > Field option. > > > > > > But each file has many fields with pointers, and there are many files. > > So checking all this could be quite an exhaustive job. > > > > > > So I want to write a "spider" type program that starts at a given > > file, and crawls through all the dependancies. > > > > > > Before I work on this, does any such functionality already exist? > > > > > > Kevin > > > > It's not entirely clear what you mean by dependency. Are you asking > > how to find all files related to a given file by pointer > > relationships? Are you asking how to verify all pointers in pointed to > file entries? > > > > === > > Gregory Woodhouse > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > "Einstein was a giant. He had his head in the clouds and his feet on > > the ground." > > --Richard P. Feynman > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download > it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own > Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download > it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own > Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
