Chris:
1. The legacy dictionaries here tend to have overhead not needed by ODBC.
2. Only after experiencing some difficult ODBC problems here... and trying
to simplify the problem... did I realize that some traditional DICT
characteristics are problematic to ODBC.
3. While having two dictionaries
Chris:
1. For things here, I usually create a new DICTionary... copy the old DICT
to the new DICT... and strip out NAME and other DICT columns not needed by
ODBC... in the new DICT.
2. A @SELECT of type PH is needed where the Phrase needs to specify the
chosen fields... in the new DICT
3. LOGTO H
Consider mvQuery, CoreVu (from Rocket).
I have been dabbling with Kendo UI and ColdFusion.
--Bill
Consider also an HT
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charles_shaf...@ntn-bower.com
Sent: Thursday, Ja
We have a new General Manager here.
He is interested in report writers for end users... I suppose like Crystal
Reports... but that can handle MultiValue.
While I am looking into Rocket's CoreVu... I am wondering what else is out
there...
--Bill
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When using Rocket's BDT... upper-casing the commands is redundant since the
editor automatically changes the color of this text to red.
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Sent: Friday
I have been writing uniBasic code in camelCase for a few years now.
To me... there are major obvious readability advantages.
Trying to convince other programmers of the merits seems to be an upHump
battle.
--Bill
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[mailto:u2-u
Peter:
Thanks... I will try this...
--Bill
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Peter Cheney
Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2013 5:35 PM
To: 'U2 Users List'
Subject: Re: [U2] UniVerse Install on HP-Ux
How a
It has something to do with how the
> implemented their on the fly compiler. You will have to submit a issue
with them.
> Hopefully, they will get it resolved in a few months or so.
>
> Regards,
> Doug
> www.u2logic.com/tools.html
> "XLr8Editor for Universe and U
1. I just downloaded the latest Oct2013.
2. As with the earlier BDT release... each time I press a key... it takes
two seconds to appear on the screen.
3. My PC that I am using BDT is Windows Pro 8.1... and the latest Symantec
EndPoint Protect AntiVirus.
4. Suggestions would be appreciated.
--Bill
1. We use ColdFusion... as "middleware".
2. I think of UniVerse as the back-end database.
3. Consider other middleware options... ASP.net, PHP, Java, TomCat, Spring,
Ruby, Node.JS...etc.
4. I suppose a browser client app doing REST could maybe be workable.
5. Although bashing the middleman has beco
I spent the last year or so... reading a lot of Ayn Rand.
One of her key followers... the author Dr. Leonard Peikoff... wrote a book
that I like called "The DIM Hypothesis". DIM divides heads into three
groups... [1] disintegrative [2] Integrative [3] misIntegrative.
Writing code is all about r
John:
I expect that MiddleWare would be needed. My first choice would be...
ColdFusion.
--Bill
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Israel, John R.
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2013 10:09 AM
To: U2 Users
I am wondering if anyone actually uses joins. We use UniVerse here.
Bread and butter here is UniBasic... getting U2 data via reads of U2 tables.
My problem with UniVerse SQL Joins has been twofold... [1] getting them to
work [2] slow speeds for modestly-sized tables. Perhaps I need tips and
tri
as
you wished
Also look at the INPUT JUNK, -1
which will look at the typeahead buffer as well
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Sent: Fri, Aug 9, 2013 1:22 pm
Subject: Re: [U2] KeyPressed
Tom:
Thanks for writing... but...
Once I put
ill clear the buffer,
Tom Whitmore
RATEX Business Solutions
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Brutzman
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 4:04 PM
To: 'U2 Users List'
Subject: [U2] KeyPressed
With
With Dynamic Connect... and UniBasic...
I need a screen that continuously displays time... as we have an inspection
screen where press operators enter fresh data each hour. Something like...
loop
call *timeOfDay
call *displayOtherStuff
input
John:
Consider using Adobe ColdFusion as the middleware between UniData and
SharePoint.
(A free developer version of) CF could be installed on the Windows box... or
almost anywhere.
There is an article "Integrating ColdFusion applications with Microsoft
SharePoint using ColdFusion".
--Bill
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I have some heartburn with the words "optional" and "purely" below. To me,
it is like saying that Daniel Webster was just a door-to-door encyclopedia
salesman.
U2 data dictionaries are key tool.
Why would someone climb on to a Rocket... to explore the UniVerse... without
a map... of the data?
-
1. I just ordered an upgrade from UV 10.3.6 to 11.1.1 for HP-Ux Itanium
11.23.
2. The reason for upgrading is mostly to start using the new REST
functionality in UV 11.
3. I have some concerns about JDBC working especially with ColdFusion.
4. Some months ago I could not get my Windows 8 64-bit
how to handle the problem of more than
two levels of nested quotes.
>From the script, cranking in an LPTR1 or calling a UniBasic sub... on a
script-by-script basis... is a more flexible fix than the brute force
system-wide SETPTR.DEFAULT approach.
--Bill Brutzman
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Subject: Re: [U2] UniVerse LPTR
SETPTR.DEFAULT not in VOC.
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Sent: M
a look at SETPTR.DEFAULT
Martin Phillips
Ladybridge Systems Ltd
17b Coldstream Lane, Hardingstone, Northampton NN4 6DB, England
+44 (0)1604-709200
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Where can I change the default printer? We have an HP-Ux machine.
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the UD tools
work.
Mecki
On 07/06/2013 23:02, Bill Brutzman wrote:
> Mecki:
>
> While it may be counter-intuitive that ColdFusion is very hot...
>
> The compelling gravity in the entire web UniVerse is the idea is the
> idea browser front end.
>
> As CF was originally tag-b
Mecki:
While it may be counter-intuitive that ColdFusion is very hot...
The compelling gravity in the entire web UniVerse is the idea is the idea
browser front end.
As CF was originally tag-based... if a programmer knows any HTML... that
same programmer already knows much CF.
Where CF shines
Mecki:
Consider using Adobe's ColdFusion as middleware... possibly with the new U2
REST tool.
View = HTML
Middle = CF, U2 ReST
DataBase = U2, SQL
A cool thing about U2 Rest is that... it is fairly easy to leverage existing
UniBasic code... especially Subs. Rocket has an outstanding three-part
I am trying to get an example program to work with Eclipse IDE.
When trying to...
import asjava.uniobjects.*;
import asjava.uniclientlibs.*;
I get errors.
I tried several things without any luck.
Help with how to configure the asjava folder in packages would be
appreciated.
--
Dan:
Thanks... I expect to approach this Hibernate thing by first going back to
getting Java to work with UV + CF.
--Bill
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Daniel McGrath
Sent: Monday, April 1, 2013 1:
Sathya:
While I agree that there are several ways...
I would rather live in a brick house than a grass hut.
--Bill
open 'FILE' to fFile else null
execute "clearselect ALL"
execute "SELECT FILE"
equate true to 1, false to 0
*
GS:
I answered these questions in a subsequent post.
I am opening the file ok... the record was whacked.
I now merely validate the record ID before continuing in the program.
--Bill
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.o
age.
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Brutzman
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 11:56 AM
To: 'U2 Users List'
Subject: [U2] Apparent Data Problem
I am having trouble with my Recent Receivers
I am having trouble with my Recent Receivers UniBasic app running on
UniVerse 10 ? on HP-Ux 11i v2.
The app buzzes through receivers file RCVR and then hangs up on this one.
The RCVR file is approx. 15-MB.
I tried deleting records but the same symptom recurs.
I resized the file in the SandBox
Victory...
Thanks Ross... for the best answer.
Thanks also to Troy, Charles, Brian, Bobby, Dave, Will, Wol, Symeon, Peter, and
John-Boy... for responding.
I am shocked... that I did not see anything from Doug.
--Bill
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Rather than going line-by-line... is there a way... or a trick to highlighting
several lines of code...
And commenting out all of these lines in aggregate?
I have a legacy program whose code is no longer compliant... that I am trying
to isolate.
--Bill
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Googling... eclipse text format... yielded... among other things...
http://www.wikihow.com/Change-the-Default-Format-Settings-in-Eclipse
--Bill
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bobby Worley
Sent: Wed
In the Rocket U2 Basic Developer ToolKit... how do I get the SQL data column to
show?
I have this column (and data field) on my main PC. When I installed BDT on
another Windows machine... I am having trouble finding how to make this column
(and field) appear.
--Bill
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Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 1:54 PM
Subject: Re: [U2] [OT] Sql Query
On 07/11/12 16:31, Bill Brutzman wrote:
> While the given link is key... a bit of frustration that I have had with SQL
> is that... often I have data in more than two tables... fol
While the given link is key... a bit of frustration that I have had with SQL is
that... often I have data in more than two tables... following the first select
list... there could be data in six or more tables.
The joins that I have tried seem to max out at like... three tables.
In UniBasic...
Barry:
Also... check out Lynda.com
--Bill
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Barry:
My foray with ColdFusion has led to doing some UniVerse SQL things.
As I struggle to get the machine to do what I think I want... I have found that
it is less about the backend database and more about the middleware.
Even though I tend to buy quite a lot of books... I have found the fast
Check out www.YouRockGuitar.com. It is a digital guitar with an electronic
fretboard (having no strings there). Among other features, It is intended to
be played by righties with just the left hand on the fretboard... called
"shredding".
I have a YouRock and I like it but so far... Carnegie H
John:
Related to this... I have been unable to get UV JDBC to talk to the new
ColdFusion 10.
At one time I wrote cribbed a little Java program based on the Rocket manual
and... from that... was able to figure out the problem and get it to work.
Since Adobe moved CF-10 from their own J2EE platf
Tony and Ben are right on...
Invoking Stephen Colbert's concept of... "The Word"... the word is...
"MiddleWare". As legacy U2 was ahead of its time... by building-in middleware
technologies... it is easy to lose sight of what belongs where.
--Bill
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How about... [Browser] <-> |ColdFusion] <-> [UniVerse]
|__| <-> [Other SQL]
--Bill
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I know we have both the SOAP and RESTful web services development for
publishing web services from
David:
I am glad to learn now that UV 11 has some major new OBDC things.
Yesterday... I just released my third HTML app (runs on both mobile + desktop)
that uses ColdFusion to grab UniVerse data to hydrate and launch pdf forms in
the user's browser. The apps/forms... [1] Purchase Order [2] In
David:
On the back of a Sopranos T-Shirt... it indicates... "Know Your Role". On the
front... there is a smoking gun.
Of course, U2 is not open-sourced... my goal role is merely that of a pragmatic
customer.
As Rocket monitors this list to a greater or lesser extent... that is Rocket's
busin
In my little world of fantasy (BillsVille)... both Rocket and US Homeland
Security are actively monitoring this list.
--Bill
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Sent: Thursday, August
ents/dictionary-cleanup-a
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Brutzman
Sent: Wednesday, 29 August 2012 6:16 AM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] Scrub Hangs Up
When I do a
>LOGTO HS.ADMI
In my new little rehydrate program...
Several of the dictionary fields that show up in BDT and LIST DICT INVOICE...
do not appear.
--Bill
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open '
you please then regive us once more the exact VOC command you're executing
and COPY to this email exactly the VOC entry for the INVOICE file
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Sent: Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:12 pm
Subject: Re: [U2] Scrub Hangs Up
It looks like the D
Again correct... from an earlier post...
There was never any VOC entry called D_INVOICE.
--Bill
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 8:16 PM
To: u2-users@listserve
Will:
Yes... you are right... Richard Wilson picked up on my typing bug in an earlier
post.
--Bill
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 8:11 PM
Subject: Re: [U2]
er ALL
rICH
On 8/28/2012 7:21 PM, Bill Brutzman wrote:
> Good question... I looked into this earlier.
>
> The VOC entry for D_INVOICE is blank... but... so are all of the other VOC
> entries for dictionary items.
>
> --Bill
>
> -Original Message-
> From: u2-use
Good question... I looked into this earlier.
The VOC entry for D_INVOICE is blank... but... so are all of the other VOC
entries for dictionary items.
--Bill
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson
PM
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject: Re: [U2] Scrub Hangs Up
On 28/08/12 23:39, Bill Brutzman wrote:
> More help is needed...
>
> 1. >copy FROM DICT D_INVOICE TO DICT D_INVOICE_TEST
> Unable to open "DICT D_INVOICE" file.
>
> 2. When I try copying vi
It looks like the D_INVOICE (dictionary file) is corrupted. Unfortunately...
this dictionary is rather large. I would rather not retype the whole
dictionary from scratch and copy it back. The Unix rights to the file look
righteous... 777.
--Bill
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More help is needed...
1. >copy FROM DICT D_INVOICE TO DICT D_INVOICE_TEST
Unable to open "DICT D_INVOICE" file.
2. When I try copying via Rocket's BDT (Basic Developer ToolKit)... Failed to
copy... unable to open q-pointer.
--Bill
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Subject: Re: [U2] Scrub Hangs Up
On 28/08/12 21:16, Bill Brutzman wrote:
> When I do a
>
>> LOGTO HS.ADMIN
>> HS.ADMIN
&g
ilto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org]<mailto:[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org]>
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When it hangs... I am unable to get it to terminate via Ctrl Break
Break: Option (A,C
The HS.Scrub option... report only option also hangs.
--Bill
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When it hangs... I am unable to get it to terminate via Ctrl Break
Break: Option (A,C,L,Q,?) =
None of the break options work...
--Bill
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Sent: Tuesday
When I do a
>LOGTO HS.ADMIN
>HS.ADMIN
5. Run HS.SCRUB on a File/Table.. [F]ix
Most of the files here work ok.
This one (important) data file INVOICE... it starts an... Analyzing: *and
then just sits there.
I looked at the dictionary and purged a bunch of extraneous "}" characters from
se
I am surprised that anyone uses dimensioned arrays. I use dynamic arrays for
everything.
If there are any advantages that dimension arrays have over dynamic... please
let me know... without getting sentimental.
--Bill
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gs without normalizing them
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From: Bill Brutzman
To: U2 Users List
Sent: Fri, Jul 20, 2012 1:49 pm
Subject: [U2] Comparing Two Dyamic Arrays
Begin case
Case array1 = array2 ; sameThing = true
Case 1; sameThing = false
nd
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Sent: Friday, July 20, 202 1:23 PM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: [U2] Comparing Two Dyamic Arrays
Begin case
Case array1 = array2 ; sameThing = true
Case 1; sameThing = false
End case
When I tried to use an
Begin case
Case array1 = array2 ; sameThing = true
Case 1; sameThing = false
End case
When I tried to use an equals sign... I did not get the right answer.
While the COMPARE function works ok... and I presume that it is a compiler
thing...
It
Consider checking out...
http://www.EvolutionOfTheWeb.com
Via the http://www.nyCoders.org mailing list.
This chart reminds me of the one that Dawn Wolthuis has available via
http://www.tincat-group.com/mv/familytree.html.
--Bill
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We here have yearly UniVerse support with Rocket. The cost is modest. We are
using HP-Ux. The Rocket support gets us the database upgrades and once or
twice we have had database upgrade issues that Rocket handled rather well.
If we were to drop support... last time that I checked... it was tw
Thanks to Susan, David, and Will.
I did a
>LOGTO SAVEBOX.. a somewhat arbitrary account here
>ED VOC DICT
0001: K
0002: 20
>LOGTO METAL
>ED VOC DICT
... and I just inserted these two keyword lines back in to my main METAL
account... and Victory.
--Bill
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DICT got messed up when I was trying to copy a dictionary... when trying to
recover a file.
Now...
>list DICT SOH
0 records listed.
"DICT" not found.
>ED VOC DICT
New record.
: Q
>
>ED DICT SOH
Unable to open "DICT", not a file in VOC.
File name=
I did not yet try to stop and r
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Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 6:48 PM
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Subject: Re: [U2] UV Unix File Recovery
On 20/06/12 22:28, Bill Brutzman wrote:
> I am having trouble trying to restore a year-end file to a new file n
Will:
Thanks for writing. Just before I received this message, I did something close
to this... I copied the entire account to my SandBox and then it worked.
-Bill
How about
Create a new ACCOUNT
Restore the file to this new account
Q point at it, from the account in which you really want to us
I am having trouble trying to restore a year-end file to a new file name.
The file is saved to my Windows7 PC... The UniVerse host is running on hp-ux.
I tried to FileZilla FTP the file back using binary enconding.
I tried to create a new file and dictionary from the UV command prompt and then
To me, this is a question for the accounting department there.
Corporate accountants that I know favor Oracle financials... for their
functionality, reporting, and ease of use.
--Bill
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I would write a little uniBasic program... to cleanse, purify, and rehydrate...
testing it first in a sandbox.
--Bill
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 6:13 PM
Su
Consider...
Invoking the lock by calling a sub. In the sub, do the lock... but also save
to a new FILE... the pertinent info... user_id, program, file, date, time,
etc. When the lock is released, have another companion sub to delete the
record from the FILE.
--Bill
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I have always admired Peter Norton's gift for writing with clarity.
If a valid definition of the word "obvious"... is... "easy to see"...
It was not apparent to me...
that there were two code snippets being compared to each other.
Thus, I would LIKE to apologize... but I am NOT going to do
Why... even Joey Buttafucco has got better polemics...
--Bill
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Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 5:59 PM
Subject: Re: [U2] The CONTINUE statement
The point is "
e you going to respond to the point, without knowing what the code
actually does?
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Subject: Re: [U2] The CONTINUE statement
at TCL type
HELP BASIC CONTINUE
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To: U2
1. I do not see a "continue" statement in the UniVerse manual.
2. There is the "exit" command... used to break out of a loop... when a certain
condition is satisfied.
3 The point of the original post is not clear to me.
--Bill
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1. SLoC = Source Lines of Code. Complaining about "code bloat" reminds me of
the king in the "Amadeus" movie complaining about... "too many notes".
2. Just like when .Net came out and many VB programmers moaned about the
horrors of object-oriented programming... there is some fresh angst forthc
Fleshing it out makes it easier to read and maintain.
thisYear = oconv(today, 'DY2')
thisMonth = oconv(today, 'DM')
thisDate = oconv(today, 'DD')
yyMMdd = thisYear : thisMonth : thisDate
Counting SLoCs is meaningless.
Also... functional programming is out there now..
John:
1. There are some third-party ODBC tools available.
2. I do something like this now with Adobe's ColdFusion... a free developer
version of CF is available for download from Adobe.
3. Rocket has some tech manuals that cover this area.
4. When I was troubleshooting this with CF, I wrote a lit
Case 1 DOES mean otherwise... in a bloat-free way... such as...
Begin case
Case x > 10 ; gosub subY
Case 1; gosub subZ
Endcase
--Bill
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On
In many areas of life, including writing code, less is more.
Less code in this case is... more dog work.
Framing the case statement as bloat, for me, is a mischaracterization...
usually it is the cat that is bloated.
In this case, I like to think that I have seen the light...
--Bill
-Ori
The case statement is like... a free upgrade to a Cadillac.
The if statement is like... a horse and buggy.
I am not saying that day is better than night but...
The last time that I checked... Rocket Software was not looking to open a sales
office in Amish country.
--Bill
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The initial example was close to a good start... something like...
If XX then gosub YY else gosub ZZ
Replaced by
Begin case
Case XX ; gosub YY
Case 1 ; gosub ZZ
End case
Except that now... note that readability is
1.Problematic... [a] I run into sloppy if statements often... it is sometimes
difficult for me to infer what the programmer was trying to accomplish.
I would like to see
If XX then
The case statement has a huge advantage in what really matters... human
readability... that is the point.
>From readability follows... reliability, maintainability, and testability...
>better, cleaner, safer software.
An irony is that while the "if" statement... is the cornerstone of all
comp
t the distinction
-Original Message-
From: Bill Brutzman
To: U2 Users List
Sent: Thu, Apr 12, 2012 12:46 pm
Subject: Re: [U2] COMMON Size MisMatch
I presume that the following is workable... Comments are welcome.
To LogTo the SandBox it is now just...
>ED VOC LLS
001: PA
002: CLEARCOMMON
00
hat you
*don't want* to clear, or at least that you want to reset if you do clear them.
-Original Message-
From: Bill Brutzman
To: U2 Users List
Sent: Thu, Apr 12, 2012 11:52 am
Subject: Re: [U2] COMMON Size MisMatch
Eating my own dog food... I cranked CLEARCOMMON into the LOGT
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... in subroutine named XYZ.R1.
While I would like to pass parameters back-and-forth invoking bona fide
external subroutines using commands such as... CALL *MY.SUB.R2(param1, param2,
errorString)
...I have a few big old legacy programs with nasty COMMON tentacles.
How can I make these pesky CO
o:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Brutzman
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 2:46 PM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] New U2 BDT - V3
The new BDT is version 3.0.0.
Considering that I live in this tool almost all day long, I appreciate Rocket's
updating it very
Bill:
Consider opening a tech support incident with Rocket.
--Bill
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Haskett
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: [U2] New U2 BDT
Bill:
I'm glad you
at I have had ver a
year...
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mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Brutzman
ent: Monday, March 12, 2012 1:06 PM
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ubject: Re: [U2] New U2 BDT
I was glad to learn about the new BDT.
The BDT
ug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Brutzman
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 1:06 PM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] New U2 BDT
I was glad to learn about the new BDT.
The BDT install was painless and BDT seems to work well.
--Bill
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I was glad to learn about the new BDT.
The BDT install was painless and BDT seems to work well.
--Bill
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