[U2] U2 on Windows 2012 Server

2012-12-04 Thread Bill Haskett
Does the U2 product(s) run on Windows 2012 Server? Microsoft has pulled 2008 R2 from my MSDN download site and gives me 2012 instead. Thanks, Bill ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-u

Re: [U2] UV win 2008 Workgroup - ED / COPY very slow

2012-12-11 Thread Bill Haskett
Manu: Have you checked with U2 support? What have they said? Bill Haskett - Original Message - *From:* e...@infodata.lu *To:* u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org *Date:* 12/11/2012 8:20 AM *Subject:* [U2] UV win 2008

Re: [U2] Creating XML nodes with a namespace prefix

2012-12-11 Thread Bill Haskett
Hey Gregor. Could you put that on the wiki? If not, could I? Thanks, Bill - Original Message - *From:* gregor.sc...@pentanasolutions.com *To:* U2 Users List *Date:* 12/10/2012 10:11 PM *Subject:* [U2] Creating XM

Re: [U2] Creating XML nodes with a namespace prefix

2012-12-11 Thread Bill Haskett
eating XML nodes with a namespace prefix Of course it can go on a wiki - I documented it so people know there is a way. Which wiki - pickwiki or the U2Ug wiki? -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Ha

Re: [U2] Problem with openpath in UniVerse on windows server

2012-12-11 Thread Bill Haskett
I'm thinking you have to do more than just change the properties. You have to actually "share" the directory. Untitled Page Bill Haskett */Fav Icon Advantos Systems, Inc./* P.O. Box 3545 | Lacey, WA 98509 ? Tel: 760-944-5570 x7002 (CA) | ? Fax: 760-655-1583 "The

Re: [U2] How to check which sproc is called by user

2013-01-08 Thread Bill Haskett
Andy: The first place I'd look for any UO errors is the UO error log. In UD, you need to create a "serverdebug" item in the @UDTHOME directory (in my case this is in "E:\U2\ud"). The contents of this item is: udcs 10 E:\U2\ud\log\udcs\udcs.log ...which indicates maximum logging and the log

Re: [U2] Universal COMO

2013-01-23 Thread Bill Haskett
In UniData (on Windows) this is pretty simple. First you create an environment variable for the como file (e.g. MY_COMO) that points to the directory under which you've created a _PH_ directory and a D__PH_ dictionary file. Then you create a VOC item as follows: _PH_ 001 DIR 002 @MY_COMO\_PH

Re: [U2] [UD] Disabling/blocking ODBC

2013-01-25 Thread Bill Haskett
Just as an aside, there's also a UOLOGIN global cataloged routine that is always called before a UO login (I created it with that name). It's a very handy routine to use to manage connections. Bill - Original Message

Re: [U2] Triggers in Universe

2013-01-29 Thread Bill Haskett
"/...but I've created systems with master triggers that read a list of subordinate triggers from a control file and call them in order./" This appears to be the "best practices" of managing triggers in UD. Once explained, it seems the most logical method of managing triggers and allowing indi

Re: [U2] Searching for 'Bad' Dates

2013-01-29 Thread Bill Haskett
Greg: Can you do something like: :select {FileName} WITH EVAL "OCONV(MPAR.STATUS.DATE, 'D')" = "" This works fine on UniData in PICK mode, where an invalid conversion returns a null (an empty string). HTH, Bill --

Re: [U2] Searching for 'Bad' Dates

2013-01-29 Thread Bill Haskett
se records that do not have a value in MPAR.STATUS.DATE. Unfortunately I looking for records where an external date has been written instead of the internal date. Greg From: Bill Haskett To: U2 Users List Date: 01/29/2013 06:01 PM Subject:Re: [U2] Searching for 'Bad&#x

[U2] [UD] SETPTR

2013-02-01 Thread Bill Haskett
on our 77 user machine because logging on will take over a minute! Any ideas? Thanks, Bill Haskett ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

Re: [U2] [UD] SETPTR

2013-02-01 Thread Bill Haskett
-Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Haskett Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 6:14 PM To: U2 Mail List Subject: [U2] [UD] SETPTR Does anyone know why UniData (v7.2.12) responds differently to the SETPTR com

Re: [U2] [UD] SETPTR

2013-02-02 Thread Bill Haskett
c.com *To:* U2 Users List *Date:* 2/2/2013 7:02 AM *Subject:* Re: [U2] [UD] SETPTR Hi Bill: We had this problem a while ago. You might try setting this UDT option. UDT.OPTIONS 116 OFF/ON Regards Doug www.u2logic.com "Applications and tools for U2 shops" On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 7:12 PM,

Re: [U2] Quick Question on u2 toolkit for .net

2013-02-14 Thread Bill Haskett
Really? I've never heard that, or seen that either. Bill - Original Message - *From:* david.pet...@bluefinity.com *To:* U2 Users List *Date:* 2/14/2013 7:33 AM *Subject:* Re: [U2] Quick Question on u2 toolkit for

Re: [U2] UV full screen editor

2013-02-25 Thread Bill Haskett
Probably the simplest, and easiest to use, would be AccuTerm . It is a terminal emulator, probably the best in the MV market, that includes an editor. You can call the editor while within the UV environment (that is, logged into an account) straight from the command line

Re: [U2] UV full screen editor

2013-02-25 Thread Bill Haskett
Symeon: That may be true these days, but wIntegrate has always been significantly more expensive than AccuTerm, and AccuTerm always worked better with Linux and SSH (rather than using SSL like wIntegrate does/did). Also, AccuTerm's licensing was significantly easier to manage (we still have

Re: [U2] UV full screen editor

2013-02-26 Thread Bill Haskett
very American (not being rude here) so it has some funny (to us Europeans) way of doing things, and always looks very old fashioned. Each to their own I guess -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of

Re: [U2] New Rocket Toolkit for .NET

2013-02-28 Thread Bill Haskett
Dan: I have to say... I have a pretty good idea of how mv.NET works, how it connects, what tools are included, and what kind of costs I can expect. I have no idea what the U2 toolkit includes, or its costs, and could never get past the marketing, which knows nothing about implementation and

Re: [U2] *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: I Descriptor no longer working in UniSQL after UD upgrade

2013-03-05 Thread Bill Haskett
Mecki: You need to when using the other stuff with UniData (non-telnet connectivity). ECL doesn't always represent what happens through a UO connection. :COMPILE.DICT MYFILE ...should do the trick. HTH, Bill Untitled Page

Re: [U2] unidata env var

2013-03-21 Thread Bill Haskett
Jeffrey: I had to set it to 2500 in Windows, otherwise I had problems. HTH, Bill - Original Message - *From:* jbut...@hampshire.edu *To:* U2 Users List *Date:* 3/21/2013 3:51 AM *Subject:* [U2] unidata env var We

Re: [U2] REDBACK Fatal UniBasic errors

2013-03-22 Thread Bill Haskett
David: Have you turned on UniObjects error logging? If not, create the following item in the UDTHOME directory: serverdebug 001 udcs 10 E:\U2\ud\log\udcs\udcs.log My UDTHOME is located at "E:\U2\ud" so your path should replace mine from above. Also, I've created a "udcs" subdirectory under

Re: [U2] REDBACK Fatal UniBasic errors

2013-03-25 Thread Bill Haskett
boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Haskett Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 3:56 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] REDBACK Fatal UniBasic errors David: Have you turned on UniObjects error logging? If not, create the following item in the UDTHOME dir

Re: [U2] Cataloged programs // finding

2013-03-25 Thread Bill Haskett
In UniData, there's a CTLGTB file (not directory) with dictionary items and a catalog item with a format like: 4 Dev (0)-> AE CTLGTB * 606 record(s) selected. < 1 > Top of "MVNET.DICTWRITE" in "CTLGTB", 4 lines, 47 characters. *--: p 001: S 002: 3 003: E:\MVNET\MVNET.BP MVNET.DICTWRITE 004: ad

Re: [U2] Compressing PDFs

2013-03-28 Thread Bill Haskett
The main reason I like WinRAR is because is offers compression in command-line mode. This is very handy for me in the U2 environment, along with for Windows backups, etc. In addition, I can use its UI to create ".zip" files that are useful on Windows client machines. Bill Untitled Page ---

Re: [U2] Social Networks for MV

2013-03-28 Thread Bill Haskett
The biggest issue I have this all of this social media craze ("emperor's new clothes") is the time it takes to manage multiple ways to do predominately the same thing. Although with enough resources, these marketing avenues are manageable, for small businesses, there aren't enough resources in

Re: [U2] Social Networks for MV

2013-04-02 Thread Bill Haskett
has always been about "multiple ways to do predominantly the same thing" you have a newspaper campaign, poster campaign, radio, tv, cpc ads, web banners, cold calling etc, these are just some more. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun

Re: [U2] WRITESEQ Error

2013-04-12 Thread Bill Haskett
Beware of Windows Updates! They've cause me all kinds of trouble. So much so that I now have to review the updates by hand to see what they're trying to slip in! :-o Bill - Original Message - *From:* adew...@st

Re: [U2] Refactoring Tools

2013-04-22 Thread Bill Haskett
Brian: Prayer may come in handy. :-) Bill Untitled Page - Original Message - *From:* br...@brianleach.co.uk *To:* 'U2 Users List' *Date:* 4/22/2013 12:12 PM *Subject:* Re: [U2] Refactoring Tools Jeff - Exactly

[U2] UD - Display Current Terminal Type

2013-04-23 Thread Bill Haskett
I've had a brain-freeze and can't remember how to display the current terminal type at ECL. I know it's SYSTEM(7) but what ECL command do I need to display it? TERM doesn't work (although I can set it by entering "TERM WYSE60"). PTERM doesn't work (it gives me all kinds of other things). Any

Re: [U2] UD - Display Current Terminal Type

2013-04-23 Thread Bill Haskett
nal Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Haskett Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 5:12 PM To: U2 Mail List Subject: [U2] UD - Display Current Terminal Type I've had a brain-freeze and can't remember how to display the curren

Re: [U2] UD - Display Current Terminal Type

2013-04-23 Thread Bill Haskett
-----Original Message- From: Bill Haskett To: U2 Mail List Sent: Tue, Apr 23, 2013 2:11 pm Subject: [U2] UD - Display Current Terminal Type I've had a brain-freeze and can't remember how to display the current terminal type at ECL. I know it's SYSTEM(7) but what ECL

Re: [U2] Unidata RESIZE CONCURRENT

2013-04-23 Thread Bill Haskett
Jeff: Since the documentation says: "RESTORE - If the system crashes or RESIZE CONCURRENT encounters an error, delete the temporary copy of the resized file and restore the original file before any resize operation took place." I'd guess the RESTORE keyword is putting something somewhere wher

Re: [U2] UD - Display Current Terminal Type

2013-04-23 Thread Bill Haskett
rrent Terminal Type On 23/04/13 22:12, Bill Haskett wrote: I've had a brain-freeze and can't remember how to display the current terminal type at ECL. I know it's SYSTEM(7) but what ECL command do I need to display it? TERM doesn't work (although I can set it by entering &quo

Re: [U2] UD - Display Current Terminal Type

2013-04-23 Thread Bill Haskett
will display the terminal type, width and depth. Tom Whitmore RATEX Business Solutions -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Haskett Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 5:12 PM To: U2 Mail List Subject: [U2] UD

Re: [U2] UD - Display Current Terminal Type

2013-04-24 Thread Bill Haskett
oun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Haskett Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 9:09 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] UD - Display Current Terminal Type :GET.TERM.TYPE Not a verb GET.TERM.TYPE :version Module Name Version

Re: [U2] Would anyone else like a change to *HS.UPDFINFO?

2013-05-01 Thread Bill Haskett
It has always been my opinion that any TCL verb, function, or whatever should be able to process a select list if one is present. All of the utilities I write have this capability, along with help. :-) Bill - Origin

[U2] Manage $ values

2013-05-07 Thread Bill Haskett
Dale: Be careful with this if running UniData. Here are some UDT.OPTIONS documentation: UDT.OPTIONS 56 - U_CONV_BADRETURN Normally, if an OCONV or ICONV conversion fails due to invalid data or an invalid conversion code, UniData returns the input string. In BASICTYPE P, if you turn on UDT.O

Re: [U2] select query..

2013-05-15 Thread Bill Haskett
George: In UniData, all SAVEDLISTS items have "000" (or "001", etc) appended to the end of it. Although one can normally do a "SAVE.LIST MY.LIST" and expect that the actual item ID in the SAVEDLISTS file to be "MY.LIST000" this isn't always the case if the list is large. This makes managing

Re: [U2] UniData PreStore to change the KEY of a record?

2013-05-29 Thread Bill Haskett
Or, you could download the BPTEST or TRY program from: http://www.pickwiki.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?BasicSource ...then write the simple code from the command line. Not only are these programs good to test syntax, but they're great for performing simple tasks that don't work from the command

[U2] MsgLvlConfig

2013-06-11 Thread Bill Haskett
is having problems with a program would be quite helpful? Thanks, Bill Haskett ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

Re: [U2] MsgLvlConfig

2013-06-11 Thread Bill Haskett
://u2-universe-unidata.1073795.n5.nabble.com/Re-Logging-td28343.html http://www.mail-archive.com/u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org/msg32670.html http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.u2.general/57763 Robert - Original Message - From: "Bill Haskett" To: "U2 Mail List" Se

Re: [U2] [UV] Record Sampling for File Sizing Diagnostics

2013-06-12 Thread Bill Haskett
Harold: UniData does have the "SAMPLED" verb. It works the same way as described. Bill - Original Message - *From:* harold.o...@clark.wa.gov *To:* U2 Users List *Date:* 6/12/2013 2:17 PM *Subject:* Re: [U2] [UV]

Re: [U2] Mobile phones

2013-07-15 Thread Bill Haskett
Did it help, and what did you decide to do? :-) Bill - Original Message - *From:* syme...@gmail.com *To:* 'U2 Users List' *Date:* 7/15/2013 5:20 AM *Subject:* Re: [U2] Mobile phones Thanks everyone for your inform

Re: [U2] SORT reports line length, change right margin?

2013-07-15 Thread Bill Haskett
The simplest solution is to change the print width in UV then alter the CPI in PCL. You may not have to alter the print width in UV if the original developer was prescient enough to plan for expansion. e.g. ^027E^027&l1e64F^027&a0l85M^027(s0p16.67h0s3b##DEFFONTNO##T ...where ##DEFFONTNO### is

Re: [U2] Fwd: UML mapping tool for MV (UniVerse)

2013-07-16 Thread Bill Haskett
You can place all of your dictionaries into a separate account, in a separate directory. Create valid update permissions for an administrator to this database directory and read permissions for users, and anyone else Bill Untitled Page - Original Message - *From:* wjhon...@aol.com *T

Re: [U2] Fwd: UML mapping tool for MV (UniVerse)

2013-07-16 Thread Bill Haskett
you factor the accountname into the dict name. George -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Haskett Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 2:11 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Fwd: UML mapping tool for MV

Re: [U2] Fwd: UML mapping tool for MV (UniVerse)

2013-07-16 Thread Bill Haskett
Yea, but who's going to read, and understand, the XML? :-) Bill Untitled Page - Original Message - *From:* dave...@gmail.com *To:* U2 Users List *Date:* 7/16/2013 2:05 PM *Subject:* Re: [U2] Fwd: UML mapping tool

Re: [U2] CentOS with Universe?

2013-07-17 Thread Bill Haskett
Are you saying your client wouldn't pay $750 for Windows Server 2008 R2? ...and you actually get paid? :-) Bill - Original Message - *From:* dw...@tincat-group.com *To:* U2 Users List *Date:* 7/17/2013 6:41 AM *

Re: [U2] CentOS with Universe?

2013-07-17 Thread Bill Haskett
r as well. The VAR runs IIS on Windows, but Apache on linux. Given that info, which OS would you select for Universe 11.1? --dawn On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Bill Haskett wrote: Are you saying your client wouldn't pay $750 for Windows Ser

Re: [U2] CentOS with Universe?

2013-07-17 Thread Bill Haskett
- Original Message - *From:* antli...@youngman.org.uk *To:* u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org *Date:* 7/17/2013 12:25 PM *Subject:* Re: [U2] CentOS with Universe? On 17/07/2013 19:09, Bill Haskett wrote: Dawn: I kind of figured. :-) Whatever you decide, I'm sure wo

[U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-07-25 Thread Bill Haskett
We've been having an anomaly that has occurred over the past 7 years we've been using UniData on Windows. Yesterday one of the accounts on our ASP server, that contains about 30 accounts, had a billing issue. This issue was created because a single BASIC program didn't run a couple of lines o

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-07-25 Thread Bill Haskett
e-level issue in your object code. Sending them the code might not help if they test in an environment that's different from your own. They need to see it on your system. I'm just trying to save you some wasted diagnostic time... Best, T From: Bill

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-07-25 Thread Bill Haskett
might not help if they test in an environment that's different from your own. They need to see it on your system. I'm just trying to save you some wasted diagnostic time... Best, T From: Bill Haskett ... a single BASIC program didn't

Re: [U2] [UV] Do you avoid TRIGGERS because of the difficulty using DEBUG or RAID with them? Was: Universe Triggers

2013-07-29 Thread Bill Haskett
I must say, I use triggers in UD with no problems. When converting from D3 to UD I had a hard time getting them to work. However, with useful suggestions from several on this list I was able to get them working properly. They turned out to be a bit more robust than the D3 triggers. I've bee

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-07-30 Thread Bill Haskett
capability (Notepad++ is a good one) and see if they still match. -John -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Haskett Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 12:25 PM To: U2 Mail List Subject: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code

Re: [U2] OPENSEQ

2013-08-05 Thread Bill Haskett
Al: UniData help shows... Help Information For: "UNIBASIC OPENSEQ" Page: 1/5 OPENSEQ Syntax OPENSEQ [absolutepath | seq.filename,record.id] [READONLY] TO seq.file.var [ON ERROR statements] [LOCKED statements] {THEN statements [END] | ELSE statements [END]} OPEN

Re: [U2] OPENSEQ

2013-08-05 Thread Bill Haskett
now you could OPEN an UNC path at all before! I've been translating the UNC paths into DOS paths. Now to try to open remote UNC path.... -Original Message- From: Bill Haskett To: U2 Users List Sent: Mon, Aug 5, 2013 10:05 am Subject: Re: [U2] OPENSEQ Al: UniData help shows...

Re: [U2] Pick flavor in U2 personal edition

2013-08-05 Thread Bill Haskett
Eric: Yes. Bill - Original Message - *From:* earmstr...@lobelfinancial.com *To:* u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org *Date:* 8/5/2013 1:24 PM *Subject:* Re: [U2] Pick flavor in U2 personal edition Dan, Thanks. I downlo

Re: [U2] XAdmin wiki?

2013-08-05 Thread Bill Haskett
You know, I'd have no problem updating documentation to a "wiki" site, where I know all documentation would go and I could continue to reference the documentation in the future. The "Pickwiki" is a little disorganized, but since I do most of my database work with U2 I'd be happy to update anyt

Re: [U2] @RECORD VARIABLES

2013-08-15 Thread Bill Haskett
Isn't this pretty much the same thing as ITYPE(), except the conversions are processed? In the CALCULATE() form, the dictionary.item can be a quoted string or a UniBasic variable. The expression uses the data from the current @RECORD during the evaluation process. In the {} form, the dictionary

Re: [U2] [UV] ED PERMISSIONS subroutine

2013-08-20 Thread Bill Haskett
Diane: I use UniData and always put my accounts underneath a level separate from @UDTHOME (in "E:\UDAccounts"). I've never had this kind of problem, but have had DNS issues. I wouldn't even contemplate putting anything under "C:" so have no idea what can happen there. :-( Bill --

[U2] Fwd: Re: Select from one file with save-list from another file

2013-08-28 Thread Bill Haskett
Tony: I use a simple program, inspired by a U2 tech note at , that does the following: LSELECT ARTVIOLATION WITH UNITID IN DEFAULT.LIST.NAME The list is simply generated then used in the statement. So, I can create a selec

Re: [U2] [OT] Interview Questions

2013-10-11 Thread Bill Haskett
Kevin: After actually hiring a lot of people, and firing those that needed it, I've come to the conclusion that all employers need a person with the following three attributes: 1) An ability, and willingness, to be on-time, 2) An ability, and willingness, to be presentable in all business

Re: [U2] [OT] Interview Questions

2013-10-11 Thread Bill Haskett
our requirements listed below? UniVerse/UniData/D3/JBASE/**CACHE is not taught in colleges and if we don't teach them what happens when all of us oldies are gone? Brenda -Original Message- From: u2-users-bounces@listserver.**u2ug.org[mailto: u2-users-bounces@**listserver.u2ug.org

Re: [U2] [OT] Support Ticket Software

2013-10-24 Thread Bill Haskett
Charlie: Welcome to the new world of technology. sigh... Bill - Original Message - *From:* cwn...@comcast.net *To:* U2 Users List *Date:* 10/24/2013 6:49 AM *Subject:* Re: [U2] [OT] Support Ticket Software Thanks

Re: [U2] UV Basic parsing xml with XDOM commands

2013-11-06 Thread Bill Haskett
Now that is quite a dance! [whew...] Bill Untitled Page - Original Message - *From:* peter.che...@firstmac.com.au *To:* U2 Users List *Date:* 11/5/2013 6:00 PM *Subject:* [U2] UV Basic parsing xml with XDOM comma

Re: [U2] Simple question - selecting and listing records

2013-11-19 Thread Bill Haskett
Brandon: Is this UV or UD? There's a bit of a difference setting up the query language to use the "WHEN" clause within these two different U2 dbms products. The task of setting up the query is to set up fields as multi-value first, then associating multi-valued field definitions into a grou

Re: [U2] moving UV from one server to another (windows)

2013-11-19 Thread Bill Haskett
George: David is correct that you should use Windows server to run U2 products for a business environment. However, there is a role for running everything on a single Windows 7 machine for demos, proof-of-concepts, development, etc. There is no need to worry about Windows reboots for a non-

Re: [U2] List of display control @ variables for UVBasic

2013-11-20 Thread Bill Haskett
In the UD BASIC manual, this information is under the "@" item in the table of contents. Bill - Original Message - *From:* jscha...@gmail.com *To:* U2 Users List *Date:* 11/20/2013 9:20 AM *Subject:* Re: [U2] List

Re: [U2] UD PE 7.1.0 - Use of EXECUTE with the RTNLIST option

2013-11-20 Thread Bill Haskett
Bruce: Thanks. This always gets me so I never use the RTNLIST. :-) Bill Untitled Page - Original Message - *From:* bdec...@bluepinc.com *To:* u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org *Date:* 11/20/2013 3:56 PM *Subject:* Re

Re: [U2] Unidata error for the ages, so to speak.

2013-12-06 Thread Bill Haskett
Doug: This is a UniData anomaly. You can't reference fields like "@RECORD<3>", you have to refer to them like "EXTRACT(@RECORD,3,0,0)". HTH, Bill Untitled Page - Original Message - *From:* dave...@gmail.com *T

Re: [U2] Running Account wide I-DESC

2013-12-06 Thread Bill Haskett
Doesn't UV have a DICT.DICT ? In UD you can create truly global dictionaries by placing them in DICT.DICT. Bill - Original Message - *From:* dia...@aptron.com *To:* U2 Users List *Date:* 12/6/2013 6:13 AM *Subject

Re: [U2] [OT] Interview Questions

2013-12-16 Thread Bill Haskett
Another option, which I always have done, is to iconv dates in "15 Jan 2013" format. This always works regardless of which date method is selected. Don't know why "yanks" do things that irritate you. But then, most people do things that irritate someone. As Mark Brown always points out; th

Re: [U2] [OT] Interview Questions

2013-12-16 Thread Bill Haskett
.mcgo...@bankofthewest.com *To:* U2 Users List *Date:* 12/16/2013 6:22 PM *Subject:* Re: [U2] [OT] Interview Questions There's an xkcd for everthing: http://xkcd.com/1179/ -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Beha

Re: [U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you?

2013-12-20 Thread Bill Haskett
Charles: I've always used the following: http://www.pickwiki.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?BFind ...to search everything on U2, including Windows directories. Considering Windows search capabilities really suck, this is very handy for our web stuff, programs, accounts, dictionaries, etc. I did th

Re: [U2] Accuterm the Web version

2013-12-23 Thread Bill Haskett
Were you talking about the version of AccuTerm that runs through a web browser? If so it's a nice product but the user still has to download and install AccuTerm, which works fine over the internet. I can certainly echo the sentiments regarding the quality of AccuTerm products and their wonde

Re: [U2] Accuterm the Web version

2013-12-23 Thread Bill Haskett
. -Original Message- From: Bill Haskett To: U2 Users List Sent: Mon, Dec 23, 2013 11:28 am Subject: Re: [U2] Accuterm the Web version Were you talking about the version of AccuTerm that runs through a web browser? If so it's a nice product but the user still has to download and in

Re: [U2] [UV] INPUTTRAP Statement

2013-12-23 Thread Bill Haskett
You can't trap the 'break' key, but you can prevent its usage. In UniData it is: ON.ABORT ...which is a very finicky task to accomplish in that the command doesn't permanently turn on or off anything, it simply executes a command on a program abort. For us, the command executes the ON.ABORT

Re: [U2] [UV] INPUTTRAP Statement

2013-12-23 Thread Bill Haskett
ort executes another On.Abort ? I didn't understand that part. -Original Message- From: Bill Haskett To: U2 Users List Sent: Mon, Dec 23, 2013 1:06 pm Subject: Re: [U2] [UV] INPUTTRAP Statement You can't trap the 'break' key, but you can prevent its usage. In

[U2] [UD] Who's locking a record

2014-01-28 Thread Bill Haskett
In UniData, if you do a READU you can find out the User ID who has the record locked by using the STATUS() function; this returns the 'UID' value. Here's a list of users: 3 Dev (0)-> lu Licensed(UDT+CP)/Effective Udt Sql iPhtm Pooled Total ( 24 + 1 ) / 25

Re: [U2] How do you verify windows printer is good before fatal error by PRINTing to a bogus printer.

2014-01-28 Thread Bill Haskett
You know, I was able to integrate all printers into U2 by writing a few simple programs and using Print Wizard to convert our PCL5 output into a ".pdf" file. This way, I never work with printers at the UD level any more. And PW is an awesome product with awesome support. Bill Untitled Page

Re: [U2] [UD] Who's locking a record

2014-01-28 Thread Bill Haskett
ER.NAME<1> CALL SB.DISP(9,MSG) SLEEP 5 CALL SB.DISP(9.'') RETURN END ELSE RELEASE F.CNTRL, 'COM.MASTER' STOP END -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bill

Re: [U2] [UD] Who's locking a record

2014-01-28 Thread Bill Haskett
Message- From: David A. Green Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 2:19 PM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] [UD] Who's locking a record Can you get what you need using GETREADU? David A. Green (480) 201-7953 DAG Consulting -Original Message- From: Bill Haskett Sent: T

Re: [U2] UniVerse Dictionary queston

2014-02-04 Thread Bill Haskett
Martin: This is the only way to do accomplish the defined task in UniData. Maybe "@RECORD<178,1>" is the preferred method in UV. Bill Untitled Page - Original Message - *From:* msch...@martinscholl.com *To:* U2

Re: [U2] wasted time on rs.com

2014-02-21 Thread Bill Haskett
Baker: Can't agree more. You'd think it would be easy to simply index your help site, place a search box on each page, then let people search for anything...but alas. [sigh] This is so difficult that we all ignore it and open our sites up to search engines. I did it on Microsoft one time a

Re: [U2] Unidata Index Failure

2014-02-26 Thread Bill Haskett
Doug: I've had problems in the past when updating indexes while people were using the file. I began using the ONLINE keyword to the CREATE.INDEX command and it took several sub-releases before the problems have gone away (knock, knock!). My problem was the indexes I build for everyone's nam

Re: [U2] Left Outer Join Question

2014-03-03 Thread Bill Haskett
Then, there's always: :SELECT FILE1 xxx items selected. >NSELECT FILE 2 yyy items selected. > You can also do the same as noted below with an "EVAL" command. e.g. :select FILE1 WITH EVAL "TRANS('FILE2', @ID, 0, 0)" = "" xxx items selected. > Bill --

Re: [U2] Reporting Tools

2014-03-03 Thread Bill Haskett
Jeff: I've written a little BASIC utility that takes a file, selects what I want, then outputs via the ITYPE function as a CSV file to the spooler. I wonder if that gets around the 150 field limit, since it's in BASIC? I know UniData is weird regarding this kind of thing. For instance, the

Re: [U2] Left Outer Join Question

2014-03-03 Thread Bill Haskett
If you on UniData and you're in PICK mode then you have to lower case this kind of thing, since such PRIME style stuff only works in the UniData parser mode. So, try this: 3 Dev (0)-> SELECT ADDRBOOK WITH MAILLIST NE "" AND WITH MAILLIST_OWNERS = "[BOD]" 309 records selected to list 0. SAV

Re: [U2] Left Outer Join Question

2014-03-04 Thread Bill Haskett
Randy: NSELECT is a "not" select. It doesn't use, as far as I know, any filters with it. Use the filters with the SELECT then use the NSELECT (then use more SELECTs with filters if you want). Bill - Original Messa

Re: [U2] Left Outer Join Question

2014-03-04 Thread Bill Haskett
NSELECT gets the items in the list, created by "SELECT X", that do not exist in Y. Consequently, you can do things like: SELECT VENDORS WITH LAST USED > "01/01/13" INVOICEKEY xxx records selected to list 0 NSELECT INVOICES ...where INVOICEKEY is the field that produces the record keys into the

Re: [U2] Embedded help as hypertext

2014-03-12 Thread Bill Haskett
Then, someone did the following for D3. http://www.d3ref.com/ It's really too bad this isn't how U2 provides documentation, as it'd get indexed all over the internet, which would be good marketing, maybe. :-) Bill ---

Re: [U2] jobnotify: Error 913 occurred

2014-03-20 Thread Bill Haskett
I have no idea what it is either. When phantoms crash I figure it has to do the the credentials running the phantom. In windows I find all my scheduled tasks run under a specific set of credentials. If something runs that I don't have permissions for it just crashes. So the user has to have

Re: [U2] jobnotify: Error 913 occurred

2014-03-21 Thread Bill Haskett
This reminds me... Does UV have the same kind of logging as UD? Whenever UD crashes with things like LCT errors there's a log file created in the dbms account directory outlining the kinds of problems that occurred. These were very helpful when I sent them to Wally. :-) Bill -

[U2] MongoDB

2014-03-21 Thread Bill Haskett
This is a very interesting analysis of MongoDB vs Oracle... http://www.fstsummitus.com/media/whitepapers/2013/a_total_-10gen.pdf Perhaps U2 ought to seriously review this to expand their market via pricing. Remember, most big companies started out small. To price small companies out of the U

Re: [U2] SpreadsheetML and Excel2013

2014-03-24 Thread Bill Haskett
I'm not using 2013. A friend was showing me that the new word and excel files were nothing but XML inside a zip file. So, open a ".xlsx" or ".docx" file with a zip client and you can actually see its contents. Kind of amazing. Bill --

Re: [U2] Unidata 7.2.6 Secure submitRequest Question

2014-03-24 Thread Bill Haskett
Do sockets update the "serverdebug" defined file, like UniObjects does? Bill - Original Message - *From:* ke...@precisonline.com *To:* U2 Users List *Date:* 3/24/2014 2:36 PM *Subject:* [U2] Unidata 7.2.6 Secure su

Re: [U2] Business ?

2014-03-28 Thread Bill Haskett
If I'm not mistaken, they're a very large DesignBais user. Bill Untitled Page - Original Message - *From:* jbut...@hampshire.edu *To:* U2 Users List *Date:* 3/28/2014 12:55 PM *Subject:* [U2] Business ? Does anyo

Re: [U2] [UV] Messing with file triggers and error 30107

2014-04-08 Thread Bill Haskett
This is pretty much why one builds a single update trigger program and a single delete trigger program. Then, from within those subroutines, call(s) are made to the actual subroutines that do something. This way, you can actually use "local" subroutines to do trigger work. Bill

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