RE: A Parting Request

2004-03-29 Thread Anthony Youngman
Or on the consultant's page at PickWiki. Cheers, Wol -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Moderator Sent: 29 March 2004 21:15 To: U2 Users Discussion List Subject: Re: A Parting Request Darwin, Sorry to hear you are in a dry spell. You migh

RE: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Anthony Youngman
Simple! He's saying "Don't mix web and email". And I couldn't agree more. If I get a forum post sent to me by email, I don't want the grief and hassle of firing up a browser, and a web connection, and and and ... Oh - and I've just recently upgraded my email client at home. The assumption when th

Re: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Results
Mark, All I can add is that when I went to London and to Sydney, I wasn't a stranger - I was "I know you from the U2 list, right?" and I had friends in both countries. I'm doing business in South Africa, partially because of this list. The funny thing is, for every person I've helped, I'm su

Re: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Mark Johnson
I agree that this list will be sorely missed. It has a genuine technical value as well as a human value for some of the soft topics that floated around. Plus, it helped identify some quite knowledgable people that I hope still contribute later. I've gotten some UV/UD and even D3 and AP-Pro and oth

Writing a service for UniRPC

2004-03-29 Thread Michael McRae
Perhaps I should ask the question a little differently. Due to constraints within the customer's environment, we have been asked to 'narrow' and 'control' and 'audit' the access available via the various interfaces to uniVerse, but not disallow them. If we do this at the server end, then we have

Re: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Trevor Ockenden
Joe You must have more time on your hands than I but I will try to reply to you before this list terminates. This list has helped me and I'm sure many others overcome our ignorance or lack of experience etc. When genuine problems are encountered we usually go through our support channels and they

Re: [ADMIN] Re: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Moderator
*** end of thread *** Joe Eugene wrote: Clif, Sorry... I kept this discussion to the best of my Professionalism, until a few folks here Provoked with some serious name calling. Its appears bad enough... some folks here cannot discuss stuff in a constructive argument. Thanks, Joe Eugene -O

RE: [ADMIN] Re: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Joe Eugene
Clif, Sorry... I kept this discussion to the best of my Professionalism, until a few folks here Provoked with some serious name calling. Its appears bad enough... some folks here cannot discuss stuff in a constructive argument. Thanks, Joe Eugene >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PRO

Re: The U2 List is better than CDP

2004-03-29 Thread Moderator
Guess again. Craig Bennett wrote: You're right Tony, but I assumed Cliff was giving us a holiday right now. -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Joe Eugene
Real Funny ;) I have Spare Time alright.. and you have MORE TIME TO Reply to "Stupid Topics" than TO *HIT* DELETE KEY. Does that give you a HINT? Joe Eugene >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Behalf Of Logan, David (SST - Adelaide) >Sent: Monday, Ma

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Joe Eugene
Dont you still get it...? Think a little bit HARDER!... Joe Eugene >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 11:31 PM >To: U2 Users Discussion List >Subject: Re: Modern Universe - was: The lists are

[ADMIN] Re: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Moderator
This is a test, right? Y'all got together off-list and cooked this up to see if I was going to follow through or just roll over and let things free-wheel for the duration. Seriously, this kind of name calling, mud slingly, and vitriol is disturbing in its lack of professionalism. Add to tha

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Joe Eugene
Trevor, I am a member of serveral other Technical Forms. When i have found problems with any software, have brought it up on several occasions. A few of these issues were acknowledged by the Software Vendor and later architectural changes were made to rectify the issue. On this Forum, i have rar

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Logan, David (SST - Adelaide)
Hi Will, troll( P ) Pronunciation Key (trl) v. trolled, troll*ing, trolls v. tr. 1. 1. To fish for by trailing a baited line from behind a slowly moving boat. 2. To fish in by trailing a baited line: troll the lake for bass. 3. To trail (a baited line) in fishi

Re: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread FFT2001
Joe why are you on this list? What is the point of hanging around haranging (sp?) us if you are not interested in learning anything as you put it? Why not just leave. Will In a message dated 3/29/2004 9:30:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Our UV Developers here have over

Re: [AD] Re: Text file to PDF

2004-03-29 Thread Craig Bennett
>within UniVerse without any operating system or external dependencies. Whoops, that should have been UniVerse or UniData. Craig -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

[AD] Re: Text file to PDF

2004-03-29 Thread Craig Bennett
Trevor, We have a product which will let you do this (and much much more) all from within UniVerse without any operating system or external dependencies. You can convert your reports in BASIC or from TCL, create sequentially if your input is large, squash wide format down to A4 add graphics, supp

RE: Text file to PDF

2004-03-29 Thread Cameron Booth
Hi Trevor, Did a quick google and came up with this one. http://www.eprg.org/pdfcorner/text2pdf/ Os command line utility (win and *nix) At first appearance it looks alright. Cheers, Cam Booth Analyst Programmer Ultradata - Vision to Reality www.ultradata.com.au -Original Message---

Text file to PDF

2004-03-29 Thread Trevor Ockenden
And now for something completely different! Any help or suggestions regarding converting out text reports in the &HOLD& file to PDF files for subsequent e-mailing. Cheers Trevor Ockenden Open Systems Professionals M: +61 414 731 634 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Fr

Re: The U2 List is better than CDP

2004-03-29 Thread Craig Bennett
>Haha, I'm sorry, but is THIS the focused technical resource or the chatter >group - I honestly can't tell though I've been here believing it's the >technical group. I like the group and all but this group is not what I'd >call focused. YMMV. We'll see what happens on the other side. You're rig

Re: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Trevor Ockenden
Joe One final point. You find it hard to believe people on this LIST get so defensive. May I suggest that if we were to dive into a DB2 or SQLServer LIST (if they exist) and put them down I dare say we would get some pretty abusive remarks thrown at us too. Only to be expected Trevor Ockenden O

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Joe Eugene
What is your DEAL... Am Not Interested in Learning PICK/BASIC Or spending my valuable hours on some legacy technique. You can call it WHATEVER you want... Does it really Matter? You seem to be VERY Interested in Trivial things and stupid comments! Joe > -Original Message- > From: [EMAI

Re: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Trevor Ockenden
Joe Thanks for the direct reply. I have had some experience with 'mainstream' databases and due mainly to my lack of knowledge and experience I found them to be cumbersome, inefficient and expensive for the type of applications I was dealing with. Having said that, I have seen some fantastic app

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Tony Gravagno
Joe Eugene wrote: >I have heard stories where several corporations migrated to RDBMS, >Never heard any LARGE Corp(Hershey, GE, BOfA etc) switch to UV/MVDBMS. Of the many companies who have migrated from MV to an RDBMS you always hear the fanfare of their initial decision but rarely of the years of

RE: The U2 List is better than CDP

2004-03-29 Thread Tony Gravagno
Craig Bennett >CDP is all very well, but the noice ratio can be quite high, >not to mention the trolls. Haha, I unsubscribed from this group for several months just because of the high noise volume in here. CDP volume tends to go up and down but since there are so few people really contributing

RE: Modern Universe

2004-03-29 Thread djordan
Hi Joe The area I push Uv is complex transaction processing. RDBMS are designed for High Volume Simple transaction processing. When the Business rules become complex and there is a high level of crossreference, Uv outperforms. A Pick application runs in virtually every bank in the world from the

Re: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Tony Wood
You are correct. It was your "Trivial things and stupid comments" that I was answering. Regards, T. -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Joe Eugene
Trevor, Sorry.. that was a TYPO.. I Re-Posted the Performance Results. Everybody here thinks I am just bringing up things for FUN!. These are Real world, Real Time applications. I have never worked With any database where I had to Increase the Application Server Timeout Cause Users were getting R

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Joe Eugene
Our UV Developers here have over 25 years of Experience doing the stuff the do... I personally am not interested in learning the details of UV since nobody really uses this kinda stuff at Corporate Level. I am simply surprised why UV is still used by a few Loyal Folk... when people with 25 ye

Re: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Trevor Ockenden
David Yes, there are many threads that have bored me silly but I just delete them. I suspect if Joe perseveres here we may actually assist him by speeding up his UV application. Also, other "quiet" bystanders (like myself at times) pick up valuable pieces of information from observing these thre

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Joe Eugene
Dude... Why don't u find somewhere to TALK Rubbish! IF you don't like the EMAILS... DON'T YOU KNOW HOW TO DELETE...? > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Don Kibbey > Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 9:13 PM > To: 'U2 Users Discussion List'

Re: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Trevor Ockenden
Joe Have you sized your UV file correctly? The 15-20 seconds suggests many things are not as they should be. Can you do an "ANALYZE.FILE" on this file and post the details. If it is a dynamic hashed file include the option "STATS" please. We may be able to help you after all. Cheers Trevor Ock

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Hona, David S
Is it just me or this getting really BORING! (and that's be REALLY nice about it) LOL. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Eugene Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 12:07 PM To: U2 Users Discussion List Subject: RE: Modern Universe - was: The

Re: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Tony Wood
Joe, FYI, PICK is NOT a flavour of BASIC. Pick is a MVDB currently owned by Raining Data. You do need to some more research - proper research of the topic. You can refer to UV running with a PICK flavour but nothing else. BASIC is the programming language used by most of the MVDB systems. PICK BAS

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Don Kibbey
Dude, your like the dog that just won't stop humping the guests leg. Get over it already. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Eugene Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 8:31 PM To: U2 Users Discussion List Subject: RE: Modern Universe - was: The

Re: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Trevor Ockenden
Joe Have I missed something here. You refer to the QUAD as having MSSQL SERVER 2K as the database so where does the UV (or PICK) files fit into this equation? Also, when carrying out this performance test did you take into account as to whether or not the file was in memory or not. The Athlon may

RE: Question for Donald Kibbey

2004-03-29 Thread Tony Gravagno
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> George, the best commercial integration option available >> for MV right now is >> the Pick Data Provider .NET from Raining Data. > >But doesn't .NET take up like a gazillion bytes of space? >And doesn't "integration" require an object? >As in... integration with .. w

RE: PDP.NET, mvBASE, etc (was Question for Donald Kibbey)

2004-03-29 Thread Tony Gravagno
george r smith wrote: >Get the Pick Data Provider .NET from Raining Data and get the >same support as Clink for mvBase - no thanks. Well George, there are many more engineers and support people working on PDP.NET than on mvBASE. mvBASE is a dead-end DBMS product that RD inherited - Clink was dea

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Joe Eugene
This is what I meant ... TYPO RESULTS Machine: 950 MHZ Athlon Database: MSSQL SERVER 2K Records: 20 Million Indexes: NO Search Column: First Name Search Type: Wild Card (*) Search Time: 2 Seconds -- Machine: QUAD Processor Box (4 GHZ) Database: UV Version 10.1 Records: 500,000

Re: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Results
Joe, Have you checked the file sizes? Have you checked the index parameters? I'll make you a bet. You bring me in for a week (i'll probably need most of that week to prove my results, the fixes will take less than a day) and I bet you we can make a meaningful improvement in your response tim

Re: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Results
Joe, The big corporate moves have more to do with marketing and sales than they do technical issues. Most of them have horrible ROI. I've been in companies of $500 Million and up which do not have any handle on their IT costs for non-MV work. Most companies work on a "% of gross" theory whic

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Logan, David (SST - Adelaide)
Hi Joe, Perhaps you could share your actual searches, code and database structure? Were you searching 20 million records in a single column table? Multiple "fields (or columns if you insist)" in the Universe database? What is this PICK you keep talking about? Universe doesn't have a component name

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Joe Eugene
Charles, Our Customer Information is stored in UV and accessed via PICK. This FILE (as UV ppl call it) contains around 500,000 Records in it. Everything is INDEXED Per UV Standards. Here is simple WILD CARD Search Test. RESULTS Machine: 950 MHZ Athlon Database: MSSQL SERVER 2K Records: 20 Milli

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Joe Eugene
David, > All I ask is to keep an open mind as PICK plays an important role in > some areas of technology that cannot be replaced I am very open minded to all Technologies and I think every software professional will benefit from being open to technologies. I have been unable to convince myself t

RE: What are "embedded databases"

2004-03-29 Thread Daly, Mark
That's my understanding.. If you think of a linux server hosting Tomcat which in turn is hosting a complex Java application, which utilizes a big ass Oracle database hosted on a Solaris server in some other corner of the IT dept. Then the Oracle database is not embedded, and is accessed via

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Ross Ferris
Michael, 1) You are right - you MIGHT need JavaScript skills if you want to do anything "special". If you copy/paste modify the following VRE.doAction("CallU2"); substituting your own "action" as appropriate, you have mastered all the jScript you need ! Hopefully you would agree that t

The U2 List is better than CDP

2004-03-29 Thread Craig Bennett
CDP is all very well, but the noice ratio can be quite high, not to mention the trolls. If we don't move to U2UG (and I think U2UG will be fine once we can reply by email and they clarify their intellectual property problem, and it would be nice if their emails contained a bit less guff) we should

Re: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Results
Joe, Here's a few things to consider. MV environments (including UniVerse), allow for small teams to develop and adjust business rules more quickly than you can you can in Oracle, Sybase, or Informix. Published statistics show that MV environments are roughly twice as efficient in disk usage

Re: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Results
Michael, If you have VISAGE questions, Ross Ferris of STAMINA is a list member (we still have a few days in which we can call ourselves list members) and I'm sure he can answer your pricing and technology questions. - Charles "We'll miss Clif" Barouch Michael Spencer wrote: Last I looked

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread djordan
Hi Joe I have worked with variety of databases and I think using one performance statistic to evaluate the capabilities of one database against another is meaningless. As a professional I consider all databases for any business requirement and select on their merits. To discount MV products from

Re: OKI Code 39 BarCode

2004-03-29 Thread Mark Johnson
One could check www.okidata.com to see if there's any support for manual printer driver stuff like bar codes. I use www.hp.com to get beaucoups of HP PCL stuff. my 1 cent. - Original Message - From: "Ray Buchner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'U2 Users Discussion List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sen

Re: Your product

2004-03-29 Thread jimkuhle
Here is the file. -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

RE: SB error

2004-03-29 Thread kafsat taiyus
Thank you David, I shall talk with the programmers. Regards Kafsat -Original Message- From: David Wolverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 30 March 2004 1:19 AM To: 'U2 Users Discussion List' Subject: RE: SB error This would tell me that you have two programs running: Sess

Re: COMMON Variable.

2004-03-29 Thread Trevor Ockenden
> Is there a way to pass some common variable to a Phantom program - which > will be called using EXECUTE 'PHANTOM '. > > I've even tried named COMMON and it lost its value. You could try 'named pipes' to pass the information BUT this is a large topic. You may need to do some investigation. I

RE: What are "embedded databases"

2004-03-29 Thread dave . meeks
Yep... Very true... Dave -Original Message- From: Stevenson, Charles To: U2 Users Discussion List Sent: 3/29/2004 4:44 PM Subject: RE: What are "embedded databases" > An embedded database is a technology that is deployed as the > component responsible for data management within a busi

Re: What are "embedded databases"

2004-03-29 Thread Dave Taylor
And, what if the database is not embedded? How does the data get moved between the application and the database? ODBC/etc., etc., etc.? Does "embedded" imply a level of application interactivity with the data in the database that one would not have if the database being addressed by the applicati

Re: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Will
"What we have here is a failure to communicate." - "Cool Hand Luke" "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" - Clark Gable as "Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind" At 12:01 PM 3/29/2004 -0500, you wrote: >"With all due respects, Sir, you are beginning to bore the hell out of me!" > >

RE: What are "embedded databases"

2004-03-29 Thread Stevenson, Charles
> An embedded database is a technology that is deployed as the > component responsible for data management within a business > application. > > Dave > > The other day, someone asked me if I used an "embedded database". So most of this list's members probably don't *use* an embedded database, b

Unclassified RE: What are "embedded databases"

2004-03-29 Thread HENDERSON MICHAEL MR
Hmm ... I thought that what IBM mean by 'embedded database' is "the database you didn't even know you had". [8 words!] I.E., there's a database 'embedded' in the software package you bought / use, but you may have no idea that there is a database in there, and even if you do understand that fact

Re: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Will
Michael, Visage does not require Javascript skills, but if you have those skills Visage allows you to use them. The published price for Visage Designer is $2,495 USD and comes with 3 Run-Time versions. Additional Run-Time Visage versions are $265 each... but that amount is a one-time-only cha

RE: What are "embedded databases"

2004-03-29 Thread dave . meeks
Well, not sure about 10 words or less, but here's my effort: An embedded database is a technology that is deployed as the component responsible for data management within a business application. Dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 3/29/2004 2:18 PM

RE: Question for Donald Kibbey

2004-03-29 Thread Stevenson, Charles
> And doesn't "integration" require an object? > As in... integration with .. what? I wouldn't sweat it. The verb "integrate" becomes the noun "Integration", and everyone knows that nouning always weirds verbs. Verbing weirds nouns, too. -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.olive

RE: Question for Donald Kibbey

2004-03-29 Thread James Canale, Jr.
It would have been easier if you just asked me to reread the original post ;-) I think I know what Tony meant with his statement, but, it isn't appropriate for me to answer for him so I won't. Thanks for the English lesson - I think. Regards, Jim [snip] "Integrate" in this sense requires a "w

Re: Question for Donald Kibbey

2004-03-29 Thread FFT2001
In a message dated 3/29/2004 3:15:09 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I don't really know what you are after with the > "integration" requiring an > object. Can you be more specific? > > Regards, > > Jim Yes. "Integrate" as a verb I think applies to mathematics. But if I

Unclassified RE: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread HENDERSON MICHAEL MR
Like Wol and a couple of others, my participation as a listener and occasional poster will stop if the medium changes from email to web or news-group. My employer does not permit desktop internet access - we do have a large and rich intranet - for reasons of security, of cost (we pay for TRAFFIC he

Re: Question for Donald Kibbey

2004-03-29 Thread FFT2001
MvBase? I think he was saying "best provider for MV" not for MvBase Right? And I didn't say it, he did. Will "the real Will not the fake posing Will's" Johnson In a message dated 3/29/2004 3:09:59 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Will, > > Unless something has changed s

RE: Question for Donald Kibbey

2004-03-29 Thread James Canale, Jr.
> But doesn't .NET take up like a gazillion bytes of space? > And doesn't "integration" require an object? I can't speak of the Pick Data Provider for .NET, however, the .NET framework itself doesn't take up a 'gazillion' bytes. The framework (free download) is between 21 & 24MB (depending on the

Re: A Parting Request

2004-03-29 Thread Moderator
Darwin, Sorry to hear you are in a dry spell. You might also consider posting your information on the "Talent Available" forum at www.u2ug.org, if you have not done so already. -- Regards, Clif I realize things are tough right now everywhere, but if you would be interested in speaking to me o

RE: Question for Donald Kibbey

2004-03-29 Thread george r smith
Will, Unless something has changed since Friday, Raining Data's .NET provider does not connect to mvBase. There are only 10 people in the world who understand binary and I am not one of them. George Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EM

RE: Question for Donald Kibbey

2004-03-29 Thread george r smith
Tony, Get the Pick Data Provider .NET from Raining Data and get the same support as Clink for mvBase - no thanks. There are only 10 people in the world who understand binary and I am not one of them. George Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [ma

Re: Question for Donald Kibbey

2004-03-29 Thread Donald Kibbey
(adjusting tin foil headgear) You do realize that Micro$oft is really in the hard drive business. Of course .Net takes up a gazillion megabytes and to use my method of getting to UniVerse with C# (so you can type in all those cool looking semi-colons) you'll have to load another half gazillion

A Parting Request

2004-03-29 Thread Darwin Tellinghuisen
Just as everyone else is, I too am sorry to see the list go away. My parting request is for help personally. I am currently unemployed or should I say an under-employed consultant after having been downsized about two years ago. I have over 20 year's experience with unidata/pick and IT project m

Re: Question for Donald Kibbey

2004-03-29 Thread FFT2001
In a message dated 3/29/2004 2:28:38 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > George, the best commercial integration option available > for MV right now is > the Pick Data Provider .NET from Raining Data. But doesn't .NET take up like a gazillion bytes of space? And doesn't "inte

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Joe Eugene
Dave, Thanks for the Interesting Conversation/Argument. I did learn something from the Folks here who were willing to share information while I was researching UV. Thanks to ALL. Wish the Next Forum and UV all the Best. Thanks, Joe Eugene > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread FFT2001
Could you explain what you are referring to more clearly? In a message dated 3/29/2004 2:09:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Not to be obnoxious but why not keep data in one place? How would it benefit > someone to start a question in one medium and then be referred

Re: Question for Donald Kibbey

2004-03-29 Thread Donald Kibbey
In order to use UniObjects for Java under .Net here's what you need to do. 1) Install vjredist.exe onto your machine, it's the redistributable package for J# 2) Look over this web page http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_vjsharp/html/vjgrfjavabinaryconverter.asp

RE: COMMON Variable.

2004-03-29 Thread George Gallen
You don't seem to be able to put any values on the phantom line (and if you do, they seem to be ignored). I never tried Commons for this. Another method I use is I create a VOC entry based on UserNO and something static like: (ex. 101phantom) <1>PA <2>RUN LIB PROGRAMNAME PASSVAR1 PASSVAR2 PASSVA

RE: Question for Donald Kibbey

2004-03-29 Thread Tony Gravagno
George, the best commercial integration option available for MV right now is the Pick Data Provider .NET from Raining Data. When IBM has UO.NET, that situation may change, but developers must research and understand the capabilities of both products before making assumptions and decisions - it wou

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Tony Gravagno
I think Joe may realize a couple things: 1) He doesn't know enough about the system to criticize it. 2) The IT people in his UV shop didn't know much either. Many Pick guys get into Pick because they know their business market but not much about technology, and Pick makes it easy to write software

Re: COMMON Variable.

2004-03-29 Thread FFT2001
In a message dated 3/29/2004 1:11:11 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Is there a way to pass some common variable to a Phantom > program - which > > will be called using EXECUTE 'PHANTOM '. > > > > I've even tried named COMMON and it lost its value. Yes Carolina. The

[OT] Joe Eugene was Re: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread FFT2001
Please Speak LOUDER!!! *throws you a raw steak* Will "raw steak" Johnson In a message dated 3/29/2004 12:26:29 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Going MainStream and staying with BIG THREE is Better for the > future of the Company's Needs. BIG THREE has A LOT OF > INVESTMENT

Re: What are "embedded databases"

2004-03-29 Thread FFT2001
In a message dated 3/29/2004 11:55:51 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > embedded data base support The other day, someone asked me if I used an "embedded database". And I was like ... what? Can someone give ten words or less of what an embedded database is? And then

Re: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread FFT2001
In a message dated 3/29/2004 11:27:02 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > e.g. We pull XML Reports from our Vendors Real Time. I have to parse > through the XML and give UV/PICK Guys a FLAT TEXT File... cause either > UV Cannot handle the storage and Retrival of XML Data Using

RE: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Graham, David
Not to be obnoxious but why not keep data in one place? How would it benefit someone to start a question in one medium and then be referred to another? That sound counter-intuitive to me. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004

Re: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread FFT2001
In a message dated 3/29/2004 11:07:24 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > 1. Populate UV and Oracle with around 10 Million records. > 2. Write fairly complex Web Application against it. > 3. Run a Web Application Stress tool(around 1000 Users) > switching Databases within the

Re: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread FFT2001
1) We DO want to leave the archives at indexinfocus. 2) We DONT want to replicate the archives onto u2ug 3) We DONT want the lists to continue Go to the web site, and enter each forum you are interested in and click on SUBSCRIBE this will make all responses come to your email box just as they do

Re: VB / SQL questions

2004-03-29 Thread FFT2001
Brian you get the big gold star today. I should probably have stated more exactly what the field name was. The only response, that is might have embedded spaces wasn't the case this time, but that wasn't the fault of the responder since I wasn't specific about what the field was. It was called M

RE: COMMON Variable.

2004-03-29 Thread vance . alspach
Or pass it in the phantom statement and parse in out in the program. EXECUTE "PHANTOM %PARM1%PARM2%PARM3" [EMAIL PROTECTED] CONVERT "%" TO @FM IN VAR PARM1=VAR<2> PARM2=VAR<3> PARM3=VAR<4> unless it is a record or dimensioned array Vance

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread David T. Meeks
I doubt you'd find much disagreement on that point Joe... Unfortunately, I think you are missing the real point... Ultimately, what's "best" for a company need varies from company to company, and from situation to situation. For many people, being on 'top of technology' is not a benefit. In fact,

RE: COMMON Variable.

2004-03-29 Thread Kevin King
Why not write the value to a commonly located record and then read it in the phantom? > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Allen Egerton > Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 11:11 AM > To: U2 Users Discussion List > Subject: Re: COMMON Variable. >

RE: COMMON Variable.

2004-03-29 Thread Steve Kunzman
Carolina, Could you write the variable out to a file and read it in within your program? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Carolina Lizama Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 11:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: COMMON Variable. Thanks Clif

RE: Question for Donald Kibbey

2004-03-29 Thread George Gallen
>-Original Message- >From: george r smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 12:21 PM >To: 'U2 Users Discussion List' >Subject: Question for Donald Kibbey > > > >There are only 10 people in the world who understand binary >and I am not one >of them. Your not 01, s

Re: COMMON Variable.

2004-03-29 Thread Allen Egerton
From: "Carolina Lizama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Is there a way to pass some common variable to a Phantom program - which > will be called using EXECUTE 'PHANTOM '. > > I've even tried named COMMON and it lost its value. Common exists on a per-user basis. So, if your phantom initializes it, it

Re: OKI Code 39 BarCode

2004-03-29 Thread Kent Walker
Ray, You don't say which model Oki you're using. Manuals are on-line at http://my.okidata.com . Did you first issue the "ESC DLE A" command to specify that Code39 is to be used? For testing, try a string (HEX) like: 27 16 65 08 02 00 01 01 02 02 03 01 Kent At 06:42 AM 3/29/2004, Ray Buchne

COMMON Variable.

2004-03-29 Thread Carolina Lizama
Thanks Cliff for maintaining the wonderful user group. I will definitelyy miss it. Guys, Is there a way to pass some common variable to a Phantom program – which will be called using EXECUTE ‘PHANTOM ’. I’ve even tried named COMMON and it lost its value. Thanks. Carol. _

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Joe Eugene
> Why not ask the alternate question of why the SQL Server can't handle the > backend? Simple Reason... "Management Politics". > No one is saying UV is a truly 'enterprise' class DB. WE AGREE 100% NOW! I was just trying to say the above. Going MainStream and staying with BIG THREE is Better

Question for Donald Kibbey

2004-03-29 Thread george r smith
Don, Picked this up on your reply to the guy who thinks strong typing is a virtue. > So, what's your point? Use C# against the UV database if > that's what you want to do (I and others have been doing this for a > couple of years now). I would like to use C# against unidata what do I need to d

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Michael Spencer
Last I looked at Visage, it: 1) required javascript skills 2) had no published price 3) had no developer copy available 4) had not only a developers cost but a "per seat" cost Apart from those 4 problems, however, the "movies" did make it look like an impressive product. -Original Message---

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread David T. Meeks
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" - Clark Gable as "Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind" At 12:01 PM 3/29/2004 -0500, you wrote: "With all due respects, Sir, you are beginning to bore the hell out of me!" -- Clint Eastwood as "Gunnery Sgt. Thomas Highway in Heartbreak Ridge" ===

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Joe Eugene
Brian, Correct me if I am wrong... IBM Says "UV is an Extended relational database" Well Some people call it MVDBMS. I wonder how this is different from Nested Table Data Structure within any RDBMS. Can you explain? > Complex processing managed locally to > the > database, without having to add

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