Re: [U2] ODBC - Not finding the MV fields.

2014-02-14 Thread Bill Brutzman
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

Re: [U2] ODBC - Not finding the MV fields.

2014-02-14 Thread Bill Brutzman
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

Re: [U2] Report Generation

2014-01-16 Thread Bill Brutzman
Consider mvQuery, CoreVu (from Rocket). I have been dabbling with Kendo UI and ColdFusion. --Bill Consider also an HT -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of charles_shaf...@ntn-bower.com Sent: Thursday,

[U2] Report Writer

2014-01-09 Thread Bill Brutzman
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 ___

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

2013-12-20 Thread Bill Brutzman
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 -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org

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

2013-12-20 Thread Bill Brutzman
When using Rocket's BDT... upper-casing the commands is redundant since the editor automatically changes the color of this text to red. --Bill -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bobby Worley Sent:

Re: [U2] UniVerse Install on HP-Ux

2013-12-16 Thread Bill Brutzman
Peter: Thanks... I will try this... --Bill -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [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

Re: [U2] BDT Sluggish

2013-12-03 Thread Bill Brutzman
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 Unidata programmers On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Bill

Re: [U2] Web Services at Universe 11.n

2013-10-30 Thread Bill Brutzman
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

Re: [U2] [OT] Interview Questions

2013-10-11 Thread Bill Brutzman
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

Re: [U2] UniData to SharePoint

2013-08-15 Thread Bill Brutzman
John: I expect that MiddleWare would be needed. My first choice would be... ColdFusion. --Bill -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Israel, John R. Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2013 10:09 AM To: U2 Users

[U2] SQL Joins

2013-08-13 Thread Bill Brutzman
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

[U2] KeyPressed

2013-08-09 Thread Bill Brutzman
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

Re: [U2] KeyPressed

2013-08-09 Thread Bill Brutzman
Business Solutions -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [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 Dynamic Connect... and UniBasic... I need

Re: [U2] KeyPressed

2013-08-09 Thread Bill Brutzman
- From: Bill Brutzman bi...@hkmetalcraft.com To: 'U2 Users List' u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Fri, Aug 9, 2013 1:22 pm Subject: Re: [U2] KeyPressed Tom: Thanks for writing... but... Once I put in Input junk, 1: The loop waits for a user input and thus stops updating time

Re: [U2] Copy File to SharePoint

2013-08-02 Thread Bill Brutzman
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

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

2013-07-16 Thread Bill Brutzman
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?

Re: [U2] Any advantages to UV on 64-bit OS?

2013-07-11 Thread Bill Brutzman
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

Re: [U2] UniVerse LPTR

2013-07-10 Thread Bill Brutzman
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 -Original Message- From

[U2] UniVerse LPTR

2013-07-08 Thread Bill Brutzman
Where can I change the default printer? We have an HP-Ux machine. --Bill Brutzman ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

Re: [U2] UniVerse LPTR

2013-07-08 Thread Bill Brutzman
at SETPTR.DEFAULT Martin Phillips Ladybridge Systems Ltd 17b Coldstream Lane, Hardingstone, Northampton NN4 6DB, England +44 (0)1604-709200 -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Brutzman Sent: 08 July 2013 19:36

Re: [U2] UniVerse LPTR

2013-07-08 Thread Bill Brutzman
Of Bill Brutzman Sent: 08 July 2013 19:47 To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] UniVerse LPTR SETPTR.DEFAULT not in VOC. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Martin Phillips Sent: Monday, July 8, 2013 2:45 PM

Re: [U2] How do I get the U2 Metadata Manager to work

2013-06-08 Thread Bill Brutzman
/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-based... if a programmer knows any HTML... that same programmer

Re: [U2] How do I get the U2 Metadata Manager to work

2013-06-07 Thread Bill Brutzman
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

Re: [U2] How do I get the U2 Metadata Manager to work

2013-06-07 Thread Bill Brutzman
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

[U2] UniObjects Java Packages

2013-04-16 Thread Bill Brutzman
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.

Re: [U2] Hibernate and UniVerse

2013-04-01 Thread Bill Brutzman
Dan: Thanks... I expect to approach this Hibernate thing by first going back to getting Java to work with UV + CF. --Bill -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Daniel McGrath Sent: Monday, April 1, 2013

Re: [U2] List..

2013-03-26 Thread Bill Brutzman
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

[U2] Apparent Data Problem

2013-03-21 Thread Bill Brutzman
I am having trouble with my RR 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

Re: [U2] Apparent Data Problem

2013-03-21 Thread Bill Brutzman
. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [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 RR Recent Receivers UniBasic app

Re: [U2] Apparent Data Problem

2013-03-21 Thread Bill Brutzman
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 -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org

Re: [U2] {BDT] Commenting A Block Of Code

2013-01-10 Thread Bill Brutzman
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 ___ U2-Users mailing list

[U2] {BDT] Commenting A Block Of Code

2013-01-09 Thread Bill Brutzman
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

Re: [U2] BDT - formatting basic code

2012-12-19 Thread Bill Brutzman
Googling... eclipse text format... yielded... among other things... http://www.wikihow.com/Change-the-Default-Format-Settings-in-Eclipse --Bill -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bobby Worley Sent:

[U2] [BDT] SQL Data Type Column

2012-11-29 Thread Bill Brutzman
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

Re: [U2] [OT] Sql Query

2012-11-07 Thread Bill Brutzman
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

Re: [U2] [OT] Sql Query

2012-11-07 Thread Bill Brutzman
Barry: Also... check out Lynda.com --Bill ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

Re: [U2] [OT] Sql Query

2012-11-07 Thread Bill Brutzman
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...

Re: [U2] SQL Views

2012-11-07 Thread Bill Brutzman
...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wols Lists 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... following

Re: [U2] Another Job Ad

2012-11-05 Thread Bill Brutzman
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

Re: [U2] Consuming Web Services

2012-10-03 Thread Bill Brutzman
How about... [Browser] - |ColdFusion] - [UniVerse] |__| - [Other SQL] --Bill -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 4:56 PM I know we have both the SOAP and RESTful web services development for publishing web services from

Re: [U2] Consuming Web Services

2012-10-03 Thread Bill Brutzman
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 -Original Message- From:

Re: [U2] Scrub HangUp Fixed

2012-08-31 Thread Bill Brutzman
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

Re: [U2] Scrub Fix OutCome

2012-08-31 Thread Bill Brutzman
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]

Re: [U2] Scrub HangUp Fixed

2012-08-30 Thread Bill Brutzman
-cleanup-a -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [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.ADMIN HS.ADMIN 5. Run

Re: [U2] Scrub Hangs Up

2012-08-28 Thread Bill Brutzman
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

Re: [U2] Scrub Hangs Up

2012-08-28 Thread Bill Brutzman
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 -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Brutzman Sent: Tuesday

Re: [U2] Scrub Hangs Up

2012-08-28 Thread Bill Brutzman
The HS.Scrub option... report only option also hangs. --Bill -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Brutzman Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 4:20 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Scrub Hangs Up

Re: [U2] Scrub Hangs Up

2012-08-28 Thread Bill Brutzman
...@listserver.u2ug.org]mailto:[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Brutzman Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 3:20 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Scrub Hangs Up When it hangs... I am unable to get it to terminate via Ctrl Break Break: Option (A,C,L,Q,?) = None of the break

Re: [U2] Scrub Hangs Up

2012-08-28 Thread Bill Brutzman
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 ___

Re: [U2] Scrub Hangs Up

2012-08-28 Thread Bill Brutzman
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

Re: [U2] Scrub Hangs Up

2012-08-28 Thread Bill Brutzman
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 via Rocket's BDT (Basic Developer ToolKit

Re: [U2] Scrub Hangs Up

2012-08-28 Thread Bill Brutzman
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-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of

Re: [U2] Scrub Hangs Up

2012-08-28 Thread Bill Brutzman
/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-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun

Re: [U2] Scrub Hangs Up

2012-08-28 Thread Bill Brutzman
Will: Yes... you are right... Richard Wilson picked up on my typing bug in an earlier post. --Bill -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 8:11 PM Subject: Re: [U2]

Re: [U2] Scrub Hangs Up

2012-08-28 Thread Bill Brutzman
Again correct... from an earlier post... There was never any VOC entry called D_INVOICE. --Bill -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 8:16 PM To:

Re: [U2] Scrub Hangs Up

2012-08-28 Thread Bill Brutzman
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 -Original Message- From: Bill Brutzman bi...@hkmetalcraft.com To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:12 pm Subject: Re

Re: [U2] Scrub Hangs Up

2012-08-28 Thread Bill Brutzman
In my new little rehydrate program... Several of the dictionary fields that show up in BDT and LIST DICT INVOICE... do not appear. --Bill _ *R1 Bill Brutzman Aug.2012 open 'DICT

[U2] Array Types

2012-07-27 Thread Bill Brutzman
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 ___ U2-Users mailing list

[U2] Web TimeLine

2012-07-12 Thread Bill Brutzman
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 ___ U2-Users

Re: [U2] Reasons to continue with Software vendor support

2012-06-29 Thread Bill Brutzman
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

[U2] DICT Whacked in VOC

2012-06-22 Thread Bill Brutzman
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 restart

Re: [U2] DICT Whacked

2012-06-22 Thread Bill Brutzman
ReBooting HP-Ux did NOT fix the problem. --Bill ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

Re: [U2] DICT Whacked in VOC

2012-06-22 Thread Bill Brutzman
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

Re: [U2] UV Unix File Recovery

2012-06-21 Thread Bill Brutzman
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

Re: [U2] UV Unix File Recovery

2012-06-21 Thread Bill Brutzman
[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wols Lists Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 6:48 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org 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 name

[U2] UV Unix File Recovery

2012-06-20 Thread Bill Brutzman
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

Re: [U2] U2 accounting software question

2012-05-23 Thread Bill Brutzman
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 ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org

Re: [U2] Trim trailing attributes off records

2012-05-10 Thread Bill Brutzman
I would write a little uniBasic program... to cleanse, purify, and rehydrate... testing it first in a sandbox. --Bill -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 6:13 PM

Re: [U2] YYMMDD easy way?

2012-04-26 Thread Bill Brutzman
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

Re: [U2] YYMMDD easy way?

2012-04-26 Thread Bill Brutzman
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 forthcoming

Re: [U2] The CONTINUE statement

2012-04-26 Thread Bill Brutzman
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 -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org

Re: [U2] The CONTINUE statement

2012-04-26 Thread Bill Brutzman
-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 5:27 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] The CONTINUE statement at TCL type HELP BASIC CONTINUE -Original Message- From: Bill Brutzman bi

Re: [U2] The CONTINUE statement

2012-04-26 Thread Bill Brutzman
knowing what the code actually does? -Original Message- From: Bill Brutzman bi...@hkmetalcraft.com To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Thu, Apr 26, 2012 2:36 pm Subject: Re: [U2] The CONTINUE statement

Re: [U2] The CONTINUE statement

2012-04-26 Thread Bill Brutzman
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 so.

Re: [U2] [UV] UniOLEDB driver 64-bit windows and installers (take 50 or something)

2012-04-23 Thread Bill Brutzman
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

Re: [U2] Case 1

2012-04-20 Thread Bill Brutzman
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 -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On

Re: [U2] Case Statement with only two cases... or for that matter... one case

2012-04-19 Thread Bill Brutzman
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

Re: [U2] Case Statement with only two cases... or for that matter... one case

2012-04-19 Thread Bill Brutzman
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

Re: [U2] Case Statement with only two cases... or for that matter... one case

2012-04-19 Thread Bill Brutzman
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

Re: [U2] Case Statements

2012-04-19 Thread Bill Brutzman
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 -Original

Re: [U2] Case Statement

2012-04-19 Thread Bill Brutzman
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

[U2] COMMON Size MisMatch

2012-04-12 Thread Bill Brutzman
... 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

Re: [U2] COMMON Size MisMatch

2012-04-12 Thread Bill Brutzman
-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Brutzman Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 2:40 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] COMMON Size MisMatch ... in subroutine named XYZ.R1. While I would like to pass parameters back-and-forth invoking bona fide external subroutines using commands

Re: [U2] COMMON Size MisMatch

2012-04-12 Thread Bill Brutzman
if you do clear them. -Original Message- From: Bill Brutzman bi...@hkmetalcraft.com To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Thu, Apr 12, 2012 11:52 am Subject: Re: [U2] COMMON Size MisMatch Eating my own dog food... I cranked CLEARCOMMON into the LOGTO SandBox and OGTO

Re: [U2] COMMON Size MisMatch

2012-04-12 Thread Bill Brutzman
the distinction -Original Message- From: Bill Brutzman bi...@hkmetalcraft.com To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org 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

Re: [U2] New U2 BDT - V3

2012-03-15 Thread Bill Brutzman
...@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 much indeed. --Bill

Re: [U2] New U2 BDT

2012-03-12 Thread Bill Brutzman
I was glad to learn about the new BDT. The BDT install was painless and BDT seems to work well. --Bill ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

Re: [U2] New U2 BDT - V3

2012-03-12 Thread Bill Brutzman
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 ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org

Re: [U2] New U2 BDT

2012-03-12 Thread Bill Brutzman
1.2.4 ?? that's what I have had ver a year... -Original Message- rom: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Brutzman ent: Monday, March 12, 2012 1:06 PM o: U2 Users List ubject: Re: [U2] New U2 BDT I was glad to learn about

Re: [U2] New U2 BDT

2012-03-12 Thread Bill Brutzman
Bill: Consider opening a tech support incident with Rocket. --Bill -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [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

Re: [U2] Multi-value explode in AE

2012-02-24 Thread Bill Brutzman
Will: Consider trying... EV... --Bill -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 3:00 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] Multi-value explode in AE

Re: [U2] Building an Excel File

2012-02-06 Thread Bill Brutzman
John: Perhaps the easiest way to do this is with Adobe's ColdFusion. To get started... the developer version of ColdFusion is free. --Bill -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Israel, John R. Sent:

[U2] [U2} Job Opportunity

2012-02-03 Thread Bill Brutzman
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Re: [U2] Update the VOC after upgrade?

2012-01-30 Thread Bill Brutzman
John: Consider the script at ED VOC LOGIN --Bill -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of John Thompson Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 2:18 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] Update the VOC after

Re: [U2] Update the VOC after upgrade?

2012-01-30 Thread Bill Brutzman
...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of John Thompson Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 3:37 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Update the VOC after upgrade? You mean in the main UV account? I'm not following... On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Bill Brutzman bi

Re: [U2] Passing by Value 101 ?

2012-01-27 Thread Bill Brutzman
It is not clear to me why Passing By Value is worth anything. I am surprised that this thread has led to so many responses... most... I did not read. From here... having a variable with a name... and calling an external subroutine... is all the bread and butter that I would ever need.

Re: [U2] Date Problem

2012-01-20 Thread Bill Brutzman
Revision control would say to create a new include file with its own revision ID... and then include the new include file in the program that needs it... perhaps in subsequent programs. --Bill -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org

Re: [U2] Brilliant? or not?

2012-01-13 Thread Bill Brutzman
From the perspective of writing scenario-proof code...I live in a world of case statements... Begin case Case s1 s2 ; sMax = s1 Case 1 ; sMax = s2 Endcase --Bill -Original

[U2] Line Printer Control

2011-12-22 Thread Bill Brutzman
We still use a greenbar printer to print checks. Via a UniBasic program, I am trying to send an alignment pattern to the printer before starting the check run. The trouble is that it always does a form feed after the alignment pattern. I have been diddling with toggling options in... execute

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