[U2] Report Generation

2014-01-16 Thread Charles_Shaffer
I have been asked to look into a report generation tool similar to Crystal Reports for multivalued databases. and MS SQL server databases. I've worked with BI Query before are you folks aware of other possible solutions. The user has asked for Ability to schedule queries to run at night

Re: [U2] [OT] Interview Questions

2013-10-08 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Whenever I interview, it's all about the work. I tend to give a technical interview and avoid the What can you bring to our company types of questions. HR wants to hire Game Show hosts. I need people who can produce. Find out what they know and how they think. And If you want to know

[U2] File size (5538816) is not a multiple of block size(16384).

2013-09-06 Thread Charles_Shaffer
We had some file corruption last night and I am trying to recover a file. The file was so badly corrupted this morning that it wasn't recognized as a Unidata file. What I have tried is copying the data and dictionary to SAVE files at the system level. Then I did a DELETE.FILE of the file

Re: [U2] File size (5538816) is not a multiple of block size(16384).

2013-09-06 Thread Charles_Shaffer
I am also working with them. I am just trying to cover all the bases. I guess I should let them escalate to Rocket if necessary. Thanks. Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation From: Daniel McGrath dmcgr...@rocketsoftware.com To: U2 Users List

Re: [U2] File size (5538816) is not a multiple of block size(16384).

2013-09-06 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Thanks Susan. i use UltraEdit which would allow that. You just explained something for me. I kept recreating the file with a block sie that would work, but when I copied that data back in, it would revert. That is because the block size is contained in the data. Charles Shaffer Senior

Re: [U2] File size (5538816) is not a multiple of block size(16384).

2013-09-06 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Here's what I ended up doing. I couldn't get rid of the GFEs that I was seeing when I ran guide so followed these instructions fromour vendor. It didn't recover the lost items, but it got rid of he guide errors.. If you have corruption on only a few files or if the fixfile does not clean up

Re: [U2] File size (5538816) is not a multiple of block size(16384).

2013-09-06 Thread Charles_Shaffer
I am stuck on fixing the file. guide produces a GUIDE_FIXUP.DATA file that lists the problem groups. When I run fixfile it is not able to correct the GFEs. I can deal with losing the data, we can re enter it. BUt how do I get rid of those GFE errors. Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower

[U2] @RECORD VARIABLES

2013-08-15 Thread Charles_Shaffer
I am attempting to pass a variable into a SUBROUTINE and use it to access the data through the dictionary name. SUBROUTINE fieldLookup(., ATTRIBUTE, ) . . . READ @RECORD FROM F.FILE, @ID THEN RESULT = {ATTRIBUTE} END ELSE RESULT = END The part that isn't working is the

Re: [U2] @RECORD VARIABLES

2013-08-15 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Of course. Worked like a charm. Thank you Dave. Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation From: Dave Davis dda...@harriscomputer.com To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org, Date: 08/15/2013 03:41 PM Subject:Re: [U2] @RECORD VARIABLES Sent by:

Re: [U2] @RECORD VARIABLES

2013-08-15 Thread Charles_Shaffer
I only know Unidata. Maybe someone else knows. Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

Re: [U2] @RECORD VARIABLES

2013-08-15 Thread Charles_Shaffer
In Unidata I believe that it only works for virtual (type = V) attributes. It is nice though. If you have an attribute that reads from other files and performs calculations, formatting, etc. it executes the virtual and gives you the output. Let's you take advantage of the virtual attributes

[U2] XML or JSON converter for Unibasic

2013-08-02 Thread Charles_Shaffer
I am looking for a way to send the output of a Unidata data query in Unibasic back to a web server (PHP) for building web pages. Up until now I have used a proprietary method (LF, HTAB, etc.), but I would like to simplify/standardize the method. Seems like this could be done with XML, or JSON

Re: [U2] XML or JSON converter for Unibasic

2013-08-02 Thread Charles_Shaffer
We use UNIX on our web and database servers, so the mvScript wouldn't help in our case. I would like to learn more about the built-in restful services you mentioned. That is built-in to Unidata? We are at 7.2. Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation From: Brian Leach

Re: [U2] XML or JSON converter for Unibasic

2013-08-02 Thread Charles_Shaffer
7.3 has a built-in JSON library. That's what I was looking for. Thanks Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation From: Aaron Titus ati...@fwdco.com To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org, Date: 08/02/2013 12:14 PM Subject:Re: [U2] XML or JSON converter for

Re: [U2] XML or JSON converter for Unibasic

2013-08-02 Thread Charles_Shaffer
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Re: [U2] History..

2013-03-20 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Sathya, There is a book called UNIX Unidata by M. Taylor and S. Rees that has the best information I have been able to find on the basics of Unidata. It is for a UNIX environment, but I think it would be useful in a Windows environment too. There are probably other good books, but this is the

[U2] International Date Format

2013-02-05 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Is there a date conversion mask that returns -mm-dd format? Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

Re: [U2] International Date Format

2013-02-05 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Wyatt, Worked perfectly. Thank you. Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation From: Buffington, Wyatt wgbuffing...@hydro.mb.ca To: 'U2 Users List' u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org, Date: 02/05/2013 08:22 AM Subject:Re: [U2] International Date Format Sent by:

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

2013-01-10 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Don't know if someone mentioned $DEFINE and $IFDEF, but you can do this to comment out blocks of code. $DEFINE DEBUG later enclose the code in a $IFDEF/$ENDIF block. $IFDEF DEBUG Code to be commented out $ENDIF Then to bring it back undefine DEBUG or move the $IFDEF statement. Charles

Re: [U2] Another job ad written by people who have no clue

2012-11-01 Thread Charles_Shaffer
I did a lot of RPL coding in the 80s. I remember when I left that job telling them that I would rather slide down a razor blade into a vat of alcohol than write one more line of RPL code. But that's just my opinion. Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation

Re: [U2] uniobjects.dll on Notes 8.3

2012-09-18 Thread Charles_Shaffer
This is running on the client. It is called in a LotusScript agent. I just made sure and it is 32-bit. Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation From: jim.sto...@esc.edu To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org, Date: 09/18/2012 02:24 PM Subject:Re: [U2]

Re: [U2] uniobjects.dll on Notes 8.3

2012-09-18 Thread Charles_Shaffer
I may have found it. I gave the user that will be running it access to the dll and it seems to be connecting and running now. Although it hasn't completed yet. I am still a bit concerned about not installing the dll correctly. I have the disk from 2005, but is there a newer version of the

Re: [U2] uniobjects.dll on Notes 8.3

2012-09-18 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Thanks Jim. I will do that. Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation From: jim.sto...@esc.edu To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org, Date: 09/18/2012 02:43 PM Subject:Re: [U2] uniobjects.dll on Notes 8.3 Sent by:

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Re: [U2] Variable Interpolation

2012-08-24 Thread Charles_Shaffer
If the goal is to generate several variables by building variable names in a loop from text, like you can do in UNIX script, PERL, PHP, etc. I don't think you can do that in UniBasic. There nearest thing I can think of is to use a dynamic array. Maybe I am misunderstanding what you are trying

[U2] Monitoring connections on Unidata

2012-07-06 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Is there a way to monitor the number of RPC connections being used at any given time on Unidata 7.1/Redhat 3? We are not using device licensing. Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation ___ U2-Users mailing list

Re: [U2] Monitoring connections on Unidata

2012-07-06 Thread Charles_Shaffer
What about connections coming from client applications? UniCall, UniObjects, etc. Do they use up licenses also? Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation From: Symeon Breen syme...@gmail.com To: 'U2 Users List' u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org, Date: 07/06/2012 10:18 AM

Re: [U2] Monitoring connections on Unidata

2012-07-06 Thread Charles_Shaffer
When I run # ps-A | grep 'udapi_slave' | wc -l Am I getting a count of client connections? Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org

Re: [U2] Monitoring connections on Unidata

2012-07-06 Thread Charles_Shaffer
On UV, counting instances of uvapi_slave tells me how many unirpc connections are active via UOJ. It doesn't include JDBC connections, though. JDBC connections spawn a process called uvserver. If capturing every type of unirpc connection is important, you could determine the PID of

Re: [U2] Monitoring connections on Unidata

2012-07-06 Thread Charles_Shaffer
John Hester That sounds like the correct way to determine total license count. In UV at least, there is also a more official way to do it via a built-in subroutine called !GET.USER.COUNTS. I don't know if it exists in UD. I have a simple program I can run at TCL that calls it and reports the

Re: [U2] Monitoring connections on Unidata

2012-07-06 Thread Charles_Shaffer
I wrote a pgm that executes !listuser, captures the license counts from the output (maybe line 4?), rips that data apart and writes the data to a log file (LICENSES). This job runs every 15 minutes. I then wrote a program that runs every morning and exports all the data to a tab-delimited txt

Re: [U2] Monitoring connections on Unidata

2012-07-06 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Symeon. Listuser shows rpc connections. The tty shows as udcs, if it is using a uniobjects.net pooled connection, the type is pooled, otherwise it is udt Is total license usage, the listuser plus the udcs connections? Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation

[U2] Problem running script from crontab

2012-06-28 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Having a problem running a Unix script from the crontab. We use Redhat and Unidata 7.1 This script runs fine from command line UDTHOME=/NTN/CMI export UDTHOME UDTBIN=/usr/ud/bin export UDTBIN CMIHOME=/NTN/CMI/TRANS4M export CMIHOME PATH=$PATH:@UDTBIN export PATH cd /NTN/DATA/PRODUCTION

Re: [U2] Problem running script from crontab

2012-06-28 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Jeff Are you running it at the command line as the same user that it runs under in cron? Yes I am. Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation From: Jeff Schasny jscha...@gmail.com To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org, Date: 06/28/2012 11:54 AM Subject:Re:

Re: [U2] Problem running script from crontab

2012-06-28 Thread Charles_Shaffer
lARRY Do you have LOGIN paragraph in your VOC file? Yes and it looks like this. :AE VOC LOGIN Top of LOGIN in VOC, 13 lines, 195 characters. *--: P 001: PA 002: UDT.OPTIONS 82 ON 003: UDT.OPTIONS 43 ON 004: UDT.OPTIONS 43 OFF 005: UDT.OPTIONS 19 ON 006: UDT.OPTIONS 22 ON 007: SP-ASSIGN Q1 HS

Re: [U2] Problem running script from crontab

2012-06-28 Thread Charles_Shaffer
The phantom command will run your login paragraph. Is it setup to allow this process to go through? There should be something in the _PH_ file/folder for when the cron fired off. hth Colin This is interesting. There are files being created in the _PH_ directory for each run (they are 10

[U2] Problem running script from crontab

2012-06-28 Thread Charles_Shaffer
I rewrote the script to use our in-house methods and now it is working. #!/bin/ksh echo `date` FILES_LOG/ReqImp.LOG . /usr/local/set_udt_environ.scr cd /NTN/DATA/PRODUCTION $UDTBIN/udtEODFILES_LOG/ReqImp.LOG PHANTOM REQIMPORT_MA bye EOD Still not sure why it was failing before, but I am

Re: [U2] Problem running script from crontab

2012-06-28 Thread Charles_Shaffer
If this was UniVerse, I would check the VOC LOGIN paragraph and make sure it's not invoking a menu (or something) requiring an Input Mark It is interesting that you said that. The program that the script is calling does exactly that. It is calling menu programs from an ERP package and it

Re: [U2] Problem running script from crontab

2012-06-28 Thread Charles_Shaffer
George. RedHat 6. Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

Re: [U2] Regarding: programming Techinques

2012-06-04 Thread Charles_Shaffer
satya, You should be able to find documentation on the Rocket site. If you are interested in techniques read the document called Developing Unibasic Applications. There is also a UniBasic Commands Reference for a list of commands and how they work. Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower

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2012-05-25 Thread Charles_Shaffer
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Re: [U2] Attribute Problem

2012-05-03 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Done. Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation From: Martin Braid mbr...@epicor.com To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org, Date: 05/02/2012 04:45 PM Subject:Re: [U2] Attribute Problem Sent by:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org You've already

Re: [U2] Attribute Problem

2012-05-03 Thread Charles_Shaffer
I don't think so. Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation From: Boydell, Stuart stuart.boyd...@spotless.com.au To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org, Date: 05/02/2012 04:32 PM Subject:Re: [U2] Attribute Problem Sent by:

Re: [U2] Attribute Problem

2012-05-03 Thread Charles_Shaffer
I think so. I went with the underscore. Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation From: George R Smith geo...@grsmith.arcoxmail.com To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org, Cc: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org Date: 05/03/2012 07:31 AM Subject:Re:

[U2] Attribute Problem

2012-05-02 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Hi. I think I have finally gone insane. I am having a problem with the attribute MATL.AMT. It calculates the extended amount on hand by taking the frozen material cost times the on hand amount. The problem is when I use F_MATL for the frozen material cost, MATL.AMT is good. When I use

Re: [U2] Attribute Problem

2012-05-02 Thread Charles_Shaffer
confident the V processer is that brilliant that it can distinguish between a name and an operator ? -Original Message- From: Charles_Shaffer charles_shaf...@ntn-bower.com To: u2-users u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Wed, May 2, 2012 12:15 pm Subject: [U2] Attribute Problem Hi. I

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2012-02-29 Thread Charles_Shaffer
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Re: [U2] Brilliant? or not?

2012-01-16 Thread Charles_Shaffer
I used to have a C programmer working for me that reveled in condensing multiple lines of C code to a single statement, much more obtuse than that. He is no longer employed here. Nuff said Doug * Aside from it not being readable, compacting C code like that can reduce

Re: [U2] Brilliant? or not?

2012-01-16 Thread Charles_Shaffer
It's not about whether somebody can or can't read the code, it is about productivity and avoiding errors. Why should it take 4 seconds to figure out a line of code? 4 seconds times a thousand lines of code is over an hour of wasted time. Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation

Re: [U2] Presentation on Python to UniVerse

2011-12-15 Thread Charles_Shaffer
I would be interested also. Are you considering posting a white paper on the presentation? And/or with slides? I'd be interested in seeing it, but it's a little far for a roadtrip and still be in the next day. In case anyone is interested, I am doing a presentation to the local Python Users

Re: [U2] Just sharing some info - RHEL 6 and Universe/maybe Unidata as well

2011-12-14 Thread Charles_Shaffer
We use Redhat on some of our systems and do exactly what Symeon says. We get support for the first year and then drop it once the system is stable. In the case of Domino, the IBM support people answer Redhat questions as well. On less critical systems Ubuntu works well. You can buy Ubuntu

Re: [U2] Uniobjects for Java and Domino 8

2011-12-14 Thread Charles_Shaffer
I've used both. There are syntax differences, especially with the UO,NET since it adheres to the CLR. Both libraries did what I needed. I don't know if UO,NET is a better solution, but it looks to me like it has been kept up-to-date better. I am interested in UOJ because of new

Re: [U2] Uniobjects for Java and Domino 8

2011-12-08 Thread Charles_Shaffer
away, which is good for legacy development. But my whole point was that for new development we don't need it, never did. From: Charles_Shaffer Tony, What you say is true, and those tools would be great in the right situation. But I am concerned about the future of UOJ. My understanding

Re: [U2] Uniobjects for Java and Domino 8

2011-12-07 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Great information John and Robert. Looks like UOJ is getting mature. In my situation, it is attractive since we use Domino and Unidata extensively. But, I do not want to invest my time in something that won't be supported in the future. My question for Rocket is Will UOJ be further

Re: [U2] Uniobjects for Java and Domino 8

2011-12-07 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Tony, What you say is true, and those tools would be great in the right situation. But I am concerned about the future of UOJ. My understanding is that the new Domino will allow jars to be directly accessed from the Domino Designer. Just want to make sure that UOJ is not going to be

Re: [U2] End of Month date routine

2011-12-05 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Here's one I use. TODAY = OCONV(DATE(), D4/) MO = FIELD(TODAY, /, 1) YR = FIELD(TODAY, /, 3) MO += 1 IF MO 12 THEN MO = 1 YR += 1 END EOM = OCONV((ICONV(MO:/:1:YR) - 1), D4/) Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation From: Wjhonson wjhon...@aol.com To:

Re: [U2] Uniobjects for Java and Domino 8

2011-12-02 Thread Charles_Shaffer
The RedHat default is incorrect for UOJ (at least up to EL 5) and will result in MV delimiters being incorrectly translated into other ascii characters. Thanks for the tip. Looks like we do have a problem with the LANG setting. LANG=en_US.UTF-8 I'll check with IBM and see if changing it

Re: [U2] Uniobjects for Java and Domino 8

2011-12-02 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Thanks. This is very helpful. Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation From: Tony Gravagno 3xk547...@sneakemail.com To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org, Date: 12/01/2011 10:18 PM Subject:Re: [U2] Uniobjects for Java and Domino 8 Sent by:

[U2] Uniobjects for Java and Domino 8

2011-12-01 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Has anyone used Uniobjects for Java with Domino 8? If so, have you had luck with it. Any best practice suggestions? Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org

Re: [U2] Uniobjects for Java and Domino 8

2011-12-01 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Jim Stoner Said It would certainly be nice to find a small user group to ask questions and bounce around best practices. I would definitely be interested in that. I haven't tried using UniObjects for Java with Domino yet, but I have used the original OLE/COM version of UniObjects in

[U2] guide problem

2011-11-18 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Does anybody know what would cause a segmentation fault while running guide? Red hat 2.6.9-5.ELsmp Unidata 7.1 Haven't changed the OS or Unidata version for a long time. Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation ___ U2-Users mailing list

Re: [U2] guide problem

2011-11-18 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Well. It happened while doing all the files and I don't know which file it occurred on. The GUIDE files just stopped outputting. No GUIDE_BRIEF was created. Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation From: Jeffrey Butera jbut...@hampshire.edu To:

Re: [U2] guide problem

2011-11-18 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Steve You can strace it and maybe the problem will show itself. strace did show me which file was corrupted. It was a swp file of a SAVEDLIST. Deleted it and reran guide. Ran fine. Thanks everyone. Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation

Re: [U2] UniBasic Question

2011-10-25 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Dave The next-to-last one may depend on Unidata vs. Universe. I understand that Unidata only 'fetches' the key in the READNEXT while I believe Universe grabs both the key and record, due to the construct of the database. I believe that is the case in Unidata. A SELECT returns a list of

Re: [U2] UniBasic Question

2011-10-25 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Unless you know the keys to the records you're selecting, even the EXECUTE SELECT ... is going to have to read each record, how else would it know which records to throw out? SELECT is definitely faster than EXECUTE SELECT... and I try and use it first. Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst

Re: [U2] UniBasic Question

2011-10-25 Thread Charles_Shaffer
I don't know if I agree that SELECT is faster. If you are using indexed fields, SELECT is definitely not the good choice. Are you saying that when there is an index, the system does not need to read the record at all? It just gets the SELECT list from the index? Is this only true in

Re: [U2] Ardent programmers

2011-09-09 Thread Charles_Shaffer
George Doesn't PROC mean Painfull Reading Of Code? I thought it was short for Proctology. Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

Re: [U2] Ardent programmers

2011-09-09 Thread Charles_Shaffer
I really don't know what you guys are complaining about. My first career position was maintaining and enhancing a system written entirely in RPL (the one from SMI, not that other one) Proc is like eating cake compared to RPL. My first PICK environment used RPL on a Vax with the add-in

Re: [U2] UV 11.1 64-bit on Cisco UCS with NetApp Filer?

2011-08-10 Thread Charles_Shaffer
I would say this was an os (Linux ?) issue and not UV - taking 10-145 seconds to come up with a login prompt is not a uv issue - the network or the os is compromised in some way . For what it's worth, I experienced the same slowness on logins after moving a Linux server to a VM. Turned out

Re: [U2] UV 11.1 64-bit on Cisco UCS with NetApp Filer?

2011-08-10 Thread Charles_Shaffer
The strange thing is that it happens enough that we have noticed it but not enough the be regular. That might be an effect of what is going on at the moment. We are using VMWare vSphere. It has good performance monitoring tools on the performance tab. Try running something known to cause

Re: [U2] UniSubroutineException

2011-08-09 Thread Charles_Shaffer
That's a decent size. We're doing some work which can return upwards of 200k and haven't had any issues. Any time out settings? Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org

Re: [U2] Job won't run

2011-08-08 Thread Charles_Shaffer
George what if you throw a whoami, groups and env into the script and check your logfile against those values when your on the CL, to see if anything jumps out. The environment for the remote job did not contain a path to udt. Not exactly sure why this doesn't affect our other jobs, but I

[U2] Job won't run

2011-08-05 Thread Charles_Shaffer
I have run into something I have never seen before. We exchange a lot of data with an AS400 in Chicago. For many years we have taken the approach that the AS400 would submit a job to our UNIX box that would run a script. Many of the scripts run a Unibasic program and send the resulting file

Re: [U2] Job won't run

2011-08-05 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Did anything change in your VOC LOGIN program/proc/paragraph that might be preventing the program from running? Susan Lynch F. W. Davison Company, Inc. I don't think so. Wouldn't that affect the command line run also? Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation

Re: [U2] Job won't run

2011-08-05 Thread Charles_Shaffer
George Since you say it's sending the same file each day, then it's not just the Unibasic that is not running, the rm isn't working either, otherwise, you would be sending a blank file over and over. The remove and touch affect the log file. The data file is cleared in the program. Since

Re: [U2] Job won't run

2011-08-05 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Susan Not necessarily - if, for example, you have a branch in your VOC LOGIN that varies on usertype or on the login user (eg SYSTEM to avoid having Redback processes run some parts of the LOGIN routine, which is one thing that we do), you might have inadvertantly caused the user id for

Re: [U2] Job won't run

2011-08-05 Thread Charles_Shaffer
I will try the 21. That might be informative. I can log in locally as the same user that remotely logs in and run the script no problem, including the unidata session. Thanks. Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation Larry Hiscock lar...@wcs-corp.com Sent by:

Re: [U2] Job won't run

2011-08-05 Thread Charles_Shaffer
George Are you sure it's running ok? Did you remove the output file before you ran as that user? When we first noticed the problem, I logged in as the remote user and ran it from CL, and the folks in Chicago saw right away that the records were updated. Orders they were missing were now

Re: [U2] Job won't run

2011-08-05 Thread Charles_Shaffer
George what if you throw a whoami, groups and env into the script and check your logfile against those values when your on the CL, to see if anything jumps out. Good idea. I just ran it from CL with the additional information. It ran fine, and everything looks as I would expect. Monday

Re: [U2] Doing Multiple Selects in BASIC and combining the lists

2011-07-27 Thread Charles_Shaffer
John Said and sometimes I wish they just stored the lists in a BASIC program as dynamic arrays... There is the READLIST verb. That takes a list and makes a dynamic array with it. P type uses READSELECT. Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation

Re: [U2] Why Pick U2 ?

2011-07-15 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Bill But, obviously, not technology to a technologist! :-) It was a hard lesson to learn. Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

Re: [U2] Why Pick U2 ?

2011-07-14 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Symeon says Javascript inherently works with JSON regardless of any library used. It is a fantastic serialisation of data that should be embraced in the MV world. It fits very well in fact, it handles any level of array nesting so can manage the 3 (or 4 inc @tm) levels of MV data, it is

[U2] Charles Shaffer/NTNBOWER is out of the office

2011-07-07 Thread Charles_Shaffer
I will be out of the office starting 07/07/2011 and will not return until 07/11/2011. I will be out of the office until June 6. I will respond to your message when I return. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org

[U2] Charles Shaffer/NTNBOWER is out of the office

2011-05-29 Thread Charles_Shaffer
I will be out of the office starting 05/25/2011 and will not return until 06/06/2011. I will be out of the office until June 6. I will respond to your message when I return. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org

[U2] Charles Shaffer/NTNBOWER is out of the office

2011-05-25 Thread Charles_Shaffer
I will be out of the office starting 05/25/2011 and will not return until 06/06/2011. I will be out of the office until June 6. I will respond to your message when I return. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org

Re: [U2] Uniobjects - What Is It?

2011-05-23 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Kevin, when it takes about a couple of seconds just to spool up the connector and make that first connection I haven't noticed that with the Undiata as much as I have with remote mySql connections. I typically load the HTML and then make many, short connections. The initial connection might

Re: [U2] Uniobjects - What Is It?

2011-05-20 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Kevin, At the time I set this up here, there was no PDO for U2 in PHP, so I looked into the UOJ libraries. Using them requires a bridge. There is a SourceForge project that works well. I am currently using Zend Server CE. No cost and it does the job, in fact it optimizes the PHP code. I

Re: [U2] Uniobjects - What Is It?

2011-05-19 Thread Charles_Shaffer
What are UniObjects? Uniobjects are libraries. Theses can be included in a variety of applications and provide access to U2 databases. On Linux there is Uniobjects for Java. There is a version for .NET. And there is an older COM version that can be used for applications that don't support

Re: [U2] Uniobjects - What Is It?

2011-05-19 Thread Charles_Shaffer
I don't know much about RedBack. It may provide more developed tools than Uniobjects does. UO gives you libraries that you can use in your applicaitons. can you briefly describe some real world examples of what kind of applications were written with UniObjects? I use UniObjects to access

Re: [U2] Saying Goodbye...

2011-04-26 Thread Charles_Shaffer
it is all about web integration, smartphones, tablets, good looking and easily usable UIs. We have a platform on which we can do that easier than most other technologies, but it's about new skills blended with U2, pure U2 doesn't cut it any more. Well said. Rocket needs to create a

Re: [U2] Saying Goodbye...

2011-04-26 Thread Charles_Shaffer
And as to dot-net... why complicate the hell out of a good thing like the web? :) Amen, Brother. Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org

Re: [U2] Extreme slow down on Universe periodically

2011-04-08 Thread Charles_Shaffer
My client is reporting the periodic slow down of their system. It slows down to almost the point of a hang. This affects both existing processes (menu selections, data entry, reports) and logins. Their system admins (IBM) reports that it is a Universe or application problem. Curt, We

Re: [U2] Does anyone have an MV BASIC cheatsheet?

2011-03-24 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Here's a cheat sheet for the UniBasic debugger: Thanks Rob. I can use this. Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

Re: [U2] [UV] Uvsh exit status and @SYSTEM.RETURN.CODE

2011-03-16 Thread Charles_Shaffer
I am trying to detect the success of failure of a BASIC program when running from UNIX. I was going to use @SYSTEM.RETURN.CODE setting to do this, hoping that the exit status of uvsh would reflect the value set for @SYSTEM.RETURN.CODE but it appears this is not the case. Does anyone know if

Re: [U2] Uniobjects and java

2011-03-11 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Hey all, I am beginning to use uniobjects and java anyone know/have any good examples of both accessing the data directly and calling subroutines that return data I have the uniobjects for java manual and I will begin looking at that this week-end but any additional code samples would be

Re: [U2] Is this worth rewriting?

2011-03-04 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Rex Gozar Said We all want fast and accurate programming. To improve comprehension, you have to write code to (a) reveal its logical structure, and (b) reveal the business rules implemented in the code. I agree. My first language was C and I went through a phase of cramming as much code as

Re: [U2] Is this worth rewriting?

2011-03-04 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Symeon wrote: I still think all of these constructs as just sooo basic that if you can't just read them either which way, then you had better think about another career. Yes, for an experienced UniBasic programmer. What if there is a new programmer, or a programmer that normally works in

Re: [U2] Unidata programming books?

2011-03-01 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Can anyone recommend me some good books on this? We're using Unidata 7.1. Hi. We also use Unidata 7.1. A good place to start would be Developing UniBasic Applications UniBasic Commands Reference I downloaded the from IBM a while back. Should be available from Rocket. Charles Shaffer

Re: [U2] RPL was Pick History et al

2011-02-08 Thread Charles_Shaffer
I'm thinking it might be good to write up an article about RPL. If any of you has knowledge of the history of the language, the company, etc. you can email me, and we can collaborate on getting it all laid out... straight. Will In the late 80s I worked with Ultimate Pick on a VAX, running

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