Check your directories, specifically any TMP/TEMP directories, for a
maximum number of entries. HD Root directories, savedlists, ph,
anything that would have temporary files created in them. This caught
me once before and it took forever to stumble on the idea that windows
does seem to have a
This sounds like it's back to permissions. If it was UNIX, then I'd say
the owner/user for the records(files) was deleted from the system and
then editing them assigns a new, valid, owner. You said you're on
windows, though.
BobW
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Just to make sure, you're wanting FIELD 178 and the first value of that
field. Correct? Because you have a length of 1, left justified I want
to make sure you're not looking for the first character of the 178th
field. Maybe if you showed what you're wanting and what you're getting,
instead,
Normally, I'd be quick to agree with you, Mike, but I've had a little
exposure to GAAP. For the request that generated Georges response, I'd
have no problem whatsoever echoing the recommendation to consider GAAP
as a possible U2 solution to replace Quickbooks.
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Maybe it's a good thing you're not interviewing me, Kevin. My immediate
answer would be I don't know. Let me check the documentation and get
back to you. I've never had to do anything like that so it's not
something I'd know off the top of my head. I'm sure there's probably
and OCONV format
Hi David,
Though this is not a great option, you could create a new file and
either just copy the current contents of the file you want to watch into
it or just a fingerprint record if all you need is a record exists
type of monitoring. Then a simple SELECT of the first file followed by
an
One of the ways that I've used in the past to check for @VM's, @SVM's, and
@TM's is to do a simple SELECT of the file, a SAVE.LIST, then EDIT.LIST. A
simple scan usually shows the errant record ID's because they are usually
longer than the rest of the record ID's making them stick out like a
Since it's in the Redback log, that's where I'd be looking.
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Israel, John R.
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 9:06 AM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] Mysterious
One of the things you may need to watch real careful would be locking.
Especially on the workstation that is hosting UV. Then, as long as all
the drive letters are the same as on the server, everything should be
okay. Of course, YMMV but I've done this type of swapping on my home
network with
on?
Or is 4gb fine?
George
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Woodward, Bob
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 2:28 PM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] moving UV from one server to another (windows)
One
Hi folks,
I have a UNIDATA program that is being run from a Windows Task Schedule
entry that is failing on a WRITE statement and I'm having a heck of a
time figuring out why. Here are some key observations and discoveries
so far:
- The WRITE statement has an ON ERROR that is not being
Of Woodward, Bob
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 1:09 PM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: [U2] Stumped on a WRITE failure
Hi folks,
I have a UNIDATA program that is being run from a Windows Task Schedule
entry that is failing on a WRITE statement and I'm having a heck of a
time figuring out why. Here are some
[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Brian Leach
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 10:17 AM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] Stumped on a WRITE failure
Can you trace the process using the SysInternals tools?
Sent from my iPhone
On 16 Aug 2013, at 18:09, Woodward, Bob bob_woodw
this process until the criteria does not change
Might or might not be applicable in your case.
JRI
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Woodward, Bob
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 2:05 PM
To: U2 Users
If this occasional problem is consistently the same lines then just
validate the insert afterwards:
0106.1 MV.CNT = DCOUNT(SUPREC2,@VM)
0107: SUPREC = INSERT(SUPREC,2,1,0,POLREC6)
0107.1 IF SUPREC2,1 NE POLREC6 THEN
0107.2MV.CNT2 = DCOUNT(SUPREC2,@VM)
0107.3IF MV.CNT = MV.CNT2 THEN GOSUB
-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject: Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing
From: Woodward, Bob
If this occasional problem is consistently the same lines then just
validate the insert afterwards...
Dale, don't accept that solution. (Sorry Bob)
Note, we're still not really Sure yet that this is a good
I agree with Tony. I once had a program that my fix was just adding a
JUNK = 0 line near the top of the program. With that do-nothing line
the program worked. Comment the line out or remove it completely and
the program seemed to skip lines of code.
This was a LONG time ago, though.
You can use CONVERT.
DATA1 = abcde...ABCDE... (The full alphabet lower case AND uppercase)
DATA2 = ABCDE...abcde... (Again, full alphabet but now start with
uppercase)
INPUT DATA.IN
DATA.FLIPPED = CONVERT(DATA1,DATA2,DATA.IN)
That should get you what you want. If you want to do something with
Hi maybe!
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Susan Joslyn
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 12:17 PM
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject: Re: [U2] TCL input and response logging such as COMO
Hi.
I'm
In Unidata 6.1, TERM with no arguments gives me a brief syntax help
message.
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 2:42 PM
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject:
I quite often found that the file had either not been sequentially
opened, or it had been closed before the writeseq command.
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Al DeWitt
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013
I forget exactly how I solved a similar problem sending control codes to
a printer like that but it had something to do with an automatic reset
code being automatically sent between an initialization string and the
actual data. I think the way I figured it out was by changing the port
of the
Let's not forget the all important VOC file. From the command prompt,
usually a colon : you can type the RUN command as outlined below, but
there are also stored paragraphs and the locally cataloged programs that
are in the VOC file. You can see a lot of those with LIST VOC. There
are also
I guess you need to be on a more current version of UD than 6.1 for this
to work. DYMD[4,2,2] works just fine but everything I've tried is
proving that in this version, anyway, there MUST be a delimiter between
the parts of the date. It does not matter what delimiter as I've tried
space, period,
[mailto:stevenson.c...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 10:59 AM
To: U2 Users List
Cc: Woodward, Bob
Subject: Re: [U2] ISO Date Format
Bob,
I'm curious,on UD6.1 does this work, using 2 conversion codes with a
value mark between? :
OCONV( 16507, D-YMD[2,2,]: @VM: MCN ) -- 120311
cds
On 3/11
misunderstanding what I'm saying.
From: Kevin King
+1. Well stated.
Woodward, Bob wrote:
In an active user session where users are obtaining a lock for a
length of time, you're right. There are lots of times, though,
that
lock intervention is not a benefit. It all depends on the need
the world are unable to access
the app. I believe some heads will be nodding here because I hear about this
happening occasionally.
T
From: Wjhonson
Then you're misunderstanding what I'm saying.
From: Kevin King
+1. Well stated.
Woodward, Bob wrote:
In an active user session where
Sorry Mecki but I think you have the LOCKED in the wrong place. At
least in my version of Unidata. It comes before the THEN segment so the
full, proper syntax would be:
READU xxx FROM xxx, xxx ON ERROR
Xxx what to do if a hard error like file not open
END LOCKED
Xxx what to do if locked
END
the record (which
would release my lock)?
Thank you,
Jon Wells
From: Woodward, Bob bob_woodw...@k2sports.com
To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2013 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: [U2] Record locks (Unidata 7.2)
Sorry Mecki
You're exactly right. The only time you REALLY need the LOCKED clause
if there is some need to change that approach. That was what I
attempted to show in my first response. I guess I was a bit terse in
that one, though.
BobW
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Message-
From: Woodward, Bob bob_woodw...@k2sports.com
To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Sent: Thu, Feb 7, 2013 2:43 pm
Subject: Re: [U2] Record locks (Unidata 7.2)
You're exactly right. The only time you REALLY need the LOCKED clause
if there is some need to change that approach
READU blah blah blah THEN/ELSE
WRITE blah blah blah
END
Can't get much more straight forward than that.
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Jon Wells
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 1:53 PM
To:
In Unidata the problem would be that the trigger has to be cataloged globally,
not locally. I'm not sure how to do that in Universe, though.
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bobby Worley
Sent:
Hi Kevin,
I can't help you with what you're asking for, directly, but as a
suggestion on something to try, if you make a small script that dumps
the currently running processes into a date/time stamped text file, new
for each time it runs, then you could set it up in the system scheduler
to run
I've never had this problem but I'd look at the terminal emulation
you're using. You might try using a different terminal type then see if
you can replicate the problem. I would imagine you don't use the insert
key since it seems to mess you up (only at TCL???) so maybe redefine
just that key?
it back to
Wyse60 it had the same old problem.
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Woodward, Bob
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 2:40 PM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] SB Client question
I've never had
. I try to be careful
but sometimes my fat finger will co-hit the backspace and insert key and
then the fun begins again.
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Woodward, Bob
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 3
Hi Kevin,
Two times in my Unidata career I've had a problem like this where
something doesn't work in a subroutine. My work around, both times, was
to add a simple line of code at the beginning of the program. Usually
just assigning a value to a new, unused, variable like JUNK=JUNK is
all it
I use it for EQUATE names to remind me that I can't change it when I'm
waist deep in a program.
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 9:40 AM
To:
Seems like the simple solution would be in your subroutine, before you
need to generate your select, test the SYSTEM variable to see if an
active select is already in use. If it is, do a READLIST into a
variable. Then at the end of your subroutine, if anything is in your
variable, do a UNIBASIC
this onerous? I recall doing it much
more easily - on Unidata - but it's been years.
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Woodward, Bob
bob_woodw...@k2sports.comwrote:
Seems like the simple solution would be in your subroutine, before you
need to generate your select, test the SYSTEM variable to see
Is it a DIM array or a DYNAMIC array? I would think that a DIM array
would probably be false because it's space is assigned in memory using
initial values of whatever data was in that location. I would expect a
DYNAMIC array to work, though, as it's really just a single location in
memory. No
I'm reading your message at 1:15pm so it's only 6 minutes, depending on
your time zone. The email header says you sent it at 12:09pm instead of
1:09pm. I'm on the West coast in Seattle.
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Not from what I see. Only the first EXIT seems to apply as it executes
immediately, skipping over the second EXIT. You would have to add the
same test of G = H after the NEXT A2 statement.
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From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org
Hi group,
I'm having a problem with page breaks and page number counter in a SB
Form report. I have a report that is set up with Headings, Column
Headings, and a Detail line defined. I have a dict item defined,
PAGE.OF with a derived field definition of:
('Page ':@RV.MV.PAGE:' of
.
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Woodward, Bob
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 2:38 PM
To: SB Solutions; U2 Users List
Subject: [U2] SB Report page counter
Hi group,
I'm having a problem with page breaks
Any solution is going to require modifying your system, as far as I know, other
than educating your users. The best solution would be to add the LOCKED clause
so you can find out who is the offending user and concentrate on increasing
their knowledge.
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From:
Come on, people! Let's not get into another pissing contest of who
programs the right way and who doesn't. As stated, the original
question was if there is a way to tell how long a lock has been in
place. Nothing else was given so the assumption that the OP was ONLY
looking at locks placed
We're using Unidata 6.1 and I don't see us upgrading any time soon.
Will V3 of the DBTools work for us?
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Daniel
McGrath
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 9:14 AM
To: U2 Users
-
From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org
[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Woodward, Bob
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 3:35 PM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] SB+ screen question
So theoretically, the one process is what's causing the skipping
action
Hi Bruce,
It may have to do with your concept of how the work flow is going in
screen and the way your process is working to control your entry. If
you have access to a copy of Kevin King's green System Builder book SB+
Solutions, check the sections in Special Processing for Multivalued
Fields
.) but it will show after I enter the LI#
field, the next time I open the screen and skip the Earned Date field.
Thanks again,
Bruce
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Woodward, Bob
Sent: Monday, March 12
on without stopping at the Earned Date field.
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From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org
[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Woodward, Bob
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 2:15 PM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] SB+ screen question
So are these MV
Since you're able to get to the DOS prompt using telnet, type SET to
look at the environment variables. Check them against when you're on
the server and able to get into UV. Something is probably different.
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From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org
The /c is to close the command session when the supplied
process/batchfile completes. This returns you back to your originating
session of Universe.
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson
Sent:
Are you setting up specifications or do you already have a set that
you're working from? You should be able to isolate the N1 loops from
each other within a dataset so that each loop is a functional subset.
Then, based on the BT/ST code determine what kind of information you
have and apply it
-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Woodward, Bob
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 4:43 PM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] [mildly ot] - EDI and drop shipments
Are you setting up specifications or do you already have a set that
you're working from? You should be able to isolate the N1
I found an email address if you're looking to get hired and live in
Sydney Australia. i...@designbais.com You can try going to the link
http://www.designbais.com/downloads/DesignBaisWebinars2011a.pdf to see
if you can get to their Webinar Schedule. It just gives the same email
address for a
I'm with you. Go with the current version or make your hosting partner
give you specific reasons why you shouldn't.
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Symeon Breen
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 8:20
Hi folks,
I sent this to the SB-Solutions list first but I think something is
messed up with my registration there.
Anyway, I have a simple need, I think. I have a screen that has a MV
field that I want to display the first two values when I leave the
field. The user may enter a number
Thanks Marco. I've tried both 2 and -2 but neither seems to do the
trick.
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Marco Antonio
Rojas Castro
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 3:09 PM
To:
I don't know why. She's quite a looker! And I'm sure Allen doesn't
deserve her.
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Charlie Noah
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 8:03 AM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re:
You might also be able to use COUNT.
IF COUNT(X.STRING,X.CODE) = 0 THEN X.STRING := X.CODE
Not knowing what your potential codes are, though, they may or may not
fit your needs.
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org]
There are key differences between the two types of selects. The EXECUTE
SELECT... guarantees you access all the records that fit your criteria
at the moment of the execute. The BASIC SELECT processes node by node
of the datafile which allows for the possibility of records being added,
deleted,
Add a second selection criteria and the benefit of the index is washed
out.
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Charles
Stevenson
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 2:39 PM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re:
I would think that because you are not trying to obtain the lock in a
WRITE statement, it would not be classified as a waiter. True, it's
waiting because of the lock but by not trying to obtain the lock, it's
only waiting for the blockage to clear. If it were to be classified as
a waiter then I
?
I can possibly understand that somebody would want to do it with a
WRITEV (i.e writing a flag on a record) but WRITE?
And WRITE totally ignoring locking would be outright stupid.
On 24/10/2011 22:28, Woodward, Bob wrote:
I would think that because you are not trying to obtain the lock
Ouija board? ROFLMAO Oh! Sorry. snicker I know you're serious
but I just couldn't stop myself.
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Brutzman
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 2:57 PM
To: U2 Users
I can't find any of them documented. What's 27 and 28 listed as? And
thanks for 25 26. I've been looking for something like those, which
works great! (UD 6.1)
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of
...@listserver.u2ug.org
[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Woodward, Bob
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 4:50 PM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] Finding Triggers on files
I can't find any of them documented. What's 27 and 28 listed as? And
thanks for 25 26. I've been looking
I use to work for a place that they THOUGHT they were running SLOW but
it turned out it was an old copy of KARELuSS that had been infected by a
lot of KNOTACLUE.
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Drew
I know this could be done in Universe but I'm pretty sure it cannot be
done in Unidata. I think it had to do with the amount of space in
memory that is allocated to the prompt character (singular). It's
been quite a long time ago that looked into this, though.
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Wait a minute... How do you point to the previous expression? @-1
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wols Lists
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 9:05 AM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] I-type
It's just you.
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of
cheetah...@comcast.net
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 11:03 AM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] UV 9.6.2.1/uvbackup questions
Is it just me, or
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