Greetings, all!
We have recently upgraded to the latest version of our vendor's software, and
in the process have gone from Pick flavored accounts to Ideal flavored
accounts. This has drastically changed the way programs are cataloged, as we
are now using the global catalog directory (catdir,
It's unix, so all the suggestions are well taken.
Thanks, all!!
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Baakkonen, Rodney
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Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 12:31 PM
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Greetings!
We have a program that runs in one account, but under certain conditions it
is becoming necessary for that program to execute a command in another
account, and then continue on its merry way doing other things. One fairly
simplistic example might be that the process might find it
The product provided by Ashwood handles this nicely. On an AIX system, it
pauses the database, performs a JFS2 snapshot (in seconds), releases the
database, then the customizable backup script (we use tar and gzip) backs up
the snapshot.
Brian
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We used to get that if a user dropped their session and UV wasn't able to
clean up. The next person that logged into that port would get the printer
segment removed message on the way in - when UV finally had a chance to
clean up the port.
Brian
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Thanks to all that replied! We have a lot to chew on now.
Brian
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Les Hewkin
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 4:04 AM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] [UV] Essbase or
Greetings, all!
We have some new financial folks who think Essbase is the be-all, end-all of
financial reporting. We're a 100% UV shop, and we really don't have
experience in any type of external reporting functionality yet. I have two
general questions:
1. Does Essbase integrate with U2?
2.
What user was assigned to udt when it was installed? Check that user's
ulimit.
We run UV, and some commands (create-file, SH -c, etc.) run as the user
assigned to UV during the install, not as the user that is actually logged
in. Shelling out with sh gives you your own environment variables,
Howdy all!
We're doing a proof of concept where we're connecting a serial scanner to a
wireless termserver and we want to get the input from the scanner into our
U2-based software.
We've got the tty defined and we can open the port. The stickler is in
writing a routine (in BASIC
Awesome!!
Thank you!!!
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Schasny
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 3:30 PM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] Input from a TTY on an AIX box
Check out the Universe basic GET or
Good day everyone!
I have a customer running U2 on W2K.
They are licensed for 29 users. They cannot log in because it is acting like
it's at the limit. If I do a LISTU, it shows 15 users logged in. If I run
the USERS command (or CRT SYSTEM(35)), it says there are 29 users logged in.
This
In addition to topas, IBM offers a monitoring tool called nmon, which is
downloadable off their site (somewhere). I find that I use the two in
combination with each other, depending on what I'm looking for.
Brian
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No. There are no complicated users or processes. They're all straight UV
Telnet sessions.
Another reboot of the server resolved the issue, but now I'm curious if
anyone knows where the current count of users is stored - and if there's any
way to clean it up without having to go through a
If you're unix based, this may help
We ran into that issue a couple times. In our case, it had to do with system
performance and priorities. If something else (or multiple something elses)
is running that is consuming the system resources, cleanup will be shifted
to the lowest priority
We're logging many errors in the UV error log that say Too many PRINTER
channels open.
I know the channel numbers themselves are limited to 0-255, but I didn't know
there was a limit on how many could be open at one time. What is the limit?
Is there a configuration parameter somewhere that I'm
Hello all!
I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. We're getting a
number of errors in our errlog file that I'm trying to track down. It gives
the program name and line number, but then says 'Message[##]' - and there
are about 4 or 5 different 6-digit numbers (040058,
Hello!
We recently converted to uniVerse and have implemented a package called
FastBac from Ashwood Computer, Inc - www.ashwoodcomputer.com. It's specific
to IBM-based systems, though, as it utilizes the JFS2 snapshot functionality.
So far we're pretty happy with it.
Feel free to contact me
What's the actual error message?
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Subject: [U2] [UV] HELP - CORRUPT FILE???
Hi all,
HPUX 11, UV10.1.8 (PICK)
I have users that are
Hello all!
Is there anywhere in uniVerse that keeps a history of which
users have been
logged in on which ports? Basically, I'm looking for
something equivalent to
the old ACC file in the Pick world.
I'm trying to
track down some software/licensing issues, and to do so I need
to know who
the
Hello all!
I see that U2 gets the next hold entry number from an item in the DICT of
ANPHOLD called NEXT.HOLD. It seems to automatically roll over at - it
won't go to 5 digits. Although we use the BANNER UNIQUE option on the SETPTR
command so that the actual ID of the print job also
Is it losing data at the end, or dropping characters in the middle? If the
latter, check your emulation software and see if you can either slow down the
data transfer rate, or insert pauses every so often. I think ViaDuct has an
options, for example, for the data transmit rate (in it's
If you're on an unix system, the individual records in PH are unix files.
There's a unix command (fuser, I think) that will tell you if a process still
has the file open or not. If the Phantom is still running, it'll still own
the file and fuser will list the PID number of that process. If the
Louie,
After you suspend the database, you need to do an AIX sync in order to flush
any writes that are still sitting in memory. That resolved a similar issue
for us.
HTH
Brian
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PORT.STATUS shows the last executed command - the info not in brackets. If
you're still in a program, that will show up in brackets. The hex number is
some kind of address or offset that points to 'where' in the program you are.
As for phantom vs. regular, if this were a 'regular' login, you'd
We have a similar scenario on UV/AIX. Our unix tech was actually a bit more
detailed. They're talking about the unix filesystem logs - in our case,
JFS/JFS2 logs. If they're isolated to a different logical partition, the
system is a little more efficient.
I'm not sure if that applies to your
Doug,
Any reason you need to use OCONV() instead of FIELD()?
Brian
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Subject: [U2] OCONV Extraction Question
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Your best bet is to go with a list of resellers. They might be looking for
talent for their product development, and would usually know if any of their
customers are as well. Finding a list of folks that sell Multivalue products
might be easier to find.
Just a thought.
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It is possible that it's maxing out the temp area, which is probably defined
smaller on the test system than on the live system?
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My answer to Which is better would be it depends.
If you're looking for run-time performance and disk is not an issue, go with
the first. Although having duplicate data leaves a bad taste in most of our
mouths, the purpose of the computer is to do the grunt work for us.
Sometimes elegance has to
I don't know if it's the same in UD, but in UV I'd just create a extra DICT
item with an MCU in the output convert field, sort on that, but display the
original.
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Subject: [U2] [ud] Question on Alpha Sorting...
I have a need to sort people by LastName,FirstName.
The issue is that
Has anyone had experience with account restores from mvEnterprise to
UniVerse on AIX?
Ross, We are in the middle of that conversion now. We received a partial
tool from IBM, which we then modified to work with mvE. We have a whole
procedure written to go with it, based on our environment.
If you're using a pass-through slave function, there are two possibilities
I've seen for solutions:
1. Your emulation is 'converting' the escape to its ASCII equivalent. If
so, there is usually a setting for that.
2. Try using CRT instead of PRINT.
HTH
Brian
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The abstracts look awesome! I retract my comments about sales pitches and
vaporware.
Are there any chances that more venues will open up - maybe somewhere in the
Central timezone? Chicago area would be nice.
Thanks!
Brian
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Phil said:
Hopefully the content will satisfy the expectations I have as I am used to
the standard U2
courses of old, which for me a least as a tutor, were very basic, excuse the
pun.
I agree with Phil. My other concern is that these are going to be closer to
sales pitches rather than how to's.
You may or may not have things set up the same, but when this happens on our
system, the solutions are:
1. font size - the PCL font size (or pitch or whatever it's called on that
specific model of printer) needs to be set to match all the other printers
2. page breaks - the unix page length
Thanks to all that replied!
Licensing isn't an issue. If we need to reconfigure our licensing scheme
and/or purchase more licenses, we will.
My larger concern is any of those extraneous files out in the wonderful world
of unix. Doing a central install doesn't do us much good if there are files
As part of our DR configuration, our database is loaded on an external RAID
array. We have the ability, should one server crash, to present the disks to
other servers and be back up and running.
The question has arisen as to
whether we should do the same with UV itself.
Currently, it is loaded
Thanks to all that responded. Your assistance is GREATLY appreciated!!
Brian
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hona, David S
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 8:41 PM
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Subject: RE: [U2] Database integrity check
Hello all!
We're running UV 10 on AIX 5.3. We're looking for a way to
verify the
integrity of the database. In Pick, we always did a dummy file
save. In
older versions of uniVerse, we used uvfixfile. When we try to use
uvfixfile
now, it tells us that it does not support 64-bit files.
From
Just to play devil's advocate, there ARE good reasons for doing the code that
way:
1. The same program can be used for processing live and historical data if
they're in different files. Just create two procs and pass live files in one
and historical files in the other.
2. The same program can
Try:
\usr\ibm\uv\bin\uv phantom xxx
where xxx is whatever you're trying to run as a phantom. This works in unix,
but I'm not 100% sure if it'll work in DOS.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Ward
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 1:35
There is a setting (in AIX 5.3 at least) to allow for files larger than 2 GB.
It's one of the tunable kernel parameters.
Why mess with tar, though? If VMS allows (and I don't know if it does or
not) why not either NFS mount a drive and do copies - or use ftp? As long as
it's an internal
If the HI program has been cataloged, though, you can do
PHANTOM HI
And the first _ field of the id would then be HI instead of RUN.
You can then use the program name to find the ID in the PH file.
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Jon,
The fact that you can get things to work as root, but not as other users,
sounds like a permissions problem somewhere out in unix.
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HASH.HELP has never guaranteed a prime number. You'll note their wording -
it's not a recommended modulo, it's the smallest you should make it.
I was told by the uniVerse folks (back when it was Vmark, so that tells you
how long ago it was) that since not all of the hashing algorithms required
The other 'fun' you'll have is if they have serial printers. If memory
serves, you'd have to convert them over to termservers if you go the Windows
route so that they have network addresses (though my memory has been known to
be faulty).
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