Re: [U2] Unidata to Universe port

2008-08-19 Thread Doug Miller
I would stick to your core reason for a topic of discussion first before discussing all the differences and what's involved in migrating. We have had somewhat limited exposure trying to implement NLS for a few of our end users and were not successful in the past. The product may have been

Re: [U2] Unidata to Universe port

2008-08-16 Thread Clifton Oliver
The problem is that both Dave and I have spooler products that try to intercept the output and direct it to a HOLD file. This involves using an interlude to the SP.ASSIGN/SETPTR verb. Many times, this only gets executed once per login. While we both have developed work-arounds to this

Re: [U2] Unidata to Universe port

2008-08-16 Thread Dave Taylor
] To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 7:28 PM Subject: RE: [U2] Unidata to Universe port Dave: I'm guessing the crux of the issue is ensuring completely unique numbers for spooler entries. In UD we use BANNER UNIQUE to append the user name to a date/time stamp

RE: [U2] Unidata to Universe port

2008-08-15 Thread Symeon Breen
Hi The biggest thing will be to choose what flavour to run your universe accounts in, this will affect how similar any TCL and dictionary items will be. As far as the unibasic extensions these are coded to be the same on both udt and uv. Rgds Symeon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [U2] Unidata to Universe port

2008-08-15 Thread George Land
If you are truly SB (i.e. You have coded all your fields and screens etc. in that environment) then conversion shouldn't be that hard. Fields can be regenerated using SB and so your main issues could be incompatibilities in basic code. Things like using as a variable name something that is OK in

RE: [U2] Unidata to Universe port

2008-08-15 Thread jpb-u2ug
Taylor Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 11:57 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Unidata to Universe port Eugene, I'm sure others will have a longer list, but for starters: 1.The structure of dictionary items is completely different. 2.You lose the ability to expand

RE: [U2] Unidata to Universe port

2008-08-15 Thread Brenda Price
When I started working with UniVerse 7 years ago, the main gotcha I ran into was this. INS '' BEFORE VAL1,POS At that time, this worked on all the UniData systems I'd previously worked on but does not work here on UniVerse. We do this to get around it. VAL1,1 = :@VM:VAL1 I am assuming

RE: [U2] Unidata to Universe port

2008-08-15 Thread Brenda Price
Just realized I typo'd make that VAL1 = :@VM:VAL1. Sorry! -Original Message- From: Brenda Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 10:07 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] Unidata to Universe port When I started working with UniVerse 7 years ago

Re: [U2] Unidata to Universe port

2008-08-15 Thread Eugene St. Clair
Yes, George you are correct. We use Pick flavor. - Original Message From: jpb-u2ug [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 9:44:15 AM Subject: RE: [U2] Unidata to Universe port Dave, Been a while since you've used UniVerse? The print job

RE: [U2] Unidata to Universe port

2008-08-15 Thread Ron Hutchings
The insert works in Universe provided VAL is not a null string. Subject: RE: [U2] Unidata to Universe port Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:27:07 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Just realized I typo'd make that VAL1 = :@VM:VAL1. Sorry! -Original Message- From

Re: [U2] Unidata to Universe port

2008-08-15 Thread Eugene St. Clair
Thanks Brenda. I understood what you meant. - Original Message From: Brenda Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 11:27:07 AM Subject: RE: [U2] Unidata to Universe port Just realized I typo'd make that VAL1 = :@VM:VAL1. Sorry

RE: [U2] Unidata to Universe port

2008-08-15 Thread Dave Taylor
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RE: [U2] Unidata to Universe port

2008-08-15 Thread Bill Haskett
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-u2- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Taylor Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 4:33 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] Unidata to Universe port Jerry, Ref: Universe Rel. 10.1, Pick flavor account. Perhaps I didn't

Re: [U2] Unidata to Universe port

2008-08-15 Thread JPB-U2UG
. -- From: Dave Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 6:32 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] Unidata to Universe port Jerry, Ref: Universe Rel. 10.1, Pick flavor account. Perhaps I didn't describe the limitation on the print entry

Re: [U2] Unidata to Universe port

2008-08-14 Thread Dave Taylor
Eugene, I'm sure others will have a longer list, but for starters: 1.The structure of dictionary items is completely different. 2.You lose the ability to expand the print job numbers beyond before they restart numbering print jobs at 1 in UniVerse. Best wishes, Dave Taylor