RE: [U2] UniSession process suddenly not going away!

2005-01-19 Thread Robert Paterson
No more LCT's points at either configuration or possibly a process that is attempting to take over the world. Because of what you say re the Java, is there a possibility that more memory is being consumed? If you can see no major reasons for why the application should be using more resources,

[U2] Customer Name Lookup

2005-01-19 Thread Mark Johnson
One of my clients has roughly 75,000 records in their customer database. Oddly enough, until now there has not been that great of a need for a lookup function. Now they would like a lookup function that may go beyond the usual elements of regular lookups. First, there is a lot of mis-spelling or

Re: [U2] Customer Name Lookup

2005-01-19 Thread Scott Richardson
Sounds to me like a need to have strict standards for naming convetions implemented within the user community, as well as programatically verified at data entry point, or search point, and the bad data consolidated/purged. All kinds of alternate index points come up: Zip Code, Phone Number, City,

[U2] UV-piopen TRANS function

2005-01-19 Thread Andrea Charles
We are doing a conversion from PI/Open v3.5.r3 on a Prime EXL (mips) to universe 10.1.4 on AIX 5.3, All the occurrences of the TRANS function return the wrong answer, and appear to be lowered. Simple testing indicates that using the RAISE function in front of the TRANS expression returns the

[U2] UniAdmin not working ...

2005-01-19 Thread u2
I've just installed a copy of UV 10.1 on a virtual Win2K3 server. That's working fine. I've also installed a copy of the matching UVAdmin program on my pc. That seems to be working fine, in as much as when I try to talk to our UV 9.5 box, it rejects my login with you must be an administrator.

RE: [U2] Customer Name Lookup

2005-01-19 Thread Anthony Dzikiewicz
Of course one way to do this is to extract the names to a flat file and then get a service involved to 'scrub' the names and send back a cleaned up database. When I worked at Knapp Shoes I believe they used to do this for mail order mailing lists. Anthony -Original Message- From:

RE: [U2] Customer Name Lookup

2005-01-19 Thread George Gallen
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of George Gallen Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 9:36 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] Customer Name Lookup First by eliminating all spaces, special characters, and UPCASEing a lot of the

RE: [U2] UniData ODBC / Prompt for selection criteria

2005-01-19 Thread Amy Cook
Sorry, no I mean that I'm prompting from the 3rd party client. (i.e. in MSAccess, the selection criteria is [Please enter the fiscal year] ...or something to that effect... which would bring up the dialog box for the person running the query. In that example, if I enter 2004 in the dialog box,

RE: [U2] Customer Name Lookup

2005-01-19 Thread Norman Morgan
First, there is a lot of mis-spelling or alternate spelling of similar names. For example, K-mart is spelled K-Mart, K Mart and KMART. This is not a situation of simple word lookups. There needs to be some intuition as well. Sometimes there's THE INDUSTRIAL DISTRIBUTION COMPANY (example)

Re: [U2] Customer Name Lookup

2005-01-19 Thread Matt Stern
Been there, done that. Here are a few potential suggestions: 1. Keep a library of throwaway words, and omit them from any cross reference. Perhaps Industrial should not be one of them. 2. Use soundex on each non-throwaway word, and index them. 3. Index each non-throwaway word, as entered. 4.

Re: [U2] Customer Name Lookup

2005-01-19 Thread Richard Sammartino
Mark, One way is to create a file that uses the incorrect spelling of the name as the record id and have the first line of the record contain the correct spelling of the company name. When the user enters the company name check against a file/table to see if this is the correct spelling. If

RE: [U2] Customer Name Lookup

2005-01-19 Thread Marc Harbeson
I know there are companies out there that offer data scrubbing service... You give them your customer master, they scrub it and give it back. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Richardson Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 9:37 AM To:

RE: [U2] UV-piopen TRANS function

2005-01-19 Thread Stevenson, Charles
Andrea, This is a known conversion issue. I don't think there is a workaround other than to write your own TRANS function replacement. (If you do, be sure to mimic some of the efficient caching of already-read records that TRANS does.) If IBM wanted to, a new UVCONFIG option could be a way

RE: [U2] UniAdmin not working ...

2005-01-19 Thread Mike Dallaire
Don't know if this will help, but we have a customer who had issues with the RPC service when they initially went to W2K3 and UV 10.1. It was causing RPC failed errors when trying to access UniAdmin. Apparently if W2K3 is running RRAS it can invoke the firewall on its own and shut down the RPC

Re: [U2] Customer Name Lookup

2005-01-19 Thread Scott Richardson
There are even individual consultants who will gladly provide such a service, and several others, on short term, or long term basis, for a fair and reasonable rate. Contact me via email. ;^) - Original Message - From: Marc Harbeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org

RE: [U2] UV-piopen TRANS function

2005-01-19 Thread Andrea Charles
That will work as long as the fields are multi-valued. Charles noted that in his response and through further testing, I believe that is accurate. I am investigating whether this application uses TRANS in any single-valued expressions. -Original Message- From: Mats Carlid To:

RE: [U2] UV-piopen TRANS function

2005-01-19 Thread Stevenson, Charles
From: Mats Carlid What's wrong with FUNCTION ATRANS( F,K,P,X ) RETURN (RAISE(TRANS(F,K,P,X)) END ? -- looks good, except how about something like: FUNCTION ATRANS( F,K,P,X ) REMOVE DUM FROM K SETTING MORE ; check for any delimiters K = K ; * reset rmv ptr in case

FW: [U2] UV-piopen TRANS function

2005-01-19 Thread Andrea Charles
Do you need the K = K ? -- looks good, except how about something like: FUNCTION ATRANS( F,K,P,X ) REMOVE DUM FROM K SETTING MORE ; check for any delimiters K = K ; * reset rmv ptr in case calling pgm cares. T = TRANS(F,K,P,X) RETURN (IF MORE THEN T ELSE RAISE(T) )

Re: [U2] UniSession process suddenly not going away!

2005-01-19 Thread John Cassidy
Perhaps farfetched, but could someone have been trying to rebuild an index? This happened to us earlier this week. We got up to over 200 udcs sessions; I couldn't kill them and stopping unirpc didn't help. As soon as we realized what was going on, the user terminated her BUILD.INDEX and everything

RE: [U2] K = K

2005-01-19 Thread Marilyn Hilb
I frequently see this type of line K = K in the code I work on and never understood why. Anyone care to share why this is ever needed? I only part way followed the comment in this program sample. Thanks, Marilyn A. Hilb Value Part, Inc Direct: 847-918-6099 Fax: 847-367-1892 [EMAIL

RE: [U2] Edit / Remove a record with no ID

2005-01-19 Thread Richard Taylor
SSELECT the file SAVE-LIST MYLIST EDIT-LIST MYLIST You will probably see the offending item at the top or bottom of the list. To see what is actually in the key try using 'up-arrow' mode in the line editor; Type '^' an redisplay the record. To remove delete from the list all the records you

RE: [U2] UV-piopen TRANS function

2005-01-19 Thread Richard Taylor
I don't know of any configuration setting for this. This is actually a 'feature' of the TRANS function in UV. You could pass in a multi-valued list of keys to translate and get a multi-value list of the entire record back, hence the need to lower the record. Rich Taylor | Senior

[U2] REMOVE reseting remove pointers.

2005-01-19 Thread Stevenson, Charles
YES! You do need the K=K. Well, either that or SETREM 0 ON K That's better. More explicit. OK, I admit it: I do K=K cuz of 10 yr old PI habits that won't die. PI didn't have SETREM. It is important to reset the remove pointer just in case some future calling program, over which the

RE: [U2] K = K

2005-01-19 Thread Gordon J Glorfield
When using REMOVE to extract the values in a multi-valued variable in a sequential manner, an internal pointer is used to tell the system what value was last REMOVEd. Using K=K resets the pointer to the first value in the variable. HTH, Gordon Gordon J. Glorfield Sr. Applications Developer

RE: [U2] K = K

2005-01-19 Thread TPellitieri
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:29:15 -0600 Marilyn Hilb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I frequently see this type of line K = K in the code I work on and never understood why. -Original Message- From: Andrea Charles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Do you need the K = K ? --

[U2] Unclassified Performance, Shared Memory Tuning on a UV / Windows system

2005-01-19 Thread HENDERSON MIKE, MR
-Original Message- From:MACK ANDREW, F/S Sent:Thursday, 20 January 2005 10:41 To: HENDERSON MIKE, MR Subject: What uses Printer Memory Segments? HI all, We are running UV 10.0.15 on Win 2003. Currently we have an increasing number of calls to our DB from external Web

RE: [U2] Unclassified Performance, Shared Memory Tuning on a UV / Windows system

2005-01-19 Thread John Jenkins
Ideally you would use one of: 1. RedBack 2. SOAP/XML 3. UniObjects with connection pooling (e.g. .NET) Each of these has their benefits depending on the weighting of your client workload. Loading programs into the shared memory segment (SHM.TO.LOAD) has a benefit for frequently invoked programs

Re: [U2] Customer Name Lookup

2005-01-19 Thread Bruce Nichol
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[U2] Universe ODBC

2005-01-19 Thread k_hw
I have in Universe a field for the Period as 99-01,00-02,02-01,03-05,04-04. Using ODBC/Access, I want to convert the period to ,mm,dd format. What would be the syntax for such conversion? Thanks Krish --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit

RE: [U2] Unclassified Performance, Shared Memory Tuning on a UV / Windows system

2005-01-19 Thread Mitchell, Stewart
Is connection pooling a feature of UniObjects.net TIA, Stewart -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Jenkins Sent: Thursday, 20 January 2005 9:31 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] Unclassified Performance, Shared Memory

RE: [U2] Customer Name Lookup

2005-01-19 Thread D Raven
Mark, you may want to look for a subroutine that uses the principles that were used by mailing houses to correct such problems, the USPS had some guide lines for doing this. It has been done for years and in the past it was all batched processed. D Raven cell (949)2282224 e Fax (815)4259364

Re: [U2] Customer Name Lookup

2005-01-19 Thread Mark Johnson
INDUSTRIAL and DISTRIBUTION were examples. I can't remember but there were a few that disappeared when I used a standard KEYWORD exclusion list. Basically I'm looking for any help in the mis-spellings. MV traditionally doesn't have a spell checker and it probably wouldn't help with all the proper

RE: [U2] K = K

2005-01-19 Thread Bill H.
Now that I think about this, K is the array being traversed? We simply remove the next attribute/value/subvalue in array K and assigning this value to DUM. For example: K = I^AM^HAPPY]TO]READ^THIS^LIST REMOVE DUM FROM K SETTING MORE would result in: DUM = I K= the above array MORE = 2

RE: [U2] Customer Name Lookup

2005-01-19 Thread Kevin King
When the only thing consistent is inconsistency, use everything you have - iteratively - to get the answer. The specification from the USPS, while not the most entertaining read, is a great first place to start. This should help with application of standard abbreviations for common words. As to

Re: [U2] Customer Name Lookup

2005-01-19 Thread Roger Glenfield
Consider getting a zip code file so you can prompt for zip code before city/state and then having the user choose from the available town names and defaulting to state. Bound to prevent a bunch of misspellings. Mark Johnson wrote: INDUSTRIAL and DISTRIBUTION were examples. I can't remember but

RE: [U2] Customer Name Lookup

2005-01-19 Thread Tony Gravagno
Mark Johnson wrote: I may use the purge method to scrub the data and assign some consistency. That's fine as a manual job for me, but on-going I think it's going to get out of hand as time goes on. Plus their user base is from another land so that enters in some mis-spellings. Kevin King

Re: [U2] UV-piopen TRANS function

2005-01-19 Thread Mats Carlid
Note that you also want to raise when the position is -1 ( retreiving the entire record lowered ). And when we're at it we can remove the restriction that TRANS only handles positions not attribute names: FUNCTION ATRANS( F,K,P,X ) L = ( IF NOT(NUM(P) THEN L = TRANS(DICT :F,P,2,X) ELSE P) K =