Re: [U2] ODBC Difficulties

2006-01-12 Thread Simon Lewington
Kevin King... I am having some difficulties getting the Unidata ODBC driver to work properly. ... I have verified the registry settings per the ODBC documentation, verified the location and contents of uci.config, and verified the ODBC configuration settings. Still, when trying to connect

RE: [U2] ODBC Difficulties

2006-01-12 Thread Kevin King
BRILLIANT! Thanks Simon (for regmon)! This should be very useful. -K --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/

[U2] System Migration issues

2006-01-12 Thread Sirulnick, Steve
I am migrating an old AIX server running U2 to RH Linux. Because of the server's limitations, I need to transfer files between the two devices via FTP and then converting the files for Linux use. After doing so, my distributed files are getting corrupted. It looks like the IBM provided fixtool

Re: [U2] PROC Question

2006-01-12 Thread Mark Johnson
Microdata allows multiple lines on PROCS, and I used to be very good at PQN procs but I don't recall the syntax. I would stay with the offered suggestions. My 1 cent - Original Message - From: Bill Haskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Wednesday, January 11,

Re: [U2] PROC Question

2006-01-12 Thread Mark Johnson
One final oft-seen PROC thing. You can have a PROC that has statement labels within have those statement sections referenced individually from the outside. Example PROX AAA PQN 100 T HERE AT 100 X 200 T HERE AT 200 X 300 T HERE AT 300 X and have calling PROCS likewise: [PROX AAA] 100 (some

RE: [U2] System Migration issues

2006-01-12 Thread Baker Hughes
Could you T-Load them to a virtual tape file (.vtf) and then ftp that to wherever you want? R. Baker Hughes UniVerse Programming Mouser Electronics, Inc. I am migrating an old AIX server running U2 to RH Linux. Because of the server's limitations, I need to transfer files between the two

Re: [U2] System Migration issues

2006-01-12 Thread karlp
You didn't say which U2 product, which makes all the difference in the world for this answer. So, because I know a bit of this on Universe, I'll target my answer at that DBMS. My experience with distributed file transfers is that FTP is fine. HOWEVER, when the file is on the new system, you must

Re: [U2] System Migration issues

2006-01-12 Thread u2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am migrating an old AIX server running U2 to RH Linux. Because of the server's limitations, I need to transfer files between the two devices via FTP and then converting the files for Linux use. After doing so, my distributed files are getting corrupted. It looks

RE: [U2] System Migration issues

2006-01-12 Thread Robert Paterson
If it is UniData - you probably need to consider the endian of the files (which is the same consideration in fact if it is UniVerse). So - you would need to run convdata, convidx, convcode and quite possibly convmark. Each are fairly well documented in the manuals - but my guess is that will fix

Re: [U2] System Migration issues

2006-01-12 Thread Scott Richardson
Hello Steve, Are you setting the FTP transfer process to binary mode before doing the transfer? What versions of UniVerse or UniData? Any compatible tape device between the servers? Have you tried a process similar to the following: 1) creating a type 1 file 2) copying data from larger

[U2] RE System Migration Issues

2006-01-12 Thread Brian Leach
Steve Assuming UniVerse, uvbackup and uvrestore is safest: it is item level and will create new files on the target. Brian --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/

RE: [U2] PROC Question

2006-01-12 Thread Tony Gravagno
Bob Woodward wrote: What I want to be able to do is: IF A = 5 [USER.PL BASIC.PGM1];[USER.PL BASIC.PGM2];G 10 In RPL the subvalue mark is used to accomplish this: IF A = 5 [USER.PL BASIC.PGM1]\[USER.PL BASIC.PGM2]\G 10 Use ctrl-\ for the subvalue mark. I'm positive that we can do GS 10\GS

Re: [U2] System Migration issues

2006-01-12 Thread Michael Doyle
Test your assumption by performing some manner of CRC on the files before and after transit. If you can perform an md5 checksum on AIX, Redhat will have a compatible program called md5sum. But realistically, ftp file transfer should have nil affect on the files. -Mike Doyle Unix Developer /

RE: [U2] PROC Question

2006-01-12 Thread Bob Woodward
Hi Tony. It looks like this is a no-go in UV, too. I ended up using the branching method many have suggested. Thanks. BobW -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Gravagno Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 8:26 AM To:

Re: [U2] System Migration issues

2006-01-12 Thread Doug Miller
Your source files are not in use by chance are they? If so that could be your problem. You may be catching 1/2 of a write when the copy is being transferred. At 08:42 AM 1/12/2006, you wrote: I need to transfer files between the two devices via FTP and then converting the files for Linux

RE: [U2] System Migration issues

2006-01-12 Thread Sirulnick, Steve
Here's more information: I am using universe and ran fnuxi (transferring in binary mode is a given). I have also tried removing the file header with no joy. I've tried to rebuild the header, but the partfiles were damaged. It could be because the algorithm may have been different from one system

RE: [U2] System Migration issues

2006-01-12 Thread Timothy Snyder
Michael Doyle wrote on 01/12/2006 12:52:14 PM: If AIX used \n as a line terminator (in keeping with standard UNIX practice,) binary vs ascii mode would not be an issue, but according to the ever-accurate wikipedia, it uses EBCDIC 0x15: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline Since anybody can

RE: [U2] System Migration issues

2006-01-12 Thread Sirulnick, Steve
Thank you for all your emails. I will even get more specific so I don't waste your time. When trying to run a REBUILD.DF, it could not read or find the header. When I tried to remove the header and tried to DEFINE.DF, I got a message saying that the partblocks were bad. This is when I used the

[U2] EDA Tool - Unable to save EDA map content

2006-01-12 Thread Simon Lewington
I'm trying to set up EDA using the 'EDA tool', and getting an error when trying to create the EDA map. I'll call this in to IBM support tomorrow, but I'm in the UK so am firing this to the list in case some of you guys in the States have seen this before and so might be able to help more quickly.

RE: [U2] System Migration issues

2006-01-12 Thread karlp
I don't know if fixtool works the same way as fnuxi used to, but when I ran it (and I apologize for not mentioning it earlier), it would run forever, as you're seeing now, when going through the file. Since the header was the only thing that had issues, I found that I could do: fnuxi FILENAME

RE: [U2] System Migration issues

2006-01-12 Thread Tom Dodds
I had the same problem with a migration from a Data General to an AIX/UniVerse 10.1.7. I undid the distribution on the Data General, did the migration, and re-build the distribution on the UniVerse side and it worked fine. The problem is that when you migrate the file, it actually get created

[U2] [UDT] Stack following user and causing core dumps?

2006-01-12 Thread Raymond DeGennaro II
We've got a customer site that is having problems with one user ID always getting core dumps as soon as they start UniData. This even happens in a brand new, nothing but what 'newacct' puts in it, account. They're pretty convinced that it's due to the contents of the .Command stack getting

[U2] [UD] XML Question...

2006-01-12 Thread David Wolverton
We have a theory question... I have a C function that when it completes, can return an complete XML document as a 'string' instead of making me call the C function over and over to 'bleed out' all the data... So... Now I'm sitting in my UniBASIC routine, with a complete XML document in hand,

Re: [U2] [UD] XML Question...

2006-01-12 Thread Craig Bennett
David, So... Now I'm sitting in my UniBASIC routine, with a complete XML document in hand, assigned to a UniBASIC Variable - but - and this is the part that confuddles me - it appears none of the U2 UniBASIC XML extensions would be usable against that XML item held in a variable unless I write

Re: [U2] [UD] XML Question...

2006-01-12 Thread Wendy Smoak
On 1/12/06, David Wolverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So... Now I'm sitting in my UniBASIC routine, with a complete XML document in hand, assigned to a UniBASIC Variable - but - and this is the part that confuddles me - it appears none of the U2 UniBASIC XML extensions would be usable against

RE: [U2] [UDT] Stack following user and causing core dumps?

2006-01-12 Thread colin.alfke
Never had a command stack big enough to cause problems. Since it's being called from the Unix command line could you not simply clear the stack prior to running the command? Or you could set the CSTACKSZ environment variable for this user so it won't get so big. We have a directory under UniData

RE: [U2] System Migration issues

2006-01-12 Thread Sirulnick, Steve
Thanks Tom. This worked perfectly. I saved my dictionaries before I removed the distributed file header then added it later after I created the new DF header. -Original Message- From: Tom Dodds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 4:03 PM To:

RE: [U2] [UD] XML Question...

2006-01-12 Thread David Wolverton
We're on UniData -- but that's the exact thing I needed ... I just hadn't gotten that far in the Docs!! Perfect - it's just what I was looking for. David W. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craig Bennett Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006

RE: [U2] System Migration issues

2006-01-12 Thread Tom Dodds
Thanks, that's what being a consultant is worth, not the money, it worked, it helped. Tom Dodds [EMAIL PROTECTED] 708-234-9608 Office 630-235-2975 Cell -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sirulnick, Steve Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 9:33