RE: [U2] Knowledgebase access

2006-01-26 Thread phil walker
The issue is that the Universe user has their maintenance through a distributor and myself as a reseller, and I believe you can only access the knowledgebase when a Universe user has support directly through IBM. That is what I have been told anyway by that distributor and also IBM when I tried to

Re: [U2] PROC question

2006-01-26 Thread Mark Johnson
Look for any PROCREAD or PROCWRITE statements as well in the programs. - Original Message - From: John Hester [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 4:41 PM Subject: Re: [U2] PROC question Bob Woodward wrote: Maybe I'm just missing the

Re: [U2] [UV] Maximum heading length

2006-01-26 Thread Ray Wurlod
I have a vague recollection of a 1088 character limit some years ago. --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/

[U2] Re: Identifying UD files

2006-01-26 Thread Jonathan D Smith
Adam, Here is how to identify if a VOC pointer is a valid UniData File ... You will also notice a handy tip in the ELSE clause code. OPEN VOCNAME TO F.FILE THEN FILETYPE = FILEINFO(F.FILE,3) ; * Refer to UniBasic Commands Reference Manual for full list (For Reference 2 Hashed, 3

RE: [U2] [UV] Maximum heading length

2006-01-26 Thread phil walker
Thanks Ray, That would be about right. As I said it still prints the entire header, it is just that the header gets interrupted by a CR/LF at that position and continues, moving everything down a lineI guess I will have to log an enhancement requestand do a work around. -Original

Re: [U2] Re: Identifying UD files

2006-01-26 Thread Adam Eccleshall
Hi, Thanks for the suggestions, but the files in question actually cause the session to terminate with a regular OPEN, and don't even trigger the ON ERROR clause. I need to check the file before attempting the OPEN, so currently I have Read actual location from VOC entry OSOPEN actual location

RE: [U2] Knowledgebase access

2006-01-26 Thread Brian Leach
Phil, This is something for which the U2UG have been actively campaigning. That campaign is beginning to bear fruit: 1. There are now a number of articles on the techconnect that are available 'outside' the knowledge base (e.g.the excellent article by Mark Baldridge publicised on the list

[U2] MS Firewall Client - Uniobjects

2006-01-26 Thread Sunny Matharoo
Hi, We are starting to test MS Firewall Client on our systems and we are coming across situations where any application that has or uses the UniObjects.dll; once initiated it works fine until it makes a connection to the UV Database. When we shut down the application it leaves an instantiation

RE: [U2] Re: Identifying UD files

2006-01-26 Thread David A. Green
Have you tried running guide on the files? If you must do it from UniBasic then parse the guide output files or read the hash file populated by guide to determine which have errors and which do not. Thanks, David A. Green DAG Consulting -Original Message- files in question actually

RE: [U2] Knowledgebase access

2006-01-26 Thread Robert Paterson
Working for one of these distributors, I know that IBM have picked up on this and there is a process available which will allow authorised people to gain access. Key criteria are to have the chat with your distributor and start the ball rolling so that they can process the user requests back to

RE: [U2] PROC question

2006-01-26 Thread Glenn Herbert
PQ 10 C Top of Main Menu RI RO OA number of lines that display the available menu choices ... OEnter choice + IP: IF # A X IF A = 1 GO 100 ... IF A = 99 GO 990 You might as well use the multi-valued IF/GO, ie. IF A = 1]...]99 GO 100]...]990 Where ] is a value-mark character. Then

[U2] Converting Jbase Code into Universe

2006-01-26 Thread John Castilletti
Do you know how to get the environment variable through Universe? The jBase code to get them is: DUMMY=GETENV('CONTENT_LENGTH',Content_Length) DUMMY=GETENV('QUERY_STRING',Query_String) DUMMY=GETENV('REQUEST_METHOD',Request_Method) DUMMY=GETENV('SERVER_NAME',WebServerName) and

RE: [U2] Hypothetical question about switching server frontends to SAN w/o reinstalling Universe

2006-01-26 Thread Mike Pflugfelder
So the OS between the two servers is still RedHat, just the difference between 32 bit and 64 bit, correct? Are they the same release, same glibc, same kernel? It doesn't surprise me that it would work as Universe on RedHat is 32 bit, not 64, but I wanted to get more details if possible. Thanks!

RE: [U2] Knowledgebase access

2006-01-26 Thread Vance, Kathy
I am 100% agree with Phil. It was very frustrating when I had questions and saw the article titles in KB on IBM site but could not read it. It is very weird that IBM has KB but does not allow people to view them. I have not seen any other web sites doing so. The one of reasons people find that it

RE: [U2] Knowledgebase access

2006-01-26 Thread Vance, Kathy
I have to ask our tech support (distributor) to forward the articles to me each time. I saw the articles of titles but I could not open it. I do not understand what IBM is thinking? Kathy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of phil walker Sent:

RE: [U2] Converting Jbase Code into Universe

2006-01-26 Thread Perry Taylor
John, We converted from jBASE about 6 months ago and had to deal with this. Here's a user-defined function which performs just like the jBASE GETENV() function. FUNCTION GETENV(VARNAME, VALUE) ! * INITIALIZE * IF ASSIGNED(VARNAME) ELSE VARNAME = '' FOUND = 0 VALUE = '' ! *

RE: [U2] Converting Jbase Code into Universe

2006-01-26 Thread colin.alfke
In UD you can: DUMMMY = GETENV('CONTENT_LENGTH') Sorry, not sure about UV. Hth Colin Alfke Calgary Canada -Original Message- From: John Castilletti Do you know how to get the environment variable through Universe? The jBase code to get them is:

Re: [U2] [UV] Calling Universe from CRON

2006-01-26 Thread john reid
If you run it as a phantom, be sure to do a periodic 'CHAIN' of itself in order to clean up the leftover orphans. j On 1/20/06, Don Kibbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't overevaluate free code! don't like it, fix it. (then send the results to those of us too lazy to do either...) -- Don

Re: [U2] Re: Identifying UD files

2006-01-26 Thread Adam Eccleshall
Hi, Robert Paterson wrote Am I right in thinking you are trying to use the idea of a magic sequence to identify the UniData files? Yes, that's exactly what I'm trying to do. If so, I am not sure that such a sequence exists. It does for UniVerse as has been described in previous discussions.

Re: [U2] Hypothetical question about switching server frontends to SAN w/o reinstalling Universe

2006-01-26 Thread Peter Ivanick
Still Redhat yep, but in this case it was actually a downgrade to AS 3.2 from AS 3.5 as that's what I had available for testing, as well as 32 vs 64 bit. I had to wipe that system for other purposes already, so unfortunately I can't check the specific kernel et al versions we were running on.

Re[2]: [U2] Converting Jbase Code into Universe

2006-01-26 Thread David Tod Sigafoos
Perry, Thursday, January 26, 2006, 7:05:20 AM, you wrote: PT John, PT We converted from jBASE about 6 months ago and had to deal with this. PT Here's a user-defined function which performs just like the jBASE PT GETENV() function. snip thanks .. that's a keeper -- DSig

RE: [U2] Knowledgebase access

2006-01-26 Thread Doug Miller
I agree with this. Access became available in October. We are a VAR ourselves and have hundreds of customers. We became somewhat of a beta site as one of our power customers requested access back in August of last year. The whole process is a little confusing because you are dealing with

Re: [U2] [UV] Maximum heading length

2006-01-26 Thread Louie Bergsagel
I hit the limit yesterday. I think someone at Lynden knows the exact width. I'll ask. Louie Bergsagel Systems Analyst Lynden Inc. On 1/26/06, Ray Wurlod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a vague recollection of a 1088 character limit some years ago. --- u2-users mailing list

Re: [U2] Re: Identifying UD files

2006-01-26 Thread aegerton
From: Adam Eccleshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip It's actually to do with an automated resize routine - we only run guide / resize over files that can be opened by UniData. Unfortunately, as I said, in the case of a file I've come across recently, OPEN just crashes out of the session without

Re: [U2] Knowledgebase access

2006-01-26 Thread Jerry Banker
That brings up a question. If your VAR decides to get out of the business and is not taken over by another VAR does your contract automatically revert to IBM support or does it just go into limbo until you decide to search for another VAR or coax IBM into taking it over. I'm talking

RE: [U2] Re: Identifying UD files

2006-01-26 Thread Robert Paterson
You may be best asking IBM support (or your VAR as applicable) for whether magic values are available for UniData, or to consider them as something for a future update. As for running guide, isn't a good idea to know what your standard files are and when guide is run analyse the output for

Re: [U2] [UV] Maximum heading length

2006-01-26 Thread Glenn Herbert
If this is a discussion about the uniVerse HEADING (or HEADER) character limit, it was set to 2050 chars in 1992. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/26/2006 11:33:59 AM: I hit the limit yesterday. I think someone at Lynden knows the exact width. I'll ask. Louie Bergsagel Systems Analyst

RE: [U2] Knowledgebase access

2006-01-26 Thread Rod Hills
Robert, I contacted my VAR (EPICOR) and was told no way no how... Rod Hills Leupold and Stevens -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Paterson Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 8:55 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2]

RE: [U2] Uniobjects Support

2006-01-26 Thread Paul Sohn
I believe ObjectCall was the technology that existed before Uniobjects and was administered via uniapi_admin (on unix). Can anyone tell me whether Uniobjects (or whatever they were called at the time) were supported under Unidata 4 for Unix or Unidata 3.6 for Windows? Paul --- u2-users

RE: [U2] [UV] Maximum heading length

2006-01-26 Thread Ron Hutchings
The heading will also wrap at the maximum setting of the SETPTR or where the TERM width is set. --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/

RE: [U2] Knowledgebase access

2006-01-26 Thread Gordon J Glorfield
Time to kick that VAR to the curb! The thought of denying a client access to information like this is unacceptable. Gordon J. Glorfield Sr. Applications Developer MAMSI (A UnitedHealth Company) 301-360-8839 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/26/2006 12:41:52 PM: Robert, I contacted my VAR

RE: [U2] MS Firewall Client - Uniobjects

2006-01-26 Thread John Jenkins
Get the latest client CD 10.1B I think(being offline etc...) I've seen similar but it was on a Win2K3 server and sticking on the server socket so it may not be identical. Regards JayJay -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sunny

Re: [U2] [UV] Maximum heading length

2006-01-26 Thread Louie Bergsagel
Running Universe, PI flavor, I just got this error: Printer heading exceeds maximum printer heading of 2048 characters. -- Louie p.s. SETPTR 0,350,3,0,0,3,BANNER LOUIEB,BRIEF --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/

[U2] XML Issue

2006-01-26 Thread Nancy Fisher
I've got a new URL to download some XML data and although the xml data is supposed to be nearly identical to what I was getting previously I am getting errorred out. This is what I get from the old URL: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? VEHICLEPOSITIONS ticket=a_x VEHICLE ID=555

RE: [U2] [UV] Maximum heading length

2006-01-26 Thread phil walker
No it is something to do with an internal heading buffer I am sure, as the page is set to 320 wide, and the details lines which are printed using a print on printer_no line_details print past the end of line where the header is getting broken at. My heading is not 2048 though, so that is

[U2] UO.NET and SB+

2006-01-26 Thread Glenn Batson
I sent this to SB+ solutions but I also thought someone here might have some opinions. Sorry if this has been discussed before. I'm having problems getting to indexinfocus.com to do a search. Is anyone using UO.NET in an environment that includes SB+. We are and to get into SB+ we have a

RE: [U2] Re: Identifying UD files

2006-01-26 Thread Ken Wallis
If you run udfile against the file, you'll find that is possible to identify what is and what is not a UniData file by parsing the output. You have to be a bit careful about file names - ie don't bother looking at things that are obviously part files in a dynamic file datnnn or idxnnn or overnnn

RE: [U2] Uniobjects Support

2006-01-26 Thread Ken Wallis
Yes Dave, ObjectCall was the API. I probably have the pdfs on a CD somewhere if you need to have a look. ObjectCall went through a few technology iterations which were incompatible with each other in the early days, but I think by 4.1 UNIX or 3.6 Windows these were ironed out. Cheers, Ken

RE: [U2] Knowledgebase access

2006-01-26 Thread Marc Harbeson
Or, lookup the existence of a bug, and then tell the var I want patch XX -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of phil walker Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 6:03 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] Knowledgebase access Kathy,

RE: [U2] Knowledgebase access

2006-01-26 Thread Dave S
It is truly horrible that IBM locks up this valuable information. I don't understand the reasoning behind it. Does anyone have any idea what it would cost a single developer to access the knowledgebase ? Gordon J Glorfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Time to kick that VAR to the

RE: [U2] Knowledgebase access

2006-01-26 Thread phil walker
I used to have a 1 user license which I paid maintenance on, but then this changed to a minimum 4 user license, so I cancelled as it was not worth that much money to me. The distributor suggested that I use the personal edition available off the website instead... -Original Message- From:

RE: [U2] Knowledgebase access

2006-01-26 Thread Bruce Nichol
At 14:50 26/01/06 -0500, you wrote: Time to kick that VAR to the curb! The thought of denying a client access to information like this is unacceptable. In all seriousness, IBM is probably only trying to protect the revenue stream of its VARs, albeit at the cost of possibly alienating them

RE: [U2] Knowledgebase access

2006-01-26 Thread Bruce Nichol
At 15:58 27/01/06 +1300, you wrote: I used to have a 1 user license which I paid maintenance on, but then this changed to a minimum 4 user license, so I cancelled as it was not worth that much money to me. The distributor suggested that I use the personal edition available off the website