Re: [U2] RE: UVTSORT config parameter

2007-08-10 Thread Clifton Oliver
Yes. According to my conversations with DG, the project was referred to as Firestorm and had DG's affinity throughout. -- Regards, Clif ~~~ W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1 619 460 5678Web: www.oliver.com

[U2] Printing Printer controls from Universe

2007-08-10 Thread James Hutchinson
Hi All, Does anyone know how to send a control code to a printer connected as a slave? I have tried to send the escape sequence but it is not being interpreted by the printer, just printed out. Change HP printer to landscape. Using print CHAR(27): l1O Thanks, James Hutchinson ---

RE: [U2] How to use LOCATE in an I Descriptor

2007-08-10 Thread Boydell, Stuart
If you like gymnastics and particularly wish to avoid a subr, you can use the vector EQS function with INDEX to find stuff - it's fugly but works reasonably efficiently... 001 I 002 MV.ATTRIBUTE.TO.SEARCH;EQS(REUSE('SEARCH.STRING'),@1);IF SUM(@2) THEN @11,(INDEX(@2,1,1)+1)/2 ELSE 'NOT FOUND' 003

[U2] [UD 7.1] [Solaris 9]

2007-08-10 Thread Moderator
REPOSTED FOR NON-MEMBER ADDRESS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Are there any NFA users out there that can help me with an issue? I 'd like to copy 10 files from our production server to our test server. The problem is that NFA doesn't allow me to use the ECL command COPY. I don't want to run through

RE: [U2] How to use LOCATE in an I Descriptor

2007-08-10 Thread Doug Farmer
Thanks for the example, We will try it out -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Burwell, Ed Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 9:15 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] How to use LOCATE in an I Descriptor I use this on UD.

Re: [U2] Printing Printer controls from Universe

2007-08-10 Thread Dave Taylor
James, Reinstall your printer on (whatever) operating system using the Generic Text Driver rather than the manufacturer's printer driver. This will allow the ESC sequences to pass thru to your printer as ESC sequences. On Windows, set the Print Processor to WinPrint and the Default Data Type to

Re: [U2] Looking for a White Paper

2007-08-10 Thread Martin Phillips
Hi Brian, It would be nice to know... a) just what this benchmark actually did. I guess that PDSC do not publish the source code. b) how this would run on the new flash disk technology announced this week by EasyCo. Martin Phillips Ladybridge Systems Ltd 17b Coldstream Lane,

RE: [U2] Looking for a White Paper

2007-08-10 Thread John Jenkins
Past 12,000. It was part of an internal benchmark for a new rollout (and succeeded). I don't know if there was a white paper (I haven't seen one) or if there was a separate test run elsewhere up to 2,000. Anyway - hiked up to 12,000 on AIX - if there is a public document I'm sure someone will

RE: [U2] UVTSORT config parameter

2007-08-10 Thread Stevenson, Charles
Dear Messrs. Dreyfuss, Oliver, Wurlod, gurus all, My original request was for words of wisdom. History lessons count. The older I get, the more I value them. Thank-you. But I was more interested in the future (my own): - Why would I enable multi-threading? (UVTSORT 1) - Why would I disable

RE: [U2] Looking for a White Paper

2007-08-10 Thread Brian Leach
Charles Do you must mean the internal tests done for IBM's own system? The announcement below was posted to this list by Stephen O'Neal under the thread: 15,200 users attained on IBM's U2 UniVerse (which is a bit more than 2K..). He or Tim may have more details. Here's the original post:

RE: [U2] How to use LOCATE in an I Descriptor

2007-08-10 Thread Burwell, Ed
I use this on UD. SUBROUTINE DICT.LOCATE(OUT,LOOKER,FN,ITEM,ATT.LOOK,ATT.OUT) * * UCONV.BP DICT.LOCATE * CALLED BY DICTIONARIES * ED BURWELL * 07/23/1999 * * OUT - FILE NAME, SENT BACK TO DICT * LOOKER - THING TO LOOK FOR * FN - FILE TO

Re: [U2] Getting current SETPTR values

2007-08-10 Thread Timothy Snyder
Is there a way to get the values reported by SETPTR, especially the destination without parsing the results of the ECL command? If you're on UniData, take a look at the UniBasic GETPU() and GETPTR() functions. Tim Snyder Consulting I/T Specialist U2 Lab Services Information Management, IBM

RE: [U2] UVTSORT config parameter

2007-08-10 Thread Jerry Banker
I'll answer part of this. We were having trouble with creating pipes and they asked us to turn off multi-threading as a possibility that it may have been a problem on our Linux server. The selects may have been taxing our resources. Most modern systems can handle multi-threading but some of the

RE: [U2] UVTSORT config parameter

2007-08-10 Thread Brenda Price
We had to disable multi-threading sort as we were getting unable to create pipe errors on occasion and we were having problems with our indices. We would do a BUIILD.INDEX ALL and one or more of the builds of an index would abort leaving the phantom hanging and all the other phantoms would hang

RE: [U2] Printing Printer controls from Universe

2007-08-10 Thread Burwell, Ed
On UD we try to make sure we've done a CONTROLCHARS IGNORE first. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 10:35 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] Printing Printer controls from

RE: [U2] Printing Printer controls from Universe

2007-08-10 Thread Bill Haskett
James: The terminal emulator often has a slave print mode of text or raw. This is the easiest. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Jenkins Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 1:12 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2]

[U2] Combining report writer reports

2007-08-10 Thread Jonathan Leckie
I have some report writer reports that are called from the programe that creates the data that the reports use, however I would like to consolodate these in to one print job and send that at the end, I cannot output to one dummy printer (a file on the server) as that would mean only one person

[U2] Website Questions

2007-08-10 Thread Brian Leach
Hi All Can someone answer these two questions, posted on the U2UG website? Thanks in advance Brian 1. Is there a 64 bit ODBC/OleDB driver available for UniVerse? 2. Users getting kicked out of UniVerse. We have Universe 10.1 running in Windows 2003. It seems like when we are getting close

Re: [U2] Looking for a White Paper

2007-08-10 Thread Ron White
Look at http://www-306.ibm.com/software/info/u2/university/index3.jsp in the AD3xxx section. I did a find on 15,200 and found the statement in question. Ron White Charles Barouch wrote: All, IBM did a test on the volume of users successfully supported on a U2 (UniVerse, I think) server.

Re: [U2] Getting current SETPTR values

2007-08-10 Thread Martin Phillips
Hi Jonathan, Is there a way to get the values reported by SETPTR, especially the destination without parsing the results of the ECL command? Take a look at the !GETPU() subroutine. Martin Phillips Ladybridge Systems Ltd 17b Coldstream Lane, Hardingstone, Northampton, NN4 6DB

RE: [U2] Printing Printer controls from Universe

2007-08-10 Thread John Jenkins
Your ESCAPE [CHAR(27)] may well be intercepted. Check your terminal / terminal emulation specification for what it might intercept. Odds on it that never gets to the printer. You might be able to send an alternate character (155 for example - 128+27) or use a different slave print mode (e.g.

Re: [U2] How to use LOCATE in an I Descriptor

2007-08-10 Thread Richard A. Wilson
left over from old prime days. basically a global catalog so voc items dont have to exists in each account where the subr might be used. I beliee its still legit for UV but probably not UD,Pick,etc Rich Jeff Butera wrote:

RE: [U2] UVTSORT config parameter

2007-08-10 Thread John Jenkins
Why was it made a switch ? (pass) -- Not all platforms supported the function but if it was not supported then it didn't use it regardless (naturally). It was fortunate that it *was* a switch though - as there were occasional issues where you needed to turn it off (see the release notes for

RE: [U2] HASH.HELP

2007-08-10 Thread svz
Thanks everyone, it is reassuring to know it is only the HASH.HELP prog and not our data that has corruption. I see that HASH.HELP had been fixed in 10.2.4 - maybe it is time to upgrade? Schalk We are running 10.1.21 on Linux so not exactly the same as you but we have reported a bug in

RE: [U2] How to use LOCATE in an I Descriptor

2007-08-10 Thread John Jenkins
And don't forget SHM.TO.LOAD Regards JayJay -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard A. Wilson Sent: 10 August 2007 08:47 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] How to use LOCATE in an I Descriptor left over from old prime

RE: [U2][UV] Speeding up a big BY.EXP select

2007-08-10 Thread Boydell, Stuart
This is looking very promising but probably also needs 'niced up' dictionaries - our collection of randomly generated dicts doesn't cut it and I'm getting some fields unnesting and some fields as MV lists per unnested row. AA 12345 description of 12345 Description of

[U2] Getting current SETPTR values

2007-08-10 Thread Jonathan Leckie
Is there a way to get the values reported by SETPTR, especially the destination without parsing the results of the ECL command? I have noticed that the format of the output of the SETPTR command is not consistant, making parsing difficult. -- Important Manager : Hello, is that the chief

RE: [U2] Getting current SETPTR values

2007-08-10 Thread Anthony Youngman
Does !SETPTR (or !SET.PTR - can't remember) do what you want? Cheers, Wol -Original Message- From: Jonathan Leckie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 August 2007 09:55 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] Getting current SETPTR values Is there a way to get the values reported

SV: [U2] [UD 7.1] [Solaris 9]

2007-08-10 Thread bjorn.eklund
Thanks Tim and Brian, We will have to go with the copy record by record as it seems. Bjvrn Eklund -Ursprungligt meddelande- Fren: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Timothy Snyder Skickat: den 9 augusti 2007 16:32 Till: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Dmne: Re: [U2] [UD 7.1]

[U2] Phil Harris is out of the office.

2007-08-10 Thread Phil_Harris
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RE: [U2] Looking for a White Paper [not-secure]

2007-08-10 Thread Hennessey, Mark F.
snip All, IBM did a test on the volume of users successfully supported on a U2 (UniVerse, I think) server. T /snip If you are going to go to U2University, look into this session in the application development track. AD 3003- Case Study: U2 Technology Powers the New IBM Strategic Call

RE: [U2] Printing Printer controls from Universe

2007-08-10 Thread bpaige
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 -Original Message- From:

RE: [U2] Combining report writer reports

2007-08-10 Thread Dave Davis
I've used the Process At End in the report definition to chain reports together. Everything ends up in the same spool file that way. One report's process at end calls another process that generates a report, and so on and so on. I've used this method to create an empty shell report to run

Re: [U2] Looking for a White Paper - 15,200 Users - Link U2U

2007-08-10 Thread Stephen O'Neal
Charles asked for a link to the 15,200 user benchmark white paper. While there is not a white paper, there is an article: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/data/u2/pubs/ibmdb2_3-06.pdf Martin asked about the specifics of the benchmark. They will be presented at U2 University around the

[U2] Looking for a White Paper

2007-08-10 Thread Charles Barouch
All, IBM did a test on the volume of users successfully supported on a U2 (UniVerse, I think) server. They pushed it somewhere past 2K users without breaking things and only stopped when they ran out of testing time. I have a client who is part SQL shop and part UniVerse. I'd love to get

Re: [U2] Website Questions

2007-08-10 Thread Charles Barouch
Brian, I can't go to the website from the client I'm at (security restrictions) but here's the likely answer to the second question: The terminal emulators probably are doing a 'keep alive' pulse and the barcode scanners probably aren't. My suspicion is that if you turn off keep alive on

RE: [U2] RE: UVTSORT config parameter

2007-08-10 Thread LeRoy Dreyfuss
Thx Mr. Oliver. I recall our pal Pete Simonson telling me that some years ago. Just didn't want to stick my neck too far out without some caution :-) Regards, LeRoy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clifton Oliver Sent: Friday, August

Re: [U2] U2 University

2007-08-10 Thread Doug Miller
Martin, from our company, will be there. Doug Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager of Technical Services Strategy 7Dallas TX --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/

Re: [U2] Looking for a White Paper

2007-08-10 Thread Ron White
I found the mention of the 15,200 users in a Spectrum interview with Susie Siegesmund. Look at page 4 of the pdf. ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/data/u2/events/intl-spectrum-QA.pdf Ron White Charles Barouch wrote: All, IBM did a test on the volume of users successfully supported on a

RE: [U2] Looking for a White Paper

2007-08-10 Thread Tom Dodds
From the web address: AD 3003- Case Study: U2 Technology Powers the New IBM Strategic Call Management System IBM is implementing a new call management system based on U2 technology. As part of the evaluation, U2 Lab Services completed a benchmark of our business partner, PDSC's, call management

RE: [U2] [UV] Speeding up a big BY.EXP select

2007-08-10 Thread Jerry Banker
I'm not exactly sure how the programming is done on this but from the outside it is all relative to how you look at it. Let's take the statement: SSELECT CUSTOMERS BY NAME BY CITY In one way it can be seen as: Sort by name with each name sort by city with each city sort by key. In another way of

RE: [U2] How to use LOCATE in an I Descriptor

2007-08-10 Thread rbl000
Since I like to avoid subroutines when I can, this is how I would do it (using Perry's sample data slightly modified): EVENTCODE P]B]F]B]R And EVENTSTATUS A-T]B-T]FP-T]K-P]A-P TRIM(IFS(EQS(EVENTCODE,REUSE('B')),EVENTSTATUS,REUSE('')),@VM) Which returns all values for EVENTCODE 'B', else

[U2] Editor for Fedora, Linux and Windows

2007-08-10 Thread daverch
U2logic, Inc. the leading independent tool developer for Eclipse plug-ins for IBM's U2 database has released a new version of its Editor and tools. Version 1.2 of XLr8Editor is fully tested on Mac's, Linux (Red Had and Fedora 7) and Windows. We have added many new features to this FREE tool

Re: [U2] [UV] Speeding up a big BY.EXP select

2007-08-10 Thread MAJ Programming
My premise was that SSELECT FILE BY @ID BY FIELDNAME is not the same as SSELECT FILE BY FIELDNAME. The second one is technically SSELECT FILE BY FIELDNAME BY @ID My 1 cent Mark Johnson - Original Message - From: Jerry Banker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: