Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide

2010-03-22 Thread Jon Sisk
Wow. You held on to that a long time. Sorry about losing your briefcase to some lowlife. As a point of reference, the last official PPG covered R81, which was renamed without many changes to R83. R90 was only used by Ian Sandler for his GA version. I did a CIE Pocket Guide which was closer to

Re: [U2] Using JDBC on Unidata 7.1 on HPUX

2010-03-22 Thread asvin . dattani
Hi, We use JDBC to talk to a Microsofot SQL server database, and have used it to talk to Sybase in the past. You need the JDBC driver for the database that you are talking to (we use jTDS for the SQL Server database). Then you will need some java code to read/write to the SQL database and

Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide

2010-03-22 Thread Dianne Ackerman
I will NEVER give mine up, even though it is held together with rubber bands now! :) -Dianne MAJ Programming wrote: My briefcase was stolen and in it was one of these small JES Pick Pocket Guides. While I have access to all of the docs I need via the internet, I still refer to this for some

Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide

2010-03-22 Thread Glenn Sallis
Hi Folks There were two available via Amazon.de. I have snapped one of them up, the other one is available for 21.33 Euros. Liaise with me directly if you want it and need help getting it, as it doesn't appear to be available via .com or .co.uk. Kind regards Glenn Sallis -Original

Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide

2010-03-22 Thread Laura Wright
I have had mine since 1988 it is version IV and I am also sorry that I can't depart from it. Laura -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Dianne Ackerman Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 8:59 AM To: U2 Users

Re: [U2] Index slowing performance?

2010-03-22 Thread David A. Green
When you traverse your data via hash (normal record placement) the system has the benefit of the read ahead cache buffer, so you have less disk reads. When using an index it now must jump around reading the data losing the read ahead benefit. I would look at the way the data is hashing and try to

Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide

2010-03-22 Thread George Gallen
Mine is also from '88. Maybe karma will be on your side, and the person who stole it, if caught will also be charged with possession of instruments of crime, after all a book that teaches one how to pick pockets, I'm guessing is illegal! :) (coming from experience as my wife's family of police

Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide

2010-03-22 Thread bradley . schrag
Copyright questions notwithstanding, someone who has one of these could maybe submit to google and they might put it up on google books for the whole world to enjoy. Brad U.S. BANCORP made the following annotations - Electronic

Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide

2010-03-22 Thread Bessel, Karen
My copy went the way of the dinosaurs years ago. Who knew it would become such a collectors' item? PS: I use the SYS.HELP BASIC.HELP files if I need them. Karen Bessel Software Developer Tyler Technologies, Inc. 972.713.3770 ext: 6227 www.tylertech.com

Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide

2010-03-22 Thread Bessel, Karen
This is a great suggestion!!! Karen Bessel Software Developer Tyler Technologies, Inc. 972.713.3770 ext: 6227 www.tylertech.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of bradley.sch...@usbank.com Sent:

Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide

2010-03-22 Thread George Gallen
You know, this is a true example of a typical pickie. He gets his briefcase stolen, and all he cares about is his Pick manual!! Should be an example to all of ussniff. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On

Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide

2010-03-22 Thread Gwen Buck
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Re: [U2] Northern California Pick User's Group

2010-03-22 Thread Bruce Gauthier
An online group would be great. Maybe an occasional face-to-face. Count me in. Bruce Gauthier Information Systems Analyst County of Nevada, California -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of

Re: [U2] Using JDBC on Unidata 7.1 on HPUX

2010-03-22 Thread Brutzman, Bill
On Thursday 18-March, I opened a tech support case with Rocket on JDBC, UniVerse, and HP-Ux. I was unable to get the sample Java program in the JDBC manual to work... apparently a connection string problem. I will try to follow-up with the outcome. --Bill -Original Message- From:

Re: [U2] Using JDBC - Source Code

2010-03-22 Thread Brutzman, Bill
JDBC problem... Java program cannot seem to find driver Class.forName(com.ibm.u2.jdbc.UniJDBCDriver); Business Impact: Slowing release of a new application. Error Message: JDBC problem... In a java program, based on the jdbcsample.

Re: [U2] Using JDBC on Unidata 7.1 on HPUX

2010-03-22 Thread Doug
Hi Symeon: Yes it does. Here is some sample code: String result = callXLr8SharedSub(LoadDropDowns, parameters); jsonArray = new JSONArray(result); Regards, Doug www.u2logic.com One stop shopping for Eclipse plug-ins for U2 -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org

Re: [U2] Using JDBC on Unidata 7.1 on HPUX

2010-03-22 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Is there any built-in way in UniBasic to convert U2 records to JSON strings? Or do you roll your own? Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org

Re: [U2] Using JDBC on Unidata 7.1 on HPUX

2010-03-22 Thread David Wolverton
This would be a reasonable request to Rocket, I would think -- an expansion/addon to the BASIC language... Has anyone approached them on the subject? -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of

Re: [U2] Using JDBC on Unidata 7.1 on HPUX

2010-03-22 Thread Brian Leach
I roll my own, but a TOJSON option to match the TOXML would be a good addition to the query language. Brian -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of charles_shaf...@ntn-bower.com Sent: 22 March 2010 3:40 PM

Re: [U2] Using JDBC on Unidata 7.1 on HPUX

2010-03-22 Thread Charles_Shaffer
I roll my own, but a TOJSON option to match the TOXML would be a good addition to the query language. Brian I agree. Easily getting datasets into associative arrays in PHP and Javascript would be great. Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation

Re: [U2] Using JDBC - Source Code

2010-03-22 Thread Ben Souther
This doesn't sound like a U2 issue. Both Eclipse and Netbeans have mechanisms for adding jar files to a project. With netbeans you have to 'mount' the jar file. How are you setting up the environment (in particular, the CLASSPATH environment variable) in your HP-UX system? On Mon,

Re: [U2] Using JDBC - Source Code

2010-03-22 Thread John Hester
Make sure BOTH asjava.zip and unijdbc.jar are in the classpath on the client. If that doesn't work, try unzipping unijdbc.jar (change the extension to .zip) and see what the folder hierarchy looks like. Maybe Rocket has changed the folder names and the documentation hasn't been updated yet.

Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide

2010-03-22 Thread Tony Gravagno
I don't know where to put this note in this thread so I'll reply to my friend Jon... What amazes me is that the Pick/MV community seems to be so anti-book and pro-everything-should-be-free, and this is why we haven't seen any new books in this industry for so many years. And yet the fondness and

Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide

2010-03-22 Thread Jo Lester
I haven't bought an old pick book by Jonathan Sisk for weeks. If Jon printed, or released existing books, however old to Kindle, I'd buy. This goes for you too, Tony. You write well. From: 3xk547...@sneakemail.com To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:39:18 -0700

Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide

2010-03-22 Thread Charles_Shaffer
I would be especially interested in a good book about web development with a U2 back end. Connectivity issues, etc. There's lots of work going on in the area, but no books that I am aware of. Also, an updated Pick Pocket Guide. I keep getting caught with my hand in their pocket and then I

Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide

2010-03-22 Thread John Rodgers
Check out Brian Leach's offerings. http://www.brianleach.co.uk/pages/books.htm Cheers John Rodgers MasterPack Project Team Masonite International Tel: (813) 2612396 ext 3036 -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org

Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide

2010-03-22 Thread George Gallen
I found a copy of Pick Basic, A programmers Guide ('87) in my local non-chain bookstore, back in the late 80's, which I keep around to help non-MV programmers try to get a handle on Pick basic and MV technique. Now if I tried to find a Universe book at any store, I'd be in the Space and

Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide

2010-03-22 Thread Leroy Dreyfuss
I still have mine :-) Close to 20 years now... Sent from my iPhone 3Gs On 22 Mar 2010, at 10:00 AM, Jon Sisk j...@jes.com wrote: Wow. You held on to that a long time. Sorry about losing your briefcase to some lowlife. As a point of reference, the last official PPG covered R81, which was

Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide

2010-03-22 Thread FFT2001
In a message dated 3/22/2010 10:41:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 3xk547...@sneakemail.com writes: If people in this community expressed serious interest in new books and other education material for MV, we'd have them. Heck, a windbag like me can cough up a few hundred pages in a weekend.

Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide

2010-03-22 Thread Glen Batchelor
-Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Tony Gravagno Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 12:39 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide I don't know where to put this note

Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide

2010-03-22 Thread Bessel, Karen
Really A lack of MV books may cost me my job??? I don't want to throw flames here, but I don't think I've ever heard anything quite so ridiculous. Karen Bessel Software Developer Tyler Technologies, Inc. 972.713.3770 ext: 6227 www.tylertech.com -Original Message- From:

Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide

2010-03-22 Thread FFT2001
In a message dated 3/22/2010 11:09:19 AM Pacific Daylight Time, ggal...@wyanokegroup.com writes: think a Wintergate for Dummies Accuterm Scripting for Dummies The integrated help is helpful, but not really for someone trying to learn it for the first time. Will

Re: [U2] JDBC - ClassPath

2010-03-22 Thread Brutzman, Bill
Using the command... export CLASSPATH=/usr/ibm/unishared/jdbc/lib/unijdbc.jar;/usr/ibm/unishared/uoj sdk/lib/asjava.zip:$CLASSPATH --Bill -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Ben Souther Sent: Monday,

Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide

2010-03-22 Thread Charles_Shaffer
I will pick that up for my library. The environmnet I am working in is Unix. Unidata runs on Unix. All of our web servers run LAMP. Our clients are a mixture of WIndows and Linux. Recently we have been moving toward Linux clients for plant floor systems. We do some .NET development, but

Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide

2010-03-22 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: Bessel, Karen Really A lack of MV books may cost me my job??? I don't want to throw flames here, but I don't think I've ever heard anything quite so ridiculous. The concept is truly worthy of ridicule but voicing the belief that this has happened and will continue to happen

Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide

2010-03-22 Thread FFT2001
In a message dated 3/22/2010 11:42:35 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 3xk547...@sneakemail.com writes: Quick note to anyone who says they'd like to publish HowTos and other helpful info free to the community: that's what PickWiki and the U2UG wiki are for. Write your material there, solicit

Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide

2010-03-22 Thread Graham, Dave
Late last year I had a project torpedoed almost entirely because no one could find any literature about the U2 environment. The it's OK, it's IBM saw didn't work either. They liked the concept of a multi-valued database, liked the design, were blown away by the proof of concept and were

Re: [U2] JDBC - ClassPath

2010-03-22 Thread Ben Souther
Sorry for replying to you directly, I meant to reply to the list. Where are you seeing the CNF exception, in your development environment or in production? I know for instance, that a lot of application servers, like Tomcat, don't use the CLASSPATH system environment variable. They require you

Re: [U2] JDBC - ClassPath

2010-03-22 Thread Brutzman, Bill
I am seeing the error in the NetBeans IDE. It is curious that when I take away the double-quotes from com.ibm.u2.jdbc.UniDriver in the Class.forName line ... the code hints find all and pop-up each of the discrete text elements of... com... ibm... u2... jdbc... UniJDBCDriver... class... but

[U2] Haydon Bishop is out of the office.

2010-03-22 Thread Haydon Bishop
I will be out of the office starting 22/03/2010 and will not return until 23/03/2010. I will respond to your message when I return. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide

2010-03-22 Thread Symeon Breen
If you look at the other technologies you mention- the actual providers of these technologies are leaders in also providing books. Microsoft press issue many books every year on sql server, .net, asp.net with ajax - allsorts. It is a similar story with oracle, Sun etc. There is none of this in

Re: [U2] Using JDBC on Unidata 7.1 on HPUX

2010-03-22 Thread Symeon Breen
I agree also - i currently roll my own, JSON is an excellent way to transport data esp if you are going to use that data in a web page by some javascript. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Brian Leach

Re: [U2] UD - Error Logging

2010-03-22 Thread Doug
Wally, I guess I'm the taker. There is this nice open source product called log4c. It can log to files, syslog or any other destinations. It is modeled after an open source product we use called log4j. It runs on HP, RedHat, Solaris, AIX, and Windows. But since it is open source, you can

Re: [U2] UD - Error Logging

2010-03-22 Thread Dan McGrath
Far be it from me to suggest how they actually implement the logging in the code base, but it is hard to go past the log4* libraries. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Doug Sent: Tuesday, 23 March 2010

Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide {unclassified}

2010-03-22 Thread MACK ANDREW, MR
Hi Mark, Check out www.abebooks.com. It's a grouping of new and second-hand booksellers from all over the world. Search for the title Pick Pocket Guide and there is a second-hand copy available for US$18.73 from Trinity City Books, Garland Texas. Cheers, Andy Mack -Original Message-

Re: [U2] JDBC - ClassPath

2010-03-22 Thread John Hester
Grasping at straws here, but when I upgraded to the latest IBM-branded version of the Eclipse IDE last year, it no longer liked the extension on asjava.zip. IBM instructed me to rename it asjava.jar, and it worked fine after that. You might try renaming and re-importing it. I doubt that's the

Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide

2010-03-22 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message col107-w66ce4bea66ba98420166ce2...@phx.gbl, Jo Lester jp.les...@hotmail.com writes I haven't bought an old pick book by Jonathan Sisk for weeks. If Jon printed, or released existing books, however old to Kindle, I'd buy. This goes for you too, Tony. You write well. I don't know

Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide

2010-03-22 Thread Jon Sisk
I have not given up any of my copyrights. These are all interesting ideas, but the issue really is scale. Back in the day, I could print and sell thousands of Pocket Guides, and my publishers all printed a minimum of 5000 on any run, most of which I sold directly. So while there was a chance

Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide

2010-03-22 Thread David Wolverton
Look at LuLu.com print on demand --- You upload your book as a PDF -- your cost is zero - you get a royalty on 'demand print' and don't have to handle ANY aspect of it... Just a thought!! DW -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org

Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide

2010-03-22 Thread Lloyd Cottrell
I would talk to Brian Leach about how he publishes his. If I'm not mistaken they are printed on demand. I have bought a few from him, and they are very good quality. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org

Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide

2010-03-22 Thread Jon Sisk
Still, good ideas, but how many would like their Pocket Guide to be the size of a normal book, versus 3-3/4x6? If that's what you want, look for the Desk Reference Edition of the Pick Pocket Guide, which we produced as part of The Pick Library from Tab Books, Inc, a division of McMillan. It

Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide

2010-03-22 Thread Clifton Oliver
Well, when the best known providers can't even get correct documentation in their manuals or examples that actually work, one wonders how suited they are to producing such literature. I'm not arguing against your point that they *should* be the leaders--like Sun, Microsoft, etc.--in literature.

Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide

2010-03-22 Thread fft2001
Donate to help support this doesn't work. I tried it as well, and got one donation in several years. However when I put up something unique, and only posted half of it, and then said Okay for the last half you have to click here to pay Then they payed. Will Johnson

Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide

2010-03-22 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: Tony Gravagno ... just like Linux, SQL Server, PHP, Java, C#, Excel, and hundreds of other technical topics From: Symeon Breen If you look at the other technologies you mention- the actual providers of these technologies are leaders in also providing books the providers are the