Re: [U2] Why should we NOT upgrade to UV11.1.1 ?

2011-05-19 Thread Bob Witney
I am upgrading here on Sunday 19th May, second attempt as one of the files provided via Rocket (unishared.load/ucisdk/UCI.a) was unreadable the first time we tried. I'll let the list know how it goes Bob -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org

Re: [U2] Why should we NOT upgrade to UV11.1.1 ?

2011-05-19 Thread Mitchell, Stewart
What year would that be, must be USA time as 19th is a Thursday here in oz. Regards, Stewart Mitchell Business Systems Manager Symbion Pharmacy Services Tel: +61 8 8408 3685 Mob: +61 421 612 672 Email: stewart.mitch...@symbionpharmacy.com Building D, 75 Hardys Road I Underdale SA 5032 I

[U2] Uniobjects on Linux

2011-05-19 Thread Jonathan Leckie
Any thoughts as to what to check to fix this, I used to be able to connect from the P.C. but not now, I can connect using UniAdmin but not other programmes, the following vbs code gives error 39207 when trying to connect : Dim UV If DoConnection() = False Then Msgbox Could not connect

Re: [U2] Why should we NOT upgrade to UV11.1.1 ?

2011-05-19 Thread Bob Witney
Maybe the 22nd then (its early for me here in the uk) :-) -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Mitchell, Stewart Sent: 19 May 2011 08:08 To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Why should we NOT upgrade to

[U2] Infoflo INV.INDEX

2011-05-19 Thread Jonathan Leckie
Does anyone know how this is changed, it seems to be changed by IV300 but I can't find any basic code, or code in a screen or a process to do the change? Infoflo 7. RegardsJonathan Leckie ** * This message has been scanned for

Re: [U2] Pondering recent thread on compact framework

2011-05-19 Thread Steve Romanow
I would love to have a correct and quick inventory inquiry for mobile targets. Maybe even integrated with the zebra crossing barcoding libs on droid. Droid is relatively open compared to the other handsets and os's. On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:44 AM, Dan McGrath dmc...@imb.com.au wrote: Sorry,

Re: [U2] Pondering recent thread on compact framework

2011-05-19 Thread Steve Romanow
An Order Log Inquiry would be neat as well. None of these 2 ideas require specific u2 bindings. Just need an rpc service to return json. On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 6:30 AM, Steve Romanow slestak...@gmail.com wrote: I would love to have a correct and quick inventory inquiry for mobile targets.  

Re: [U2] Uniobjects on Linux

2011-05-19 Thread Steve Romanow
You set IsUnidata to True, was that intentional? On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 3:10 AM, Jonathan Leckie jonathan.lec...@blairswindows.co.uk wrote: Any thoughts as to what to check to fix this, I  used to be able to connect from the P.C. but not now, I can connect  using  UniAdmin but not other

Re: [U2] Uniobjects on Linux

2011-05-19 Thread Jonathan Leckie
It is a Unidata system, (version 6.1), should it not be set to true? -Original Message- From: Steve Romanow [mailto:slestak...@gmail.com] Sent: 19 May 2011 11:35 am To: Jonathan Leckie; U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Uniobjects on Linux You set IsUnidata to True, was that intentional?

[U2] Uniobjects - What Is It?

2011-05-19 Thread Israel, John R.
I have been in the PICK world for decades and have worked with several interfaces. Green screen, SB, BlackSmith and Redback/web are my biggest areas of expertise. I have simply never worked with anything else because these are the tools at the places I have worked. I am embarrassed to ask,

Re: [U2] Uniobjects - What Is It?

2011-05-19 Thread Steve Romanow
Uniobjects is a C module that has been wrapped and packaged for java, vb, and .NET. PickWiki has several examples, as well as the rocket software docs. If you upgrade to the new WebDE you will be using uniobjects for communication (really deep down.) On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Israel,

Re: [U2] Uniobjects - What Is It?

2011-05-19 Thread John Thompson
My understanding is somewhat limited, and like yourself, I have only ever learned what I had the time to do, or what was required at my job. Recently though, I have been putting effort into branching out. That being said... My understanding of UniObjects is that it is a connector into Universe

Re: [U2] Pondering recent thread on compact framework

2011-05-19 Thread John Thompson
To answer number 1: I was planning on investigating the following scenario: 1) Setting up a web server to talk to the Universe machine 2) Using JQuery mobile and PHP to connect my mobile devices to Universe http://jquerymobile.com/ This is NOT a local app on the device scenario, and would

Re: [U2] Uniobjects - What Is It?

2011-05-19 Thread Jeffrey Butera
On 05/19/11 09:26, John Thompson wrote: My understanding of UniObjects is that it is a connector into Universe or Unidata. Yes, but: You have to have a windows machine as the go between. Not true - you can do this with *nix. So for example, if you wanted to use some .NET language or C#,

Re: [U2] Uniobjects - What Is It?

2011-05-19 Thread John Thompson
That is new news to me... Thanks for the info. On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Jeffrey Butera jbut...@hampshire.eduwrote: On 05/19/11 09:26, John Thompson wrote: My understanding of UniObjects is that it is a connector into Universe or Unidata. Yes, but: You have to have a windows

Re: [U2] Uniobjects - What Is It?

2011-05-19 Thread Charles_Shaffer
What are UniObjects? Uniobjects are libraries. Theses can be included in a variety of applications and provide access to U2 databases. On Linux there is Uniobjects for Java. There is a version for .NET. And there is an older COM version that can be used for applications that don't support

Re: [U2] Uniobjects - What Is It?

2011-05-19 Thread John Thompson
Thanks for correcting that too. I'm still new and learning... On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Jeffrey Butera jbut...@hampshire.eduwrote: On 05/19/11 09:26, John Thompson wrote: My understanding of UniObjects is that it is a connector into Universe or Unidata. Yes, but: You have to

Re: [U2] Why should we NOT upgrade to UV11.1.1 ?

2011-05-19 Thread Brett Callacher
Chuck, I think that 11.1.1 is a Windows release so this may, or may not be relevant. LIST.READU does not report a pid in 11.1.1. This is a known issue and is fixed in 11.1.3 I am told. How you go about finding any known issues, I have yet to establish. HTH Brett Charles Stevenson

Re: [U2] Uniobjects - What Is It?

2011-05-19 Thread Israel, John R.
Are you saying that UniObjects are used instead of Redback or is it used in addition to Redback? Without giving away company secrets, can you briefly describe some real world examples of what kind of applications were written with UniObjects? Loosely speaking, what practical uses are there

Re: [U2] Uniobjects - What Is It?

2011-05-19 Thread Steve Romanow
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 9:26 AM, John Thompson jthompson...@gmail.com wrote: You have to have a windows machine as the go between. Not completely true. I have used UOJ with jython on linux to talk to U2 on AIX. ___ U2-Users mailing list

Re: [U2] Uniobjects - What Is It?

2011-05-19 Thread John Thompson
Yes thank you Steve for correcting that. Jeff had corrected that earlier. Being new to some of this, I should have probably just kept my mouth shut so I didn't give bad information :) On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Steve Romanow slestak...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 9:26 AM,

Re: [U2] Uniobjects - What Is It?

2011-05-19 Thread Steve Romanow
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:27 AM, John Thompson jthompson...@gmail.com wrote: Yes thank you Steve for correcting that.  Jeff had corrected that earlier.  Being new to some of this, I should have probably just kept my mouth shut so I didn't give bad information :) No please contribute. I was

Re: [U2] Uniobjects - What Is It?

2011-05-19 Thread Holt, Jake
I imagine most people simply use it to run subroutines in external applications, but you can achieve a lot (perhaps most or all?) of the things you can do at the prompt and UniBasic program with uniobjects natively in .net, java or any other language that you can use UO with. You can also

Re: [U2] Pondering recent thread on compact framework

2011-05-19 Thread Holt, Jake
Everything I have done so far for our mobile devices has been a web app. A little bit of extra programming time up front is more than made up for in ease of management/deployment and platform independence. That and I would probably die without ClickOnce support... -Original Message-

[U2] Simple UniQuery Question

2011-05-19 Thread Doug Farmer
For some reason, in all the years I have been doing this, I don't ever remember being asked this. A user asked me, if I have a UniQuery report listing a single value and a multi value, how can I repeat the single value for every multi value. For example CustomerInvoice 1000

Re: [U2] Simple UniQuery Question

2011-05-19 Thread Steve Romanow
is it BY-EXP that does that? I think. On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Doug Farmer dfar...@epicor.com wrote: For some reason, in all the years I have been doing this, I don't ever remember being asked this. A user asked me, if I have a UniQuery report listing a single value and a multi

Re: [U2] Uniobjects - What Is It?

2011-05-19 Thread Israel, John R.
Are there any Avanté users out there that have things written with UniObjects that would be willing to share an example of something they have done? John Israel Senior Programmer/Analyst Dayton Superior Corporation 1125 Byers Road Miamisburg, OH  45342 -Original Message- From:

Re: [U2] Simple UniQuery Question

2011-05-19 Thread Richard A. Wilson
you will probably need an itype using REUSE Doug Farmer wrote: For some reason, in all the years I have been doing this, I don't ever remember being asked this. A user asked me, if I have a UniQuery report listing a single value and a multi value, how can I repeat the single value for every

Re: [U2] Pondering recent thread on compact framework

2011-05-19 Thread Bill Haskett
And now for a dose of reality... Consider the problem with Sony servers in the gaming environment. How in the world is a smaller MV company supposed to keep up with all of this technology blowing in the wind? This technology de'jour mentality puts us all out of business, because there's no

Re: [U2] Simple UniQuery Question

2011-05-19 Thread Jeff Schasny
I actually ran into the same thing about a month ago and solved it by creating an I descriptor which calls a basic subroutine that returns a multivalued version of the single value. Doug Farmer wrote: For some reason, in all the years I have been doing this, I don't ever remember being asked

[U2] BDT 1.2.4 for Universe

2011-05-19 Thread Bobby Worley
I've just downloaded and installed the latest version of Basic Developer Toolkit for Universe (AIX). When I connect to our UV server and select an account, I'm not seeing any cataloged programs or database files. When I attempt to expanded on cataloged programs I getting an error dialog box:

Re: [U2] Pondering recent thread on compact framework

2011-05-19 Thread George Gallen
This is what I'm asking, and not seeing Tony wants to know if there is interest to decide if it warants development time/cost however, unless someone can give examples of a real usage where we say...WOW, we NEEED that it wouldn't be worth the expense to develop. It might not be that

Re: [U2] Simple UniQuery Question

2011-05-19 Thread Dianne Ackerman
SORT CUSTOMER BY @ID BY.EXP INVOICE INVOICE -Dianne On 5/19/2011 12:07 PM, Doug Farmer wrote: For some reason, in all the years I have been doing this, I don't ever remember being asked this. A user asked me, if I have a UniQuery report listing a single value and a multi value, how can I

Re: [U2] Pondering recent thread on compact framework

2011-05-19 Thread John Thompson
Two practical examples come to mind... Reports: If you are talking about something at least as large as an Ipad, then reports that top management would want to look at comes to mind. There are any number of tools out there, that are compatible with IOS 4+ or Android or WIndows Mobile Browsers,

Re: [U2] Why should we NOT upgrade to UV11.1 ?

2011-05-19 Thread Charles Stevenson
Yeah, i was too specific. I should just say 11.1 or 11.1.x. In other words, how stable is the newest major release. And thanks, Brett, the list.readu scuttlebutt is the sort of thing that helps. On 5/19/2011 8:57 AM, Brett Callacher wrote: Chuck, I think that 11.1.1 is a Windows release

Re: [U2] Pondering recent thread on compact framework

2011-05-19 Thread George Gallen
ok. But this isn't something that can't be done already using existing web programming, just tailored to the screen layout of a mobile device. I'm talking about interfacing with a mobile device using apps, which is different depending on which phone mfg you are trying to interface with.

Re: [U2] Pondering recent thread on compact framework

2011-05-19 Thread DavidJMurray (mvdbs.com)
George Gallen-2 wrote: Maybe we should have a mini thead on Cool things I've got my UV system to do with a mobile device! - or at the least, cool things, I've got my system to do with a mobile device - just not in UV I don't see this as a UV deficit, but rather a knowledge deficit

Re: [U2] Uniobjects - What Is It?

2011-05-19 Thread Amy Cook
Hi John, We have our shipping software setup to execute a sql stored procedure which calls an Avante subroutine with UniObjects. I'll send it to you offline in a bit. Amy -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On

[U2] Multi char delimiter in DICT item

2011-05-19 Thread Bob Woodward
Hi folks, I'm in Unidata 6.1 and I'm trying to find a way to use a multi character value as a delimiter for a parsing function in an I-desc dict item. I'm working with Bartender label data records and I'm trying to parse the first line on the /PRN= value, without the quote marks. FIELD only

Re: [U2] Uniobjects - What Is It?

2011-05-19 Thread Charles_Shaffer
I don't know much about RedBack. It may provide more developed tools than Uniobjects does. UO gives you libraries that you can use in your applicaitons. can you briefly describe some real world examples of what kind of applications were written with UniObjects? I use UniObjects to access

Re: [U2] Uniobjects - What Is It?

2011-05-19 Thread Israel, John R.
Cool. I look forward to looking at it. John Israel Senior Programmer/Analyst Dayton Superior Corporation 1125 Byers Road Miamisburg, OH  45342 -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Amy Cook Sent:

Re: [U2] Multi char delimiter in DICT item

2011-05-19 Thread George Gallen
Does CHANGE work with Unidata? CHANGE(F1,PRN,CHAR(251)) ; FIELD(@1,CHAR(251),2) ; FIELD(@2,'',2) George -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bob Woodward Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 2:11 PM To: U2

Re: [U2] Multi char delimiter in DICT item

2011-05-19 Thread Richard A. Wilson
how about INDEX then you should be able to use C0L1 COL2 logic or what I did years ago for CONVERT since it wasnt allowed to be used in an Itype was create a generic subroutine that could be used as a SUBR where ever I needed it something like SUBR('*CONVERT.SUBR',@RECORD1,from delim,to delim)

Re: [U2] Multi char delimiter in DICT item

2011-05-19 Thread Steve Romanow
Does doubling the slash help? //PRD On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Bob Woodward bob_woodw...@k2sports.com wrote: Hi folks, I'm in Unidata 6.1 and I'm trying to find a way to use a multi character value as a delimiter for a parsing function in an I-desc dict item.  I'm working with

Re: [U2] Multi char delimiter in DICT item

2011-05-19 Thread George Gallen
hmmm. looks like I need glasses...didn't see you already answered it. Is there an = sign in any of the label data? FIELD(@1,=,2) ; FIELD(@2,''2) Don't look for PRN= , just = George -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-

Re: [U2] Multi char delimiter in DICT item

2011-05-19 Thread Bob Woodward
That won't get me any closer. Reason is that we have differing numbers of options possible. I really need to somehow identify where PRN (or /PRN or PRN= or ...) is. Once I have that, I can use FIELD on the double quotes to get what I want. Double slashes won't work, either, as FIELD still just

Re: [U2] Multi char delimiter in DICT item

2011-05-19 Thread Steve Romanow
Maybe swap / for @am and you have tokenized your input. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

Re: [U2] Multi char delimiter in DICT item

2011-05-19 Thread Bob Woodward
Again, I have a variable number of options. If I could do a FOR...NEXT in a DICT item then that would work. Thanks, though. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Steve Romanow Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011

Re: [U2] Multi char delimiter in DICT item

2011-05-19 Thread George Gallen
what about F1 ; INDEX(F1,PRN=,1) ; @1[@2,LEN(@1)] ; FIELD(@3,=,2) ; FIELD(@4,'',2) George -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bob Woodward Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 2:59 PM To: U2 Users

Re: [U2] Multi char delimiter in DICT item

2011-05-19 Thread Bob Woodward
WINNER We can even remove the fourth statement since the third statement puts the first quoted value at the front of @3 so... F1 ; INDEX(F1,PRN=,1) ; @1[@2,LEN(@1)] ; FIELD(@3,'',2) Will work perfectly! Thank you very much! -Original Message- From:

Re: [U2] Multi char delimiter in DICT item

2011-05-19 Thread Steve Romanow
Nice! On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Bob Woodward bob_woodw...@k2sports.com wrote: WINNER  We can even remove the fourth statement since the third statement puts the first quoted value at the front of @3 so... F1 ; INDEX(F1,PRN=,1) ; @1[@2,LEN(@1)] ; FIELD(@3,'',2) Will work

Re: [U2] BDT 1.2.4 for Universe

2011-05-19 Thread Doug Averch
ad XLr8Editor from U2logic works on that version of Universe without a problem. 30 day trials are available at www.u2logic.com/downloads.html. /ad On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Bobby Worley bwor...@coburns.com wrote: Nevermind - I forgot our production server is still at UV 10.1

Re: [U2] Multi char delimiter in DICT item

2011-05-19 Thread andy baum
Or you can use :-    MATCHFIELD(F1,\0X'PRN='0X''0X\,3) To directly extract the value. This works in Universe but not sure if Unidata supports the third (\) quote symbol. If not then you can use :-    MATCHFIELD(F1,0X'PRN=:'':'0X':'':'0X,3) Which is not quite as readable. Cheers, Andy

Re: [U2] Multi char delimiter in DICT item

2011-05-19 Thread Bob Woodward
I have to admit that I've never looked at MATCHFIELD before. To be honest, I never would have gotten how to put the string together, either. Seeing your solution and reading the HELP info, I see how it works. Thanks very much Andy! -Original Message- From:

Re: [U2] Pondering recent thread on compact framework

2011-05-19 Thread John Hester
I wrote a series of mobile applications back in '06 for use by our sales reps in the field. I opted to make them browser based so it was essentially the same WebSphere to U2 development I was already doing for our public facing web site. The only difference was that I stripped out javascript and

Re: [U2] Uniobjects - What Is It?

2011-05-19 Thread Kevin King
I'm interested to know more about how folks are using UOJ with PHP. I've tried making that connection numerous times but .. just haven't been successful yet. Big fan of PHP but using the UO connection on Windows is ... less than optimal for my needs.

Re: [U2] Uniobjects - What Is It?

2011-05-19 Thread Dan McGrath
Kevin, Have you seen the PHP PDO driver article on u2devzone.com? Although it is a 'build it yourself article', it does come with the source code so you should be able to just compile and use it. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org