Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay?

2012-08-29 Thread Drew William Henderson
Thrashing, I believe. Good times. Good times. :-) -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Charlie Noah Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 10:33 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay?

Re: [U2] Mysterious UV Error

2012-08-17 Thread Drew William Henderson
I know this may be really stretching, but is there an ON.EXIT VOC entry that is interfering with it? -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Fitzgerald Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 4:16 PM To: U2

Re: [U2] Mysterious UV Error

2012-08-17 Thread Drew William Henderson
] Mysterious UV Error Hi Drew! Nope - no ON.EXIT. Thanks! jeff On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Drew William Henderson d.hender...@moreheadstate.edu wrote: I know this may be really stretching, but is there an ON.EXIT VOC entry that is interfering with it? -Original Message- From: u2

Re: [U2] Credit Card numbers in your database

2012-04-20 Thread Drew William Henderson
I'm attending a PCI conference next week... I'll try to remember to ask that question. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 12:19 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org

Re: [U2] Job at Rocket in Denver

2012-03-28 Thread Drew William Henderson
I agree... looks like a decent job. I would have thought that there would have been a plus for those with pick-db experience, but don't see that as a requirement. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of

Re: [U2] Job at Rocket in Denver

2012-03-28 Thread Drew William Henderson
the same old thing the same old pick way -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Drew William Henderson Sent: 28 March 2012 18:21 To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Job at Rocket in Denver I agree

[U2] SLOW

2011-10-07 Thread Drew William Henderson
with apologies to Jeff and Peggy...and, ok, everyone else, too! My boss has noticed today that we've been running SLOW, and isn't happy about it. He wants to know if SLOW is industry standard, and what other U2 shops might be running SLOW. I told him that I didn't know about other U2 shops,

Re: [U2] SLOW

2011-10-07 Thread Drew William Henderson
...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Horacio Pellegrino Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 4:50 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] SLOW Windows ? Linux ? On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Drew William Henderson d.hender...@moreheadstate.edu wrote: with apologies to Jeff and Peggy...and, ok, everyone else, too! My

Re: [U2] FAST (File Analysis and Sizing Tool)

2011-10-04 Thread Drew William Henderson
We used it beginning in the mid '80s until about 5 years ago (replaced our ERP). I always found it to be reliable and rock-solid. As well, Jeff and Peggy are among the most knowledgeable people regarding file internals. I give it 5 stars! :-) Drew -Original Message- From:

Re: [U2] FAST (File Analysis and Sizing Tool)

2011-10-04 Thread Drew William Henderson
I'm kinda out of date on the internals, but if they are still handling the split/merge the way they used to, then yes, even dynamic files can benefit from the occasional resizing. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org

Re: [U2] AD: Credit Card Processing

2011-06-30 Thread Drew William Henderson
We used to run some software from cybercash that we used from our legacy Universe app first on HP-UX, then on Linux. The program ran at the os-level, but we called it from our unibasic application. As to PCI compliance, I attended a PCI discussion seminar last week, and the comment was

Re: [U2] Hello ?

2011-05-02 Thread Drew William Henderson
LOL! -Original Message- From: u2ug simpson-u...@gerzio.ca Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 9:51 PM To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Hello ? Aaaah , Bach. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org

Re: [U2] Frustrated with Rocket / Unidata 7.2

2011-02-18 Thread Drew William Henderson
That was...ummvery gracious! ;-) We've all been there! -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Kevin King Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 1:35 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Frustrated with

Re: [U2] Pick Dinosaurs

2011-02-07 Thread Drew William Henderson
Sounds familiar! One of my first projects in 1985 was to make program adjustments for how the SETPTR statement changed at PI 5.4.1, on a Pr1me 750 running Primos 18. I think we only had two drivesI used to have one of the 300MB disk packs around here somewhere (used to use 'em for class

Re: [U2] Pick Dinosaurs

2011-02-07 Thread Drew William Henderson
. The last Prime system I worked on was the big 6550. Memory boards the size of a 32 inch LCD TV. Gary P. Canedy Senior Database Analyst ProMutual Group (617) 757-6775 From: Drew William Henderson d.hender...@moreheadstate.edu To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Date: 02/07

Re: [U2] Does UV have a BLOCK command

2011-02-07 Thread Drew William Henderson
George, Another option, though not anywhere close to perfect!, would be to make use of the EQU statement. You could equate BLOCKSTART and BLOCKEND to LOOP and REPEAT, respectively. The (major) downside: you don't get the auto-indenting you get with LOOP and REPEAT (unless you're using an IDE

Re: [U2] UV - date last installed

2011-02-04 Thread Drew William Henderson
That might depend on whether the file has been modified. You can also look at the timestamp on the uv executable. Drew -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of inquieti Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011

Re: [U2] UV - date last installed

2011-02-04 Thread Drew William Henderson
because uvregen is run. Drew William Henderson wrote: That might depend on whether the file has been modified. You can also look at the timestamp on the uv executable. Drew -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org

Re: [U2] 3.99 x 3 = 11

2011-01-21 Thread Drew William Henderson
I suspect part of the reason is accuracy, as well. Base 10 decimals don't necessarily convert to an exact base 2 decimal. 1.2 converts to something like 1.001100110011001100110011... Storing them as integers, then manipulating them within the code preserves the accuracy. Drew

Re: [U2] Special Character Handling

2011-01-12 Thread Drew William Henderson
Something we used on our old ERP system was to define all valid characters, and use this against a copy of the input string to remove all valid characters, then use the remaining string (if anything remains...it's not valid) against the original input string. HTH Drew -Original

Re: [U2] Sockets problem

2011-01-10 Thread Drew William Henderson
It's been a couple years, but i believe ports in the lower range can only be linked to root processes. Drew -Original Message- From: Norman, David (Health) david.nor...@health.sa.gov.au Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 9:55 PM To: 'u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org'

Re: [U2] Reading a Unix file from another machine.

2010-11-10 Thread Drew William Henderson
It's been a L time since I worked with this kind of stuff, so if this is a silly idea, just say Nope...these aren't the droids you're looking for. :-) Could you treat the file as a tape, and make use of READT? Drew thinkingoutsidetheboxbeforelunchisabadidea Henderson ;-)

Re: [U2] UniVerse On RedHat?

2010-11-08 Thread Drew William Henderson
I looked for the scripts I wrote for our conversion years ago, and couldn't find 'em, but other comments made have sparked a few additional memories: For printing, we wrote scripts to send stuff to printers directly to port 9100, rather than use the OS-based printer interface. This let us

Re: [U2] UniVerse On RedHat?

2010-11-05 Thread Drew William Henderson
-Original Message- From: Bill Brutzman bi...@hkmetalcraft.com Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 5:59 PM To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] UniVerse On RedHat? 0. We are considering migrating from HP-Ux to RedHat. 1. How is RedHat? It's been quite a few years

Re: [U2] Compiling 101

2010-10-20 Thread Drew William Henderson
The naming threw me off, too. /uv/CODE is the UV account, and BP is the directory with the source code; so BASIC BP FLAVOR.R0 is the correct syntax. Did you create the BP directory via CREATE.FILE, or did you use mkdir at the Unix level and use vi (or some such editor) to create the source

Re: [U2] Compiling 102

2010-10-20 Thread Drew William Henderson
As to #5, let's say you want to compile/run code from the BP file in /u2/CODE (from your earlier post) from both METAL and SANDBOX. You would have a VOC entry in each like the following: Field 1: F Field 2: /u2/CODE/BP Field 3: /u2/CODE/D_BP The actual name of the VOC entry could be anything,

Re: [U2] easiest way to COMPILE/CATALOG for a build?

2010-08-18 Thread Drew William Henderson
Chris, Are you on Windows or Unix/Linux? On the ?nix version, you can execute uv/bin program basic to compile your programs (and assume you can catalog, as well, but never tried it.) Assuming uv/bin is in your PATH, if the folder/directory is SOURCE, and you want to compile the file PROG1,

Re: [U2] easiest way to COMPILE/CATALOG for a build?

2010-08-18 Thread Drew William Henderson
...should have clarified that the below command is executed at the OS command prompt. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Drew William Henderson Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 4:43 PM To: U2 Users

Re: [U2] Strange...Not sure what it means.

2010-08-16 Thread Drew William Henderson
? Is that the computer trying to convert into 11 If it is, I see it's humor, but I don't find it funny. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Drew William Henderson Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 12:26 PM

Re: [U2] Strange...Not sure what it means.

2010-08-13 Thread Drew William Henderson
The ^003 is the ascii code for End of Text (ETX). -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of George Gallen Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 12:02 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] Strange...Not sure what it

Re: [U2] tool for converting xls spreadsheets to txt files

2010-08-04 Thread Drew William Henderson
Bonnie, If working with Perl is an option for you, there is a module you can use to parse xls files: http://search.cpan.org/~dmow/Spreadsheet-XLSX-0.13-withoutworldwriteables/lib/Spreadsheet/XLSX.pm HTH Drew -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org

Re: [U2] sudo for dummies

2010-04-02 Thread Drew William Henderson
John, I think this is an issue of how processes work in *nix, and how Universe looks at the account. Whether you execute sudo as a new process or replace the current process with the command you are executing (via exec), uv is running as root (you can do SH -c ps -ef | grep uv to see the

Re: [U2] FTP Users in HP-UX

2010-04-01 Thread Drew William Henderson
It's been a while since I've worked in HP-UX, but I think the standard ftp daemon runs out of inetd. Take a look at your /etc/inetd.conf file to see if it is enabled there (if telnet is working, then so is inetd; this assumes HP-UX has not moved all this to individual files, as some other Unix

Re: [U2] [UV] On Linux

2010-03-05 Thread Drew William Henderson
We are running an older version (10.0.9) on Centos. When we first migrated that legacy system from HP-UX to RHE (don't recall the version) the primary issue was modifying scripts we had developed to handle printing. The data files and applications moved cleanly (had to run the conversion

Re: [U2] TOP/LIMIT Equivalent?

2010-02-18 Thread Drew William Henderson
Universe stores records in hashed files, so the concept of the last 100 records doesn't really apply. You can use the SAMPLE keyword to specify a number of records to pull out: LIST target_file SAMPLE 100 HTH Drew -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org

Re: [U2] U2are good in concert

2009-08-27 Thread Drew William Henderson
LOL with 'Verse on bass, and 'Data on drums! :-) -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of TaylorSwift Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 8:36 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] U2are good in

Re: [U2] ESC in Unidata

2009-07-31 Thread Drew William Henderson
It's a PCL (Laserjet) command for positioning to 170 dots horizontally and ROW dots vertically before printing the line. A subset of the commands available can be found here: http://h2.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=bpl02705 HTH Drew -Original Message-

RE: [U2] Printing from UV through a windows server for PDFs, forms, etc.

2009-04-30 Thread Drew William Henderson
I wasn't nearly informative enough...Source4 was where we bought the software. It was actually Formport from Capella Technologies: http://www.capellatech.com/pages/2.7.1.formport_server.html HTH Drew -Original Message- From: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org

RE: [U2] Performance monitoring

2009-03-05 Thread Drew William Henderson
MFILES is related to the OS per process open file limit (documented in the uvconfig file). The specific name of this value varies for different OSes. It looks like the default limit for AIX is 2000 (listed as nofiles). This was the absolute maximum until around 4.3.1. An individual user can

RE: [U2] User count not correct

2009-03-04 Thread Drew William Henderson
Do you have anyone using ODBC on the database? I don't recall if it shows up in a LISTU. Drew -Original Message- From: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of bpa...@serta.com Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 1:04 PM To:

RE: [U2] Performance monitoring

2009-03-04 Thread Drew William Henderson
If you haven't already, you might want to take a look at the topas command. It'll give you an overall view of what's going on with the system, including per/processor utilization, per/process information, and disk utilization information. The h key while in the program provides a bit more

RE: [U2] User count not correct

2009-03-04 Thread Drew William Henderson
Uvlictool shows the same number of licenses in use, while the ps command shows multiple uv processes. Drew -Original Message- From: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Charles Stevenson Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 4:40 PM To:

RE: [U2] [UV] Where have all the printers gone?

2009-02-03 Thread Drew William Henderson
Jeff, I think most of the stuff is in uvspool/sp.config (at least on the Unix side). I always edited this file directly, and never added anything to DEVICE. Drew -Original Message- From: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Jeff

Re: [U2] [UD HP-UX] I need to track user logins

2008-11-05 Thread Drew William Henderson
You can use find and look for .sh_history files older than 90 days. HTH Drew On Nov 5, 2008, at 5:10 PM, George Gallen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What if you create a directory (not in /tmp, because it gets cleared every so often as well). And place in the login script (/etc/profile), a touch