Re: [U2] Consuming web services
I use either Python, Perl or PHP to broker the SOAP connection and pass info back through either statefile temp files or via stdio using EXECUTE's I/O handling. You could also pass data via pipes but it can get messy. Statefile temp files allow for queuing of transactions that don't have to be real time. Check out the Validating Addresses article I wrote for one of the Jan/Feb issues of Spectrum. (I don't remember the year! I must be getting old!) Regards, On 10/3/2012 4:56 PM, Jeff Schasny wrote: I know we have both the SOAP and RESTful web services development for publishing web services from Universe but how are folks consuming other peoples web services into the database? Are there tools for this or am I going to just open a socket, read, and parse 'till I'm blue in the face? -- Glen Batchelor IT Director/CIO/CTO All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: glen.batche...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Mobile: http://m.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com 24-hour Automated Voice Response. Get order status and tracking information 24-hours a day from any touch-tone phone. Call now: 877.404.6165 [910.550.2220] (you will need your 6-digit order# and the ship-to postal code of that order) D U Txt? Get order and tracking info via SMS/Text. Add your mobile# to MyAccount to activate. Text your 6-digit order# to 910.550.2220 to get order status. Text track, space and your 6-digit order# to 910.550.2220 for latest tracking info. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] [Windows]
Change your power settings in windows to not allow the PC to go into sleep mode. Enable monitor power-off and disk power-off only. I have never trusted suspend and resume on Windows. On 9/27/2012 12:11 PM, Wjhonson wrote: OK so with the KeepAlive box checked in the Accuterm session, and with a Loop-On running in the session (on the remote Universe host) printing the time to my screen every five minutes The session was disconnected after three hours. So that's when the PC went to sleep ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- Glen Batchelor IT Director/CIO/CTO All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: glen.batche...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Mobile: http://m.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com 24-hour Automated Voice Response. Get order status and tracking information 24-hours a day from any touch-tone phone. Call now: 877.404.6165 [910.550.2220] (you will need your 6-digit order# and the ship-to postal code of that order) D U Txt? Get order and tracking info via SMS/Text. Add your mobile# to MyAccount to activate. Text your 6-digit order# to 910.550.2220 to get order status. Text track, space and your 6-digit order# to 910.550.2220 for latest tracking info. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] [Windows]
We change the power settings and clean up program installs on every PC before we install it. Disk suspend has been problematic for us since Windows came out. There are central management tools that offer central and remote admin for PC settings such as these. However, you still have to touch each PC to install the client service so you might as well just fix the power settings if that's the only problem. :) On 9/27/2012 12:24 PM, Wjhonson wrote: I'm not saying there is no solution. I'm saying we have 1500 PCs It doesn't make me giddy to think this is the default setting on newly installed PCs Nor that having it, makes telnet sessions self-destruct, perhaps in the middle of a nightly job for which they must absolutely *not* self-destruct :) Come to think of it, it explains two other issues we been having intermittently. This doesn't only affect one PC, it affects all of them :) Really our guys should visit every PC in the org, one-by-one, either virtually or in person to reset this. -Original Message- From: Glen Batchelor webmas...@all-spec.com To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Thu, Sep 27, 2012 9:18 am Subject: Re: [U2] [Windows] Change your power settings in windows to not allow the PC to go into sleep mode. Enable monitor power-off and disk power-off only. I have never trusted suspend and resume on Windows. On 9/27/2012 12:11 PM, Wjhonson wrote: OK so with the KeepAlive box checked in the Accuterm session, and with a Loop-On running in the session (on the remote Universe host) printing the time to my screen every five minutes The session was disconnected after three hours. So that's when the PC went to sleep ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- Glen Batchelor IT Director/CIO/CTO All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: glen.batche...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Mobile: http://m.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com 24-hour Automated Voice Response. Get order status and tracking information 24-hours a day from any touch-tone phone. Call now: 877.404.6165 [910.550.2220] (you will need your 6-digit order# and the ship-to postal code of that order) D U Txt? Get order and tracking info via SMS/Text. Add your mobile# to MyAccount to activate. Text your 6-digit order# to 910.550.2220 to get order status. Text track, space and your 6-digit order# to 910.550.2220 for latest tracking info. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Serial to Ethernet device from Mettler Scale to Unidata/Universe
I concur. I have several pack/ship automation lines with PS90's running on the PS One serial servers set to server mode. I can only help with theory on the code since it's on D3. I wrote a live network scale input prompt that polls the scale for weight changes and displays the changes while waiting for a keystroke. I can only share pseudo code but I'll help where I can. On 5/4/2012 9:36 AM, George Gallen wrote: We have used this device: http://www.digi.com/products/serialservers/digionesp#overview http://ftp1.digi.com/support/documentation/92000326_D.pdf It's been in use now for about 6 years - no problems - but I don't read from it, only write to it for A serial printer (our version has an lpd protocol built in). George -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of George Hammerle Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 7:54 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] Serial to Ethernet device from Mettler Scale to Unidata/Universe Hello, Has anyone used a Serial to Ethernet Device between a Mettler Scale ( PS60 ) and their Unidata / Universe System? We are running Unidata on a Unix machine. What I would like to do is network a scale in our receiving department. The Serial to Ethernet device would be set up as a server. The Unidata Unix machine would connect via a socket to the Serial to Ethernet device, pass W* to the Mettler Scale ( give me the weight ), the scale would then pass back the weight through the Serial to Ethernet device. If someone has done this and can provide any feedback, that would be spectacular. And if you know of a serial to Ethernet device that works well, please let me know. George Hammerle zhammerle@hubertREMOVE_THIS.com This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or company to whom they are addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail including all attachments from your system. Thank you ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- Glen Batchelor IT Director/CIO/CTO All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Mobile: http://m.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com 24-hour Automated Voice Response. Get order status and tracking information 24-hours a day from any touch-tone phone. Call now: 877.404.6165 [910.550.2220] (you will need your 6-digit order# and the ship-to postal code of that order) D U Txt? Get order and tracking info via SMS/Text. Add your mobile# to MyAccount to activate. Text your 6-digit order# to 910.550.2220 to get order status. Text track,space and your 6-digit order# to 910.550.2220 for latest tracking info. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Record lock [irrelevant commentary]
*sigh* *putting the pop-corn back up* On 3/23/2012 3:00 PM, Woodward, Bob wrote: Come on, people! Let's not get into another pissing contest of who programs the right way and who doesn't. As stated, the original question was if there is a way to tell how long a lock has been in place. Nothing else was given so the assumption that the OP was ONLY looking at locks placed programmatically is actually straying off topic. Without further information, specific to why they need the length of time a lock is in place, speculation of percentages or how to generate a timeline does not really seem to take anyone closer to really answering the original question. The only thing, so far, that I've seen that was a semi-direct answer is that maybe UniAdmin can provide the necessary information. Even at that, we don't know if the OP needs to just be able to find this out or if it's needed inside a program. Now is there a SYSTEM() value or maybe a LIST.READU option that provides this? THAT would be answers of value. climbing off soap box -- Glen Batchelor IT Director/CIO/CTO All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Solid State Drives (SSD) and Universe
IMO FusionIO has the best memory-drive devices for small size high volume IOPs. Facebook is one of FusionIO's largest customers. Their devices are not inexpensive but they are solid, fast and the support is great. We barely touch the write capacity of our 80GB board. It's the read speed and r/w IOP capacity that make the difference. EasyCo's MFT solution is a less-expensive alternative but you are still limited by the speed of the SATA bus. I'd consider MFT first and test it out. If that is not going to fulfill your needs, then move up into the memory-drive arena. Regards, Glen Batchelor IT Director/CIO/CTO All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Mitchell, Stewart Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 2:48 AM To: U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] Solid State Drives (SSD) and Universe Hi All, I am interested in the groups opinion on using SSDs with Universe. My reading leads me to believe there are significant performance improves for I/O and more specifically random reads in the magnitude of 3,000% (30 times) faster. Does anyone current use SSDs? Regards, Stewart Mitchell Business Systems Manager Symbion IT Symbion Pty Ltd Effective October 2011 Symbion Pharmacy Services has changed it's name to Symbion. My email address has changed from @symbionpharmacy.com to @symbion.com.au. The company's ABN (25 000 875 034) remains the same. This email and any attachments are confidential. They may contain legally privileged information or copyright material. You should not read, copy, use or disclose them without authorisation. If you are not an intended recipient, please contact us at once by return email and then delete the original message and all copies. We do not accept liability in connection with computer virus, data corruption, delay, interruption, unauthorised access or unauthorised amendment. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Green Screen - Wide Screen
4 monitors and 4 interlaced sessions running at the same time? :) I don't know of a solution for what you want based on traditional character screen. I know nothing about DC, though. I've been looking for a Wyse60 enhancement similar to what you're after and normally end up porting stuff to intraweb or GUI. Regards, Glen Batchelor IT Director/CIO/CTO All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Brutzman Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 5:57 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] Green Screen - Wide Screen We have a large application that runs in Dynamic Connect... and needs more in the way of columns. DC is limited to approx. 132 characters. I believe that wIntegrate (when in text mode) is the same. We need maybe five times that. While I have almost concluded that this app needs to be re-written in GUI... before punting... are there any other angles worth consider... such as AccuTerm or some other text-based terminal emulator. Is there a way to do this in DC or wIntegrate? --Bill ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Credit Card Processing
I would recommend Total Computing's API. They should have a vault solution available shortly that will eliminate card data storage and a bulk of the CISP responsibility on the MV side. You save a token and use it to perform repeat purchases or to recall past charge information. For those who already have Totalink, the vault solution should have a similar subroutine and call format so it shouldn't take a whole lot of recoding. Level 3 processing support is still in the works, if you need that to save on processing charges. As of mid-April they were in the final stages of getting their TSYS certification for it. Regards, Glen Batchelor IT Director/CIO/CTO All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bryan Evans Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 12:05 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] Credit Card Processing I am looking for a multi-value (UniVerse specifically) product to handle credit card processing. Does anyone know of or can recommend a product? We are an HP-UX UniVerse shop. The volume of credit cards processed would be very low - 100 orders or less per day. Thank you in advance, Bryan Evans Orbit Irrigation Products Inc. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] 64 bit odbc/oledb drivers
Hey Jeff, I'm not sure what you mean and don't remember what platform you're on. Are you just looking for a 64-bit Windows ODBC driver for SQL2008? If so they are available from Microsoft and DataDirect. Regards, Glen Batchelor IT Director/CIO/CTO All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Lettau, Jeff Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 4:13 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] 64 bit odbc/oledb drivers Has anyone got ODBC / OLEDB drivers to help link SQL2008 running on 64 bit to Unidata? Jeffrey Lettau ERP Systems Manager polkaudio Disclaimer: This email may contain confidential and/or privileged information. It is intended only for the person or persons to whom it is addressed. Any unauthorized review, use, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email or telephone and destroy all copies of the original message. Please consider the environment before printing this email. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Anyone submitted postage statements using mail.xml?
We don't use Mail.XML but I've done integration with USPS as well as most of the major parcel carriers. Are you doing pull-only, push-only, or both? If you're submitting docs then that's pull. If USPS sends you a notification then that's push. If you're only pulling, then you don't need to worry about setting up processes to handle incoming XML, as far as I know. I've not seen any information suggesting that call-backs or post-backs are used in pull-only situations. You should definitely read the entire Mail.XML guide if you're writing an interface from scratch. There may be a library for PHP, but I've not checked. I could not find a Perl module that simplifies using the XML service. Regards, Glen Batchelor IT Director/CIO/CTO All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of George Gallen Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 2:10 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] Anyone submitted postage statements using mail.xml? I'm going to be embarking on attempting to send e-docs (postage statements) to the USPS using MAIL.XML. Any pointers? George Gallen Senior Programmer/Analyst Accounting/Data Division, EDI Administrator ggal...@wyanokegroup.com ph:856.848.9005 Ext 220 The Wyanoke Group http://www.wyanokegroup.com ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Error 4 22 from PHP exec of uv on AIX
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v2r1/index.jsp?topic=/com. ibm.itame3.doc_5.1/am51_perftune113.htm It is a good idea to unset the LDR_CNTRL environment variable, so that it does not unintentionally affect other processes. Regards, Glen Batchelor IT Director/CIO/CTO All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of John Thompson Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 2:46 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Error 4 22 from PHP exec of uv on AIX Thanks for all of your replies. Thanks to Bob Woodward for the shell environment idea. Thanks to Kevin King for his help. Apache sets extra environment variables when compared to the shell of a regular user. One of these environment variables is called: LDR_CNTRL Apparently it has something to do with the way AIX handles the memory space. See: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/javasdk/v6r0/index.jsp?topic=/com .ibm.java.doc.user.aix32.60/user/aix_ldr_cntrl_page_sizes.html Apache seems to set the following when it starts a session: LDR_CNTRL=MAXDATA=0x8000 If you set this to null in a php script, then Universe will run just fine. Anyone have any ideas on the proper use of LDR_CNTRL? On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:06 PM, George Gallen ggal...@wyanokegroup.comwrote: this sounds like a permissions issue. probably, the user that apache is running under doesn't have the permissions to execute the uv program in .../uv/bin George -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of John Thompson Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 11:57 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] Error 4 22 from PHP exec of uv on AIX I thought I would resurrect an old issue I found on the mailing list... As I am not a mailing list junky (google and web forums have spoiled me), I'm not entirely sure how to reply directly to the old post... Original Post From: Ross Morrissey Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:11:56 -0700 This is a bit of a stumper (for me, anyway). I'm having issues trying to exec uv from PHP on AIX. Things work just fine in Windows (Apache or IIS) or Linux (Apache) so I know my PHP syntax is fine. On the AIX (5.2 uv 10.2.7) box: Using PHP, I can exec 'echo 1 + 2 | bc' and get 3 I can run this at the shell as user nobody: 'cd /u2/uv/HS.SALES; /u2/uv/bin/uv display 42' I can get a CGI script to return 'cd /u2/uv/HS.SALES; /u2/uv/bin/uv display 42' correctly With PHP, I can't exec ' /u2/uv/bin/uv display 42' (after a chdir). UV throws this error (into the Apache logs): An error has occurred during uniVerse initialization Please contact the system administrator Error code: 4 22 The codes translate into: 4. System V semaphores are probably not configured in the kernel. 22. (EINVAL) Invalid argument. Here are some examples of invalid arguments: dismounting a nonmounted device, mentioning an unknown signal in signal, reading or writing a file for which seek has generated a negative pointer. EINVAL is also set by math functions. Has anyone else bumped into this? IBM support suggested it might be an issue with SIGTTOU but this seems unlikely to me - especially for a one-line command. PHP is a bit outside their bailiwick. Thanks, Ross. End of Original Post I am having the exact same problem. I have tried using nohup before called universe. There is something about when apache calls the php script, then the php script executing universe, that universe does not like... Anyone ever figure out a way around this? -- John Thompson ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- John Thompson ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] PDF Files directly from UniData or UniVerse
Doug, Please state your platform and flavor to help narrow down solutions. There are a million ways to produce e-documents (including PDF) and deliver them. It would help to know how your end-user is expecting to obtain the document and if there are uses for other types of documents. The delivery mechanism will work for all file types, but the conversion process should be flexible enough to support additional types with add-on convertors. The document could be an image, web page, PDF, or even an MS Office doc so don't forget that when you are considering your options. Regards, Glen Batchelor IT Director/CIO/CTO All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Doug Farmer Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 9:40 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] PDF Files directly from UniData or UniVerse Here is a question for this group. Has anyone been able to generate PDF files directly from UniData and/or UniVerse without having a manual step involved? In other words, just running a program using the standard PRINTER ON and PRINTER OFF commands, and having the output be a PDF file? Any pointers would be very welcome. Doug This e-mail is for the use of the intended recipient(s) only. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and then delete it. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not use, disclose or distribute this e-mail without the author's prior permission. We have taken precautions to minimize the risk of transmitting software viruses, but we advise you to carry out your own virus checks on any attachment to this message. We cannot accept liability for any loss or damage caused by software viruses. Any views and/or opinions expressed in this e-mail are of the author only and do not represent the views of Epicor Software Corporation or any other company within its group. This message has been scanned for malware by Websense. www.websense.com ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] PICK Systems Administrator position
Or, you could be professional as a recruiter and at least specify what region of the country it's in so people on the other side of the country don't waste their time and yours. C'mon... Really? Glen Batchelor IT Director/CIO/CTO All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Joseph Chelston Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 11:49 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] PICK Systems Administrator position Please email directly and I'll be happy to discuss with you. This is a very confidential position. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Marc Harbeson Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 11:38 AM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] PICK Systems Administrator position Can you at least say southern CA or northern NY or something in the ballpark of where on earth it is located? -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Joseph Chelston Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 11:22 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] PICK Systems Administrator position We are seeking a PICK Systems Administrator for a long term contract position. Due to confidentiality, we will not post specific details on this forum. Please email me if you are interested exploring. I'll be happy to give you the full details of this opportunity direct. Regards, Joe Chelston Executive Recruiter Phone: 856.218.1000 Fax: 856.228.8585 Cell: 856.422.4400 Email: j...@bsgstaffing.com ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Redback Limit
Try using cURL or wget, with an unlimited timeout, and get the real headers from the server. Assuming you're using IE, it rarely tells a true story when it comes to server connection issues or HTTP errors. Glen Batchelor IT Director/CIO/CTO All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Israel, John R. Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 8:33 AM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] Redback Limit I was exporting all the user info we track with Avanté's ePortal from ePortal back to a web page which rips the data apart and automatically opens it in Excel. Over 900 records with all kinds of info (name, company, access, etc.) I was never able to find any corruption in the data. I did find that by capping the number of records OR not loading the company names of the users the problem went away. If I wrote the data to a temp file prior to loading up the RBO to pass back to the web page, there was nothing wrong. I think there is simply a limit somewhere. I am not sure if the limit is on a specific property (mv list of company/name the user has access to see) or the RBO in general. Either way, I could not wait on this and I have had to re-engineer this export. What used to automatically build an Excel file for the user via an ASP web page will now create an XML file of the same info in ePortal (on the UNIX box), then E-mail it to the user. Granted, this was a lot of data, but with today's technology, I did not think it was THAT bad. 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 Kevin King Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 9:16 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Redback Limit About how much data is being passed back? Could the server be timing out while receiving it all? -Kevin http://www.PrecisOnline.com ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] [OT] Site blocked
Heh... Got a mobile device? What about suspicious employees? Better take their mobile toys away too and put up a faraday cage to block cell phone data coverage. Seriously, that is a horrible 'security practice' if that is the true reason for it. I used to block facebook, myspace, etc and it's a futile attempt these days with mobile devices. The ad posting could have been traced back to a computer simply from proxy and/or packet logs. Doesn't blocking the potential leak sites take the cheese off of the mouse trap? Regards, Glen Batchelor IT Director/CIO/CTO All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Glorfield, Gordon Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 3:39 PM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] [OT] Site blocked This is how it was explained to me. We are an advertising company and do inserts and direct mailings for various stores. We create for these clients advertisements for Black Friday. At some time in the past some of these Black Friday ads mysteriously appeared on wordpress.com in advance of when the client wanted them released. Therefore the clients have 'requested' that access to that domain (among others) be restricted from within our network. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Dawn Wolthuis Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 4:24 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] [OT] Site blocked Bummer. I did a blog a couple of years ago on wordpress.com and was thinking of setting up one for someone else there, also a business blog. Is there a reason that wordpress.com is considered bad? Are they opposed to wikipedia and other professional resources that sound like they are too informal too? I'm curious why they could not open up wordpress.com completely. --dawn ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Does anyone have an MV BASIC cheatsheet?
Does EPick v1.0.4.EPICK0 equal an MV cheatsheet. ;) Yes, I still have an ancient copy on the D3 system here. No, I don't use it for real research. It is fun to read and I just don't have the nerve to purge it. Glen Batchelor IT Director/CIO/CTO All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Dawn Wolthuis Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 1:17 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] Does anyone have an MV BASIC cheatsheet? I have cheatsheets for JavaScript, HTML, and CSS for training student interns but do not have one for MV BASIC. It's a long shot, but just in case anyone has one, I'd love to see and use it. Thanks. --dawn -- Dawn M. Wolthuis Take and give some delight today ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] U2UG Elections 2010 - Request For Comment
I don't see why memberships must be free in the first place. Every user group i have been involved in required dues to be paid in order to fund meeting places. Why does any company need to fund anything that is strictly user oriented? You are receiving a user group service, which is free currently. When I attempted to start the MV dev society it was based on a member funded association who's purpose was education and promotion of technology. I got a decent amount of supportive feedback from many DB vendors and VARs. I think that a proper MVUG would work if there is enough of a push to get the word out. Be sure the focus is not just another mailing list or you're wasting everyone's time. There has to be value there to gain interest and a basic mailing list is not enough to collect dues. Glen.mobile RewriteRule ^(garbage|junk)$ /$1 [NC,L] On Mar 20, 2011, at 11:54 PM, fft2...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 3/20/2011 11:18:14 AM Pacific Daylight Time, antli...@youngman.org.uk writes: I repeat. You yourself said that you weren't telling other people what to do. Then PLEASE DON'T! Please STOP TELLING ROCKET TO GIVE MONEY TO U2UG. Please STOP TELLING U2UG TO SPEND THE MONEY. I'm not telling people, I'm telling a company. Rocket wants something out of U2UG but won't give it the financial backing it needs. That's not productive. Can you please scream a lot because everybody loves it :) W ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] U2UG Elections 2010 - Request For Comment
On 3/21/2011 3:22 AM, David Jordan wrote: The user group is for the users. If any user has an idea that we can put into a business plan then we can put it to Rocket and Rocket will respond on the merits of the plan. What is difficult at the moment is what we can do. Rocket advertises the user group in its emails, at the U2 University. Susie regularly advertises the user group in her presentations around the world. Every U2U bag has a U2UG advert paid for by Rocket. The issue of membership is about relevance to users. For a user who is using a ERP solution, they are more interested in belonging to the ERP solution user group than the U2 User group. So who is our audience, ISVs, consultants, programmers, etc. Both George in the UK and Brian in Australasia advertise the user group to their ISVs. However the ISVs rarely advertise to their customer base. David, The ERP point is true from the perspective of a software marketing agent. I disagree from a developer perspective and point out that loads of Windows developers pay for MSDN memberships regardless of their target customer base. Why? Education and technology news. You also get better developer support and lots of demonstration code. What's the difference here? Well, for one, better developer support is viewed as available on here or on CDP, but only for those who know the group(s) exist(s). Secondly, it's historical fact that the MV community is one of the last developer bases to recognize and adopt mainstream technologies. That's another thread, though. Regards, GlenB We all wish we could get the message out there more, but what we need is ideas more than money. David Jordan ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Multi-Threading Universe Socket traffic
Baker, It sounds like you need some kind of scheduler setup. Instead of running things directly via one phantom you should consider putting the work in a queue and then scheduling the work processing cycle to be handled outside of the data request and return processes. You can avoid lock contention if you use a write-only and read-only file FIFO pair keyed by a worker phantom reference ID. Let each child monitor a shared request queue and pick things up in order of submission, keyed by each child's reference ID. Latency will be reduced as you add more master or worker phantoms depending on where the lag resides. Master phantoms: 1) get request (call, poll outside work queue, TCL execution, etc) 2) generate a sequential and unique ID based on round-robin selection of active phantom reference IDs 3) write request content to request-side of FIFO 4) wait for a response to be returned on the response-side of FIFO 5) return response to calling subject Child phantoms: 1) check processing queue and get first item ID matching the phantom's reference ID 2) read process request from FIFO per currently read ID 3) perform work and build response 4) write response to response-side of FIFO using the same ID Bear in mind that there is startup, shutdown and reinit logic that is not covered here. This is just an overview of how you can avoid lock contention with a FIFO pair and some strategic item ID usage. If you're interested I can give a more detailed example based on how I built the MVWWW request handler using file I/O. Regards, Glen Batchelor IT Director/CIO/CTO All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Baker Hughes Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 4:07 PM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] Multi-Threading Universe Socket traffic Does anyone have a good method to 'throttle' the number of child processes? We authorize a few $million per day in CC transactions doing each 'near' real-time auths as the orders arrive. This is single threaded master phantom opening / writing/ reading the socket for each transaction. Works fairly well. Very reliable but not real time enough to hold the customer on the phone till the 'approve' comes back. I've toyed with having the master phantom spawn child phantom processes but need a way to 'throttle' the thread count, and queue anything over a specified threshold. The method I tried, grabbing a 'token' from a control record when the child phantom spawns, and replacing it when the child process concludes does not work. I found that this becomes unworkable after 4 or 5 child phantoms get spawned. They conclude closely enough that the contention over the update lock for the 'tokens' record degrades any performance gain by going multi-threaded. Seems I can get an auth faster than the control record can be locked, updated, and written back. I fully agree with everything David said about logging the pid and have done this also. @nschroth - if you want some code snippets of the socket calls email me off list. Thank you. -Baker -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Hona, David Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 7:04 PM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] Multi-Threading Universe Socket traffic I'd agree with this approach...I've used it many times before... A good well thought out design well help you...design first: code second :-) I've in the past done the following: - control program to configure, start/monitor/stop phantom processes - I find writing a phantom process which logs what it is doing/done is used for debugging purposes too (saves guessing what's going) - just remember to have a toggle to turn this on/off for production (to save disk space) - it is important that each phantom logs its progress, its process ID, start, last checkpoint reached and that it has successfully terminated. This helps prevent the case of you accidently firing off 100 phantoms and consuming all your UV licenses, etc. :-) The purpose of this is to: - make the process scalable and tuneable without re-coding via parameter record (include things like operating windows, etc) - have an application to manage the phantoms and monitor what they're doing (or if they're doing anything) - have phantom processes log what they're doing and allow options for a verbose logging mode to log everything they're doing in case of problems Some approaches I've used: a) each phantom could be started with a unique saved list of record keys to processed (generated by a control program or some other
Re: [U2] Multi-Threading Universe Socket traffic
Dave, That's a complex answer and you can't really answer it properly in a forum for such a broad range of setups. I'll try to answer as generically as possible focusing on O/S and CPU threading specifically. Please correct me if I'm wrong here. You don't really need multiple processors to handle multi-threading. Multi-threading has more to do with time slicing, priority marking and keeping up with all of the threads running at the same time. At the same time can vary from taking turns on one merry-go-round or taking turns on 16 merry-go-rounds depending on whether there are 50 kids or 50,000. The more load the more cores you need to sustain decent throughput of sharing. Think of the processor cores and level-one cache banks as turn-styles at the amusement park or subway entrance. Since a processor can only handle one instruction at a time on each core each thread will take a single-file turn submitting one instruction, or a few dozen depending on how the schedule is setup for that thread. On multi-core systems the multiple turn-styles allows more threads to run 'concurrently'. Regardless of core count, both thread priority and processor affinity/assignment are how scheduling affects the length of time a single kid can play on one specific merry-go-round and also how often that one kid is allowed to jumping in front of everyone else on other merry-go-rounds. Time priority and core assignment are handled a bit differently at the user /app level on different operating systems but they all do basically the same thing at the root. A multi-threaded application allows one parent process to spawn child threads (not fork()) to handle specific workloads. Each thread is basically a separate O/S process that has some shared memory space with the parent. The parent is responsible for keeping up with the children for all phases of the thread task cycle. Outside of signal/interrupt control, the child thread is on its own to make the task happen. So a multi-threaded strategy is irrelevant to hardware architecture in a general sense, but the O/S architecture plays a primary role in how threads are handled and how efficient the application will operate. Together, they both determine how overall efficient the threading will work. In a lot of cases the idea of throw more iron at it stems from a mismatch of efficiency between the hardware, the O/S and the application. Regards, Glen Batchelor IT Director/CIO/CTO All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Dave Taylor Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 10:58 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Multi-Threading Universe Socket traffic Symeon, and others, How does a multi-threading strategy relate to the use of a multi-core, multi-cpu and/or clustered hardware server configuration using various operating systems and multi-value databases in terms of performance and thruput? (A complete answer gets you an honorary PhD in whatever subject you'd like). Dave Taylor Sysmark Information Systems, Inc. 49 Aspen Way Rolling Hills Estates, CA 90274 (O) 800-SYSMARK (800-797-6275) (F) 310-377-3550 (C) 310-561-5200 www.sysmarkinfo.com - Original Message - From: Symeon Breen syme...@gmail.com To: 'U2 Users List' u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 1:16 AM Subject: Re: [U2] Multi-Threading Universe Socket traffic Ok the python solution mentioned is one way - however this multi threading you requiree is not a multi threading requirement - you are consuming a socket service, and not accepting connections, - we do this kind of thing all the time using phantoms. Lets say your batch of transactions is in a file, as you process each one set a flag saying it is done, or delete the record or something, then yourprogram can select the file, loop through the records and if the flag is set or the record does not exist it just skips onto the next one. You can then start 10 processes running all doing the same thing and they will work through the file. Or you could have process 1 doing all the ones beginning with a 1, 2 for 2 and so on. You may want a controlling program that runs up, counts the records on the file/in the batch and from that determined how many phantoms to run up. It then runs up the phantoms and then stops. Rgds Symeon. From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of nschroth Sent: 05 March 2011 16:55 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] Multi-Threading Universe Socket traffic On Universe 10.1.14 over AIX 5.3, we currently communicate
Re: [U2] A new DML?
On 2/8/2011 10:30 AM, Steve Romanow wrote: On 2/8/2011 10:28 AM, Wols Lists wrote: On 07/02/11 21:00, Steve Romanow wrote: Now, as I've said recently, we can immediately build our own external language bindings with no help from any of the DBMS providers. Unfortunately this option leaves us to connect in via the above methods, and no matter how fast that happens, it's subject to a performance hit. A much more elegant solution would be an API that dynamically links with the DBMS monitor to perform direct read/write/call and other operations. Maybe someone can tell us if the UO server component really is this closer to the metal interface, but it's always seemed to me that even that server component is one step and a performance hit away from direct DBMS access. With such an API (and direct access for file open/read/write, etc) just about any language can be implemented inside the box, again with no help from the DBMS provider(s). I'm guessing we could count on two hands how many people might actually be intensely interested in any of this. T I think I will be tinkering with this soon. I have to believe Intercall should give the best perfomance available, since it is at the lowest level. LibreOffice is looking for a new database ... my problem is finding time, but I'd love to write a new NF2 database for it :-) What sort of impact is an MV database going to have if it goes into something like that :-) Contact me off-line if you want to muck in :-) Cheers, Wol ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users I think my progress is stopped. It appears libffi (which ctypes uses) may be windows and linux only. Unless I can get confirmation of aix functionality, my plan stops here. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users It's available on AIX for PPC-64 based on the home page. GlenB ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] A new DML?
Mobile computers and phones of today are ushering in a new stage of complexity and power that has changed the overall scope of what client/server means. Mobile devices used to be moderately-powered slaves that represented a UI, comm hook or data batching portal for a server that did all of the lifting. You can no longer look at a mobile device and consider it a client since it has all 3 layers on it itself. They are, in essence, micro-servers with user friendly control panels and touch screens. You now have to consider development as both client/server and server/server depending on the solution. Glen Batchelor IT Director/CIO/CTO All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Brutzman Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 10:44 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] A new DML? It is clear to me that we have been for some time in an era of middleware. Some examples... Flex - ColdFusion - database Ajax - pHp - SQL SB+ - UniBasic - U2 FrontEnd - MiddleWare - database GUI - BusinessLogic - database With the emerging preponderance of devices, phones, tablets, PC's, the trend towards three tiers is... forever. It is like the holy trinity of computing. Although I am mainly interested in the NOW, I try to make it a point to encourage others to get sentimental... about the future. --Bill ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] What do you do with CallHTTP?
-Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Tony Gravagno Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 1:32 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] What do you do with CallHTTP? From: Dan McGrath 1) By having to pay for something as elemental as language bindings... 2) How do create a language binding for U2 without several issues... Dan, I believe my notes were misunderstood. To your point #1: When I talk about someone paying for coding, I didn't mean language bindings would be a for-sale product. I thought all of the notes about this being a community project made that clear. I'm saying language bindings can be FOSS, but people shouldn't be asked to starve in the name of creating and supporting FOSS for the benefit of everyone else. [chop] Most people here don't care about Reality or mvBase, don't care about QMClient or mv.NET, and don't care about Eiffel or Smalltalk. That's fine. Once the API is defined, different groups of people can focus on their preferred interfaces. But right now absoilutely none of the above interfaces exist for any MV platform. I'm hoping we can get from nothing to something, and it's entirely possible, without everyone deferring to the DBMS companies to do everything for us. Maybe it's time for me to publish something more official on this? Regards, T Hey T, this brings up memories of some interesting communications we had many years ago regarding a standardized communication method. Do you remember the round table pow-wow at Stardust (Spectrum)? MV.Net is about the closest thing to what we discussed but it still is not a portable language binding platform. I still have that unfinished MV comm protocol RFC if you want to poke at it and dissect it. It was an ASCII protocol spec that could be used to perform the basic data IO operations along with dictionary-oriented statements. Subroutine calls were to be supported as well, but I never got that far due to a lack of interest. I guess a bare 'white paper' is too complicated? I also wrote a VB socket client example and a socket service demonstrating the protocol, which could just as easily been Unix pipes or Windows files. The MVWWW project is another cross-flavor potential project that was geared towards freeing people from a specific DBMS HTML/XML integration tool. Frankly, it was a project I started so I would be able to port off of FlashCONNECT easily at some point if the need arose. One developer submitted useful code back during the many years it's been on SourceForge so it's far from an enterprise quality project in its current state. Maybe the lack of interest is due to a lack of advertising or a due to a lack of ability to put the pieces together? PickSource has been gone for a long time now, but I'll leave that discussion for another day. Regards, Glen Batchelor IT Director/CIO/CTO All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] What do you do with CallHTTP?
note: And for anyone who thinks I only do things for-fee, look for my name at Codeplex, Sourceforge, github, and elsewhere. I do contribute to FOSS, and I contribute freeware to this market as well. But when my free time translates to someone else's profitability or continued employment, I don't think it's unreasonable to ask for something in return. Generous does not equal stupid.) But if neither I nor anyone else does this (for free or fee), the net result will be that some years later people will still be lamenting in forums that such things don't exist and that it should all come from the DBMS vendors. Nothing will change. I've been saying that for years and here we are - nothing has changed. That fundamental mindset is really what cripples this market. That's also what doesn't change. It's not a lack of communication tools, language bindings, admin utilities, or other things people mention occasionally. If people attach value to things they say are valuable to them, this market may actually move forward a little. I don't agree completely. The DBMS vendors should be providing the bindings and integration hooks the developer community needs to build better solutions than what is available from other verticals. The only way that the DBMS vendors can do that is if the community speaks in a united voice. That has been discussed before and a community-wide voice is hard to establish. The developer's association was a flop due to my lack of time and a lack of organizational and promotional power. I also have zero experience establishing associations. I still think that such an organization would be a great asset to everyone. The U2 users group has proven to be successful, right? Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com/blog Visit PickWiki.com! Contribute! http://Twitter.com/TonyGravagno Glen Batchelor IT Director/CIO/CTO All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] What do you do with CallHTTP? (CASS validation)
What are you talking about If you're going to smack talk a company, provide facts and details so inquiries can be made. This isn't really the place for this anyway. For shame! I could talk smack about several people and firms I've dealt with in the MV community but I have more respect for myself and the company I work than that. Glen Batchelor IT Director/CIO/CTO All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Tony Gravagno Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 2:34 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] What do you do with CallHTTP? (CASS validation) From: Glen Batchelor MelissaDATA - Data Quality Suite On one hand I'm worried about a perception of smack talking some company here, but on the other hand I feel a need to convey my experience. I have personally been affected by breach of privacy issues with MelissaDATA. They harvest and publish data that they get from any source, regardless of what they say in their privacy notices. Any data you provide to them is subject to being sold to their other customers, who then sell it to others. They do not purge personal data, even after many requests, though they say they do. So not only are they betraying confidence but they also being blatently deceptive. The complaints of one individual will not significantly affect purchase decisions for a company as prominent as this one. I'm just passing on my experience and leaving it to you to decide what to do with it. Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] What do you do with CallHTTP? (CASS validation)
MelissaDATA - Data Quality Suite http://www.melissadata.com/dqt/dataquality-suite.htm In the documentation I was sent a couple years ago, it states that you can print a CASS summary form (USPS 3553). That will probably involve a batch validation using the SOAP API. You can dump a ton of addresses in one request IIRC and when you're done with the batches you submit a request to process. I don't remember what you do from that point. You should contact someone at MelissaDATA to verify that's still valid and what's involved with getting a 3553. I am not using their services for CASS bulk mailing. A simple address look-up with DPV and residential indicator is what I'm using, which sparked the Spectrum article I wrote back in 2007/2008. Regards, Glen Batchelor IT Director/CIO/CTO All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Steve Romanow Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 7:53 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] What do you do with CallHTTP? On 1/28/2011 3:49 PM, Larry Hiscock wrote: We're using it to consume address verification web services. Larry Hiscock Western Computer Services Can you recommend a company for CASS verification? ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] What do you do with CallHTTP?
I agree. I use cURL for more reasons than socket license requirements. If the server-client communication does not have to be synchronous with your business app then it will allow you to run external batch jobs. CASS certification, for example, can be done in the background for new addresses right before a bulk mailing. For typical real-time scenarios, it takes the uh oh factor out of socket API mods/bugs when you decide to upgrade or apply patches. I trust cURL more than any built-in socket interface and it offers a lot of extras that often do not exist cross-flavor like client SSL support and programmatic authentication methods. Regards, Glen Batchelor IT Director/CIO/CTO All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Symeon Breen Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 3:42 PM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] What do you do with CallHTTP? Any phantom that uses the sockets api - or a derivative of it like the http or soap api will become an interactive phantom - the reason being it is in some way interacting with the outside world. Of course the way round it would be to use curl instead ... From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of David Wolverton Sent: 31 January 2011 15:05 To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] What do you do with CallHTTP? Thanks for the feedback folks. The reason I was doing this query was to review the 'reason' for the recent license changes that make CallHTTP 'consume' a seat if it is used within a 'phantom' process. I didn't say WHY I was interested get 'genuine' usage comments. Like many of you, I use CallHTTP to get a piece of data from a remote machine (in my case, a UniVerse server is validating a code from a UniData machine). But with a recent update to UniVerse, we started having weird 'failures' -- turns out it failed when all the 'seats' on the UniVerse machine were in use, and the Phantom attempted a CallHTTP lookup. Blam! Dead phantom! I read all the uses people posted, and unless I was mistaken, no one was seriously using CallHTTP for the purpose of serving multiple 'logical users'. It appears everyone is using CallHTTP as a way to gather a piece of data that could have just as easily been in a file on the local disk drive if the machine you have could have limitless resources. In my use, and apparently most of yours, to call CallHTTP 'interactive' would be the same as calling a disk read 'interactive'. Here is the link for the 'business case' for making CallHTTP 'eat a seat' when used in a Phantom. I wanted to see if the logic made sense for the CallHTTP feature. My point to Rocket will be that someone could make a phantom into a 'multi-user' server by using READ/WRITEs from Text Files -- yet those are 'allowed' -- so trying to 'lock down' the server against a POSSIBLE misuse of the license terms by removing needed features seems counterproductive. UNLESS, that is, you're going to lock down EVERY POSSIBLE way to misuse the system - Meaning, phantoms should not be able to READ or WRITE at all. Heck, phantoms should not even EXIST since their existence could lead to license misuse! https://u2tc.rocketsoftware.com/rsp- portal/rsp/solutionDetail.asp?id=0002370 1?sterm=iphantomexact=searchAction=doSolutionSearch.aspcatFilter=02n400 00 000TqmnoType= Am I out on a limb here saying that CallHTTP should probably not cause a Phantom to go iPhantom? I mean, Rocket can do whatever the heck they want, it's their sandbox after all and we really have no choice but to suck it up... But is the logic they employed flawed as I think it is? Or am I just a loon? (H.. really, the two questions are not mutually exclusive I guess... But you get the point... ) I'm interested in comments on the topic, if any. DW ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1204 / Virus Database: 1435/3413 - Release Date: 01/30/11 ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Sparse array population in Pick
E-mail client from issue and this post never made it, so I'm forwarding my response again. Glen Batchelor IT Director/CIO/CTO All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: Glen Batchelor [mailto:webmas...@allspec.com] Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 2:38 PM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: RE: [U2] Sparse array population in Pick You can also store the metadata outside of the data item in another item using a standardized item naming structure. If a specific file contains the same types of data formats then you can store a global default in a locally or globally unique key. When creating new records the default layout is pulled up. This allows you more formatting and storage flexibility, IMO, but always requires two normal reads instead of one to obtain the data and metadata. In the case of a new data item, 2 reads will still be required. One to determine the item doesn't exist and a second to read the default meta so a new item can be created. CARS $$METADEFAULT 001 Make 002 Model 003 Age $$META.TAGS1052 001 Make 002 Model 003 Age 004 Comments TAGS1052 001 Chrysler 002 LeBaron 003 2558 D (2558 days) 004 This item is a non-default data test If you required multiple formats in the same data file, then that's OK. You can always store additional non-standard formats in additional $$METADEFAULT. items. would be the format number and you can store descriptions in the dictionary regarding what the various format codes are meant to be used for. Another, more compact, option is to just store the description of the metadata in attribute 001 and shift the data down one attribute. CARS $$METADEFAULT 001 Normal inventory filings for autos 002 Make 003 Model 004 Age $$METADEFAULT.0001 001 Collision inventory related filings for autos 002 Incident Date 003 Make 004 Model 005 Age 006 Insurer 007 Policy Number 008 Notes $$META.TAGS1052 001 TAGS1052 Created on 10/12/2010 by GB 002 Make 003 Model 004 Age 005 Comments TAGS1052 001 Chrysler 002 LeBaron 003 2558 D (2558 days) 004 This item is a non-default data test I could make up more sample data, but I hope that's enough to understand to structures. Regards, Glen Batchelor IT Director/CIO/CTO All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Brutzman Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 10:56 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Sparse array population in Pick Consider replacing age with year or purchase date. --Bill -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of fft2...@aol.com Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 5:10 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] Sparse array population in Pick Years ago I had written a system, far predating XML, where the element- tags were unpredictable. Essentially the user was allowed to create any tags they wished, and any number of tags they wished, attached to another item. Each tag had an associated value. So far example Zip Code = 95062 You could not however predict what tags a person would use, they were all free-form and user-supplied, but you still had to store the tag with their associated value. At the time I developed two ideas for how to do this in a Pick item TAGS1052 001 Make = Chrysler 002 Model = LeBaron 003 Age = 7 years and 3 days TAGS1052 001 Make]Model]Age 002 Chrysler 003 LeBaron 004 7 years and 3 days The first model is clear. Anyone with no programming background at all, can easily understand it, and also easily edit it. It suffers from requiring more elaborate programming than the second model, as you have to parse every element. The second model is not quite as clear. You determine the attibute position of the value by locate the tag in attribute 1 and then adding 1 to it. That gives you the attribute number where the value lives. Alternately you could simply pre-fill attribute 1 with an initial null to push everything forward 1 place, then you wouldn't have to add 1 after your locate. Comments? Critiques? Nasty cat-calls and grimaces? Will Johnson
Re: [U2] [U2} Cloud UniVerse?
Keep in mind that VPNs and other SSL tunnels consume bandwidth even when 'idle' if you have keep alive or polling scenarios like with CUPS and network printers. They also apply additional overhead due to the encryption. If you are paying for a limited bandwidth service, then you should set up a test VPN to get a feel as to how much will be consumed by print services. Glen Batchelor IT Director/CIO/CTO All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Tom Whitmore Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 2:42 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] [U2} Cloud UniVerse? Printing is not a problem. We have customers that are using a hosted solution and Printing works fine. You should have a secure connection between your network and the server, so setting up printers is it is an internal server. Tom RATEX Business Solution. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Brutzman Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 2:33 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] [U2} Cloud UniVerse? Tony: Thanks for writing. I expect that one of the kickers in this is printing forms. Right now I cannot see how to send print jobs from the cloud host through our static IP router to our printers. Also, I sent a message to our sales rep at Rocket to ask about how licensing would work. That is, would we need to buy more seats or is there special pricing for disaster recovery seats. --Bill -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Tony Gravagno Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 1:52 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] [U2} Cloud UniVerse? Knowledge about the platform is certainly a good thing, but is it necessary? What's wrong with getting root-level Linux or Windows from any number of providers, and simply hosting your own environment? This is quite simple, really. Base pricing ranges from $15/month though maybe $100/month depending on disk, traffic, and memory. I know some U2 sites are hosting with CoLo's with various services totally anyhere from $400 to $800 per month. My recommendation: Find a low-cost host that provides root access for Linux or Windows. Install and configure your U2 environment within the usual money-back trial period of 30 days or so. Don't make any long term commitments. If you don't like it you have spent zero to maybe $30. Once you have the software installed you will know more about your actual needs. Then you can decide whether you need the services of a company like Zumasys (well recommended with MV expertise) or RackSpace (well recommended but no U2-specific experience). Also consider using Amazon services where you only power-on the virtual system (and pay for use) when you need it. Don't want to do this yourself? Find a well qualified U2 support company and ask them to do it for you. Like I said, it's easy, and they may find themselves creating a whole new line of business for themselves. HTH Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com/blog Visit PickWiki.com! Contribute! http://Twitter.com/TonyGravagno From: Tom Whitmore We had looked into hosted solutions. Check out Sumasys (zumasys.com), they are very knowledgeable about U2, or RackSpace. From: Bill Brutzman In case of a local disaster, we are wondering if there is available hosted UniVerse. I suppose that there is a license hurdle. I suppose it would be great if Rocket would consider doing hosting. I looked at Sierra Bravo's website. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] [U2} Cloud UniVerse?
EasyCo has dedicated and virtual servers as well as a tunnel connection product for printers, dumb terminals, etc. Glen Batchelor IT Director/CIO/CTO All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Brutzman Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 2:33 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] [U2} Cloud UniVerse? Tony: Thanks for writing. I expect that one of the kickers in this is printing forms. Right now I cannot see how to send print jobs from the cloud host through our static IP router to our printers. Also, I sent a message to our sales rep at Rocket to ask about how licensing would work. That is, would we need to buy more seats or is there special pricing for disaster recovery seats. --Bill -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Tony Gravagno Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 1:52 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] [U2} Cloud UniVerse? Knowledge about the platform is certainly a good thing, but is it necessary? What's wrong with getting root-level Linux or Windows from any number of providers, and simply hosting your own environment? This is quite simple, really. Base pricing ranges from $15/month though maybe $100/month depending on disk, traffic, and memory. I know some U2 sites are hosting with CoLo's with various services totally anyhere from $400 to $800 per month. My recommendation: Find a low-cost host that provides root access for Linux or Windows. Install and configure your U2 environment within the usual money-back trial period of 30 days or so. Don't make any long term commitments. If you don't like it you have spent zero to maybe $30. Once you have the software installed you will know more about your actual needs. Then you can decide whether you need the services of a company like Zumasys (well recommended with MV expertise) or RackSpace (well recommended but no U2-specific experience). Also consider using Amazon services where you only power-on the virtual system (and pay for use) when you need it. Don't want to do this yourself? Find a well qualified U2 support company and ask them to do it for you. Like I said, it's easy, and they may find themselves creating a whole new line of business for themselves. HTH Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com/blog Visit PickWiki.com! Contribute! http://Twitter.com/TonyGravagno From: Tom Whitmore We had looked into hosted solutions. Check out Sumasys (zumasys.com), they are very knowledgeable about U2, or RackSpace. From: Bill Brutzman In case of a local disaster, we are wondering if there is available hosted UniVerse. I suppose that there is a license hurdle. I suppose it would be great if Rocket would consider doing hosting. I looked at Sierra Bravo's website. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Another NEW cutting-edge column based database concept!
Heh, boy is that a misconception. The spiders will find it, regardless of e-mail lists. Domain records are public knowledge and the spiders will eventually find blogs and forums without any help. That said, posting the URL/e-mail address on a Google Group or via Google Groups is a different story. Doing that just expedites your visibility on Google. As far as address harvesting, this mailing list is archived, in its full glory, on many database list aggregators. Your unmunged e-mail address has likely been published to the WWW if you've ever posted here. Don't be fooled thinking your posting here is private and you're safe from spammers. I, personally, think munging is a waste of time and it only helps marginally against targeted spam. This is off-topic, though. Reply to my e-mail address if you want to argue. PS: the best defense, IMO, against harvest-bot spam is to use a specific address for public communications, note in the footer that you should add specific words to the subject line in a specific order, and then filter all mail out that doesn't contain those specific words in the correct placement. Bots are going to have a hell of a time figuring that out to send spam to you. Glen Batchelor IT Director/CIO/CTO All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Symeon Breen Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 10:52 AM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] Another NEW cutting-edge column based database concept! Cos he does not want spiders to scan his site and publish it to the world, personally i like spiders -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Address Sent: 06 August 2010 15:19 To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Another NEW cutting-edge column based database concept! Why does nebula always have no spam in their postings ? No other poster seems to do that in this forum. --- On Thu, 8/5/10, Shawn Hayes go_mnviki...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Shawn Hayes go_mnviki...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [U2] Another NEW cutting-edge column based database concept! To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Date: Thursday, August 5, 2010, 10:08 PM I am getting Firefox can't find the server at nospam_pleasenebula- rnd.com I am interested in your thoughts. I will keep trying... You have another link? 'We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.' - Original Message From: Tony Gravagno 3xk547...@sneakemail.com To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Thu, August 5, 2010 7:27:33 PM Subject: Re: [U2] Another NEW cutting-edge column based database concept! From: Shawn Hayes I see these new databases popping up here and there talking about a New way of storing data (column-based, tables-in-tables, etc.). We may not be ahead of the curve as far as front-end processing, but MV is the only way to go for storage!!! Too many thoughts, had to blog. nospam_pleaseNebula-RnD.com/blog/tech/mv/2010/08/mv-hot1.html ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] 24 X 7 MV systems
-Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Baker Hughes Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 12:14 PM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] 24 X 7 MV systems Glen, Thank you for the good observations, and suggestion to ping Ross, which I will do. It is the MV db paradigm which in this case is hampering us, which drives the solution to either the OS level or some middle ware solution. Pausing the db to flush memory is what keeps us just seconds from a full solution. Thank you. -Baker Baker, Triggers may be the only sane option to tie into all of the services that modify the data. If you only had WRITE() to deal with then it'd be a no-brainer to just replace it with a custom write control and replication output routine. I know a small amount about U2, so I won't make any guesses on what's possible. As far as network failover, just rely on a local DNS service. You can use one local domain name and assign multiple A records. The resolver on the client machine should do the heavy lifting and resolve to the first IP that works. Just make sure that the failed node drops off of the network or you could run into latency issue with the resolver. Regards, Glen Batchelor IT Director/CIO/CTO All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Print Wizard on Linux (was Re: Code 128 Soft Font)
I'll embed comments since it'll be easier to direct my responses. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bob Rasmussen Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 1:10 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] Print Wizard on Linux (was Re: Code 128 Soft Font) On Wed, 19 May 2010, Glen B wrote: Bob, Let me also extend an offer to help with general development off- hours, if you're willing to work with GPL libs for open development. ... Thanks for the offer. But you haven't said what Print Wizard features you want, exactly. I need a markup-based PS/PDF generating solution that accepts embedded PS/EPS as well as JPEG/GIF images. Barcode markup will be a nice addition, but not required since I can generate PS and PCL content myself. Let me give you the scope of things. I just did a full build of printwiz.exe; that is, just the main program that does all the dirty work. It's 550,432 lines of code! It has a PCL reader, a PDF writer, a PDF reader (coming soon), graphics file input routines (some purchased), an interface to Windows faxing, Windows sockets, and Windows scanning, SSL, CDO, MAPI, SMTP, the Windows spooler, FTP, HTTP, and Windows printer drivers (yes, we do use those for most printing output). It has some user interface, notably the print previewer, but not a lot. It can read files in formats PCL-5, PCL-6 (some), JPG, TIFF, BMP, WMF, EMF, SPL, TXT, PWML, HTML, PDF, Unicode, and more. It deals with input and output of TrueType fonts and does fine-grained manipulation on them. It prints in most world languages. Let's break a few things down and compare: PCL input and output is covered under Ghostscript, though some complex PCL6 stuff may be buggy. Find a bug and report it at this point. It will get fixed. Generic PCL3/4 stuff should be solid at this point, but I would verify with the devs. The XPS/GPDL code has been out for a while now. PDF/PS/EPS input and output are covered under Ghostscript. ImageMagick can handle image generation, manipulation, and conversion to a ton of formats. Ghostscript can output a variety of raster and vector image formats, but the input formats are limited since the application is vector based. I've not found a situation where I couldn't convert between multiple standard formats with ImageMagick and Ghostscript at my grasp. Faxing is a no-brainer with Hylafax or Hylafax++ using TIF or PS files. Most faxing applications will accept either format so Hylafax was just an example of a typical app that is installed. Most *nix servers that communicate with the world, or the employees in the office, run a local MTA so an embedded SMTP client will not be needed. Send it with the mail or sendmail command so that the admin has more control over how the mail is processed. FTP? If you absolutely have to, but most *nix admins I know of mock the user when that acronym is suggested. SCP is far superior in a ton of ways including speed and security. HTTP? Erm, how exactly are you suggesting that? You serve stuff through IIS? If so, lighttpd or Apache can be there depending on requirements. If you've embedded an HTTP server, don't bother on *nix. There are plenty of http servers you can hook directly or indirectly into. Windows printing drivers? While some obscure printers are problematic in CUPS configuration, I've never had an issue making programmatic paper/drawer/slot/etc selections when a PPD was available and installed properly. I'm willing to bet the *nix admin(s) running the equipment selected printers better suited to CUPS than Windows, so I wouldn't worry too much about that. The other formats you mention like WMF and SPL are pretty pointless here. Text is a given, along with TIFF, JPEG, and BMP. HTML and PWML are where your expertise and experience with rendering content from mark-up could really help make a great Linux product. Not having table support, though, is a huge missing feature. If I misread the tech guide, please correct me. Having CSS control in HTML would be just awesome. Instead of changing the HTML attributes to make layout and small design changes, I would just need to update the styles. I've not seen an HTML-PS tool that properly and consistently renders the HTML and one of the reasons I've wanted PrintWizard on Linux. And it's not in C, it's in Delphi. Now if you're interested in a very small subset of its capabilities, there might be hope. Several years ago I ported it to Kylix, which is the Linux equivalent of Delphi. I restricted it WAY down to just outputting PDF files. It was moderately painful. More to the point, it was dependent on Kylix
Re: [U2] Print Wizard on Linux (was Re: Code 128 Soft Font)
Guess I'll have to roll my own then. Reinventing the wheel... Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bob Rasmussen Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 4:35 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Print Wizard on Linux (was Re: Code 128 Soft Font) First, you mention table support. Print Wizard does currently have some HTML table support, with control over borders, margins, widths, etc. We haven't written it up yet. And there are some things lacking. What you have described is focused on markup-to-PCL or markup-to-PS, plus command and control of existing Linux utilities. This would greatly reduce the the complexity of the project. However, I still don't see the business case for doing this development. On Thu, 20 May 2010, Glen Batchelor wrote: I'll embed comments since it'll be easier to direct my responses. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bob Rasmussen Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 1:10 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] Print Wizard on Linux (was Re: Code 128 Soft Font) On Wed, 19 May 2010, Glen B wrote: Bob, Let me also extend an offer to help with general development off- hours, if you're willing to work with GPL libs for open development. ... Thanks for the offer. But you haven't said what Print Wizard features you want, exactly. I need a markup-based PS/PDF generating solution that accepts embedded PS/EPS as well as JPEG/GIF images. Barcode markup will be a nice addition, but not required since I can generate PS and PCL content myself. Let me give you the scope of things. I just did a full build of printwiz.exe; that is, just the main program that does all the dirty work. It's 550,432 lines of code! It has a PCL reader, a PDF writer, a PDF reader (coming soon), graphics file input routines (some purchased), an interface to Windows faxing, Windows sockets, and Windows scanning, SSL, CDO, MAPI, SMTP, the Windows spooler, FTP, HTTP, and Windows printer drivers (yes, we do use those for most printing output). It has some user interface, notably the print previewer, but not a lot. It can read files in formats PCL-5, PCL-6 (some), JPG, TIFF, BMP, WMF, EMF, SPL, TXT, PWML, HTML, PDF, Unicode, and more. It deals with input and output of TrueType fonts and does fine-grained manipulation on them. It prints in most world languages. Let's break a few things down and compare: PCL input and output is covered under Ghostscript, though some complex PCL6 stuff may be buggy. Find a bug and report it at this point. It will get fixed. Generic PCL3/4 stuff should be solid at this point, but I would verify with the devs. The XPS/GPDL code has been out for a while now. PDF/PS/EPS input and output are covered under Ghostscript. ImageMagick can handle image generation, manipulation, and conversion to a ton of formats. Ghostscript can output a variety of raster and vector image formats, but the input formats are limited since the application is vector based. I've not found a situation where I couldn't convert between multiple standard formats with ImageMagick and Ghostscript at my grasp. Faxing is a no-brainer with Hylafax or Hylafax++ using TIF or PS files. Most faxing applications will accept either format so Hylafax was just an example of a typical app that is installed. Most *nix servers that communicate with the world, or the employees in the office, run a local MTA so an embedded SMTP client will not be needed. Send it with the mail or sendmail command so that the admin has more control over how the mail is processed. FTP? If you absolutely have to, but most *nix admins I know of mock the user when that acronym is suggested. SCP is far superior in a ton of ways including speed and security. HTTP? Erm, how exactly are you suggesting that? You serve stuff through IIS? If so, lighttpd or Apache can be there depending on requirements. If you've embedded an HTTP server, don't bother on *nix. There are plenty of http servers you can hook directly or indirectly into. Windows printing drivers? While some obscure printers are problematic in CUPS
Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font
Do you have a server version for Linux yet? Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bob Rasmussen Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 12:48 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font On Tue, 18 May 2010, Charlie Noah wrote: ... Sorry, Tony, I have the greatest respect you you, but printing barcode is just too easy to pay a lot for it. Who said anything about paying a lot? You can get started in Print Wizard for $99 or $300, depending on configuration. How much is your time worth? (And not all printers have barcode capabilities built in.) (And thanks again, Tony.) Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font
Just about everything gets converted to PostScript by CUPS and filters, so I don't follow you. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bob Rasmussen Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 11:40 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font On Wed, 19 May 2010, Glen Batchelor wrote: Do you have a server version for Linux yet? You refer to our Print Wizard product. No, we don't have a Linux version. Printer drivers on Linux are far less powerful than those on Windows. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font
Bob, You don't directly use a printer driver to generate content for other printers, so what you suggest is a little misleading. I understand the Microsoft printing interface having done some coding myself. There are drawing and publishing libraries out there that will do what you want and produce vector or raster imaging depending on what output you're attempting. You can then reformat that using other tools/libraries. The Ghostscript libraries are very powerful and there are a lot of format, or device, output options included. The key with the GS/GPDL library is that everything gets processed as vector graphics. It is, afterall, based on Postscript. Bitmaps are not handled that well, so PCL output can get bloated. The GPDL library is getting better for PCL2PS conversion, but it's still not perfect. I would note that your best success will probably come from generating Postscript content in your tools and then leveraging the GS libs to output PCL, inkjet, jpeg, etc output. I also suggest you stop by #ghostscript on irc.freenode.net and chat with the devs if you're looking for a Microsoft-like drawing and formatting library replacement. While it may be off-topic, I'm sure someone will suggest a few options. There also is a user and dev mailing list if you're not IRC-inclined. Don't forget about Tetex and/or LaTex markup conversion possibilities too. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bob Rasmussen Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 11:59 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font On Wed, 19 May 2010, Glen Batchelor wrote: Just about everything gets converted to PostScript by CUPS and filters, so I don't follow you. My understanding is that CUPS deals with things at a job level, but not at a graphical element level. So for instance, if I have a TIF file I can feed it to CUPS as such, and the filters in CUPS can convert it to PostScript, if that's what's needed. But suppose I want to draw a red line from point A to point B on a page. Then I want to print in Arial 23 point bold, rotated 15 degrees. A Windows printer driver lets me do that, and have it come out correctly on thousands of kinds of printers. I don't believe CUPS gives me that fine level of control. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.pick/browse_thread/thread/2529 1158ebe10314/9036f6c8e439fb7f?lnk=gstq=code+128#9036f6c8e439fb7f Or do a search on google groups for code 128 in comp.databases.pick ; David Church posted a code128 PCL generator back in '97. I've not used it, but I may be taking it for a spin in a few weeks to trial some new bar coding processes. Let me know if this works well for you. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Caminiti, Marc Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 4:46 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font Quick, maybe not necessarily U2 related, question. We are looking to generate Code 128 Barcodes from an HP LaserJet printer. Testing on a 4050, but the production printer (yet to be purchased) will be an HP LaserJet 9050. I'm leaning toward using a soft font, but was wondering if anyone out there had any luck with a particular font and see what is being used out there. Thanks in advance marc Marc Caminiti IS Manager Nashbar Direct, Inc 6103 State Route 446 Canfield, OH 44406 330.533.1989, ext 336 330.702.9733, fax All generalisations are dangerous, even this one. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential information that is legally privileged. The information is solely for the use of the intended recipient(s). Any disclosure, copying, distribution, or other use of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete this message. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font
I couldn't resist the urge to try it. Works fine from what I've tried so far, but I did tweak it to return the PCL code back to the calling program instead of just printing it. I had to issue a PCL reset before the bar code content to get our Kyocera copier to switch to PCL mode and render it. All PCL3 and up capable printers should handle the output. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Glen Batchelor Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 6:28 PM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.pick/browse_thread/thread/25 29 1158ebe10314/9036f6c8e439fb7f?lnk=gstq=code+128#9036f6c8e439fb7f Or do a search on google groups for code 128 in comp.databases.pick ; David Church posted a code128 PCL generator back in '97. I've not used it, but I may be taking it for a spin in a few weeks to trial some new bar coding processes. Let me know if this works well for you. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Caminiti, Marc Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 4:46 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font Quick, maybe not necessarily U2 related, question. We are looking to generate Code 128 Barcodes from an HP LaserJet printer. Testing on a 4050, but the production printer (yet to be purchased) will be an HP LaserJet 9050. I'm leaning toward using a soft font, but was wondering if anyone out there had any luck with a particular font and see what is being used out there. Thanks in advance marc Marc Caminiti IS Manager Nashbar Direct, Inc 6103 State Route 446 Canfield, OH 44406 330.533.1989, ext 336 330.702.9733, fax All generalisations are dangerous, even this one. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential information that is legally privileged. The information is solely for the use of the intended recipient(s). Any disclosure, copying, distribution, or other use of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete this message. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] XML format question
I like to think of elements are as file folders. You can create a specific file folder for every tiny piece of data and make locating those pieces easy in a DOM based on node name. SAX, on the other hand, fires off events for every node and attribute it encounters at all levels. So, your format choice is a combination of considerations. The parser is one major thing if you're dealing with raw parsing, but if you are going to need validation then which design will be easier to write/manage an xsd for? If you aren't doing validation and the parsing method is irrelevant then the main thing to consider is readability. As Norman said earlier, an attribute-centric file will be smaller. Keep in mind, though, that attributes define properties of an element/node. They are not root nodes and therefore can not have child nodes. Therefore, no relative multi-value/nested data can be stored. The element, which said attribute is in, can have child nodes but those nodes inherit all of the parent's attributes at once. IMO, common data should be included as attributes to a root element or as elements within a container that is defined as a single, large entity by the container. Hopefully that makes sense? Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Brian Leach Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 11:24 AM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] XML format question George So to paraphrase, when do you use attributes to hold data and when do you elements.. The problem is, there is no clear answer to this, and everyone who designs XML schema has to grapple with this question. The only simple answer is that if a value could legitimately have an attribute associated with it to qualify it, it should be an element. So in your example, the precision attribute is qualifying the type/content of the Latitude element. But that is really just a design and not a technical choice. The real answer is more pragmatic - it generally depends on what the consumer of that data wants. In parsing terms, attributes and elements are not the same so if the contract calls for an element, use an element; and if it calls for an attribute, use an attribute. It's a question I've asked lots of times and never really had a solid or consistent answer. Brian -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of George Gallen Sent: 13 May 2010 4:06 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] XML format question I'm importing some XML, and a question came up with the following: I'm writing a small xml extraction program to setup a dynamic array, what is the difference between putting a field inside the label vs putting the field between the tags of the label? Aren't they both a subset of the label? I always thought that if the field was a single value field, it would be quoted and inside the label, but if it could be a multivaled field, it would go between the field tags, with it's own field/tags. Result precision=addressLatitude39.931085/Latitude Longitude-77.387943/LongitudeAddress1001 N Some Rd/Address CitySomewhere/CityStatePA/StateZip15063- 1404/ZipCountryUS/Cou ntry /Result Could this have formatted just as well as: Resultprecisionaddress/precisionLatitude39.931085/Latitude Longitude-77.387943/LongitudeAddress1001 N Some Rd/Address CitySomewhere/CityStatePA/StateZip19063- 1404/ZipCountryUS/Cou ntry /Result or Result precision=address Latitude=39.931085 Longitude=-77.387943 Address=1001 N Some Rd City=Somewhere State=PA Zip=19063-1404 Country=US/Result George Gallen Senior Programmer/Analyst Accounting/Data Division, EDI Administrator ggal...@wyanokegroup.com ph:856.848.9005 Ext 220 The Wyanoke Group http://www.wyanokegroup.com ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.819 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2870 - Release Date: 05/12/10 19:26:00 ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] AccuTerm File Transfer
You can systematically change the slave printer on the remote Accuterm PC using host-issued scripting, but you gotta be careful of windows printer names with spaces. I dump check printing code directly to a printer and then reset back to default using this method. I seriously doubt a binary word doc will pass through without wrecking the slave session, but you can ask Pete on the Asent support forum. There is probably already a similar question on the scripting forum. Glen.mobile RewriteRule ^(garbage|junk)$ /$1 [NC,L] On Apr 30, 2010, at 1:20 AM, Robert Houben robert.hou...@fwic.net wrote: Back in 1985/86 I helped design and develop a terminal emulator, the first one for PICK, called PK Harmony (based on the PC-Harmony Business Basic emulator family). We designed all these useful escape sequences so you could have a PICK/BASIC program run a DOS command, or drive a printer, either directly or through a slave printer function. I'd like to think that modern terminal emulators have a way to direct output to a printer, but maybe not. I've been out of the terminal emulator end of things and into ODBC/JDBC and successors for almost 20 years now. They might pop up and ask you what printer to send output to, which would be a bit of a drag. The more useful thing would be to be able to ask the emulator what printers it has available and optionally select one by name or ordinal, from the list. Then you could do everything programmatically, without interaction. These days I tend to operate from telnet, so I don't really know the emulators, anymore. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of McGowan, Ian Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 6:31 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] AccuTerm File Transfer I forgot the obligatory plug for pickwiki: http://www.pickwiki.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?RunAProgram - this page has escape sequences for a lot of the common emulators... Ian McGowan -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of McGowan, Ian Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 6:25 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] AccuTerm File Transfer If you can arrange for the terminal emulator to run a command, you can fire off (for example): cmd /c start http://myserver/files/abc123.pdf; And the end user's PC will launch the default browser and attempt to connect to the web service. You set the mime-type to application/ pdf, include some magic javascript in the pdf to open up the print dialog automatically, and Bob's your uncle. Closing the pdf is tricky, we've left it to the user to do that. For word, substitute macros for javascript (though the user will have to be prepared for scary popups). If you have full control of the client's environment, you can install tools like doit (by the author of putty) and bypass the terminal emulator bit. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/doit/ The other way we do this to send word, excel and pdf docs generated by pick basic code is to simply email it to the user. Sometimes there's no other options - there's a firewall in the way, security won't allow other methods, etc. The users don't seem to care, as long as they get a document in a few seconds. Ian McGowan 925.609.2554 -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Kevin King Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 5:01 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] AccuTerm File Transfer Glen, so how is it exactly that an event on the server will trigger this transfer, open, print, and exit? ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message is intended only for the addressee and may contain confidential, privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not use, copy or disclose any information contained in the message. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender by reply e-mail and delete the message. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] AccuTerm File Transfer
The same is true for HTTP based services, provided the service is secured for Internet querying or a VPN is in place for WAN requests. The only time port 80/443 are issues is when the PC is locked down due to a strict IAP. If you have a bridged VPN you can even use Windows/Samba shares across the nodes and open stuff up directly from an off-site server and not involve a web browser. A WINS server may be required depending on how the networks are tied together. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Dave Laansma Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 8:40 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] AccuTerm File Transfer The beauty of the Accuterm (and other direct 'push' features) is that there is virtually no setup required on the PC in order to transfer the data. If Accuterm is operational and you have a network connection, it simply works. And if you get really creative, after the file is transported to the PC, then you can activate open Excel run an Accuterm script that opens said file and automatically formats the columns right in front of the user. My users have come to LOVE this 'magical' report delivery method. And no special setup is necessary on their PC. Sincerely, David Laansma IT Manager Hubbard Supply Co. Direct: 810-342-7143 Office: 810-234-8681 Fax: 810-234-6142 www.hubbardsupply.com Delivering Products, Services and Innovative Solutions -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Robert Houben Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 1:21 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] AccuTerm File Transfer Back in 1985/86 I helped design and develop a terminal emulator, the first one for PICK, called PK Harmony (based on the PC-Harmony Business Basic emulator family). We designed all these useful escape sequences so you could have a PICK/BASIC program run a DOS command, or drive a printer, either directly or through a slave printer function. I'd like to think that modern terminal emulators have a way to direct output to a printer, but maybe not. I've been out of the terminal emulator end of things and into ODBC/JDBC and successors for almost 20 years now. They might pop up and ask you what printer to send output to, which would be a bit of a drag. The more useful thing would be to be able to ask the emulator what printers it has available and optionally select one by name or ordinal, from the list. Then you could do everything programmatically, without interaction. These days I tend to operate from telnet, so I don't really know the emulators, anymore. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of McGowan, Ian Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 6:31 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] AccuTerm File Transfer I forgot the obligatory plug for pickwiki: http://www.pickwiki.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?RunAProgram - this page has escape sequences for a lot of the common emulators... Ian McGowan -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of McGowan, Ian Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 6:25 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] AccuTerm File Transfer If you can arrange for the terminal emulator to run a command, you can fire off (for example): cmd /c start http://myserver/files/abc123.pdf; And the end user's PC will launch the default browser and attempt to connect to the web service. You set the mime-type to application/pdf, include some magic javascript in the pdf to open up the print dialog automatically, and Bob's your uncle. Closing the pdf is tricky, we've left it to the user to do that. For word, substitute macros for javascript (though the user will have to be prepared for scary popups). If you have full control of the client's environment, you can install tools like doit (by the author of putty) and bypass the terminal emulator bit. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/doit/ The other way we do this to send word, excel and pdf docs generated by pick basic code is to simply email it to the user. Sometimes there's no other options - there's a firewall in the way, security won't allow other methods, etc. The users don't seem to care, as long as they get a document in a few seconds. Ian McGowan 925.609.2554 -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Kevin King Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 5:01 PM
Re: [U2] AccuTerm File Transfer
Kevin, Spell out what you want to achieve and I'm sure several solutions will be suggested. I'm sure Tony has plenty of suggestions for controlling MSWord from Accuterm. DDE was a god-send back in the day and I did some neat app-control things with it under Accuterm, but it's been replaced with COM mostly. The same things can happen, but they may require a bit more scripting work. I've moved away from heavy/critical Accuterm scripting, after running into session window name query issues with it. It was hit-or-miss as to whether or not I would get a null or the session name. Perhaps that has been fixed in later releases. For some things it's great, but for the few times I've (ab)used it the outcome was not 100% stable on high traffic calls. Of course, I typically run into odd problems the rest of the world doesn't so take it as you want. Did you read my 'transferring binary through FlashCONNECT from D3' article in Spectrum? The methodology behind that style of data handling and presentation is not unique to D3, FC, and Apache. I just happened to find that a great solution to help present the message. Too often people get stuck viewing one application as the center of the solution instead of a component of a larger plan. There are other ways to get a result 'outside of the box', while still using a required application as a trigger, controlling, or pass-through point. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Kevin King Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 10:40 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] AccuTerm File Transfer I understand the beauty of being able to push reports out a slave printer, but what do you do when the goal is printing labels with specific large proportionally spaced fonts and center or right justification of the text? ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] AccuTerm File Transfer
I'd opt for print wizard unless you want to hard code the PCL and avoid middleware. You can code the PCL font and spacing escape codes directly in your app and just print the code to the slave printer like normal. It's a little more design time, but it'll be a fairly static setup. If you want PCL example code to use print the label from Word to a Laserjet 4 driver set to print to file. Or, Google it. There are lots of PCL references on the web. I can help as well. Glen.mobile RewriteRule ^(garbage|junk)$ /$1 [NC,L] On Apr 30, 2010, at 1:04 PM, Kevin King precisonl...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Peter, that sounds like the ticket for what I need. What version should I look for? Glen, the goal is to be able to print a label on a laser printer from a keypress on the Unidata application side. The complexities are that the label needs various fonts, most of them proportionally spaced and center or right justified. That's the gig. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] AccuTerm File Transfer (script to change windows printer selection)
If the default printer on the remote session is used for the label and for all other documents, then you don't need this code at all, but I figured I'd post it anyway for reference. Here's the code I use to change the default printer in Accuterm: ACCUTERM.PRINTERNAME = Local-Windows-Printer-Name PRINT CHAR(27):CHAR(2):'P InitSession.PrinterName=':ACCUTERM.PRINTERNAME:'':CHAR(13): To print PCL directly, make sure the slave printer section is marked Text mode and that the driver for Local-Windows-Printer-Name is a PCL-compatible driver. You will also need to set a specific printer in the session printer setup, so that it can be changed programmatically. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Kevin King Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 1:04 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] AccuTerm File Transfer Hey Peter, that sounds like the ticket for what I need. What version should I look for? Glen, the goal is to be able to print a label on a laser printer from a keypress on the Unidata application side. The complexities are that the label needs various fonts, most of them proportionally spaced and center or right justified. That's the gig. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] AccuTerm File Transfer
If that's the case, then check out HTMLDOC. You can generate PS from an HTML file and then have Ghostscript create a pcl3 file from that using the pcl3 output device option. You can then dump that file through the slave printer and clean up the temp files. I'm not 100% proven on the PCL support as an end-all solution, since I recently found a bug in the PDL code. But, the GPL stuff is stable for the most part and I use it regularly. The PCL data size is sometimes bloated due to vector graphics blobs, but it should work OK for simple text PCL layouts. Best thing is it's free. Of course, you should probably pay for an HTMLDOC license if it's installed for enterprise use. It's not that expensive. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Kevin King Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 2:29 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] AccuTerm File Transfer While the PW thing looks cool, and especially the integration with AccuTerm, the customer is on an earlier version of AccuTerm and I'm not entirely certain I can convince them to upgrade. But... we have some really good ideas floating around here, and I appreciate all the input. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] AccuTerm File Transfer
Can you not deliver the file via web service? You can execute a DOS start command to pull the URL up. I'm doing that and also using net shares to pull files up across the network. The data transfer method is indeed a bit slow. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Kevin King Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 1:59 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] AccuTerm File Transfer I noticed that the AccuTerm ASCII transfer is markedly faster, but ... there's no error correction there either (right?) and if this file loses an inopportune character or two, well, bad juju can happen. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] AccuTerm File Transfer
Why not? I do that with PDF files just fine. Just make sure the MIME content is correct in the response header, for the file type you're serving. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Kevin King Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 2:55 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] AccuTerm File Transfer The end game at the moment is that a Unidata session will build a Word document which is then opened by the client and printed. So the web service probably isn't going to work in this context. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] AccuTerm File Transfer
It depends on your MV web service capabilities and which browser. You can do it natively in IE, IIRC, with jscript calls, but I imagine you'll need two services to make it happen. One for a dynamic doc source and a another one to launch from Accuterm that controls the doc resource and window behavior. Too bad DDE has gone away. If you use a network share, you can do it with a direct call to winword via DOS command with some switches. That's what I do for non-PDF resources. Glen.mobile RewriteRule ^(garbage|junk)$ /$1 [NC,L] On Apr 29, 2010, at 8:00 PM, Kevin King precisonl...@gmail.com wrote: Glen, so how is it exactly that an event on the server will trigger this transfer, open, print, and exit? ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Universe and stripped drives
Look at EasyCo's MFT. I'm still trying to sort out drive-specific issues, but initial performance benchmarks are just awesome. We have 4 OCZ Vertex Turbo 60GB drives in softRAID level 5. The restructuring of the block writes also extends the life of the drives. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of George Gallen Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 2:21 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Universe and stripped drives I considered adding a few SSD to our server, but given they 'wear' out faster with increased writes, we dropped that idea. I've played with the tmpfs before. I have a script that creates the fs, then untars a tar file into it (a saved Universe Account). When I'm done, I run the other script to retar the account and store it as a .tar file, then remove the tempfs. Gives a little permanancy(?) to the tmpfs data. As long as I mount the tempfs in the same spot each time, UV always will be able to work with it. Of course, if it tries when the tempfs is not mounted, it doesn't crash and burn, just some error messages. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Brutzman, Bill Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 2:12 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Universe and stripped drives I am filled with wonder for the salesman who sells striping of solid-state server drives. --Bill ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide
-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 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 passion for Jon's works seems to be timeless. 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. And with a windbag like Jon, well, we could crank out a book over a session at Starbuck's. ;) Why would there be interest in books when there are VARs and consultants that will just do the work? How many developers out there would really take interest in core design and integration tomes? That's when a magazine article or forum thread can't expose the details properly. I'd love to write a book, but books written about design and integration tend to have short shelf lives. There are plenty of application design books already out there that can be applied to code of any language. The integration aspect is constantly changing and there are so many methods to cover. It's difficult to write something useable by everyone. Remember the communication RFC I tried to get backing on? No one wants to make things easy, because then it'll become mundane and standard. Mundane and standard don't bring in revenue. We(MV in general) are fish still fighting for the same food in a dwindling tank. I've blogged and written forum postings about the lack of books in this market: remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com/blog/tech/mv/2007/05/mvbooks1.html All we really need is some sense of visible community commitment and I'm sure we would see new/modern books for Pick/MultiValue just like Linux, SQL Server, PHP, Java, C#, Excel, and hundreds of other technical topics - not just from me or maybe Jon but from many other qualified authors in this community. A commitment is one tough thing. Finding a topic you can fulfill in a single book, without drowning the reader, is another. Look at it this way, a lack of MV books can cost you your job, so it may be worth it to support efforts like this. If your company is acquired and/or you get a new CTO, you may hear: What is this? I can't find a single book on this. We need to replace this with something mainstream. Help foster the creation of a wealth of material and that battle of this war will no longer need to be fought. Thoughts? Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com Visit PickWiki.com! Contribute! http://Twitter.com/TonyGravagno At this point, a couple of randomly published and unnoticed books will not prevent a seat from being overturned or an application from being overhauled. However, it wouldn't hurt to have a few e-books on Kindle. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Barcode Software for UniVerse?
EPL and ZPL-II programming guides can be downloaded for free from the Zebra web site. Look under Resource Library for your printer model. I have a ZPL-I paper book from the late 90s, but most of the ZPL printers talk ver2 now. In my experience, EPL has the best options for hand-coded binary image inclusion and also handling data with language delimiters involved. ZPL, on occasion, has given me grief when inch marks or/and foot marks are involved in the field text but it is a less messy language to learn and implement. You can also just download the free Zebra Designer from the drivers area and use the form designer with the printer's form/data replacement functions or print a sample and replace the data in-app as mentioned earlier. I've no idea what printer model(s) you're trying to print to. I design our labels by hand, simply because the time it takes to get the media sized and fonts sized in the design app is about the same as it takes me to do it by hand. If you need to include fancy logos and such, you should use a GUI app that can resample and reformat the image for the language in question. That is not something I've been very successful at on my own. I have seen BarTender and played with it. If we had a large mix of barcode printers in-house, or if I needed to embed a bunch of PNGs/BMPs, I would probably use it to generate multiple language templates of the same label format. Otherwise, it's a waste of money for us considering how simple the EPL and ZPL languages are in relation to PCL. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Schasny Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 12:57 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Barcode Software for UniVerse? I'd like to see your ZPL example please. Thanks Lappies wrote: When Printing to Zebra printers you can either use EPL or ZPL. Here is a EPL sample, I do have ZPL code available aswell. 0016: ** 0017: * 0018: * Barcode Format 0019: * -- 0020: * 0021: * Syntax : P1 , P2 , P3 , P4 , P5 , P6 , P7 , P8, DATA 0022: * eg : PRINT 'B100,50,0,3,1,3,85,B,':VALX:'' 0023: * 0024: * P1 = Horizontal Start 0025: * P2 = Vertical Start 0026: * P3 = Rotation (O=None , 1=90 , 2=180) 0027: * P4 = BarCode Type (3,3C,9,1,2,2C,K) eg * 3 = Code 39 * For 128 Use type 1 or 1E 0028: * P5 = Narrow Bar Width 0029: * P6 = Wide Bar Width 0030: * P7 = Bar Code Hight in Dots 0031: * P8 = Print Human Readable Code (B=Yes, N=No) 0032: * 0033: ** 0034: * 0035: * Text Format 0036: * 0037: * 0038: * Syntax : P1 , P2 , P3 , P4 , P5 , P6 , P7, TEXT TO PRINT 0039: * eg : PRINT 'A100,50,0,2,1,1,85,N,':VARIABLE:'' 0040: * 0041: * P1 = Horizontal Start 0042: * P2 = Vertical Start 0043: * P3 = Rotation (O=None , 1=90 , 2=180) 0044: * P4 = Font Selection (1-5) 0045: * P5 = Horizontal Expand (1-8) 0046: * P6 = Vertical Expand (1-9) 0047: * P7 = N=Normal , R=Reverse Angle 0048: * 0049: ** 0050: 0095: PRINTER ON 0096: PRINT N 0097: PRINT S3 ; * Speed to print at between 1 and 8 0098: PRINT Q200,18 ; * Label length plus Gap size 0099: PRINT q800 ; * Label width PS! mm * 8 0099: * 0100: PRINT 'A40,0,0,3,1,1,N,COMPANY NAME' 0101: PRINT 'B20,20,0,3,1,3,50,B,':PART.NO:'' 0102: PRINT 'A20,110,0,2,1,1,N,':RETAIL.PRICE:'' 0103: PRINT 'A20,130,0,2,1,1,N,':BIN.CODE:'' 0104: PRINT 'A20,155,0,2,1,1,N,':DESCRIPTION:'' 0111: * 0112: PRINT P:NO.OF.LABELS 0113: PRINTER OFF ; PRINTER CLOSE Lappies Labuschagne Tecfinity 8 Osborn Lane, Ground Floor, Bedfordview, Germiston, South Africa. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Mark Eastwood Sent: 24 Februarie 2010 07:31 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Barcode Software for UniVerse? I won't claim it's the best, just the one we've used for years - BarTender Download free eval copy here: http
Re: [U2] Barcode Software for UniVerse?
BTW, be sure to note print head DPI on all your printers. If you have multiple Zebra/Eltron models with different DPI heads then the same label code will not work on them all. The industry workhorse 105SL, for example, is available in 203 and 300 DPI which greatly skew the field positioning and label sizing. Even if you use a graphical designer, the resultant form code will be for a specific DPI setting. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Schasny Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 12:57 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Barcode Software for UniVerse? I'd like to see your ZPL example please. Thanks Lappies wrote: When Printing to Zebra printers you can either use EPL or ZPL. Here is a EPL sample, I do have ZPL code available aswell. 0016: ** 0017: * 0018: * Barcode Format 0019: * -- 0020: * 0021: * Syntax : P1 , P2 , P3 , P4 , P5 , P6 , P7 , P8, DATA 0022: * eg : PRINT 'B100,50,0,3,1,3,85,B,':VALX:'' 0023: * 0024: * P1 = Horizontal Start 0025: * P2 = Vertical Start 0026: * P3 = Rotation (O=None , 1=90 , 2=180) 0027: * P4 = BarCode Type (3,3C,9,1,2,2C,K) eg * 3 = Code 39 * For 128 Use type 1 or 1E 0028: * P5 = Narrow Bar Width 0029: * P6 = Wide Bar Width 0030: * P7 = Bar Code Hight in Dots 0031: * P8 = Print Human Readable Code (B=Yes, N=No) 0032: * 0033: ** 0034: * 0035: * Text Format 0036: * 0037: * 0038: * Syntax : P1 , P2 , P3 , P4 , P5 , P6 , P7, TEXT TO PRINT 0039: * eg : PRINT 'A100,50,0,2,1,1,85,N,':VARIABLE:'' 0040: * 0041: * P1 = Horizontal Start 0042: * P2 = Vertical Start 0043: * P3 = Rotation (O=None , 1=90 , 2=180) 0044: * P4 = Font Selection (1-5) 0045: * P5 = Horizontal Expand (1-8) 0046: * P6 = Vertical Expand (1-9) 0047: * P7 = N=Normal , R=Reverse Angle 0048: * 0049: ** 0050: 0095: PRINTER ON 0096: PRINT N 0097: PRINT S3 ; * Speed to print at between 1 and 8 0098: PRINT Q200,18 ; * Label length plus Gap size 0099: PRINT q800 ; * Label width PS! mm * 8 0099: * 0100: PRINT 'A40,0,0,3,1,1,N,COMPANY NAME' 0101: PRINT 'B20,20,0,3,1,3,50,B,':PART.NO:'' 0102: PRINT 'A20,110,0,2,1,1,N,':RETAIL.PRICE:'' 0103: PRINT 'A20,130,0,2,1,1,N,':BIN.CODE:'' 0104: PRINT 'A20,155,0,2,1,1,N,':DESCRIPTION:'' 0111: * 0112: PRINT P:NO.OF.LABELS 0113: PRINTER OFF ; PRINTER CLOSE Lappies Labuschagne Tecfinity 8 Osborn Lane, Ground Floor, Bedfordview, Germiston, South Africa. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Mark Eastwood Sent: 24 Februarie 2010 07:31 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Barcode Software for UniVerse? I won't claim it's the best, just the one we've used for years - BarTender Download free eval copy here: http://www.seagullscientific.com/aspx/btw_down.aspx -Original Message- Can anyone recommend software to print UCC128 labels from UniVerse? We are using Sato and Zebra printers. I am looking for software that allows us to easily design and print lables. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- Jeff Schasny - Denver, Co, USA jschasny at gmail dot com ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2
Re: [U2] Export files
INSERT INTO Employees (ID, LastName, Status) VALUES (1234, Jones, Terminated for stupidity) INSERT INTO Employees (ID, LastName, Status) VALUES (1235, Smith, Transferred to Siberia) Everyone here can understand this solution, unlike the others that have been proposed, and this is free and doesn't include any component other than BASIC. It also requires a local command-line client for the database in question. :) Did I tell you the one about the self-exclaimed power user that took classes to learn how to turn a computer on and off? Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com Nebula RD provides Pick/MultiValue development services remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com/blog Visit PickWiki.com! Contribute! http://Twitter.com/TonyGravagno Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Credit Card info
To be honest, you should read the PCI data security guidelines from Visa instead of asking in here. It's available from the Visa web site, along with the current interchange rates. You can also talk to the guys @ Total Computing. Examples of a few data restrictions: 1) You can only store the CVV2/CID for as long as the order is open. Once the transaction is completed fully you must destroy it from all storage locations. (This includes e-mails, print-outs, etc) 2) You can only show the last 4 digits of the card on reports and such. 3) You _must_ encrypt the card data. If you have a high volume of credit card transactions (used to be $1million month, not sure this year) then you may be included in the random audit list. If you can afford to use a remote payment vault center, then by all means do so. You will only be liable for the data when you first transmit it to the vault for storage. From then on, you just refer to a unique ID to process the card over and over again until you decide to dump it. The CVV2 code is still transmitted for each transaction, though since it can't be stored. The PCI requirements are getting horrendous and annoying at this point. Yet fraud still hasn't gone down. I could go on and on about the faults within and surrounding the card industry, but we'd be here all day. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Mike Dallaire Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 5:07 PM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: [U2] Credit Card info Hi all, We are looking for any thoughts on storing credit card information in UniVerse for our customers. Up until now we have not stored this information and we welcome any thoughts, helpful tips, etc. on doing so. We have already decided we will encrypt the stored data, but there are other issues such as printing of the data, etc. Keep in mind we provide the software, our customers are using and controlling the data. Thanks in advance for any info. Mike Michael Dallaire Senior Applications Developer IBM Certified Solutions Expert Mortgage Builder Software, Inc. mi...@mortgagebuilder.com Main: 800.850.8060 ext. 103 Fax:248.304.0601 www.mortgagebuilder.com Help Desk198 Confidentiality Notice This transmission may contain confidential information which is intended for the exclusive use of the intended recipient. Any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents by anyone other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. If received in error, please reply to the sender immediately ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] uucp
Plus, you can tell it to tunnel over ssh and with ssh keys setup on the remote host you won't need to enter a password. Glen.mobile RewriteRule ^(garbage|junk)$ /$1 [NC,L] On Nov 20, 2009, at 1:48 PM, Anthony W. Youngman u...@thewolery.demon.co.uk wrote: In message 4b06d726.9020...@powellclan.com, Jeff Powell j...@powellclan.com writes Have you tried rsync? You can copy whole directories omitting files that have not changed. rsync -auv --compress source_dir destination_server:/dest_dir In our case we do this every two hours as a backup to a hot standby server. It works great. I can log in to the standby server and see sales that were made that day. iirc it's even better than that. I don't have the source immediately to hand, but (a) rsync was, I think, written by one of the SAMBA guys, so they knew what they were doing, and (b) not only does it only copy files that are changed, but if they are big it only copies the bits that changed! So if you're only updating the odd record in a several-megabyte file it won't understand the U2 structure, but it'll spot that just a couple of blocks have changed and only copy them. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman pi...@thewolery.demon.co.uk 'Yings, yow graley yin! Suz ae rikt dheu,' said the blue man, taking the thimble. 'What *is* he?' said Magrat. 'They're gnomes,' said Nanny. The man lowered the thimble. 'Pictsies!' Carpe Jugulum, Terry Pratchett 1998 Visit the MaVerick web-site - http://www.maverick-dbms.org Open Source Pick ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Problem with Multi-value market in general
Nope. I never suggested any of that. Please pick specific facts and counter them. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Symeon Breen Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 4:37 PM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] Problem with Multi-value market in general ground-breaking iPod You have succumbed to apple marketing, people think they invented the gui or windows - both wrong - people now think they invented mp3 players - i still have a tiny 256meg mpg player with an oled screen that i bought a couple of years before apple entered with the ipod. I have met people who think the iphone is the first ever phone with a proper web browser - in fact the advert in the uk hinted at this, and was subsequently banned for being inaccurate. Apple are one of my gripes they invent nothing but marketing ! -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Glen Batchelor Sent: 17 September 2009 22:50 To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] Problem with Multi-value market in general The iPhone was a progression of proprietary touch technology and combined supporting technologies and software (stemming from the original ground-breaking iPod through to the iTouch/iPhone) that did not exist with other mobile multi-media or cellular phone products. Other makers have been trying to catch up with their versions of Apple's mobile products, but they're just not in the same league. It wasn't _just_ marketing that has made iPhone popular. The overall design and execution of the technology progression was planned very well. Can you say the same for any MV database? Apple has had a long-term (and huge) client following for many of their hardware devices and software applications. Many facets of the iPhone including interface design and app design and deployment venues contributed to the fast growth. It's not just a smart phone with web toys on it. It's a business sales channel with access to many markets. It will change the way business is being done, even more so than the Palm and Blackberry. Suggesting that marketing can help U2 grow the way the iPhone has is just absurd. Sure, we need marketing help in general but what has been said before is still true; people don't buy databases, they buy solutions. The iPhone is a solution (which runs SQLite for the apps BTW). Write an application for the iPhone that talks to U2 and sell it if you want to broaden the horizon. I have a few ideas of my own, but I'm not paying $800 for a used MacBook just to try a market idea out. :) I got twin toddlers to feed and bills to pay!! Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Doug Chanco Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 5:14 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Problem with Multi-value market in general Maybe they will hire apple's marketing dept. and in a release or two down the line we'll have customers standing in line to buy U2? They did it with iPhone so I'm sure they can do it with U2 Dougc -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Frank Eperjesi Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 4:53 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] Problem with Multi-value market in general Not to knock Rocket (Especially now that I guess I am be a dealer of there). Also I have no history with them A lot of what all you say as to U2 not evolving enough is true, but part of the reason for that and problems in the D3, U2 or mult-value world in general is that almost all the current multi-value providers are doing one or more of these things .: 1) Either living off the bones of their installed base and/or swooping in to feed off of whoever is still running D3 and its flavors, but doing nothing to attract new users. IBM falls into the 2nd category. 2) Jbase ( I think Cache) are successful application software companies that basically created their own version of Multi-value to migrate to save their investment. I have not looked a Jbase in a while, but Cache has some nice new features. My company (BAI) is one of the dwindling software
Re: [U2] Problem with Multi-value market in general
The iPhone was a progression of proprietary touch technology and combined supporting technologies and software (stemming from the original ground-breaking iPod through to the iTouch/iPhone) that did not exist with other mobile multi-media or cellular phone products. Other makers have been trying to catch up with their versions of Apple's mobile products, but they're just not in the same league. It wasn't _just_ marketing that has made iPhone popular. The overall design and execution of the technology progression was planned very well. Can you say the same for any MV database? Apple has had a long-term (and huge) client following for many of their hardware devices and software applications. Many facets of the iPhone including interface design and app design and deployment venues contributed to the fast growth. It's not just a smart phone with web toys on it. It's a business sales channel with access to many markets. It will change the way business is being done, even more so than the Palm and Blackberry. Suggesting that marketing can help U2 grow the way the iPhone has is just absurd. Sure, we need marketing help in general but what has been said before is still true; people don't buy databases, they buy solutions. The iPhone is a solution (which runs SQLite for the apps BTW). Write an application for the iPhone that talks to U2 and sell it if you want to broaden the horizon. I have a few ideas of my own, but I'm not paying $800 for a used MacBook just to try a market idea out. :) I got twin toddlers to feed and bills to pay!! Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Doug Chanco Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 5:14 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Problem with Multi-value market in general Maybe they will hire apple's marketing dept. and in a release or two down the line we'll have customers standing in line to buy U2? They did it with iPhone so I'm sure they can do it with U2 Dougc -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Frank Eperjesi Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 4:53 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] Problem with Multi-value market in general Not to knock Rocket (Especially now that I guess I am be a dealer of there). Also I have no history with them A lot of what all you say as to U2 not evolving enough is true, but part of the reason for that and problems in the D3, U2 or mult-value world in general is that almost all the current multi-value providers are doing one or more of these things .: 1) Either living off the bones of their installed base and/or swooping in to feed off of whoever is still running D3 and its flavors, but doing nothing to attract new users. IBM falls into the 2nd category. 2) Jbase ( I think Cache) are successful application software companies that basically created their own version of Multi-value to migrate to save their investment. I have not looked a Jbase in a while, but Cache has some nice new features. My company (BAI) is one of the dwindling software providers still bringing in fresh meat to the table. Up to now just saying U2 was part of IBM made a HUGE difference. The original Unidata name was not a good as saying we were an IBM database but their name and support material were very good. As good a Rocket may be, not sure saying we are running on a data base from a company called rocketsoftware will be any help in selling to our prospect base. Unlike IBM we will have to sell RocketSoftware viability as well as our applications. Unless Rocket comes up with a super marketing effort, things just got a lot harder for us. Frank E. Eperjesi Vice President Business Automation, Inc. (714) 998-6600 phone (714) 998-6170 Fax * * * * Internet Email Confidentiality Footer * * * * Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of my firm shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf
Re: [U2] Problem with Multi-value market in general
Cheater!! Don't you get tired of zooming and scrolling? A native app is better suited for complex web applications. Safari on the iPhone does an amazing job with typical web sites, but it's still a major pain to have to zoom and pan to type into fields all over the page. We're considering a mobile version of our site because of how cumbersome it is to use sites designed for 800 or larger screens. Anyway, this is getting way off-thread. Maybe we can debate this on the U2C list. I'm often on irc.freenode.net ##pick after 10pm ET(earlier or later depending on the girls) too. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Kevin King Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 6:29 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Problem with Multi-value market in general I can access MV data from my iPhone today. Sure, it's through the browser, but it's access nonetheless. -Kevin http://www.PrecisOnline.com ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Problem with Multi-value market in general
Like a matter/anti-matter conversion gun? What happens when the problem is the business procedures and the company still wants you to make it all better without changing processes? Flawed processes can not be fixed with software. The effects of their inefficiency can be reduced by streamlining other processes, but the original problems will persist. Being a non-mainstream software vendor, is it your/my/our position to tell a company how to run? How do the big guys get away with doing that and repeatedly run companies into the ground? They can buy SAP and it forces them to make process changes because they can't afford to rewrite half the code to make their business run the same as before. (I'm not saying SAP has efficient data entry processes... heh) We can make the software run the way they want it to, but that isn't always the best thing. There is a middle ground, but who has the clout to compete against the big boys in all three major areas. A trio of trusted business, software, and technology consulting is the key. I guess the scope of problems here is the problem with suggesting that we make your problems go away. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Kevin King Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 6:49 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Problem with Multi-value market in general Why can't we just stick with we make your problems go away? Technology is a commodity. People want solutions. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] callHTTP - disconnect?
You can always run apache in debug mode (-X) as a single process and run it under strace to see what's going on. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Kevin King Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 11:17 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] callHTTP - disconnect? The Connection: close header had zero impact. Checking other Apache configuration options now. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] callHTTP - disconnect?
I don't suppose it's keep-alives going bad? Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Kevin King Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 2:07 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] callHTTP - disconnect? I have a Unidata (6.1/AIX) program using the callHTTP API to move data out to an Apache server on a transaction by transaction basis. When the transactions get dropped into the queue slowly all is well. When the transactions get flooded in, Apache gets overwhelmed. It appears like Unidata isn't sending a disconnect after the submitRequest because the TIME_WAIT in netstat is showing excessively long disconnect times for these connections. I don't see anything in the API documentation that mentions disconnecting from the Unidata side; is there a header or option that I can set to make sure Unidata sends a disconnect after the request? -Kevin http://www.PrecisOnline.com ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] SSH Viewpoint Emulation
Accuterm? It supports A2, 60, and A2 enhanced but I use Wyse60 and linux console. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Caminiti, Marc Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 4:15 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] SSH Viewpoint Emulation Does anyone have any recommendations on a SSH client that has Viewpoint Emulation? We currently use Dynamic Connect, but do not think that it has SSH. Thanks in advance marc Marc Caminiti IS Manager Nashbar Direct, Inc 6103 State Route 446 Canfield, OH 44406 330.533.1989, ext 336 330.702.9733, fax Today's subliminal thought is: CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential information that is legally privileged. The information is solely for the use of the intended recipient(s). Any disclosure, copying, distribution, or other use of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete this message. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] SSH Viewpoint Emulation
I meant that I have no experience with viewpoint. Glen.mobile RewriteRule ^(garbage|junk)$ /$1 [NC,L] On Sep 2, 2009, at 7:12 PM, Danny Ruckel dan...@southwesttraders.com wrote: In AccuTerm, Tools/Settings/Term Type would suggest Wyse60 and Linux Console supported, at least they are listed as options on the aforementioned form... Danny R -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Glen Batchelor Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 3:45 PM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] SSH Viewpoint Emulation Accuterm? It supports A2, 60, and A2 enhanced but I use Wyse60 and linux console. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Caminiti, Marc Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 4:15 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] SSH Viewpoint Emulation Does anyone have any recommendations on a SSH client that has Viewpoint Emulation? We currently use Dynamic Connect, but do not think that it has SSH. Thanks in advance marc Marc Caminiti IS Manager Nashbar Direct, Inc 6103 State Route 446 Canfield, OH 44406 330.533.1989, ext 336 330.702.9733, fax Today's subliminal thought is: CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential information that is legally privileged. The information is solely for the use of the intended recipient(s). Any disclosure, copying, distribution, or other use of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete this message. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] back to the socket problem....
The main benefit of using sockets is to have a single point of access from the client side and the ability to implement ACLs by IP and port. If you can queue your requests via file and perform multiplexed reads/writes using a pool of phantoms, then you can actually handle higher throughput for requests. You also don't have the network resources to contend with. If you are using *nix consider creating a tmpfs mount and do your transactions there instead of a disk location. You'll be surprised at how fast you can do I/O with a tmpfs compared to socket services. If you have to have sockets, consider dumping the requests and reading the responses using inetd/xinetd and a standard I/O script. This is similar to how MVWWW does HTTP request/response spooling. http://mvwww.sourceforge.net Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of George Gallen Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 10:59 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] back to the socket problem I was hoping to avoid this route. Not that it would that difficult to implement since it would only be local host that is connecting, so I have control over both the client and server programming. The client side of things would be a perl .cgi routine. I currently use a system of file reads and file writes with the PID from the .cgi being the key and the file containing the data to work from and output back, but for some things that I want to be faster, the socket method seems to be the way to go. George -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Schasny Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 10:45 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] back to the socket problem The server process gets a request to run a process from a remote machine, gets a next available port number and sends it back to the remote process. It then starts up the requested process process passing then port to it on the command line then. The process on the remote machine starts up a listener on the port number specified and after waiting a few seconds for this to be established the process on the local machine opens a socket to the remote listener on the specified port. Look here: http://www.schasny.com/bp/SOCKET.SERVER George Gallen wrote: The problem at hand is that you can't pass the client handle obtained from the accept() onto another process, then go back and wait for another connection. If you fire off a phantom, it's a new Process, and isn't able to receive the handle from the other process. Any suggestions? I considered the method of returning a new port number and having the client reconnect on that port, but I'm not ready to go that route just yet. George ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] back to the socket problem....
I don't think you can do that. I may be wrong here regarding U2 socket functions, but it looks like you are trying to use recursive code calls which produces overlapping server listen() and bind() calls. I can only assume that error code 35 is a 10035 windows socket error, which is WSAEWOULDBLOCK and not 10048 WSAEADDRINUSE (address already in use). That probably means the guts of U2 have the socket functions running in non-blocking mode. The socket creation failed on pass #2 because of 10048 actually. It appears that you are stacking instances of Program A on top of each other when you should be starting a client socket handler instead. The listen() socket function uses a single server socket handle to wait for all connections and then accept() creates one new socket handle for each incoming connection. You need to pass the client handle to another process and let it do its own thing for that one connection. You should not be rerunning the server socket creation process unless you willingly close the server socket and have to start over. It's reusable and responsible for the initial capture of all incoming connections. The client handles from accept() are not reusable. They are client specific. Hopefully I'm not way off in left field playing my own game. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of George Gallen Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 5:17 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] back to the socket problem Here's what I have: Program A. does an initserverSocket request - HANDLE1 does an acceptConneciton request - HANDLE2 does a closeSocket(HANDLE1) executes phantom Program A (to wait for another connection). loops through readSocket(HANDLE2) until done (connection closes) does a closeSocket(HANDLE2) processes data received ends oook. I start the system with a phantom run Program A open a telnet connection, it's accepted able to enter data (computer 1) open a telnet connection, it's accepted able to enter data (computer 2) open a telnet connection, it's accepted able to enter data (computer 3) now the strange part, if any of those connections closes, all connections will immediately closes. After a little debugging, I found that when Program A restarts for the 2nd/3rd.. time the initserverSocket request an error 35 (already being used), I didn't have an error routine to trap that, so it kept on going through the program, and it was given a new HANDLE2 each time from the acceptConnection routine. here's my quandryI have to execute initserverSocket to get a HANDLE1 whch is required for the acceptConnection routine, if I don't allow the program A to continue after the error 35 (and somehow is using a valid HANDLE1), I won't be able to open session 2 and session 3 until session 1 is closed. How does one set this up, so simultaneous connections can be made to the SAME port, and when one session closes, it doesn't close all sessions? ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Telephony and U2
The first, and sometimes less obvious, question is how does your phone system handle TAPI and offer data on calls? We looked into doing account lookups with our MV system and ran into some procedural issues that affected the process flow. In addition to that, the phone number lookups were 60/40 split between irrelevant source numbers and accurate source numbers. When someone calls from a corporate office, the odds of you having the main CID number on file can be random. Many companies use DIDs with their PRIs and T1s, so the main number filed on the CID info is not the number the contact provides for you to store in the database. So, you would have to do a data match and cross-reference process for some time to make sure your lookups work properly for the accounts on file. For new accounts, it'd be easier since you can cross-reference the CID that came in to the number/account given via voice. Regards, Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Jim Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 10:53 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] Telephony and U2 Importance: High Has anyone implemented Microsoft TAPI in a Universe application? Typical initial requirement: U2 program receives data identifying calling customer/person. U2 user sees customer(s) incoming call on screen, clicks to answer. Incoming phone number allows automatic U2 data display. More elaborate options are needed if the simple things are reliable. I'd be interested in developers who have done this or have already developed U2 software available. Specific user references to discuss their experience would be great. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Better and Better Application - Launching todayFriday 8/21/09 -- Browser instructions
-Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Baker Hughes Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 2:09 PM To: 'U2 Users List' Cc: 'bo...@u2ug.net'; betterandbet...@u2ug.net Subject: Re: [U2] Better and Better Application - Launching todayFriday 8/21/09 -- Browser instructions Thank you everyone for the intensely helpful insights offered so far in this thread regarding the BB rollout. Let me just say up front that I will take responsibility for an inadequate QA process on this rollout. I thought (wrongly) that we had resolved any browser compatibility issues we had, but we should have done more testing. We are working now to get the BB application into a mode that is compatible with a wide range of browsers. We will do better at testing each one, and even different versions. (Please email me if you're willing to help QA.) I can't express how thankful I am to have worked with a great group of volunteers to get us to this point. This launch (albeit a bit frustrating thus far) has been the [partial] culmination of the vision of several people, as I said in the announcement. Hey Baker, Sign me up for some QA checks. You can drop an e-mail to me @work or @home with the details. I've got access to a bunch of different browsers. The only condition is that there can't be a tight deadline schedule for QA. I'm sure all of the volunteers work on things as they can and I'm no different. I will have to devote blocks of free time, which may disappear in the near future, in order to fully test things. We are not done, and you will have a BB application that you can enjoy, and point to as a good example of multi-value technology. That is still one of the primary goals of this project, and we thank you for holding us to a high standard. There have been a wide range of emotions expressed in this thread. What many don't know is the range of emotions and struggles that the BB team has experienced in the 2 or 3 years since inception. Because of the long fight to get to this point, the BB group made the decision to go ahead with the launch, although we knew there was more work to be done to improve the application. It has been a long wait and we felt the most positive thing was to get the application available to the users. We didn't anticipate the browser compatibility issues, but we did expect more suggestions on the application itself. I still believe this was the right decision, to go ahead and launch. I understand the position and desire to provide (something). However, you don't open a new pub and only have canned beer in the house because that's the easiest to obtain. I think the audience here will be a lot more forgiving, though, than a horde of thirsty and tired people. The net effect of the discussion about the BB app is positive, because we have actionable items as a result. This has also, I hope, pointed up the need for more involvement from other users. 3 have already volunteered to join BB. We could use more, and other work groups on the U2UG could use more. If I had the spare time to devote to development I would, but I'll be spread thin already with QA. I also am working on other projects. Some of them are GPL and some aren't. I also try to write articles for Spectrum, but even that is hard to fit into my free time. I want to thank each of you for the [at times lengthy and heated] posts on the thread. I esteem each of you and consider many of you my seniors. Your passion for the technology is in large part what is fueling the success we are experiencing in the MV sector. Don't change. Thanks for your patience as we shepherd this user group application to a satisfying conclusion. We are still chasing after the technology train that left over 2 hours ago. There has been some advancement, but in general this industry is still behind as usual. Being a visionary is too risky for a lot of companies, so technology is adopted after it has proven to be stable in the rest of the IT world. That provides a stable foundation for critical applications, but it also makes the applications look archaic. I hope that this project is a beginning step to the outcome many of us have wanted in the general industry. A common voice that says, we have to have this because we need to move forward now, not in 5 years when the accountants deem it a returnable investment. I'm still interested in the developer's society, BTW, but I just don't have enough time to run it. If anyone wants the MVDC domain name I'll gladly transfer it for a non-profit setup similar to this. Hope this helps, -Baker Hughes U2UG Board member (at large) BB Workgroup member Regards, Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http
Re: [U2] U2 and UPS WorldShip
You have to become a certified customer integrator to do this and there are a lot of issues with getting billing approval for collect shipments if you ship to third parties using collect numbers. If you ship more than 1000 packages a day it's best to contact your rep and ask about other integration methods. We are using XML services with both FedEx and UPS. August 12th, FedEx released their end-of-life for Ship Manager API. They will be discontinuing services on May 31, 2012. So if you are integrated with the old web API you need to migrate ASAP to the web services. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Carl Dula Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 11:01 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] U2 and UPS WorldShip UPS offers on line access to that type of info via xml. Not sure if this includes WorldShip, but it should be worth a look. Using u2 calls you might be able to get what you want directly. Take a look at: https://www.ups.com/e_comm_access/laServ?CURRENT_PAGE=INTROOPTION=ACCESS_ LICENSEloc=en_US -- Carl Dula Voice: 973-227-8440 X111 Pulsar Systems, Inc. Fax: 973-227-8440 271 Route 46 West, Suite H209 email:c...@pulsarsystems.com Fairfield, NJ 07004-2474 http://www.pulsarsystems.com ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] U2 and UPS WorldShip
You can insert a new record into a temp MV file via ODBC or you can dump text data to a file on a net share. When we were solely integrated with WorldShip (and we still use it for hazmat), we utilized an RF terminal to scan the package tracking barcode, prompt for weight and shipping charges, and then perform billing, credit card charging, etc in a WaveLink/Pick application from MV. Contact JMO Business Systems if you are interested in building a simple MV app for industrial RF terminals like the Symbol PDT6800 series. The whole export/import deal was too disconnected for my liking. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Brutzman, Bill Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 10:37 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] U2 and UPS WorldShip The main thing we need with United Parcel Service is to get the 1Z... tracking number back into UniVerse. I found that, via ODBC, WorldShip can read a packslip file from UniVerse and import all of the packslip data but WorldShip stalls when trying to write the data back to UniVerse via the same ODBC connection. Thus, it appears that we have to export the UPS data to Microsoft SQL Server and then use another ODBC (JDBC or .Net) connection to read the 1Z from SQL Server and then write the 1Z to UniVerse. Insights or alternative approaches would be appreciated. --Bill ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Your shell program
My 'shell program' is a design flow on a piece of paper, or in my iPhone, as I'm jotting down processing steps. :) The only time saving steps I can see is with a bulk file opener tool and a set of includes that set equates or dim/assign commonly used variables. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Baker Hughes Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 11:59 AM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: [U2] Your shell program Many programmers have a 'shell program' or two that they use as a starting point when they are writing a new chunk of code. While I also have my own, I like to learn from others. Anyone willing - please post, or respond to me off-list with yours. I'm particularly interested in these forms: a) The BP top most program (as opposed to an external sub) with a Driver Loop or main loop. b) A single function subroutine - straightline with no driver c) A standard input subroutine if you use one, to receive input and validate user response. Thanks so much, -Baker This communication, its contents and any file attachments transmitted with it are intended solely for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential proprietary information. Access by any other party without the express written permission of the sender is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you have received this communication in error you may not copy, distribute or use the contents, attachments or information in any way. Please destroy it and contact the sender. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] 386 Conversion
Chuck, I agree with Henry. I don't see why the math-coprocessor would affect the instruction set since it's backwards compat to i386. I have an original set of AP/Pro 6.1.15 floppies but I'm missing system disk #1 so that may be worthless. I have PicLAN though! Disk #1 is probably around here somewhere, I just haven't needed to find it. If the system is AP/Pro 6.x then it should boot just fine under 386, 486, and 586 (protected mode). I assume it's an ISA SCSI-1 disk? I have a 586 footprint PC sitting behind me with PCI+ISA. I also have an external 4mm DAT SCSI-1 tape drive sitting at home if you need it. I think I may also have some DDS1 2GB tapes in a drawer somewhere. If you run into issues with data recovery, shoot Doug Dumitru an e-mail. I dunno if he'll have time to play or not, but he may have some pointers on where to go. My memories of AP/Pro were short and filled with GFE horrors so I've mentally blocked most of it out. :) Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Results Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 12:46 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] 386 Conversion All, This is likely to go nowhere, as the client is cash constrained, but I have to ask... I have a client still running a 386 Pick implementation. The system died. The closest thing I have is a 486, but I don't believe I can simply put the harddrive in a 486 and get Pick to boot. (If I'm wrong, tell me). So, does anyone out there have the ability to take a 386 flavor Pick-formated PC harddrive and pull the data into something more modern (U2, QM, D3...)? If so, what would it cost? - Chuck 386 Reasons to Upgrade Barouch ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Shipping integration (Was ODBC to UPS WorldShip)
-Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Support Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 2:28 PM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] ODBC to UPS WorldShip I know the question was about UPS WorldShip. However, suffer the some of the same problems no matter what carrier package we implemented. Finally, we went with a third party package (http://www.bestwaytech.com/proship/). It allows us to ship package UPS/FEDEX/USPS thru the same xml interface. Their black box implementation only requires us to open a socket and stream the xml. They reply with xml and can including ZPL/EPL/PNG formatted manifest label. We actually imbed the image on our packing slip. They take care of the carrier rules updates, so in the three years we have used them we have not had to make a single code change for a carrier updates. Our largest customer ships well over 7000 package a week with no problems. I think I looked at that long ago, but decided to go in-house. One problem with using the WorldShip hooks is that you can still get unforeseen charge-backs from invalid/mismatched/cancelled/suspended accounts on collect shipments. The benefit to that, though, is that you can bill to any account and not have to deal with the account zip validation thing. With the web API the accounts are checked live each time you request a package label so it's a half empty, half full situation. I'm assuming that the shipping application builds a PLD itself and sends it to WorldShip for upload. IIRC the basic Café software has an XML interface now as well as the old raw socket connectivity and I'm pretty sure it's a live application unlike WorldShip which is offline until you do end-of-day. There is a 'server' version of the Café/ShipManager product that does not do Internet queries and I would guess that's what's being deploy. It's designed for high-volume shipping and availability. I don't know much more about it than that. I considered all of those points before deciding to do it in-house. We're not at a huge volume yet, but we had to have something more automated and streamlined. All orders are processed the same way and the shipping app determines how to handle the shipment/paperwork/billing/labels/etc. The ProShip cost is very reasonable compare to some package out there and when you compare it to the cost of setup/supporting in-house the carrier supplied options it's a net savings. They cut our cost over 80% on doing it our self using the FREE software supplied by the carriers. Not to mention the better rate you can get from the carriers when you can ship FEDEX as easy as UPS. I don't remember getting a cost for ProShip, so I can't say that what you consider reasonable is what I would consider reasonable. We run on very low margin here and a few thousand dollars is a decent investment. We tried with Harvey CPS' 'automator' product and ended up trashing it because it didn't handle batch processing of international shipments as was described before sale. Anyway, that's water under the bridge. It would have worked if we only sold to the USA and their desktop app is really nice if you need a multi-carrier shipping application. We have had to do the same thing with the carriers. We're constantly putting them in the ring to help us do more business and fix problems that either don't exist to them or are not critical problems to address. For example, we started having residential FedEx Ground problems to Canada. The drivers are releasing the packages at the door without collecting the duties which are due. FedEx brokers their own packages so they're just delivering the boxes and sticking it to the shippers! Be careful! Even if they are bill-recipient packages, the duties get charged back to the shipper account. Apparently, there is nothing FedEx can do so we are no longer shipping to Canada using FedEx. We also recently put shipping costs online. Prepaid shipping methods can be changed with a single ship-via code flip from FedEx to UPS or vice-versa. Regards, Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] ODBC to UPS WorldShip
Consider becoming a customer integrator and use the web XML API. It's not that complicated to implement if you're doing domestics only. If you're doing international, then it's a bit more complex but nothing like FedEx. We've been fully automated with both FedEx and UPS in terms of domestic/international shipment processing, credit card charging, billing, and invoice delivery for well over 2 years now. The drawbacks to using the UPS XML service are: 1) It's not a SOAP service so you have to do your own element checking for proper return document format. 2) The shipping process requires multiple submissions to the UPS server. First, a request to verify you can ship the package is sent. Then you send an ok to tell UPS that you're fine with the previous inquiry to ship a package. Then you get your label and charges. I don't understand this at all because the package will not get billed if it's not scanned at the hub. :-) 3) You're tied to a web service that can (and will) go down at some point. Have a backup processing plan with WorldShip. UPS has been good, for the most part. FedEx has gotten better, but there are still times when the FedEx Ground back-end disappears and we get goofy 'unavailable' errors. 4) If you process a lot of collect shipments, then be weary of the fraud validation step that validates the bill-to account's set up zip code to the account number being charged. If you can't get the zip code the account was set up under, then you'll end up having to run it through WorldShip. Most shippers are totally unaware of this and the fact that WorldShip does _not_ validate account status at all. It only performs an alphanumeric check on the 6-chars. You will get a chargeback after delivery, if the account has been closed or suspended. We have been fighting with UPS for over 2 years on this stupid fraud check that is practically worthless and makes us look like we don't want to do business with huge customers. The live account status check is great, though. 5) The validation/certification step is a breeze to do, but you will have to generate a handful of example labels to prove your stuff works properly for the services and features you want to integrate. The benefits of automation and full integration into the packing application on our system outweighed these drawbacks. If you ship over 1000 packages a day then you should consider an EDI or FTP based PLD build/transmit solution and generate your own labels. WorldShip changes too much too often for it to be a stable integration platform for my taste. We have to have it for HazMat shipments and as a fall-back shipping terminal. Regards, Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Brutzman, Bill Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 11:20 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] ODBC to UPS WorldShip UniVerse ODBC Client Version 4.0.3 Build 7251 February, 2008 on both PC's We are not SHIMS. We are not Prelude. This may be a lost cause. Perhaps a better way to approach this problem is via an external program talking to the UPS database. --Bill -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Steve Romanow Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 8:29 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] ODBC to UPS WorldShip I am in the process of doing this right now. What version of the ibm odbc driver do you have installed? My var warned me against one version, but they didn't elaborate why. Are you a SHIMS or Prelude shop? -Original Message- From: Brutzman, Bill bi...@hkmetalcraft.com Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 7:47 PM To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] ODBC to UPS WorldShip Using a Windows PC, I am able to obtain a bona fide ODBC connection to UniVerse... and then import UV data to Excel. However... When I try to connect from United Parcel Service's WorldShip v11, WorldShip hangs up with Windows Task Manager indicating Not Responding. I had the same bad result on two different PC's... One Vista-Ultimate, one XP-Pro. I am wondering if anyone out there was able to get WorldShip ODBC to work with U2. Suggestions would be appreciated. --Bill ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] wGet new failure
Stick a carat before each ampersand for Windows command line commands. Win XP+ do not work exactly the same way, in terms of command line, as the old DOS based command shells. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of u2list0...@curt.com Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 10:14 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] wGet new failure ok, I tried this method and I am back to my original problem. When it executes the DOS /c (I am running Win Server 2k3), it never comes back to me It hangs until I End Task on CMD.EXE At 6/25/2009 10:04 AM, you wrote: Thanks George, I'll try that method now. At 6/25/2009 09:34 AM, you wrote: I've used the following: 0047:SITE=http://wwwapps.ups.com/WebTracking/; 0048:PART1=OnlineTool?submit=TrackInquiryNumber1=:TRKID 0049:PART2=InquiryNumber2=InquiryNumber3=InquiryNumber4= 0050:PART3=InquiryNumber5=TypeOfInquiryNumber=T 0051:PART4=ups_HTML_License=:ACCESSKEY 0052:FULLREQ=SITE:PART1:PART2:PART3:PART4 0053:CMD='/usr/mbin/wget -q -O - ':FULLREQ:'' 0054:EXECUTE SH -c ':CMD:' CAPTURING JUNK 0055:HTML=JUNK The -q put in quiet mode, and the -O sends the output to a file, which in this case is - or STDOUT which gets captured by CAPTURING, and returned to UV George -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of u2list0...@curt.com Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 9:13 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] wGet question for Robert Porter Sorry, this is a re-post with a more specific subject I have opted for the wGet method. I give up trying to make any other version work. This one does with one very minor exception. I redirect the output to a type 1 file. Problem is, the filename it creates is 50 characters in length and I can't read or delete it from Universe. Is there an option somehow that I can't see that will let me specifically name that file it gets? At 6/23/2009 04:15 PM, you wrote: I should have mentioned that wget runs on Windows too. I've also heard of cURL. I'm not sure if we started doing stuff like this before cURL came out or not, it's just the particular tool we ended up using for that job and it's useful so we keep using it for more stuff as it comes up. It may or may not be as good as, or better than, cURL, but we haven't yet come across a need for functionality that isn't in wget. Maybe it's just me but I find the callHTTP stuff fiddly and obscure. Somehow it's usually easier to do an EXECUTE sh -c wget and capture the output to a file in a directory that's set up as a type 19 file. Dave Barrett, Lawyers' Professional Indemnity Company ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4183 (20090624) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com Curt Lashley 2803 North Boulevard Tampa, FL 33602 Cell: (813) 293-2878 or (800) 886-2878 Home: (813) 226-2878 or (800) 524-2878 Fax: (813) 229-2878 ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4186 (20090624) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com Curt Lashley 2803 North Boulevard Tampa, FL 33602 Cell: (813) 293-2878 or (800) 886-2878 Home: (813) 226-2878 or (800) 524-2878 Fax: (813) 229-2878 ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4188 (20090625) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com Curt Lashley 2803 North Boulevard Tampa, FL 33602 Cell: (813) 293-2878 or (800) 886-2878 Home: (813) 226-2878 or (800) 524-2878 Fax: (813) 229-2878
Re: [U2] Unix mail server?
As been suggested, the alias pipe is probably the best option for a simple mail capturing solution. This will mean configuring an MTA (I can help with Postfix) on the U2 server. You will need to manually parse the envelope, though, unless you stick a MIME extractor in the middle. You could do most of the message body extraction in a Perl script and then dump a formatted request to a processing spool for your phantom(s) to pick up and handle. Firing off a phantom directly is never a good idea, IMO. If your mail queue gets hung up one day and you fix it without taking precautions, then the MTA will assault your U2 processes until they cry 'uncle'. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Burwell, Ed Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 9:57 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Unix mail server? Here's a high-level view of what I'm envisioning: 1. Our Unidata application sends an email to the outside world, giving the recipient certain options. 2. The recipient hits REPLY, types a few characters and hits SEND. 3. Our rs/6000 receives the email and put it somewhere. 4. Our Unidata application could periodically check that somewhere for received mail and do whatever with it. Thanks for your responses so far. Ed Burwell Consultant Data Processing CASIO AMERICA, INC. 570 Mt. Pleasant Avenue Dover, NJ 07801 973-361-5400 x1512 email: eburw...@casioamerica.com mailto:eburw...@casioamerica.com www.casio.com http://www.casio.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Larry Hiscock Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 7:22 PM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] Unix mail server? In short, yes, however, the first question should be: what are you planning to do with the mail you receive? I wouldn't recommend using your application server as a mail server, since to do that, you'd have to expose it, at least to some degree, to the outside world. Larry Hiscock Western Computer Services -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Burwell, Ed Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 3:45 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] Unix mail server? We can send email from our rs/6000 (AIX version 5.3) using sendmail and it works great. Is it possible to receive email also? Thanks. Ed (We are running Unidata version 7.1) __ This e-mail has been scanned by MCI Managed Email Content Service, using Skeptic(tm) technology powered by MessageLabs. For more information on MCI's Managed Email Content Service, visit http://www.mci.com. __ ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users __ This e-mail has been scanned by MCI Managed Email Content Service, using Skeptic(tm) technology powered by MessageLabs. For more information on MCI's Managed Email Content Service, visit http://www.mci.com. __ __ This e-mail has been scanned by MCI Managed Email Content Service, using Skeptic(tm) technology powered by MessageLabs. For more information on MCI's Managed Email Content Service, visit http://www.mci.com. __ ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Unix mail server?
That depends on what you consider receive mail. You can easily bring in mail envelopes since they normally contain text/plain or quoted-printable encoded MIME parts. I wrote an LMTP service for OpenQM that accepts local delivery connections via Inetd and stores in either Maildir or mbox style storage using q-pointers. You could pull mail from a POP3 server with fetchmail. You could read mbox or Maildir formats directly from the local machine. There are numerous options to obtain the mail data, but what are you planning on doing with the envelope and the contents inside it? If you want to write a webmail application, then consider using an existing application like Roundcube and then consider integration with your MV system from that viewpoint. Regards, Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Burwell, Ed Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 6:45 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] Unix mail server? We can send email from our rs/6000 (AIX version 5.3) using sendmail and it works great. Is it possible to receive email also? Thanks. Ed (We are running Unidata version 7.1) __ This e-mail has been scanned by MCI Managed Email Content Service, using Skeptic(tm) technology powered by MessageLabs. For more information on MCI's Managed Email Content Service, visit http://www.mci.com. __ ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] POS System
DDI System uses mostly uniobjects for GUI apps now. Their old green screen software is what our system was built from/around. Ask for Adam Waller and mention that I referred you. If you want to talk features, tech, and integration then he's the contact you want. www.ddisys.com Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com _ From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Norman Bauer Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 8:32 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] POS System Does anyone know of a point-of-sale system that uses UniVerse? Thanks, Norm ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
RE: [U2] pcl imaging question...(clarification)
If you can get the original document in Postscript format you can generate grayscale PCL, PS, or PDF using Ghostcript. PCL3: gs -sDevice=pcl3 -sColorModel=Gray -sOutputFile=/tmp/mynew.pcl /tmp/mydoc.ps Anything outside of that is a lot of scripting and content mangling. The free pcl2ps script you may see online will not do graphics so don't even consider it. It's fine for simple text PCL documents, but if you printed something from Windows then I'd bet my wallet that the PCL you have is a binary bitmap of the entire document encased in PCL print location and media controls. Try searching for 'grayscale PCL conversion'. The PCL output from Ghostscript is a bit large, but it does work from my testing years ago. You will save yourself tons of time and headaches, however, by buying a PCL or PCL+PS conversion utility specifically for your platform. You will also get better results from the output, as well as tech support. PCL is a tricky language to convert from version to version as well as to other languages. There are companies that have devoted their development and testing time to doing just that. You can get by with free tools, but you're only stemming the tide of frustration. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:owner-u2- us...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of George Gallen Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 2:02 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] pcl imaging question...(clarification) Thank you to all for the program suggestions for converting an image to PCL (or PS). That's not my question. Say I've converted an color image to PCL. It produces PCL code meant for a color printer. Great. Now for the part that I'm looking for do. How would I then take that PCL code (color), and change it so that it will print on a PCL non-color printer (make the assumption I no longer have the original image to reconvert using a printer driver, and make the assumption that I'd rather not, run the color PCL into a program to convert it bw PCL. I guess I'm looking for information on how to convert the color to bw, what does the driver do to achieve this? It's not something per say that I want to actually write code to dowhat want to understand what the driver is doing. suggestions on search terms for google would be fine as well. So far the standard PCL color to black and white haven't really turned up the specifics of how it's done. George --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] Freenode #ibmu2 ?
It's not an online forum. It's an IRC channel. I'd be willing to help if there's interest. There's an unofficial ##pick if interested, but only a couple of pickies hang out there. If you want to get a normal channel on Freenode then you'd need to apply and get representation from IBM in order to form an official channel. Otherwise you can just create ##ibmu2 or ##ibmu2ug and skip the whole official thing. The main benefit to registering with Freenode is that group members can apply for host cloaks that show up when you identify you user/password in IRC. They can say something like member/u2ug or committee/u2ug instead of your PC's IP address or hostname when you do a /whois on a person. Stop by http://freenode.net/group_registration.shtml for more information. You can also ask the staff specific question in #freenode. Make sure you read the page before you ask, because most channel operators and helpers don't like having to spoon feed answers that are already online. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:owner-u2- us...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Ron White Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 9:58 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] Freenode #ibmu2 ? As I recall in our discussions long long ago that this email list was the preferred medium because several of our list members are restricted by their companies and are not allowed to access the web to participate in online forums. I for one am quite content with the present mailing list format so that all members are able to participate. Ron White --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] Help with sockets
-Original Message- From: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:owner-u2- us...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Joshua Gallant Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 9:33 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] Help with sockets Hi Folks, Maybe one of you can help... Let's assume I'm writing a piece of client software to connect to a server using the basic socket calls simply dump data through a port and receive a response back. Let's also assume the server shuts down mid process and sends a FINACK packet to the client. From what I've seen it would appear the proper response is for the client to respond with an ACK and then a FINACK to close the connection down. This should all be handled by the network subsystem. When a socket is closed on side A, the connection is set to FIN-WAIT-1 state and a FIN segment is sent to side B. Side A can continue to receive data but it can not send. When side B receives the FIN segment it should also go to FIN-WAIT-1 and the subsystem would then mark the connection as closed. Any data remaining in the outgoing queue to side B will be sent to A along with an ACK for the closing of side B. Both addresses then go into TIME_WAIT. First off, is this the correct communication for shutdown in the event the server dies. If the server dies without sending a FIN to the other side then you can not perform a proper closing. The SO_REUSEADDR socket flag allows you to take over an existing address that may have been closed improperly. Otherwise you will have to wait until the subsystem clears the lingering sockets(seconds to minutes depending on your network kernel config), or in the case of Windows, you reboot. I'm not sure if the winsock issues regarding this were fixed in Vista, but I know that it still happens in XP. Secondly, does anyone know how the client software (written in BASIC) can be aware of the FINACK from the server? I tried the getsocketinformation() function run against the peer side but it just tells me the socket is open. It seems I need the software to know the server wants to shut down so that I can issue the closesocket() call. I'm assuming the closesocket() call is sending a FINACK packet. Is this true? You don't need to be aware of it. When you try to read or write, the socket function will tell you what the status of the handle is. Blocking mode changes the status codes a bit, so you'd have to read up on the socket calls and the different error codes for your platform. Anyone have any insight for me? - Josh --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] UV to SAP migration disaster
-Original Message- From: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:owner-u2- us...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Tony G Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 4:14 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] UV to SAP migration disaster [chop] A Microsoft-centric metality is no better or worse than a Linux-only or Mac-only or even MV-only mentality. Anyone who categorically closes their mind to all solutions based on the source is killing the messenger and not listening to the messages, whether they're good or bad. Anyone who insists on doing everything with Microsoft tools is just as bad as someone who continually insists on getting their MV DBMS to do things that a DBMS was never meant to do (like building in an FTP server, HTTP client, or SOAP parser...). Whoah there.. Aren't you mixing up the fruit basket a bit? MV is not just a data store (like MySQL) and it makes sense in a lot of cases to integrate external technology directly into MV. I guess it's pointless, in the sense of your statement, to even consider generating HTML from MV since it's not a web scripting language? Heck, for that matter, what's the point of MV.NET then? Why shouldn't we all just dump our data into flat files and use standard tools with it? [chop] Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com Visit PickWiki.com! Contribute! --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] CallHTTP vs cURL...
I utilize cURL for shipping tracking updates, among other automated tasks, that run bi-hourly. Since the data is not critical, I don't perform any connectivity or results checking. If you do decide to shell a cURL process, make sure that you verify the response is well-formed. You will need to implement the timeout switch too. Your better off putting raw data into a wrapper of some kind so that you can verify the start/end of the transaction(formation checking). I've seen cURL dump only the first 2-3 lines of an entire XML document back to me without complaining about connection errors. Timeout handling should also be done, so if your current CallHTTP code doesn't do all of that then you have some design work to do. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:owner-u2- us...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of David Wolverton Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 1:01 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] CallHTTP vs cURL... It's situational, so it would be tough to execute via 'cron' - it has to execute or at least be 'triggered' from 'within' the phantom with data the phantom provides -- I guess I could write a Scheduled process that runs every 6 seconds to see if there is a 'file to execute' - but that seems to be even more overhead -- I'm just trying to figure out how to avoid turning the phantom into an iPhantom... And losing a valuable 'real' seat in the process! -Original Message- From: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Schasny Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 11:44 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] CallHTTP vs cURL... How about running a shell script from a cron job that retrieves whatever via cURL. --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] universe sockets
with no mercy. The attack of the dangling strings is not pretty. I've been through it a few times myself. You can *try* to deal with it in a year or two, deal with it now and draw out the development, or buy software from someone that's dealt with already. I've ended up buying a solution for some of those fix it later situations. You're going to spend a few weeks on this, now or over time. Is your time really worth less than the free tools from IBM, or commercial tools that only cost a couple hundred bucks? This is a great point that should we decide to go this route but I have already mentioned this and I actually gave an estimate of a few months not weeks (but then again I am nowhere near as good at this as apparently you are). BUT I am curious what products are available for a few hundred bucks? I would certainly be willing to check them out BUT its hard to sell our budget committee when we have a product that work (uniobjects) or can write our own (sockets) Stop looking at the sale price man! Look at your hourly pay too. Consider what I've written, then re-evaluate. Your project won't be 100% bug free at first, so are you ready to support such a framework right now and also in the future. You will also be supporting the apps that run on top of it too, which will probably get a lot of code work over and over again. Also, if you decide to change employers (or your clients change vendors), who is going to get stuck maintaining all of the custom code? I suppose another developer which is why if we go this route we are going to have extensive documentation If I were an IT director I would not allow someone to write a custom socket interface internally for production use. Another good point but I pride myself on writing well documented, well written code but certainly something to keep in mind (your points for buying versus writing a comm. Layer) I disagree there. There are instances where proprietary technology, that is stable and implemented correctly, is an immense business value. In some cases, it also gives the company an edge over the competition. An example of that is implementing CXML punchout functionality for Ariba network. There were _no_ MV interfaces for that back in 2000. Heck, there was hardly ANY interfacing available. There still aren't any MV connectors for CXML punchout that I'm aware of. That was a huge business value and edge, which unfortunately didn't take-off with our customers. Thanks for your input I will certainly share this with my management team thanks again dougc --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] universe sockets
Aren't simple protocols, even custom ones, great! ;) I almost always write code using non-blocking functions so that there is true control. You gain more control over the data and you can build more responsive applications since you're not letting the network subsystem control the flow of your app. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:owner-u2- us...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Raymond P. de Bourbon Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 1:33 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] universe sockets In my experience its best to use non-blocking sockets.. It's can be a bit of a pain depending on the situation, but with some careful wait until x unless received y bytes type loops you can cater for pretty much any scenario.. In the scenarios where I have control over both sides of the connection, the messages typically have a fixed format where the first x bytes is the number of bytes for the rest of the message, which enables much cleaner code to process any incoming data... It's not that difficult, but a little bit of planning will go a very long way... Best of luck... Ray -Original Message- From: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of doug chanco Sent: 09 April 2009 17:56 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] universe sockets I am about to do some socket programming with the universe socket API (universe 10.2.x and aix 5.3.x), are there any gotchas/advice/suggestions anyone would care to share? thanks! dougc --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] Denver IBM U2 Office Closed due to Blizzard
It's a blast here @ the hotel/sarcasm. If I could snowboard I'd take it out to the Prominade and run across the bridge. Hopefully our 8am flight is on-time and the roads are clear enough for us to drive the rental car back to DIA. :/ This is the most snow I think I've ever seen! GlenB -Original Message- From: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org]on Behalf Of Stephen O'Neal Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 12:44 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] Denver IBM U2 Office Closed due to Blizzard Enough said. It's got to be bad if the office closes. --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] International Spectrum Conference - Twitter?
Argh! You're making me feel geeky inept!! WTH is Twitter?! I'll Google it and find out, so feel free to ignore me for the time being. FWIW: I just started a Facebook page a couple months ago. I'm just not a social person maybe?? Socializing doesn't make code appear in my projects so I tend to avoid it. :) See you @ Spectrum! Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:owner-u2- us...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Clifton Oliver Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 2:09 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] International Spectrum Conference - Twitter? As the Managing Editor of International Spectrum magazine (one of my Part-Time jobs), I'm thinking of Twittering from the Conference next week. Being new this social media, I have to wonder if this is of any interest to people or just adding to the Noise of the Internet. I'd like to hear your opinions. Regards, Clif Twitter: @clifolliver -- W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1 619 460 5678Web: www.oliver.com --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] International Spectrum Conference - Twitter?
Yeah it does look that way. Another time and bandwidth wasting tool for web junkies. I guess e-mail, web forums, IM, and SMS are just too complicated and disconnected for normal communications usage. Maybe I should start a new web site that combines them into a web interface with lots of consumer advertising space to waste even more of our dwindling bandwidth. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:owner-u2- us...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Michael Martin Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 10:31 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] International Spectrum Conference - Twitter? I thought Twitter was just another Facebook. -Original Message- From: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Glen Batchelor Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 10:52 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] International Spectrum Conference - Twitter? Argh! You're making me feel geeky inept!! WTH is Twitter?! I'll Google it and find out, so feel free to ignore me for the time being. FWIW: I just started a Facebook page a couple months ago. I'm just not a social person maybe?? Socializing doesn't make code appear in my projects so I tend to avoid it. :) See you @ Spectrum! Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:owner-u2- us...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Clifton Oliver Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 2:09 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] International Spectrum Conference - Twitter? As the Managing Editor of International Spectrum magazine (one of my Part-Time jobs), I'm thinking of Twittering from the Conference next week. Being new this social media, I have to wonder if this is of any interest to people or just adding to the Noise of the Internet. I'd like to hear your opinions. Regards, Clif Twitter: @clifolliver -- W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1 619 460 5678Web: www.oliver.com --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] International Spectrum Conference - Twitter?
Clif, Why don't you just set up a new category in the Spectrum blog for conference happenings? It has an RSS feed built-in and anyone can check on it from the intarweb. You can post video segments, if equipment is available, and sound bytes. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:owner-u2- us...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Clifton Oliver Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 2:09 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] International Spectrum Conference - Twitter? As the Managing Editor of International Spectrum magazine (one of my Part-Time jobs), I'm thinking of Twittering from the Conference next week. Being new this social media, I have to wonder if this is of any interest to people or just adding to the Noise of the Internet. I'd like to hear your opinions. Regards, Clif Twitter: @clifolliver -- W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1 619 460 5678Web: www.oliver.com --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] International Spectrum Conference - Twitter?
What's wrong with posting to CDP and/or this mailing list? I'm sure a lot of companies block Facebook and Myspace access due to wasted on-the-clock time. If you were talking about posting video clips and/or doing webcasts, that'd be something I'd be interested in helping with. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:owner-u2- us...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of George Gallen Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 10:56 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] International Spectrum Conference - Twitter? I'd rather see a daily blog on a facebook discussion group. (or even a daily blog posted to this list!) or maybe post a daily digest of the twittering on the facebook group. BTW, there is a facebook group pick developers although not too many of the members look familiar to this list. George -Original Message- From: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:owner-u2- us...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Clifton Oliver Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 3:09 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] International Spectrum Conference - Twitter? As the Managing Editor of International Spectrum magazine (one of my Part-Time jobs), I'm thinking of Twittering from the Conference next week. Being new this social media, I have to wonder if this is of any interest to people or just adding to the Noise of the Internet. I'd like to hear your opinions. Regards, Clif Twitter: @clifolliver -- W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1 619 460 5678Web: www.oliver.com --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] Does anybody have a hot backup server?
Manu, Is there any encryption offered for the network transport layer? So far I've not seen anything like SSL support and that makes me uneasy when dealing with CC and other compliancy-ridden data. It's a neat concept, though, that apparently works well. Do you use the clustering functionality? How much network bandwidth does it consume on average? Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:owner-u2- us...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Manu Fernandes Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 4:39 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] Does anybody have a hot backup server? Hi, Under Universe/Linux we use Data Replication Block Device. www.drbd.com (open source linux product) A low level software called between logical partition and hdd partition. Cluster over LAN. We define it on partitions where Universe db is installed (including universe himself). On the hot-standby server, the same partition is created and not mounted (universe is not started ~ for this raison, we don't need IBM's license) On fail-over, we switch the ip adress to the hot-standby server, we mount the partition, we boot uv and users can work ... 2 minutes. One restriction, we don't use DYNAMIC files because the headers are not permanently flushed when write occurs files. Coupled with Universe Transaction Logger set on strategic files to ensure record update integrity. My two pence. Manu -Message d'origine- De : owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:owner-u2- us...@listserver.u2ug.org] De la part de Jeff Powell Envoyi : mercredi 18 mars 2009 20:07 @ : u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Objet : [U2] Does anybody have a hot backup server? I am trying to put together a backup strategy that involves keeping a standby server within two data hours of the primary. The idea is to be able to have users log into the backup server and keep the business running in the event of a crash. I'd like to hear what solutions others have found for this. I've been trying to contact IBM for the last 6 months but they haven't answered and my ERP vendor doesn't know how to do this. Any ideas are appreciated. TIA --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] Multiple email copies
Look at the headers for each e-mail and see where the mail is coming from and going to. If you're using Outlook open the message fully and click on View, Options . The Internet Headers are the complete mail envelope headers as transmitted from your mail server. It could be a case of mail client rules duplicating it because of duplicate rule entries or a KCI(keyboard chair interface) error on behalf of the SMTP server admin. If the headers of all of the messages are identical then your mail client is doing it. If they are all different then a mail server is doing it. I'd say post the mail headers but munging the spam-bot-loving info makes the headers useless for debugging. If you can't figure it out e-mail me the headers of the duplicate messages directly and I'll take a look. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:owner-u2- us...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Rusty Bug Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 7:44 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Multiple email copies Yes, I still receiving multiple copies... :( --- Diego - Original Message From: George Gallen ggal...@wyanokegroup.com To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Wednesday, March 4, 2009 2:06:45 PM Subject: RE: [U2] Multiple email copies No. I've only been getting 1 each. -Original Message- From: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:owner-u2- us...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Jacques G. Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 2:27 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] Multiple email copies Is anyone else receiving 5 copies of each mail sent to the u2-users list ? Last week I was only receiving 3 copies of each mail. --- --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] PDF printing, LaTeX, Ghostscript, etc.
I use GS on Linux to generate 99% of our paperwork. I also added a print-to-PDF-display and an email-me-a-PDF option in our printer selector for traditional laser output. I use html2ps and htmldoc to generate the Postscript content and then either convert to PDF or send the PS straight to a PS-capable printer. All of our generated documentation is HTML formatted and includes embedded EPS logos and signatures where applicable. I originally utilized uuencode and uudecode to store and recreate PDFs to/from MV files. However, due to such a large resulting file size I eventually transposed the MV files into a file hierarchy system on the O/S. It saves on file-save size and time, but I now have to perform dual backups. One is a cronjob for the O/S FHS and one is the normal MV file-save. That's not big deal. I just plug in an e-sata drive and do an rsync on the file-save images and the PDF tree to have a mobile backup of both. Of course, if your backup size exceeds 1TB then you may have to consider other backup options. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:owner-u2- us...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Norman Bauer Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 3:22 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] PDF printing, LaTeX, Ghostscript, etc. Hello, Is there anyone here who implemented their own PDF printing system using LaTex, Ghostscript, or TeX, etc. We are printing on multi-part forms for all of our shipping documents and I am looking into ways to getting us off that system. 100% of our forms are printed using UniBASIC. Any and all suggestions will be looked at. Thanks, Norm --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] [UV]Accuterm, Question of Links
I just use the 'start' command line application in Windows to launch the URL based on the default browser. Be careful with %, , and quote symbols. Which versions of Windows are you planning to support? PRINT CHAR(27):CHAR(2):' start http://www.all-spec.com':CHAR(26) Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:owner-u2- us...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of roy Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 1:52 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] [UV]Accuterm, Question of Links Craig, I have done what you suggest but it does not display the link and allow me to click it. I have also posted this to asent.com/forums. I suspect it cannot be easily done but the experts here are the best. Thanks, -Original Message- From: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of George Smith Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 1:23 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] [UV]Accuterm, Question of Links You may want to post this on the support forum at www.asent.com. It's a pretty responsive group. On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:35 AM, roy r...@distsolutions.com wrote: Has anyone been able to display a link such as http://192.168.1.10 http://192.168.1.10/ or it's dns equal on an Accuterm screen and have the user be able to click on it to get an image? I can encode the url in basic and have it pop up but I want to be able to display it and click it gui style. A product called Smartterm does this without any code behind it. Will Accuterm do the same? Thanks to the experts out there --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ -- George Smith, Phoenix, AZ Member of the Independent Computer Consultants Association since 1983 --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] [UV] Routine to print barcode on a PCL5 HP
Search comp.databases.pick on Google groups. There's plenty of barcoding suggestions and code for PCL. Personally, I think that PostScript barcode generation is simpler if your printer supports PostScript. There are free tools out there. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:owner-u2- us...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Schasny Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 2:36 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] [UV] Routine to print barcode on a PCL5 HP Anyone have a basic subroutine to print bar code on PCL5 HP printer that they would be willing to share? I'm attempting to not recreate the wheel if possible. -- Jeff Schasny - Denver, Co, USA jschasny at gmail dot com /Come To The Dark Side, We Have Cookies./ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] Automatic Invoice - PO Matching Software
We transform nearly everything into either PDF or PS and attach it using automatic or manual PDF attachments which is just a list of PDF keys in each respective item. If you're on Linux I can shoot you some pointers on how to do it yourself with free Linux tools and a couple for-fee tools. I hope that your PO number is visually unique, because it will be difficult to locate and match by text in any OCR unless it's: 1) in the same physical place on every invoice 2) always starts or ends with the same unique string Many newer OCR+PDF convertor software apps support barcode detection, but the best I've made use of it is to have the barcode show up better in the final PDF. I've not used it to route paperwork, yet. Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-u2- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Morawa, Hans Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 5:28 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] Automatic Invoice - PO Matching Software Hi Tony, To put my enquiry into perspective I simply looking for a electronic invoice processing system. The product needs to able to scan invoices regardless how they are delivered, whether they arrive electronically, or by fax or by email or mail, and then automatically match them to purchase orders based on captured information. This product needs to be able to integrate seamlessly with UniVerse. Regardless of how invoices are delivered they all need to be handled in the same way. There are products out there servicing the SAP and Oracle systems of the world and I'm looking for similar functionality without having a massive issue of integrating it with UniVerse. Hence my question to our fellow list members. Cheers, Hans -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony G Sent: Monday, 17 November 2008 6:35 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] Automatic Invoice - PO Matching Software From: Hans Morawa We are looking for a electronic invoice processing system that matches invoice with purchase orders automatically and works on/or with a UniVerse platform and is available in Australia. ( Really hoping I'm not missing something obvious. *gulp* ) Hans, I don't understand the request. Are you looking for bar coding or image processing so that you can scan documents and have them match up with other documents? Can you give us an example of your business flow so that we can recommend something that fits? Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com Nebula RD sells mv.NET and other Pick/MultiValue products worldwide, and provides related development and training services --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ _ This e-mail has been scanned for viruses by MessageLabs. --- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential to the intended recipient and may be privileged. If you have received this email inadvertently or you are not the intended recipient, you may not disseminate, distribute, copy or in any way rely on it. Further, you should notify the sender immediately and delete the email from your computer. Whilst we have taken precautions to alert us to the presence of computer viruses, we cannot guarantee that this email and any files transmitted with it are free from such viruses. --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] [Employment Seeked] New York City Area or remote
Actually it should be Seeking Employment since we're talking present tense, but who's counting? I had to pass technical writing courses, yet I still manage to fumble sentences and phrases over a decade later. Pick wouldn't be so fun if it wasn't for that misspelled word in the sales menu that no one has time to fix or that prompt in accounting that says cash reciept which no one has even noticed. :P Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-u2- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allen E. Elwood Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 8:59 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] [Employment Seeked] New York City Area or remote I'm not an English major, but shouldn't it be 'employment sought?' http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sought -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Peter S. Goldberger Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 16:46 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] [Employment Seeked] New York City Area or remote I have over 22 years of Senior programming experience with most flavors of Pick and I have directed IT departments for companies in the manufacturing, importing and distribution industries. I am willing to commute 1 to 1 1/2 hours from New York City or telecommute for full or short-term/part-time position. Contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for resume and references. --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] [uv] Secure Sockets / SSL
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-u2- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Pflugfelder Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 7:17 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] [uv] Secure Sockets / SSL Well, I'd like this to run from a Universe server, running on either Windows or Unix, not the client side. From what I understand, current releases of Universe include secure sockets and therefore can make the call directly. Is there a specific reason why it has to be SSL directly from the UV software? Postfix (and I'm sure Exim too - I'm a postfix guru) can be configured to do SASL and TLS (with/without SSL) for incoming and outgoing SMTP. Once you set up the TLS/SSL, all you'd have to do is configure a simple transport by destination domain and it would do the rest for you through the normal sendmail/mail command. People do this regularly when they want to forward mail to a gmail account, which requires TLS/SSL and a SMTPS port connection. I can understand the want to keep the code inside the center of the mass, but such universal functionality would gain much better support and features if it wasn't custom written in a UV app. Regards, Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] [uv] Secure Sockets / SSL
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-u2- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anthony Youngman Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 11:28 AM To: 'u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org' Subject: RE: [U2] [uv] Secure Sockets / SSL SSL direct from UV, or SSL direct from the UV server ... If they're sending it to their internal mailserver, which is configured to require SSL, or they don't have an internal mailserver and must use SSL to talk out ... I got the impression they wanted the CLIENT software to talk SSL, Postfix and Exim are server software. But if they want everything to run on the UV server and leave that over an SSL connection, I think the blat email client talks SSL. Cheers, Wol Wol, I understand the general need of wanting to make a direct connection. The OP didn't state any specific reason why it had to be direct, though. So, I offered an easier and more robust solution. Blat is an option too if the current mail server on the UV box does not have a way to route defined mail to a specific SMTPS server without breaking the existing setup. The only issue with using external clients is if the UV admin wants the certificates and keys to be managed solely by UV. Though, I'm sure Blat or Postfix can be told where to get the crypto files if UV doesn't hide them in a back corner somewhere. If direct is the need and want then I found this from Google: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/25129060.pdf If the entire session is being handled inside of UV then the developer will need to read and understand the related SMTP and SMTPS RFCs in order to implement a compliant mail client. Regards, Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] converting from UniVerse on Redhat Linux to UniVerse on Windows
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-u2- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brenda Price Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 10:10 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] converting from UniVerse on Redhat Linux to UniVerse on Windows There is a discussion here to either do completely away from UniVerse to SQL because 99% of our servers are windows applications and our network administrator doesn't know much about Linux and believes because we have to open up telnet for UniVerse and an old application on a Solaris box of Mumps that we are making the Linux less secure and that PCI requires we don't use telnet at all. We use SSH to login everywhere except for the communication between UniVerse and Mumps. No one likes to drive in a busy and unfamiliar city when they are late for a critical appointment. A lack of experience or knowledge is not a solid excuse to move an entire data center from one O/S to another. A fact-based business case would be far better suited for such an argument and I've yet to hear one. Any O/S migration costs money and time, so the ROI had better offset the costs. As recommended already, the .bash_profile forced logon is a good step towards compliance provided the user has no way to access the files in their home directory to make changes. It's amazingly simple to restrict telnet access so that only two machines can talk over a specific port. Iptables is quite simple to use. I set that same rule up years ago for our Digi PortServer II before PCI was even considered. If MUMPS and UniVerse are on the same machine, then all you have to do is block external telnet traffic with a single iptables statement. Anyone with moderate Google skills(and a willingness to secure the box properly) can find a few iptables examples for either scenario. If need be, provide me with the scenario and I'll provide fill-in-the-blank statements that you can put in your rc.local boot script or your ifup/ifdown scripts for the specific interface the telnet connection is on. As a stop gap the company may switch from Linux to Windows. I thought I remembered a discussion on this sometime in the last couple of years. I'll search the archives. In the meantime, has anyone have an experience with this? If so, did the costs stay the same, go up, go down. Any difficulties? Seems like it would be the same procedures as we had to run when we was transferring data from our live server (linux) to our old test server (Solaris), you had to do funxi on the data and that was that. Not sure about that, so I'll leave that up to the UV experts here. I just like to lurk here and learn. :) They are in the process of getting comparison costs between UniVerse and SQL now. For those with both UniVerse and SQL experience, how does the development time differ. To me it appears that it takes the VB and SQL folks longer to get changes done then it does on the UniVerse systems. If we switch, it seems to me that the quick fixes users demands will be pretty much going away. Am I correct on this? I am 99.9% certain that the switch will happen at some point in the next few years. I would say that it really depends on the application deployment. If you have 100 machines to maintain VB code on, then it's far more costly and time consuming to make changes in VB-SQL software than in UV derived software. You can build an update center and write your application to auto-update, but then you have to manage the update center and make sure that _everyone_ gets the changes they are supposed to. Plus, such an additional development project could be as large as the software rewrite itself. I'm a huge proponent of centrally managed software and love using Accuterm's GUI. We utilize SQL from our MV box, but it's on a reporting-only basis. Brenda Price Affiliated Acceptance Corporation Sunrise Beach, MO 65079 Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
