[U2] UV XML

2008-10-06 Thread Robert Porter
Hello all, I have to be able to parse out an XML file being sent by an laboratory instrument. Below is a sample file... I need to be able to get to the ID attribute in SA, as well as the Key in AR, and AR's data. I need to do this in BASIC, and pass the parsed data to another routine. I've

RE: [U2] UV XML

2008-10-06 Thread Robert Porter
. Programmer/Analyst Dayton Superior Corporation 721 Richard St. Dayton, OH 45342 937-866-0711 x44380 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Porter Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 12:41 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] UV XML

RE: [U2] UV XML

2008-10-06 Thread Robert Porter
also seem to have two charset declarations. Rgds Symeon. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Porter Sent: 06 October 2008 18:59 To: 'u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org' Subject: RE: [U2] UV XML I could parse it out myself without a problem

RE: [U2] UV XML

2008-10-08 Thread Robert Porter
It's working. Thanks all! Especially David who gave me very nicely done code that was almost ready to drop into place. Less than an hour later and it's running, and am just tweaking some of the data. Thanks, Robert David Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/7/2008 11:42 PM Hi Robert, I've

Re: [U2] [UV] Saving Photos

2008-10-08 Thread Robert Porter
Check out the ENCODE() function. Robert F. Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE Sr. Programmer / Analyst Laboratory Information Services Ochsner Health System This transmission (including any attachments) may contain confidential information, privileged material (including material protected by the

Re: [U2] [UV] What is this?

2008-10-20 Thread Robert Porter
I've always heard that the power of 3 version is engineering notation - which is a more specialized form of scientific notation. The form in question is normalized scientific notation. Robert F. Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE Sr. Programmer / Analyst Laboratory Information Services Ochsner Health

Re: [U2] [UV] PHP

2008-10-23 Thread Robert Porter
Well... I rolled my own some years back (still in use today to give MD's and RN's on the floor access to specimen collection information). It wasn't easy, but it works well. Basically the use of pipes, a phantom on the UV side, and I built a collection of PHP routines to deal with multi-valued

Re: [U2] [UV] PHP

2008-10-23 Thread Robert Porter
But ... a quick google... http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/dm-0701xia/index.html U2 PDO Driver, Part 2: Write PHP applications to access U2 data Brutzman, Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/23/2008 3:03 PM Is there a way to do PHP with UniVerse? I just found out that there

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

2009-04-30 Thread Robert Porter
A while back someone had posted a message about a product that runs on a Windows server that lets UV do fancy printing (as in forms, PDFs, etc) easily. I visited their website and even printed out some info, but now that we want to buy it I can't find it anymore and can't remember the name.

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

2009-04-30 Thread Robert Porter
That's it! Thanks! Rob Bob Rasmussen r...@anzio.com 4/30/2009 1:03 PM This sounds a lot like Print Wizard, at www.anzio.com On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Robert Porter wrote: Thanks for the suggestions so far but none of those looks familiar... the way the one I looked at worked was you would

Re: [U2] Simple Export to Excel

2009-06-22 Thread Robert Porter
Double-quotes can be embedded within the quoted field by escaping them. Just double up the double-quote character. So the text: This is my description field. Would go be exported as: This is my description field. Robert F. Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE Sr. Programmer / Analyst Laboratory

Re: [U2] uvRunCommand

2009-06-22 Thread Robert Porter
Just FYI, wget is quite handy, is opensource and is available for Windows as well... http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm And notice the line: Wget works exceedingly well on slow or unstable connections... That's VERY true - much more so than many other methods. Besides using

Re: [U2] Using ED

2009-06-25 Thread Robert Porter
Not sure if I'm reading your question right, but E+ can indent pretty easily. Highlight the lines to indent and CTRL+I or Edit - Format - Increase Indent The # of spaces is controlled under Document - Tab/Indent I love E+, great little extendable editor. Plus when used with WinSCP let's me

Re: [U2] Using ED

2009-06-25 Thread Robert Porter
One other neat feature we use on E+ that we use all the time... If you open a file that is being written to such as a log file, and leave it open as you switch programs. When you come back to E+ it can check to see if it has changed on the server and prompt you to reload it. Comes in very handy

Re: [U2] General guidelines on indexing

2009-07-08 Thread Robert Porter
Just a quick note on indexes... and kind of goes to the EMC question. The location of the index is stored in header of the file itself! This can lead to a problem if you have a copy of the data somewhere else and try to use it. For example, we'll occasionally want to see how a file/record

Re: [U2] General guidelines on indexing

2009-07-08 Thread Robert Porter
the restored file without SET.INDEX (filename) TO NULL can (and often will) corrupt the index. Once you do this once, you won't forget about it again. Robert Steve Romanow slestak...@gmail.com 7/8/2009 10:43 AM Robert Porter wrote: Just a quick note on indexes... and kind of goes to the EMC

Re: [U2] Telephony and U2

2009-08-26 Thread Robert Porter
I agree. At least at this stage, don't take this offline. I didn't realize this was built into AnzioWin. And actually now with a quick look at the specs, scanner support either... which we might be able to use as well - more so than the TAPI. I'd like to hear about other possibilities as

Re: [U2] U2are good in concert

2009-08-27 Thread Robert Porter
We just came back from seeing them in Dublin a few weeks ago. While I agree it was a great concert - and seeing them in there hometown was a once in a lifetime thing - I wouldn't have (and didn't) think of posting about it on the U2UG listserve. Didn't realize everyone was so interested... Rob

Re: [U2] Problem with Multi-value market in general

2009-09-18 Thread Robert Porter
Just to add a bit as I have done some development in Cache'... Cache' is the from MUMPS lineage... MUMPS to OpenM to Cache'... and does have pretty decent MV support. It has a steep learning curve (but has decent free e-learning and a free downloadable version), but has support for just about

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement from a different perspective

2009-09-25 Thread Robert Porter
Sorry, resend because it was hard to tell what I had written as it put the legal stuff up at the top. from the post I was replying to (so it doesn't do it again): ... SQL Server pricing depends on the licensing model one needs. Generally you get a per processor or a per server plus end

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement from a different perspective

2009-09-25 Thread Robert Porter
Robert F. Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE Lead Sr. Programmer / Analyst Laboratory Information Services Ochsner Health System This transmission (including any attachments) may contain confidential information, privileged material (including material protected by the solicitor-client or other

Re: [U2] AUTO: We’ve Moved! New contact details within (returning 12/31/2009)

2009-09-28 Thread Robert Porter
FYI... http://www.rocketsoftware.com/u2/ Technical Information (for support personnel)Error Code: 403 Forbidden. The server denied the specified Uniform Resource Locator (URL). Contact the server administrator. (12202) Robert F. Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE Lead Sr. Programmer /

Re: [U2] AUTO: We’ve Moved! New contact details within (returning 12/31/2009)

2009-09-28 Thread Robert Porter
I meant to send it to the OP, but got distracted as I replied... But I think I would have commented the link with something like (after Oct. 1) or at least put a landing page in the meantime saying to come back then. 403's just look don't look good. Rob Robert F. Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE

Re: [U2] Unibasic: Sample Program

2009-10-14 Thread Robert Porter
Agile and Scrum (basically agile 30 days sprint cycles) doesn't mean the system does not get documented. It just means a more iterative process with decisions being made later in the cycle. Welcoming the change request does not mean that the change doesn't get documented. It means the documents

Re: [U2] UniVerse Add-ins for Visual Studio

2009-10-21 Thread Robert Porter
Does anyone know about how much these licenses are? And any runtime licenses needed as well... I need a round number very quickly. I just got asked for what I want for next year for budget request meeting in a few minutes. Thanks, Robert Robert F. Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE Lead Sr. Programmer

Re: [U2] UniVerse Add-ins for Visual Studio

2009-10-21 Thread Robert Porter
their application. So whereever you got your application/database, that's where you'll have to ask this question. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Robert Porter Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 10:49 AM

Re: [U2] Command logging in Universe 10.2.1

2009-10-23 Thread Robert Porter
I've used Tee32 from here before http://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~bfriesen/software/console.shtml Rob Robert F. Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE Lead Sr. Programmer / Analyst Laboratory Information Services Ochsner Health System This transmission (including any attachments) may contain confidential

[U2] AccuTerm Multi-line ENTER key action

2009-10-27 Thread Robert Porter
Working on a new GUI dialog box with a multi-line text entry field, and I'd like the enter key to simply move to the next line and not activate the default action button... The help file reads: Normal- the Enter key adds lines to multiline edit controls, actuates (clicks) an active command

Re: [U2] AccuTerm Multi-line ENTER key action

2009-10-27 Thread Robert Porter
Nevermind... I decided to move on to another issue, and after I made the change I noticed it wasn't picking it up either. I had 2 copies of the template out there and was changing the 'other' one. The other still had the button style as 'OK' and not normal. Thanks, Rob Robert F. Porter,

Re: [U2] AccuTerm Multi-line ENTER key action

2009-10-27 Thread Robert Porter
to it. Bill Robert Porter said the following on 10/27/2009 8:34 AM: Working on a new GUI dialog box with a multi-line text entry field, and I'd like the enter key to simply move to the next line and not activate

[U2] UV and HP-UX

2009-10-29 Thread Robert Porter
Hoping this is just an oversight... On the system requirements page, http://www.rocketsoftware.com/u2/products/universe/requirements.html, HP-UX isn't listed. What I was looking for was the supproted HP-UX version requirement to move to 10.3, to see if we also need to do an OS update at the

Re: [U2] UV and HP-UX

2009-10-29 Thread Robert Porter
Thanks, that answered my question. We will need to do a HP-UX updated to move to 10.3.x Thanks, Rob Dianne Ackerman dia...@aptron.com 10/29/2009 10:48 AM If you look at the product availability matrix, it's listed there: https://u2tc.rocketsoftware.com/matrix.asp Robert Porter wrote

Re: [U2] sending text messages to a regular cell phone

2009-11-05 Thread Robert Porter
I do something similar from nagios using Clickatell (http://www.clickatell.com) using a simple http call. Credits are cheap and dont expire from month to month. While many cell providers have a email gateway, I found this method unreliable (not good when a server is down). I'd rather pay $20

Re: [U2] sending text messages to a regular cell phone

2009-11-05 Thread Robert Porter
The problem with using email to sms is that at least in Sprint's case, they do monitor message traffic. During one weekend when one of my connections into a Dallas datacenter bounced a couple times, and my Atlanta nagios system saw it and sent messages, Spring decided it was spam... They

Re: [U2] uucp

2009-11-20 Thread Robert Porter
Hadn't seen uucp used in a while... For a one-shot deal I'd do like Rod says. If this is an ongoing process, I'd either look at scp or rsync over uucp. Robert Robert F. Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE Lead Sr. Programmer / Analyst Laboratory Information Services Ochsner Health System This

Re: [U2] uucp

2009-11-20 Thread Robert Porter
systems. Thanks for the suggestions. Bonnie :-) -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Robert Porter Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 10:51 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] uucp Hadn't seen uucp used

Re: [U2] Haydon Bishop is out of the office.

2009-12-23 Thread Robert Porter
And this is news? Might be less clutter to the list when Hayden Bishop is IN the office. Robert Robert F. Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE Lead Sr. Programmer / Analyst Laboratory Information Services Ochsner Health System This transmission (including any attachments) may contain confidential

[U2] Any nagios plug-ins for UV?

2010-01-13 Thread Robert Porter
Implementing a replacement for our monitoring system using Nagios... anyone written any cool check_* for UV (or UD that can be updated)? Robert F. Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE Lead Sr. Programmer / Analyst Laboratory Information Services Ochsner Health System This transmission (including any

Re: [U2] Credit Card info

2010-01-15 Thread Robert Porter
Become VERY well versed in PCI DSS Compliance before undertaking storing CC info... There are lots of rules and gotcha's that can land your customers and you in a lot of hot water. Just as a quick example, not only does CC numbers have to be encrypted, you cannot store: CVV/CVV2, pin data,

Re: [U2] Credit Card info

2010-01-18 Thread Robert Porter
While displaying the first 4 (actually 6 plus the last 4) is allowed under PCI DSS, it would not be enough to identify a card if the holder has multiple cards from the same institution... I have 3 accounts (2 personal, 1 business) with the same bank. I just looked; all 3 carry the same first

Re: [U2] Credit Card info

2010-01-18 Thread Robert Porter
That's true... POS requirements such as sales receipts are often even stricter than PCI DSS. PCI DSS controls, as I understand it, apply to ALL reporting including internal use only. Robert F. Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE Lead Sr. Programmer / Analyst Laboratory Information Services Ochsner Health

Re: [U2] Any nagios plug-ins for UV?

2010-01-22 Thread Robert Porter
, Robert Porter ropor...@ochsner.org wrote: Implementing a replacement for our monitoring system using Nagios... anyone written any cool check_* for UV (or UD that can be updated)? Robert F. Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE Lead Sr. Programmer / Analyst Laboratory Information Services Ochsner Health

Re: [U2] Barcode Software for UniVerse?

2010-02-25 Thread Robert Porter
Which languages are supported will depend on the model number of the Zebra... For example, A (T)LP-2844 will only have ELP, while a (T)LP-2844-Z will have ZPL and ZPL II. Robert Robert F. Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE Lead Sr. Programmer / Analyst Laboratory Information Services Ochsner

Re: [U2] Barcode Software for UniVerse?

2010-03-01 Thread Robert Porter
I whole-heartedly agree. We use both Zebras and Print Wizard ... actually on Tony G's recommendation. And while PW does a great job with paper printout of barcodes plus its versatility, it would not serve our purposes for barcoded labels. Two very different requirements! And while I supposed

[U2] UV and HP-UX upgrades

2010-03-04 Thread Robert Porter
We're facing upgrading HP-UX (PA-RISC) from 11.11 to 11.31 (via 11.23 temporarily - possibly only for hours if we're able). And we'd like to move from UV 10.1.20 to 10.3. Has anyone done a similar move? Since I don't see 11.11 on the UV requirements web page for 10.3, I'm assuming the combo is

Re: [U2] windows/dos my documents environment variable

2010-03-04 Thread Robert Porter
I was about to bring that up... This pc for example has been set by group policy to have My Documents point to D:\ for re-imaging reasons. Yet no environmental variable shows that. BTW, type SET by itself at a command prompt to see which env. variables are set - they do vary amount versions of

Re: [U2] AUTO: Haydon Bishop is out of the office. (returning 16/04/2010)

2010-04-16 Thread Robert Porter
I'm beginning to think Hayden Bishop doesn't actually have an office... He's never in it from all appearances. Robert F. Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE Lead Sr. Programmer / Analyst Laboratory Information Services Ochsner Health System This transmission (including any attachments) may contain

Re: [U2] Universe and stripped drives

2010-04-28 Thread Robert Porter
Many 'nix systems not longer require breaking mirrors for backups... We haven't broken a mirror for backups since the late 90s. HP-UX and Linux for example. A MUCH better option is using logical volumes (and yes, you can still mirror and stripe) as well and use filesystem snapshots to backup.

Re: [U2] Universe and stripped drives

2010-04-28 Thread Robert Porter
. Baakkonen, Rodney A (Rod) 46K rodney.baakko...@cigna.com 4/28/2010 1:14 PM Do you do a dbpause at all during this snapshot process? -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Robert Porter Sent

Re: [U2] Universe and stripped drives

2010-04-28 Thread Robert Porter
-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Robert Porter Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 2:09 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Universe and stripped drives Many 'nix systems not longer require breaking mirrors for backups... We haven't

Re: [U2] Universe Triggers

2010-07-30 Thread Robert Porter
How real-time does it need to be? Could you write them to a queue file and have a small batch process pick them up and email them? Rob Robert F. Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE Lead Sr. Programmer / Analyst Laboratory Information Services Ochsner Health System This transmission (including any

[U2] TCL command history

2010-08-20 Thread Robert Porter
Are TCL command histories stored in a file by any chance? I'm trying to find how a record got updated, and it doesn't appear to have gone through our standard program which updates the record with a who/when timestamp. TIA, Robert Robert F. Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE Lead Sr. Programmer /

Re: [U2] TCL command history

2010-08-20 Thread Robert Porter
-Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Robert Porter Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 10:08 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] TCL command history Are TCL command histories stored in a file by any

Re: [U2] TCL command history

2010-08-20 Thread Robert Porter
...@youngman.org.uk 8/20/2010 3:53 PM On 20/08/10 15:08, Robert Porter wrote: Are TCL command histories stored in a file by any chance? I'm trying to find how a record got updated, and it doesn't appear to have gone through our standard program which updates the record with a who/when timestamp. You can do

Re: [U2] how to round to 2 decimals?

2010-10-13 Thread Robert Porter
OCONV(X,MD2) Robert F. Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE Lead Sr. Programmer / Analyst Laboratory Information Services Ochsner Health System This transmission (including any attachments) may contain confidential information, privileged material (including material protected by the

Re: [U2] Strange index issue (nothing to do with last question)

2010-11-09 Thread Robert Porter
Check out the SET.INDEX command... SET.INDEX filename TO NULL Robert Robert F. Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE Lead Sr. Programmer / Analyst Laboratory Information Services Ochsner Health System This transmission (including any attachments) may contain confidential information, privileged

Re: [U2] Strange index issue (nothing to do with last question)

2010-11-09 Thread Robert Porter
through the account to change the rest of the files? Thanks -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Robert Porter Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 4:54 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Strange

Re: [U2] Fault type is 11. Layer type is BASIC run machine.

2011-01-18 Thread Robert Porter
Can you write a record (anything) on the COLD.WRK file with the editor? I'd try another id, then that one itself? If not, have you checked not only for space but inodes being available on that filesystem? df -i on most 'nixes though AIX isn't in my usual repertoire... Also, does that record

Re: [U2] LIST.READU - clear lock table ?

2011-01-19 Thread Robert Porter
When I've seen a large Userno like that in LIST.READU, it's a PHANTOM holding the lock. Robert F. Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE Lead Sr. Programmer / Analyst Laboratory Information Services Ochsner Health System This transmission (including any attachments) may contain confidential

Re: [U2] [UV] UniVerse Uptime

2011-02-17 Thread Robert Porter
Interesting question... Don't know how accurate it would be but on my box /usr/uv/VOC has a timestamp of the last time I brought uv up. I'll be interested to see what others have to say on this. Rob Robert F. Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE, OCP-Java6 Lead Sr. Programmer / Analyst

Re: [U2] 'U2 Market Place' {Unclassified}

2011-03-07 Thread Robert Porter
Don't know anything about u2marketplace.com -- looks to be brand new with basically empty forums, etc. but serverphase.com is a hosting company. They are legit, but I suspect their only connection is they are being paid to host u2marketplace... Robert F. Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE, OCP-Java

Re: [U2] Opinions on Cache

2011-04-11 Thread Robert Porter
I can say that in the healthcare field Cache' is a significantly easier sell than U2. Robert F. Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE, OCP-Java Lead Sr. Programmer / Analyst Laboratory Information Services Ochsner Health System This transmission (including any attachments) may contain

Re: [U2] Who is Ed Clark?

2011-04-11 Thread Robert Porter
I think he meant their as in Scotland's not InterSystems'. At least that's how I read it. The product was TrakCare I believe. Robert Robert F. Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE, OCP-Java Lead Sr. Programmer / Analyst Laboratory Information Services Ochsner Health System This transmission

Re: [U2] PDF Files directly from UniData or UniVerse

2011-04-12 Thread Robert Porter
What platform? We use PrintWizard ( http://www.anzio.com/product/print-wizard ) and are very pleased with it. It's Windows based though. For PDF's (with emailing too btw) we LPR the jobs from the HP-UX/UniVerse server to a Windows Server for processing and sending. It can also do a bunch of

Re: [U2] Disclosing technology

2011-04-12 Thread Robert Porter
Most tech companies consider everything inside the DC proprietary and confidential. The NDA's I've seen usually include such items. And I do believe they'd hold up... the employee signed it knowingly willingly. How is that not legitimate? So if you can't see any reason for it, why is it such

Re: [U2] Disclosing technology

2011-04-12 Thread Robert Porter
PHP isn't a database... apples and oranges. fft2...@aol.com 4/12/2011 12:18 PM You're speaking about technical specifications, not the freakin database :) Apples and oranges. If Google tried to stop an ex-employee for declaring that they use PHP, they'd be laughed off the planet.

Re: [U2] Disclosing technology

2011-04-12 Thread Robert Porter
Not skirting anything. The 1st line of my 1st reply ... consider everything inside the DC proprietary and confidential. You ignored that line apparently and decided to focus instead on the article was about the infrastructure and then changed from db technology to programming language in

Re: [U2] Mailing List Hacked

2011-04-19 Thread Robert Porter
I was about to mention that... his email address appears in 3+ dozen pages in google. So unless there's some other evidence, I'm not worrying about the list being hacked. Robert George Gallen ggal...@wyanokegroup.com 4/19/2011 7:26 AM not to mention that the list is on search engines as

Re: [U2] Saying Goodbye...

2011-04-27 Thread Robert Porter
If you start running into performance issues (which with CGI and any type of volume is quite possible), and a re-write is out of the question, look into mod_perl. It can help a lot! The O'Reilly mod_perl book is now under Creative Commons license, so you don't even have to buy it anymore...

Re: [U2] Saying Goodbye... Reasons not to say goodbye.

2011-04-29 Thread Robert Porter
Thanks Doug for making this point... I was about to, but it opens a whole other can of worms. People don't get the difference. Free doesn't mean what people seem to think. The short answer is most of the licenses usually mean free as in speech, not as in beer. And with so many licenses

Re: [U2] Universe : different time zone from AIX

2011-05-24 Thread Robert Porter
Quick disclaimer... Never tried this, and don't run AIX. Under HP-UX though UV recognizes the timezone set in the user's environment (TZ variable). Changing that before going into UV affects the local time for the user from what I can see. I would think AIX would be the TZ variable as well,

Re: [U2] Universe : different time zone from AIX

2011-05-24 Thread Robert Porter
VERY true! I just set the TZ for a user and displayed the UV time, it does change the time that's returned. HP-UX doesn't care because everything is stored at GMT and the TZ affects DISPLAYING the time only. But every UV program that deals with dates and times would have to do something if you

Re: [U2] Coversion Code for Date

2011-06-03 Thread Robert Porter
UV on HP-UX -- PI flavor : 0001: TODAY = DATE() : 0002: PRINT OCONV(TODAY,'D4-YMD') : 0003: END Bottom at line 3. : Q :RUN SRC RFPD4 2011-06-03 Robert F. Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE, OCP-Java Lead Sr. Programmer / Analyst Laboratory Information Services Ochsner Health System

Re: [U2] udt dir file max key length

2011-07-22 Thread Robert Porter
I did a little experimenting with UV under HP-UX as I was curious... I first tried a Type 19 file, and it worked fine. Then tried a Type 1, and it truncated the IDs. # ll total 0 -rw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 0 Jul 22 09:49 .Type1 -rw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 0 Jul

Re: [U2] Document Management

2011-07-22 Thread Robert Porter
I just (this week) took a couple C# projects and created an executable callable by AccuTerm that interacts with a scanner and converts to JPG,BMP,TIF or PDF. It places the files in a network directory on the UV server which the calling program (UV side) picks up stores in a more secure

Re: [U2] Document Management

2011-07-22 Thread Robert Porter
some tips. On Fri, 22 Jul 2011, Robert Porter wrote: I just (this week) took a couple C# projects and created an executable callable by AccuTerm that interacts with a scanner and converts to JPG,BMP,TIF or PDF. It places the files in a network directory on the UV server which the calling

Re: [U2] CONV MCU on indexed field?

2011-07-26 Thread Robert Porter
Just curious and maybe I missed it... Has anyone tried LIKE and ... instead? I wouldn't think it would be any different, but then I would have thought the ] select would have worked. Robert Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE, OCP-Java Lead Sr. Programmer / Analyst Laboratory Information Services

Re: [U2] CONV MCU on indexed field?

2011-07-26 Thread Robert Porter
wouldn't think it would be any different, but then I would have thought the ] select would have worked. Robert Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE, OCP-Java Lead Sr. Programmer / Analyst Laboratory Information Services Ochsner Health System This transmission (including any attachments

Re: [U2] UV 11.1 64-bit on Cisco UCS with NetApp Filer?

2011-08-10 Thread Robert Porter
Is the box able to resolve domain names properly? I suspect that would be a Reverse DNS issue. When a telnet or SSH connection is setup, the server does a RDNS lookup from ip to hostname. The LONG pause between connection and login is the 1st symptom of that problem. Robert F. Porter,

Re: [U2] UniVerse backups to disk

2011-08-22 Thread Robert Porter
People are still splitting mirrors? From what I can see AIX 5.2 (Oct 2002!) added JFS and snapshots. Removes the risk of a mirror getting merged back the wrong way if the break-backup-merge crashes and has to be undone by hand. Breaking the mirror means either you need to have multiple mirror

Re: [U2] UniVerse backups to disk

2011-08-22 Thread Robert Porter
The snapshot disk space only needs to hold the amount of the changed data - not the whole filesystem. To the applications, it appears that a copy was made, but actually writes are being held behind the scenes. Don't think I'm explaining this well (Monday am), so lets try an example. Say that

Re: [U2] UniVerse backups to disk

2011-08-23 Thread Robert Porter
. Wols Lists antli...@youngman.org.uk 8/23/2011 6:28 AM On 22/08/11 14:56, Robert Porter wrote: ... Interesting. The reason I suggested breaking the mirror was that mirroring is a common technique. ... ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org

Re: [U2] Ardent programmers

2011-09-09 Thread Robert Porter
I heard he was the first to use RTFM!. Charles Stevenson stevenson.c...@gmail.com 9/9/2011 10:07 AM I heard he designed and implemented the original Universe. He left a rather hefty manual. It was updated after his last visit. On 9/9/2011 8:23 AM, Glenn Sallis wrote: I guess he must be

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

2011-10-07 Thread Robert Porter
I've also attempted to stay out of this. I do agree this is getting to be too much of an attack. Doug: I DO care about the math. I DON'T care about 3 clicks to do a whole account. I don't have the time available to do a whole account. So I manually do maintenance on the couple hours I have

Re: [U2] FAST

2011-10-07 Thread Robert Porter
The minute the U2 listserver makes the term battle come to mind, is the minute I un-subscribe. Bill Brutzman bi...@hkmetalcraft.com 10/7/2011 8:31 AM In the book American Caesar - Douglas MacArthur, the author Wm Manchester makes the point that... arrogance is a good thing. The last thing

Re: [U2] [UV] LIST.READU EVERY's waiters when there are writes w/o explicit readu.

2011-10-26 Thread Robert Porter
Accountants... How about a ER doc waiting on lab results for cardiac enzymes? I can hear it now: Sorry Doc, something else locked the record. Your patient's test request was skipped so we could implement a trivial solution that was suggested for deadly embrace. Try again, and hope for the best

Re: [U2] [UV] LIST.READU EVERY's waiters when there are writes w/o explicit readu.

2011-10-26 Thread Robert Porter
. Remember, the impossible I do straight away but miracles may take a bit longer! Mecki On 26/10/2011 13:45, Robert Porter wrote: Accountants... How about a ER doc waiting on lab results for cardiac enzymes? I can hear it now: Sorry Doc, something else locked the record. Your patient's test request

Re: [U2] [semi-ot] JE Sisk basic book on the eBay

2011-11-09 Thread Robert Porter
It's commonly available on Amazon's market in used condition for that range as well. http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0830628452/ref=dp_olp_used Robert F. Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE, OCP-Java Lead Sr. Programmer / Analyst Laboratory Information Services Ochsner Health System This

Re: [U2] !COMO subroutine documentation

2011-12-29 Thread Robert Porter
Thanks Rex Will! That helps a lot... Rob ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

[U2] !COMO subroutine documentation

2011-12-29 Thread Robert Porter
A few of our programs use the !COMO subroutine within the program (I normally use it in a PA outside the program itself), but I'm having trouble finding the documentation for it. Sample:CALL !COMO( 2+16+64, COMO.FILE ) Platform: UV 10.1.20 (PI flavor) on HP-UX 11.11 Specifically

[U2] FYI - Another UV shop going away...

2012-01-24 Thread Robert Porter
Just FYI, Yesterday, Ochsner Health System (8 hospital plus ~40 clinics covering from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, LA.) announced that the in-house maintained Laboratory Information System will be replaced with SoftLab from Soft Computer Corp (softcomputer.com). The in-house system was

Re: [U2] [OT] CareerBuider.com exploiting animals in their advertising

2012-02-06 Thread Robert Porter
I find this offensive... NOT careerbuilder's user of chimpanzees, but your libelous statements without offering any proof whatsoever except a link to an organization page filled with generalizations and examples that have nothing to do with the matter at hand. Did careerbuilder perform acts

Re: [U2] Including Code - A Best Practice?

2012-02-08 Thread Robert Porter
1000? I find that hard to swallow on modern systems. To see that kind of difference I suspect it would have to be really memory starved so as to not cache it after the 1st use for commonly used routine. And if we're talking about a routine that's once in a while, then the benefit doesn't add

Re: [U2] Universe's DOS command

2012-02-15 Thread Robert Porter
From DOS/Windows days, which also uses the same /c (argument), I just assumed it meant Command. Wjhonson wjhon...@aol.com 2/15/2012 12:27 PM The DOS command in Universe takes a /c argument and then you can specify a bat file like DOS \c test.bat What does \c mean? Are there other

Re: [U2] Universe's DOS command

2012-02-16 Thread Robert Porter
If you're doing FTP, you probably want the -n option on the ftp (no prompt for login) and then use the user ftp command. We'll build a script for the ftp session and then call it as ftp -n scriptname Inside of scriptname you'll have something along the line of: open host user name password cd

Re: [U2] Universe's DOS command

2012-02-16 Thread Robert Porter
accessing the internet (and of course, no one is at the server during the night). -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Robert Porter Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 9:40 AM To: u2-users

Re: [U2] Multi-value explode in AE

2012-02-24 Thread Robert Porter
EV - Edit Value ESV - Edit Sub-Value Wjhonson wjhon...@aol.com 2/24/2012 2:00 PM What's that AE command to view or edit a multivalued attribute ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org

[U2] EMF/WMF Form underlay with Print Wizard

2012-03-19 Thread Robert Porter
I know it's not U2 specific, but considering the ties between U2 and Print Wizard, I thought someone might have hit this already. I have a form that's done in Corel Draw X4. Previously I would convert it to a PCL macro by printing it to file and using a hex editor... NOT a fun job. We have

Re: [U2] Record lock

2012-03-23 Thread Robert Porter
I whole-heartedly disagree... 1) I have numerous processes that lock/update/release the same record repeatedly running 24x7 - on the sale process id. 2) I don't want code that works 98% of the time - that's unacceptable. I don't want calls in the middle of the night because it appears

Re: [U2] u2ug.net Website

2012-04-03 Thread Robert Porter
I get a 504 - Timeout Robert F. Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE, OCP-Java Lead Sr. Programmer / Analyst Laboratory Information Services Ochsner Health System This transmission (including any attachments) may contain confidential information, privileged material (including material protected by

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