Chuck,
I agree with Stuart - using a work file would speed things up.
Here's a quick code outline to help (I use UniData, and haven't
tried to run this, so YMMV):
OPEN MYFILE TO F.MYFILE ELSE STOP
OPEN WORKFILE TO F.WORK ELSE STOP
EXECUTE CLEARFILE DATA WORKFILE
READ REC FROM F.MYFILE,MYREC ELSE
Date: 23 Aug 2004 16:26:54 -0300
From: Philippe Parent [EMAIL PROTECTED]
...
(where 'y' is the value marker)
Why is there y1y1, y2y1, y3y1 appended at the end of
each ID? I'm guessing it has to do with the saving
unique feature or something?
...
So first, what is the extraneous
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:51:36 -0700
From: David Scoggins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
...
We now are considering installing McAfee AV on the Universe
servers anyway in light of this event. Does anyone have any
recommendations regarding how to eliminate the McAfee/UV
conflict, or is there a better
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 20:10:16 -0700
From: Tony Gravagno [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Are there any other settings in AccuTerm that should or should
not be set for best results?
Can't speak specifically for your situation, but...
I use AccuTerm 97 with SystemBuilder 5.2.4 and UniData 5.2 on AIX 5.1.
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:49:24 +1000
From: Craig Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cant it be read ONCE and put into one (or more) named common
variables?
I could do that, but I am trying to have the data cached by
a process (object loaded) without having to read the data.
I don't remember if
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 01:56:37 -0400
From: Mark Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [U2] Fancy Printer
...
Second, sort of for D3. Are there any repetitive printer strings that
could be
send to the printer that precedes the actual output for each hold file.
I'm
dancing with a few clients
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 09:12:12 -0400
From: Mark Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I still maintain my opinion of most of these stupid' test programs
because
many of them look like this:
001 PROMPT '
002 INPUT ANS
003 PRINT OCONV(ANS,MD2,$Z)
004 END
and another one looks like this
001 PROMPT
On 26 Oct 2004 13:26:22 -0700, Allen Egerton wrote:
Why wouldn't you use the REMOVE statement?
On 26 Oct 2004 16:33:55 -0700, Allen E. Elwood wrote:
Ohh.lemme see, could it be that I've never heard of REMOVE?
A caution with REMOVE - It removes up to the next DELIMITER, so if you have
value
Brian Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Wed, 10 Nov 2004 11:24:46 -0500
I know that if I imbed HP PCL code into the print job for different
fonts etc that these will print fine. However, for this particular
job, a couple of logos are part of the document as well and we would
like to be able
Lee Bacall wrote:
I've been struggling to find a solution to get a complex PCL
string from UniVerse on AIX to the printer without stripping
out some of the escape sequences. (The print routine works
just fine on other systems - it's not a PCL question)
I have found that AIX gets flaky with
Anyone have any insight on SMIT for AIX and how to set it up to eliminate
character translations?
Here are the settings I currently have on my main print queue. We use AIX
5.1 with UniData 5.2 and SB+ 5.2.
To see these settings, do the following:
1) At the AIX prompt, type smit
2) Choose
Al DeWitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 19 Nov 2004 17:59:16 -0600
UniData 6.0.12 // SB+ 5.2.4
I have a basic program that originally ran on a line printer
to print preprinted forms. I am converting it to print on a
laser. I'm having problem with line creep.
Others have made some good
Norman Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Mon, 22 Nov 2004 08:45:51 -0600
I am brand new to UniData after using Pick/D3 with SB+ for 9 years ...
Hey, Norman! Welcome to the list!
I have looked for a concise list of differences between D3 Basic and UD
Basic, but can't find one. I have run
Is there a way to semi-automagically resize all the files in a UniData
account/system?
When we used Pick D3, we could run a process which would store the mod to
use on restore in the file definition item. If we did a full system file
save and restore, the files would be recreated with the new
George Gallen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Tue, 7 Dec 2004 13:27:51
-0500
I'm trying to put together some labels using PCL.
I was told to use 10point font. I'm using a font that is fixed,
so the printer is ignoring the point size setting esc ( s # V
I'm using the pitch setting instead esc ( s
Clif [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Mon, 20 Dec 2004 21:31:17 -0800
Full content. A lot of times watching how someone else is
thinking is more instructive than what they are thinking.
I wholeheartedly agree! I subscribe only to the digests, in part from
being distracted 100 times a day, but
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:29:15 -0600
Marilyn Hilb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I frequently see this type of line K = K in the code
I work on and never understood why.
-Original Message-
From: Andrea Charles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Do you need the K = K ?
--
As you are hopefully aware, this list is hosted by the International U2
Users' Group. Our first election is coming up soon. I have posted the
list of candidates today, along with some photos and biographies, on the
website at http://www.u2ug.org (use the Candidate Biographies link in the
text on
Charles Stevenson wrote on 3 Feb 2005 at 23:16:59 -0500:
I wrote these examples up for our own programmers.
Might as well share them with the group for the
newbies' sakes.
A caution: these apply to UniVerse. UniData doesn't support the third
syntax (X[c,m,n]).
Also, UniData may give
I get digests, so my apologies if this is a bit late...
There are a few cautions about mixing font types on a report that no one
mentioned. If you use a proportionally spaced font (like Arial) and want
to align values (e.g., right-justified numbers), you must remember that
spaces are not as wide
Adrian Womack wrote on Fri, 15 Apr 2005 08:55:52 +0800
A CRT of ACOS(1) and ACOS(TEMP) where TEMP = 1 also returns
zero for me. That's not the problem.
Try the code in my example, the variable VAR4 displays as
1 - but is probably slightly higher than 1 internally.
It's in this situation
Just a reminder to be kind and trim your replies to the relevant portions
of prior posts. I just received the second digest for today, which
contained just 12 new messages. Several contained the full text (including
posting footers) of three prior messages.
Some people on the list still have to
Charles Stevenson wrote on May 14, 2005 8:24 AM:
Do you know why dimensioned arrays were first limited to
only 1 or 2 dimensions in Pick or Info-Basic?
I started my computing life with BASIC on a PDP-11/03 and FORTRAN on a CDC
Cyber 173 system. I believe the dimension limit was there to avoid
Phil Walker wrote on Fri, 27 May 2005 9:54:17 +1200
3. IBM, why would the flavour of an account effect the use
of a client tool such as U2 XML/DB Tool? Is this a design
oversight? - or was it assumed that users would change the
account flavour, ...
This is not the only tool that requires a
Is there a way to print PDF files from AIX using a command from UniData?
One of our vendors has provided a PDF file that they want us to include
with shipments of their product. It would be nice if I could have my
existing process determine that a qualifying product is being shipped, and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/01/2005 5:53 PDT
Is there a way to print PDF files from AIX using a command
from UniData?
Troy Buss of Logitek Systems replied off-list on 07/01/2005 15:18:40 EDT:
As a one time setup, you can also print the PDF to the printer
using the correct windows driver
Bob Witney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Mon, 4 Jul 2005 14:20:07 +0100
I am building an email as follows to send a report as a word
attachment via sendmail from aix 5.2 (Universe 10) ...
Okay...something funky happened with this in the digest. The problem you
reported appeared there! After the
Mark Johnson wrote on Sun, 10 Jul 2005 23:12:25 -0400
I'll yield to the REMOVE for this U2 forum. ...
- Original Message -
From: Womack, Adrian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mark, I don't like your example...
snip REMOVE example
I've never understood this need some programmers have for
Norman Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:51:59 -0500
I need to find a workaround for a D3 feature that I have become
dependent on. SYSTEM(20) returns the number of the last spooler
entry you created.
DICT _HOLD_ NEXT.HOLD contains the next job number to use. Reading this
Will Johnson wrote on Tue, 19 Jul 2005 01:55:51 EDT
Remove does not confuse me. Remove unnecessarily confuses other
people. ...
READNEXT works just find for processing a multi-item list just as
REMOVE does and it's much more widely used and understood.
So I see no point to the Remove
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:04:08 +0200
We are trying to find a way to capture results from our
nigthly batch runs to a log file. That log file is then
read to trigger warnings or critical alarms.
We'd like to use the RETURNING clause in the EXECUTE statement
to capture
Ken Wallis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Sat, 17 Dec 2005 16:21:34
+1100
RE: [U2] LOGTO question...
colin alfke wrote:
Here is a snip of a post the venerable Ken Wallis made a while
back explaining how a program is found.
I'm not convinced that I like being referred to as 'venerable' ;^)
Mark Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Thu, 5 Jan 2006 00:21:37
-0500
I'm finding that I'm doing a lot of programming for the processing
through multi-valued attributes.
I'm wondering if the method I'm using is the best way to determine
the last element.
LAST=DCOUNT(REC15,@VM)
FOR I=1 TO
On 14 Feb 2006, Serguei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why not instead of CALL SomeProg('GetCustomerBalance',...)
and CALL SomeProg('PaintScreen',...)
do:
CALL GetCustomerBalance
Call PaintScreen
On 16 Feb 2006, Serguei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... never again anywhere in your programs you will
Michael Caskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:10:06 -0700
I have been tasked with creating reports from our UniData
system using UniQuery. ...
1. Is there a better way to run these queries?
and
2. Is there a better query editor; text-based or GUI or both?
Others have posted
Jacques G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Mon, 6 Mar 2006 07:51:51 -0800
(PST):
In Universe, it isn't necessary to DIM a matrix that
has been passed in a subroutine. So my question is,
are there MV flavors where it is neccessary to do so ?
We use UniData with Pick flavor (under SB+). I tried
Mike Preece [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What do people think of the idea of moving this list to a google
group instead?
Jerry Banker [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied:
Don't go there. I think this was discussed many times and the consensus
was no. I personally hate, is hate too strong a word, having
Bill Haskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 23 Mar 2006 19:46:16 -0800
If I generate a report to _HOLD_ by using SETPTR 0,3 can I
then send the report to another printer, say unit 2, by using
SETPTR 2 just before I SPOOL _HOLD_ P_.?
The first parameter of the SETPTR command allows a unit
Don Verhagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06 Apr 2006 15:50:24 -0400
We are in 4 times zones in the US and 2 Daylight Savings
Time (Arizona and parts of Indiana do not observe DST).
Please be aware that, as of this year (2006), Indiana observes Daylight
Savings Time.
The state is still split
We mostly use AccuTerm here, but have a few SBClient licenses for
testing/trial purposes. As Susan Joslyn noted, the Wyse-60 emulation seems
to work well, and that's what we use. It also works well with our Link MC5
terminals.
As to program controls - you could always determine if you're using
Kate Stanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 2 Aug 2006 18:11:11 +1200
I would go for the simplest solution to operate and maintain,
almost to hell with machine efficiency. You (or anyone else
trying to follow you) are probably the most critical and
expensive resource.
I must disagree with your
Under UniData 6.1 on AIX 5.3, I have an index on our WAREHOUSE file for the
Primary Bin Number (PRIM.BIN.NUM, V-type, EXTRACT(@RECORD,1,1,0)). I get
different results depending on the order of selection.
LIST.INDEX shows the following:
File.. WAREHOUSE
Alternate key length..
I originally wrote:
This set of statements returns correct results:
SELECT WAREHOUSE WITH PRIM.BIN.NUM = 139
551453 records selected to list 0.
SELECT WAREHOUSE WITH PRIM.BIN.NUM = 131
123 records selected to list 0.
...
But this set does not:
SELECT WAREHOUSE WITH PRIM.BIN.NUM = 131
Thomas Derwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/11/2006 10:18:29 AM:
The index says the K-type for your PRIM.BIN.NUM is Txt, so looks
like the dict it's based on is left-justified (e.g. 3L) rather than
right-justified (e.g. 3R).
Colin Alfke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/11/2006 10:37:43 AM:
Jeff Schasny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:32:55
-0600
Much as I hate to make editorial comments on a very nice
writeup, I'd hate for you to go on misusing [sic].
Thanks for the full reference, Jeff. I would have said something if you
hadn't.
There are two other Latin
Gabriel Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Sat, 7 Apr 2007 08:06:56
-0700
We use TANDEM a lot ... when I hit Enter or Return it doesn't
transmit that character--I have to have my user press it on his
or her keyboard ...
On certain terminals/emulations, some keystrokes are transmitted as
Dean Armbruster wrote on 26 Jun 2007 16:14:21 -0400
... This is about BSELECT ...
@SYSTEM.RETURN.CODE is not supposed to be the number of
*records* selected. It is supposed to be the number of
items in the select list.
I would suggest that, in this case, the documentation is incorrect (or
Scott Ballinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Wed, 5 Dec 2007 11:03:50
-0800
It also seems to me that the only person on this list arguing
for more [AD] tags is Charles. Does anyone else actually feel
that [AD] tags help to clarify responses in any way; or that
that the list has a problem with
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