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. All three steps can be linked
together with simple directory transfers of the data.
Quality control will be the big issue. You may find that you have to
task some poor soul to verify the OCR work prior to import into
UniVerse.
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As the only problem seems to be the licensing method, I think I would
try to engage IBM to see what the options are. Perhaps a per
processor license could be worked out.
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Just looked at the copy of Pick BASIC I have on my desktop and sure
enough, the technical editor is Mr. Clifton Oliver. So, he sold at
least one of those books.
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server 2005.
Users are currently wondering why it's all so god awful slow :-)
There's much to be said for a quick and simple telnet interface.
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Interesting thread. Even though I don't really have much to do with
UniVerse these days, I still enjoy reading (and learning from) these
forums.
I've been a long time user of both UniVerse and SQL Server. Developed
many things using one, the other or both db's as data sources. I
would say
I've used vmware for development work and as a means of converting
data from one system to another. Works very well if you run it on a
machine with dual core's, adequate memory and more than one hard
drive. Works best if you can put the vm's files onto their own hard
drive.
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Sounds alot like the current system I'm working on. It's Informix
compiled down to c++ and then run on a sql 2005 server. The front end
is done in vb6 and the web servers are a patchwork of asp and vb.net
and c#.net.
This frankinstien was purchased to replace the old Pick system
running on
Embrace the dark side
Windows .Net SQL Server 2005
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This guy wants low cost equipment. If they have been running on a 486
box up until now, speed is certainly not an issue. I'd suggest
browsing ebay for a 1-2 year old dual core server or workstation.
You'd be surprised at how cheap they are once they come off lease.
I do this myself every
# for some time now to produce internal applications using
both UniVerse and SQL server as back end db's. Works well and has
semi colons! :-)
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Best way to quickly test/fix this is to login to the account at the
TCL level. If you get the offer to make the directory a UniVerse
directory, then those files were missing and responding to the offer
will fix things up with the default set of files.
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Not quite the same as connecting to the webserver and having it run
the telnet from behind your firewall. I'm not 100%, but I believe the
wintegrate solution does this part of the job.
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both machines are reporting full duplex on
the ethernet ports is key to fixing such issues. If one machine is
running at half duplex, the other will match it.
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If it's speed you want, go with a text file dump of the data and then
an SQL bulk insert job. I did much the same thing (though with fewer
records) and improved performance dramatically. Sometimes the good
old tools really are better.
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TIME.LEDGER.
I've moved over the PARTFILES data from the live system to this test
system in an attempt to make it happy, but that didn't work either.
Thanks for any and all help!
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on all the files and the rest of them work
just fine. It's just this one part file which has me puzzled.
Distributed File /dbms/DATA2/LMS/TIME.LEDGER must be rebuilt at this release.
Call your Database Administrator!
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
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Don't overevaluate free code! don't like it, fix it. (then send
the results to those of us too lazy to do either...)
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I use MS Reporting Services, but I put a subset of what I want to
report on into a SQL server first. Using the good old fashined method
of pumping ginormous text files accross our network. This keeps the
locals from abusing our accounting system during the day.
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Sorry, I work at a place where we just swapped out a nice GroupWise
email system for the behemoth exchange. Now we reboot for just about
any reason. Fixes all sorts of things...
Glad to see that others with some AIX experience were able to show you
the right way to fix the problem.
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Micro$oft (you will be assimilated!) does this the right way. You can
download a copy of Visual Studio 2005 (free) which comes with a
personal version of SQL server 2005 (free). Applications built with
this can also be distributed (free).
Hard to compete with that.
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I've found it's a lot simpler to just manually create an ADO.NET data
structure and then populate it myself with UO.NET. I have to type a
little more (perhaps not much more than if I were to use XML) but I
get exactly what I want.
I have a couple of examples if you'd like to take a look.
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You'll have to use the windoze standby, reboot.
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I can't confime anything with xml stuff! I started using .Net when it
first came out. There were no xml functions at that time. So, I've
always just done it the hard way. I'm fortunate to have full access
to both ends of the process though so it's not so bad.
Sounds like you have things well
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// open customer file
UniFile fl = us1.CreateUniFile(CUSTOMER);
// read a record
UniDynArray ar_record = fl.Read(2);
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I have a complete set of AREV manuals and disks for AREV OS/2. If
your willing to pay the postage, I'm willing to put it in a box and
send it to you.
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With a multiprocessor box (dual core Opteron's, Yes!) you can set SQL
Server to use only a set number of the processors for itself. The OS
and UniVerse would then share the remaining. Aside from that and
tossing lots of memory and disk into the box you should be OK.
One side note is that you
Thanks for sharing the U program. Such a simple thing, so many ways to use it!
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I'm attempting to make use of a program called mpack which requires
some command line arguments to be quoted. While doing this, I'm
getting some over quoting and things are not worked as they should.
Is there another character or technique (aside from writing the
command out as a script and
mpack is a neat little utility that will encode an attachement, add a
subject line and then mail the whole lot off to your smtp server.
With some help from the others on this thread, I've been able to rip
out 80+ lines of code and replace it all with a dozen or so lines.
And, it works with
Check the UV.ACCOUNT file and verify that your account still exists.
You can also use the full path to the account instead of the account
name. I usually put the full path in for the account name.
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Have a look at the UniObjects docs on your client cd. There are
examples in vb and java. I've done links with vb6, c# and java. It's
all good.
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Be carefull how you explain that to the unwashed masses. I can just
see the typical PHB exclaiming that UV/UD does not have this feature,
therefore it must be inferior!
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One of my hits here is an application that can extract the contents
of an invoice from our U2 system and produce as an Excel spreadsheet
with multiple tabs. The main users of this appliation are our billing
and collections staff. They love being able to send a client the
spreadsheet
We hit an issue with CR 8.5. We found there werer times when the
changes to a crystal report could not be saved. Loading the latest
series of fixpacks from the crystal reports support page fixed this
problem.
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There's a good reason that slashdot uses the borg icon for Micro$oft!
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=109
The msde has been out there for years and has taken hold. We can no
longer assume that a listing of servers generated from our management
suite will only return real sql servers. We now
This type of connection is OK for general query type stuff. When
performing large transfers of data from UniVerse to SQL server I've
found that it's much faster to use bulk loading from DTS (or a stored
procedure). Here's a sample of code (without the DTS part which is
just a simple bulk load
Buy an extra hard drive. If your on a Windoze machine a cheap usb
type external drive will do. Then run an rsync from your UniVerse
directory tree over to the external drive. Ship the drive offsite and
your done. Burning cd's or dvd's will take longer and may be a
problem if your data must be
It's something that good programmers are going to write tomorrow...
On 10/7/05, Wendy Smoak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Something most programmers hate to write
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Yep, I've recently went on several site visits to other Law Firms
running two different billing packages on SQL Server. All 6 had
converted from a UniVerse system running on HP-UX. All 6 mentioned
the letdown of running a large query against their spanking new uber
machines only to find they had
I'll second the elfring folks. They made it dirt simple to have a
signature on a check. They also turned our logo into a font to snazz
up the check a bit.
On 9/29/05, Bill_H [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Karl:
Have the signature sent to http://www.elfring.com/signatur.htm and they will
convert
Regarding the patch. With the original release of UniObjects.net
there was a significant performance issue. A different release or
patch was given limited release in November of 2004. This patch
fixed all the performance issues. My problem was that my var did not
or was not able to get a
Load the patch, all will be well.
I would however suggest using a subroutine for those chores that can
be done quicker on the server. I don't think that uv.net is really
meant as a replacement for UniBasic on the backend.
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I like these and would add another one - Add comments to tricky-looking
code!
-Dianne
And DON'T add comments to the mundane routine stuff!!
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I've seen similar issues with Dynamic Connect and Wintegrate when
running them on XP machines that also have the microsoft spyware
scanner. It usually works, but every so often the spyware gums up the
works and then DC or Wintegrate simply don't startup. You get the
splash screen and that's it.
Take a look at SFU 3.5 and rsync. Your copy job will run a bit
faster. SFU is Micro$ofts repackage of some unix utilities for
windows.
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Can't help with Solaris, but I have several small utilities that use
the C# .Net UniObjects to communicate with an HP-UX machine running
UniVerse 10.0. Works great.
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I have a licensed copy of unidata 7.1 running on windows but would love
to try
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Can't help with Solaris, but I have several small utilities that use
the C# .Net UniObjects to communicate with an HP-UX machine running
UniVerse 10.0. Works
Hey, the evaluation of various methods is great, it would be even
greater if the folks doing the evaluating would let us know what sort
of hardware. One poster mentioned a laptop, that's good info. The
original guy mentions a production system that is in use, that's good
too. But, it would be
Just install the uniobjects SDK off the client cd. Once you do
that, uniobjects will be in the c:\ibm\uniDK\uonet folder. You must
make sure that you have a version of UniVerse that includes the .Net
version. I think that was 10X and above.
On 8/18/05, Chuck Mongiovi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't like to back down from an upgrade. When I've had problems
with security settings, I've had to research what it was and adjust
the settings to suit. The big surprise for us was installing sp2 onto
some xp workstations. We ended up adding a bunch of our local apps to
the firewall list so
Things broke!
Look out for extra security settings that magically appear, new
services, etc, etc. I have a personal vendetta against the automatic
download and install of service packs. I turn it off. Nothing like
having a server update itself overnight and come up in the morning
with some new
Unleash the soccer hooligans!!
Seriously, my prayers are with all those in London who have to put up
with this madness. Stay safe, stay alert.
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I'm the captive programmer for a system that is just full of the
infidel EOF type logic. Said system runs on UniVerse but started
life as an Ultimate application. Since that is all I've ever seen in
the system, that's what I've always used. I'll have to experiment
with the other examples when I
The Wang spooler was probably running directly attached printers (via
serial or parralell interfaces). This would allow the spooler to
know much more about the status of a job than the more modern
printers that are network attached (and deal with complete print jobs
in one fell swoop). For a
HP-UX has some examples on how to integrate their ldap with Micro$ofts
Active Directory.
http://docs.hp.com/en/J4269-90031/ch02s05.html
There are many, many other hoto's for Linux and Active Directory.
Most will require editing of many configuration files for ldap and pam
in order to get them
I gave up on the ODBC stuff a while back. I now build my SQL tables
by producing text files on the HP/UniVerse machine and then launching
a DTS job with an ftp module that pulls the data down to the SQL
server and imports it that way.
Much less twidling with drivers this way.
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I have the opposite. My UniObjects connections don't work, but the
very same user/password data will let me into a telnet session.
This all seemed to coincide with my screwing about with pam.conf so I
suspect in my case it's self inflicted. Until I get a chance to sort
it out, I'm using another
Have a look at your pam.config file. I'll bet that UniObjects is not
using the same mechanism to connect as a telnet connection does. That
could mean the OS is not locking down all means of connection when a
login goes rogue.
I'm more certain now that this is an issue of OS and documentation
Well, Mr. Phillips, I can't disagree with you. The scenario you
describe is a classic concrete tunnel into the system not a hole at
all!
I'm just hoping that since I've managed to achieve the opposite (via
blind stupidity and bad luck) that perhaps this is all due to
inadequate documentation of
Bingo! Ian.
If your users are good enough to hack together an application out of
notepad, excel and uniobjects, then you've hired the wrong guy for
that sales / counter job. Move him/her into the development group.
Be carefull of over protecting your systems to the point they become
more
Twiddle the PAM config file if your on unix so that services don't go
through the user login process. Send them off to something else...
I don't know of anyway to keep them out of a Windows system though.
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I've found that since the UniObjects.Net library does not create
native .Net data structures (datatables, datasets, etc), I have to
create them myself. So, to make use of things like Component One's
flex grid, I build a datatable from the UniVerse system and feed the
datatable into the
I'm trying to connect to a UV 9.6.2 database on a Linux server and
I believe that at 9.6 an additional license was required to use
UniObjects. You probably don't have that license installed. Upgrade
to 10.X, buy an additional license for UniObjects or download one of
the PE additions and
I second the hyper threading note from Jeff. I've seen this cripple a
machine running M$oft's SQL Server. Simply turning off hyperthreading
almost doubled the performance.
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We run our UniVerse application on HP-UX, but we use a number of sql
servers running on X86 type hardware.
Our standard setup for a database server (Micro$oft SQL for us) calls
for a dual processor machine with at least a gig of memory depending
upon the size and number of users.
We've found
I really doubt IBM's lack of effort with this project had anything to
do with some sort of agreement with Micro$ft.
IBM has always known a thing or two about lawyers. In fact the pet
name for IBM's lawyers in the trade is the Nazgul from the LOTR
series. If you'd like to see just how effective
I gave up on OLEDB for UniVerse a couple of years ago for the same
reason. I just could not make it work reliably. Since your already
using VB, take a look at the UniObjects library. I've found it works
much better than ODBC or OLEDB, but you'll have to put more effort
into it as it's not
If you use some care in design and layout of your windows screens, you can
make them just as effective as green screen apps. Make sure you've set
your tab order to a logical sequence, setup and use shortcut key
combinations that make sense and use something like the down arrow to
activate pick
For many of the reasons others have mentioned, I chose to make the leap from
vb6 to c# some time ago. Conversion of a vb6 app to .net can be a tedious
exercise. I chose to just rewrite it in c# and take that opportunity to
learn a new language and clean up some of my previous features.
If you
Both myself and others on this list have been able to get UniVerse to
function within several different kernel revisions and distributions. That
said, I can understand why even IBM would not want to get into the habit of
testing their software with all the various distributions and kernel
Is there a per CPU license that would allow any number of connections?
With SQL server, Oracle and others you can purchase a per cpu license
whereby any number of connections can be made. That is probably what
would be best in an environment where a large number of users are
expected, but just
I was never able to get rcp to work well between HP-UX and Windoze
with SFU. I am however able to get rsync to work between the two.
You can find it in the toolbox for SFU
http://www.interopsystems.com/tools/warehouse.htm
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I've used a 2 user licensed (NOT pe) UniVerse 10.1 on Gentoo, Redhat
and SuSE 8.2 during my testing. As others have said, I've found it
works just fine with just about any linux distro out there. I'm also
betting that IBM would support it on most any of the mainstream
distros as most of them
with the ability to trash the integrity of the
organization's financial information; a rude awakening awaits!
Bill
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I've found the best way for me to do what you are describing is to use
UniObjects .Net to create a recordset from the UniData/UniVerse
machine and then pass that recordset into a Crystal Report. Probably
not what you want to hear, but it is a method to stitch together your
current programs with
Installing a current version of UniVerse onto a Solaris box would be
the quickest way to move the application. If your not familiar with
UniVerse, you would be wise to invest in a few hours of consultant
time for someone else to perform the upgrade for you.
To move the data out of UniVerse to
In addition to piqueing the interest of the IBM lawyers, using the PE
addition in this manner may lead to an issue with large datasets. The
PE edition just won't do large files. It's meant as a demo, tire kick
tool.
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:35:34 -0500, Key Ally [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Robert,
Getting the data from unix to a pc running windows or linux can be
done any number of ways. The basic receipe is copy, fnuxi, resize,
recompile, run. You can use nfs, ftp, tape, rsync, samba shares, etc
to get the data from one machine to another. The fnuxi part is a
UniVerse command to convert
Sorry, I work for lawyers were throw money at it is S.O.P. Getting
the data out of the old system and onto brand X database system does
not require either a new UniVerse license or an install of PE. It
would however go much easier with an install of a consultant type who
could quickly show the
Yes it is. This should prove interesting to watch over the next year
or so. Hopefully our friends at Assential will remain employed or at
least receive a large amount of stock options...
Good Luck!
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:28:44 -0500, Gordon J Glorfield
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I see that IBM
Grab a copy of the pdf's and use them. That's more readable than the
help files. I'm lucky in that we have a few high speed printers here
that can do double sided pages. Once printed that way, I have the
pdf's bound into crude books.
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 09:26:25 -0600, Marilyn Hilb
[EMAIL
Upgrade via replication sounds like a receipe for lots of wailing and
knashing of teeth. Have a look at uvbackup and uvrestore. Or read
up on rsync as a means to get the data from one machine to another.
If it were me, I think I'd do a uvbackup to a network mounted
filesystem (samba or nfs) and
Yes, going from Irix (MIPS?) to Linux on X86 will most likely require
fnuxi to be run on everything after the transfer. Since the fnuxi
process would run on the newer machine, it would probably still be
much faster to run an rsync, then find - fnuxi script.
Just be very carefull with rsync!
Are you on the same physical network as the target machine? Is there
a firewall between you and it? What is the reasoning behind changing
the rpc port to 7200?
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I'm going through this right now. I changed my password on an HP-UX
system and uniobjects stopped working for me. I created a test
account and it works with that, it also works with the other users on
the system.
My original login still works with the new password. Sort of seems
like
Make sure the remote machine has the uniobjects port enabled and there
are no firewalls between you and it that also block this port. On an
HP-UX machine this is port 31438. Have a look at the services file in
/etc and make sure this line is in there somewhere.
uvrpc 31438/tcp
for that port?
Thanks,
Nick Cipollina
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Make sure the remote machine
,
uvAccount, uvcs);
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:35:35 -0500, Nick Cipollina
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How exactly can I do this?. (I'm new to .NET).
Thanks,
Nick Cipollina
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Java over .Net That just sounds wrong.
If you have a server environment that's exclusively Unix, you will probably
want to just stick with most anything except .Net.
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that there is an updated
uniobjects.dll available, but my VAR was not able to locate it?!?
I really don't understand why IBM does not just post the developers tools as
a public download. You really can't do much with them unless you already
have a licensed database so why the hassle?
Don Kibbey
Does the unifile method writefield actually work with uniobjects.net? I'm
having a difficult time getting it to do anything other than cause my
program to fault. I have vague recollections of someone posting about this
before...
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Suppose I should have mentioned that my example was in c# using UniObjects
.Net. I have been able to see that using the readlist method allows the
program to run much faster, simply putting the select list into a loop and
reading one record at a time runs noticeably slower. I didn't have this
I had some issues with select lists. Found that if I read the entire select
list into an uniarray and then processed it, things went much faster.
Probably not a good idea for really large select lists, but then the stuff
I'm working with should never be more than a few thousand (famous last
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