Re: [U2] mvToolbox--digression about why anyone would want telnet-based tools

Long live telnetwe use a full screen editor for Universe, written in house of course, being used by about 80 developers as I type. Les Sherlock Hewkin  Senior Project Manager Finance Systems, I.T. Department T 01604 592289, M 07917 856195 -Original Message- From:

Re: [U2] ViaDuct problem

Hi, in the UK it used to be ANJEC that supported ViaDuct, there used to be a nice man called Dick Chatter who knew it inside out, don't know if he's still there or if they still support it but it could be worth an Email. There web site is www.anjec.co.uk. How do I know this? I worked there for a

Re: [U2] AUTO: Haydon Bishop is out of the office. (returning16/04/2010)

WHAT? He was at Liverpool and I missed him Damm and blast...to have met the legendary Haydon Bishop...oh wellanother one of those things to do before I'm 50 that seems to have slipped by me Les Sherlock Hewkin Project Manager, Group Financial Systems, I.T. Department T 01604

Re: [U2] SELECTs on FILEs

Hi, a good trick to speed selects like this up is to add an index to the IDtry it and see what happens to your selects Cheers Les Sherlock Hewkin Project Manager, Group Financial Systems, I.T. Department T 01604 592289, M 07917 856195 -Original Message- From:

Re: [U2] Microdata Conversion

Hi, we did Reality to Universe years ago. The reality flavour supports PQN and 10 item dicts, and most of the nice reality features. Les Sherlock Hewkin Project Manager Group Financial Systems I.T. Department Ryehill House Ryehill Close, Lodge Way Industrial Estate, Northampton. NN5 7UA T

Re: [U2] Rocket Software + U2

It was a Europe webcast. Les Sherlock Hewkin Project Manager Group Financial Systems I.T. Department Ryehill House Ryehill Close, Lodge Way Industrial Estate, Northampton. NN5 7UA T 01604 592289 M 07917 856195 -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org

Re: [U2] Software Test

Hi, we used an automated tester called Testpro a few years ago. You can set it up to run through your system using data in a file as input or you can load the script with the data. It works by recording what you do and capturing the screen output. It works..BUT it takes longer to maintain the

Re: [U2] U2 being sold!

This news should make the U2 Universities interesting.. I will be in the bar in Liverpool if anyone want to buy me a drink...:-) Les Sherlock Hewkin Project Manager Group Financial Systems I.T. Department Ryehill House Ryehill Close, Lodge Way Industrial Estate, Northampton. NN5 7UA T 01604

Re: [U2] [UV] Strange paragraph IF behaviour

You could try the tried and trusted method of deleting the line and retyping it. This has worked for me before Les Sherlock Hewkin Project Manager Group Financial Systems I.T. Department Ryehill House Ryehill Close, Lodge Way Industrial Estate, Northampton. NN5 7UA T 01604 592289 M

Re: [U2] Mixed Case UV Basic Programming Standards.

Does anyone else remember the days when there was only UPPER case on terminals and line printers? Our internal standard says use upper case only, we have twenty year old programs. When switching from an old program to a new one written in wobbly case you tend to miss read the code. We do have

RE: [U2] Employment disaster

RubbishI have worked for the same couple for more then 10 years. In that time I have gone from only knowing Universe to developing systems in VB6, JAVA, dot.net. It's not the developers that become dinosaurs it's the PHB's that think anything new is better then anything that's gone before,

RE: [U2] UV Timed INPUT

Hi, the simple answer is no..but there is a way...on UNIX. You can open the device using OPENSEQ and read the input using READBLK, this allows you to use the TIMEOUT command. We have a very clever man that did this and it works without killing the machine. Les Sherlock Hewkin Project

RE: [U2] [UV] Requirements for UO.NET connection?

Tony, check to see if there is a VOCLIB in the accounts that don't workWe had this problem with UO and VB6. Cheers Les Sherlock Hewkin Project Manager Group Financial Systems I.T. Department Rye Hill House T 01604 592289 M 07917 856195 -Original Message- From:

RE: [U2] Automatic Invoice - PO Matching Software

Forgot to mention we use 1mage for our image storage. Les Sherlock Hewkin Project Manager Group Financial Systems I.T. Department Rye Hill House T 01604 592289 M 07917 856195 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Dodds Sent: 17

RE: [U2] Automatic Invoice - PO Matching Software

Hi we use an OCR product called Invoices from Readsoft. This looks for the data you want and captures it. It then remembers the format for the supplier. The best thing is it works. We do 1.5 million invoices a year like this. It produces a csv file containing the captured data and details of where

RE: [U2] UV objects question

We found the best way is to have all the logic in databasic. Call a subroutine to return the data you want. This can be tested before it is used within VB. Les Sherlock Hewkin Project Manager Group Financial Systems I.T. Department Rye Hill House T 01604 592289 M 07917 856195 -Original

RE: [U2] PORT.STSTUS ?

I have written a wrapper around listu, port.status, list.readu vlist. You enter the user ID you want to look at or '?' to do a listu, you can then drill down into one of the user sessions. You then get the results of a port.status with layer.stack, a vlist and a list.readu. After the vlist I

RE: [U2] U2U London

Brian, I am booked in at this hotel50 quid a night if you book three days in advance. The bar looks really good... BW Master Robert Hotel 366, Great West Road Hounslow Middlesex TW5 0BD GB Tel. 020 8570 6261 Fax. 020 8569 4016 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Les Sherlock Hewkin Project

RE: [U2] Forms printing

We use a big Xerox for this type of thing, but we are printing over 20,000 pages a day. I believe they have smaller printers that can do the same thing. Les Sherlock Hewkin Project Manager - Financial Systems 01604 592289 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [U2] Large-scale scanner / OCR devices and interfaces to UniVerse {Unclassified}

Hi, we to use the Readsoft product. We scan and OCR 1.25 million invoices a year. I don't know if the product is available in NZ but if it is I would recommend it. Les Sherlock Hewkin Project Manager - Financial Systems 01604 592289 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [U2] : Cleaner Case Statement

Coming from somewhere with over 40 developers the first thing that comes to mind is KISS. Why or why would you want to change a very simple easy to read case statement for something more contrived? We train developers to write clean easy to maintain code. When I say we what I mean is we get Martin

RE: [U2] Tony Jones/WA/QBE/Insurance is out of the office.

This did make me gigglethese dates are in UK format Les Sherlock Hewkin Project Manager - Financial Systems 01604 592289 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 July 2007 15:26 To:

RE: [U2] [UV] Efficient way of determining if item is inuse

Try using FILELOCK Les Sherlock Hewkin Project Manager - Financial Systems 01604 592289 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 June 2007 14:48 To: u2-Users Subject: [U2] [UV] Efficient way of determining if item

RE: [U2] [UV] Index on @ID

This is done on large files for speed. Try selecting a large file without an index on @ID and then with an index. We do use this method from time to time. Les Sherlock Hewkin Project Manager - Financial Systems 01604 592289 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [U2] Single Signon for U2 - Identity Management ?

Hi, Are you looking for something like a CITRIX server? With CITRIX you publish to users the applications they are allowed to have. We run Wintegrate, word ... Etc as well as our VB apps from just one place. Les Sherlock Hewkin Project Manager - Financial Systems 01604 592289

RE: [U2] FILE EXPORT

Do you have a connection to both machines from one PC If so then you can use a terminal emulator like Wintegrate to do a bridge copy or some people call it a peer to peer copy. You have two sessions, one contacted to each machine, you tell your emulator what you want to copy and where you want

RE: [U2] Error in report generation.

Sorry Brian, but I can read the second one a lot better then the firstbut that's because I am looking for uppercase words, mixed case never looks neat to me. Les Sherlock Hewkin Project Manager - Financial Systems 01604 592289 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [U2] Why does the IF statement think these values are different?

Hi, Don't know if you have already checked but what is your wide zero set to in uvconfig? It is a hex number. This is used by universe to decide when two number are close enough to be regarded as the same. You can make the difference bigger so that your IF statement works how you would

RE: [U2] Universe Equivalent of the UnIData DIR command

Or . . . LIST UFD . . . Les Sherlock Hewkin Senior Developer Core Systems - 9951 01604 592289 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Symeon Breen Sent: 08 November 2006 09:45 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Universe

RE: [U2] UniVerse Internal Date Blackout

You have found the bug We came across this just the other week. It is all to do with Juliann dates. Can't remember the exact detail but will try to find out and post. Cheers Les Sherlock Hewkin Senior Developer Core Systems - 9951 01604 592289 -Original Message- From: Timothy

[U2] RE: [U2C] Changes to the List

It was so simple when Cliff ran things. Receive an Email and reply to it. I have more posts about how to post this week then anything else, it is getting very boring, and more complicated. I have had a couple of failed to delivery messages because I an not a valid user on some of the lists. The

[U2] RE: [U2C] Changes to the List

Can't get used to using reply to all, if I get an Email I want to reply to that Email. Les Sherlock Hewkin Senior Developer Core Systems - 9951 01604 592289 -Original Message- From: u2ug [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 March 2006 01:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED];

RE: [U2] [UV] GOSUB variable-name?

I have always thought of OOP as a complicated way of producing very simlpe procedual code. Les Sherlock Hewkin Senior Developer Core Systems - 9951 01604 592289 -Original Message- From: Serguei [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 February 2006 09:58 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org

RE: [U2] Capturing hold file numbers.

PERFORM a setptr with the spool file open and extract the actual file from the result Les Sherlock Hewkin Senior Developer Core Systems - 9951 01604 592289 -Original Message- From: Tom Dodds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 February 2006 15:53 To: User group U2 Subject: [U2]

RE: [U2] UniVerse Internals course (UK)

Hi, I have sat at Martins feet and boy do they smell...:-) Sorry mate. We use Martin for all our Universe training. Each year we take on graduates and he beats them into shape for us. I have been on this internals course and recommend it to everyone. See you later in the year Martin when we

RE: [U2] SOX question (United States only, I believe)

Is that all there is to it We have to do all that now... We also produce diff items of the programs. This details all the changes made. But I do have access to the live machine as well. Les -Original Message- From: Peter Gonzalez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 December

RE: [Maybe spam] RE: [U2] Remove Scenario

Rubbish,sorry Tony but that's what I think. You say experienced developers and big companies don't use EQU INVNO.TABLE TO CUST(40). I beg to differ. What do you call experienced? does 20 years count??? and what do you call a big company??? we only have two boxes running universe, two HP boxes,

RE: [U2] {Spam?} Unidata question

[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 June 2005 17:11 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] {Spam?} Unidata question Thanks Les, that would be great!! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Les Hewkin Sent: Tuesday, 28 June 2005 12:42 AM

RE: [U2] Best practice for Sequential IDs using TRANSACTION START COMMIT/RO...

@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] Best practice for Sequential IDs using TRANSACTION START COMMIT/RO... From: Les Hewkin What would you call a really big transaction? A transaction should encompass all updates that should happen (or be abandoned) as a group in order to insure logical data integrity

RE: [U2] Best practice for Sequential IDs using TRANSACTION START COMMIT/RO...

world transaction experience! Just what I wanted, Les. From: Les Hewkin Start trasnactions Readu control record then record.ID = control record write record control record += 1 write control record end end transaction This seems to work for us. We do have

RE: [U2] How to release locks (LIST.READU)

Have a look at the UNLOCK command. This allows the system administrator in the UV account to unlock any lock set by a READU. Before you go round unlocking records make sure you know why the locks are there. Has someone just walked away from their screen for a while? Unlocking records can lead

RE: [U2] Best practice for Sequential IDs using TRANSACTION START COMMIT/RO...

What was the question? If I remember correctly it was about the best way to allocate sequential numbers for record ID's? Yes? Well here goes Start trasnactions Readu control record then record.ID = control record write record control record += 1 write control record

RE: [U2] Uniobjects hack

I have been following this thread with great intrest. The issues seems to be that if someone has Excel, UniObjects and knows how U2 works that they can gain access to the data. Where are these people? Are they working for the IT department? Is this a real life scenario? or an exercise in

RE: [U2] Uniobjects hack

on the version of UniData or network access, the user may be able to go as far as utilizing Windows Explorer to access / view UniData data. The user could use a file browser to view report information contained within the HOLD (_PH_ / PH) file. ... Ian - Original Message - From: Les Hewkin

RE: [U2] I'm in an Array quandry, any suggestions...

Any attributes outside the range of the dim are added to the last dim(?). So what you want to do is ok as long as you are aware of how the data is being held. Ok if you and only you are ever going to work on the system! We use an include to hold the dim statement along with an equate

RE: [U2] [UV] making 00001 our of 1

I don't like to disagree with people BUT.. I like the first example best. Why not compare like with like This is how I would write it BEGIN CASE CASE RATE.INDICATOR = 5 TOTAL.AMT = AMOUNT * MAIN.RATE CASE RATE.INDICATOR = 6 TOTAL.AMT = AMOUNT * SECONDARY.RATE

RE: [U2][UV] UO.NET beginner question

I thought this was a bug in UV.NET, it can only use port 31438. Les -Original Message- From: Nick Cipollina [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 March 2005 15:43 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2][UV] UO.NET beginner question Yes. No. I'm not sure if there was a reason.

RE: [U2] [UV] Windows 2003 password

Yes this is possible. We only ever change our passwords within Universe. I will go and try to find out how it gets done. I think some bright spark wrote a bit of c code to do it all... Les -Original Message- From: Louie Gouws [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 February 2005 12:59 To:

RE: [U2] Header Trick Needed

Have a look at DQUOTE and SQUOTE They add quotes around vars Les -Original Message- From: Brutzman, Bill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 January 2005 16:17 To: 'u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org' Subject: [U2] Header Trick Needed If possible, from within a UniBasic program, I would like

RE: [U2] The list format and usefulness

Just to throw oil on the fire... This is the technical list.please take this to the community list (very big grin..) Les 3 more days work to go -Original Message- From: Charles Barouch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 December 2004 06:31 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

RE: [U2] Data Corruption

Edit the record and delete it. To be able to edit the record sselect the file first. this is how I do it Hope this help Les -Original Message- From: Brutzman, Bill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 December 2004 15:56 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [U2] Data Corruption There lives

RE: [U2] Scanner Connection

Hi, We scan about 5000 documents a day. These are then feed into an optical system for storage. We have written apps that use these images. We would never think about trying to write a scanning app. There are so many good ones on the market, why try to reinvent the wheel? A good pakage should

RE: [U2] Begin Transaction / Commit without turning on transactio n logging

Yes this will work in Universe, we do it all the time. There are certain things that you can't have inside a transaction. Perform input are the two that spring to mind. Also beware of where you do your reads. Reads inside a transaction get raised to a READU To get a full understanding of

[U2] test

Are the lists up and running? I haven't seen any post for nearly 24 hours Les. This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and intended solely for the use of the addressee only. If you have received this message in error, you must not copy, distribute or disclose the contents; please

RE: [U2] Why is this statement failing? (UniVerse)

What do you expect this to do ? What do you mean when you say there is a bug? I have tried this on universe, with a few CRT's added, and all looks ok to me. Les. -Original Message- From: Chris van O [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 October 2004 07:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [U2]

RE: [U2] How do we get unique records from Universe file(Table)

Hi, What do you mean by 'unique'? Can you show us an example of what you want to do. All records in a universe file have a unique identifier (ID). Les. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 August 2004 15:05 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [U2]

RE: [U2] UniObject Licening

Have a look at Redback. We use UniObjects for VB applications but Redback for web based applications. Redback uses a server process to cut down the number of licenses used. Les -Original Message- From: Nick Southwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 July 2004 09:19 To: [EMAIL

RE: [U2] Passing a SELECT ID if it's not in the file...

George, Lists are just items held in a file, SAVEDLISTS. Run a program that creates a list for you and then just do a get list. Les. -Original Message- From: George Gallen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 July 2004 15:54 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [U2] Passing a SELECT ID if it's

RE: [U2] CREATE.FILE one liner and UVSH.EXE

To create a test file type CREATE.FILE TESTFILE 1,2,18 1,2,19 1,1,18 is the dict size and type (mod = 1, sep = 2, type = 18) 1,1,19 is the data size and type (mod = 1, sep = 2, type = 19) Les -Original Message- From: Andy Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 July 2004 11:42 To: