UniData Profiling

2004-03-29 Thread Dennis Bartlett
Somebody the other day said that if we all asked IBM (nicely) we might be able to get UniData-type profiling available on UniVerse... I sent a message to U2AskUs and got back a snotty (sorry Jackie!) reply The appropriate way to request an enhancement is to raise it with your support

U2UG Contract

2004-03-29 Thread Martin Phillips
Hi all, Firstly, thanks to Cliff for all his work over the years. I guess that most of us are looking to move to the U2UG site. I started off down that path this morning but, being a careful sort of person, I read the terms and conditions. Clause 7a worries me. I have discussed this briefly

RE: U2UG Contract

2004-03-29 Thread Anthony Youngman
My other, !!!MAJOR!!! concern with this is the loss of the medium of mail. This is actually probably quite a serious loss for non-USians :-( (Plus it's the only practical medium at work :-( Forum software assumes easy access to a fast, cheap internet pipe. None of the fora I have seen is

RE: U2UG Contract

2004-03-29 Thread Rainer Gromansperg
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anthony Youngman Sent: Monday, 29 March 2004 19:16 To: U2 Users Discussion List Subject: RE: U2UG Contract SNIP - consolidating the MV world back to cdp is something I'm very pro. SNIP As a relative

RE: U2UG Contract

2004-03-29 Thread Anthony Youngman
news:comp.databases.pick Cheers, Wol -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rainer Gromansperg Sent: 29 March 2004 10:38 To: 'U2 Users Discussion List' Subject: RE: U2UG Contract -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Brian Leach
Cliff, We whose lists are about to die, salute you. It's been a great service - you should be held up as a shining example to moderators everywhere in promoting the best blend of discussion, humour and debate amongst a very informative list. More than that, you have made us all into a (not

RE: VB / SQL questions

2004-03-29 Thread Brian Leach
Just to add, And if they clash with SQL keywords like DATE, USER or STATUS. So it's just generally safer to enforce them, as you never know what keywords are likely to be added in the future. Brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry

RE: U2UG Contract

2004-03-29 Thread Matti Lamprhey
I suggest we take over comp.databases.pick or fire up something new on usenet -- I agree that web-based discussion groups tend to suck majorly. Matti -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anthony Youngman Sent: 29 March 2004 10:16 To: U2 Users

Re: U2UG Contract

2004-03-29 Thread Allen Egerton
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 19:38:07 +1000, Rainer Gromansperg wrote: snip As a relative new list-user could you please let us know what 'cdp' is? Newsgroup: Comp.Databases.Pick -- Allen Egerton [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: U2UG Contract

2004-03-29 Thread Dennis Bartlett
Hey, Wol, wot's cdp? -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

RE: U2UG Contract

2004-03-29 Thread Raymond de Bourbon
Yeah I agree, forums are a pain - A new mailing list would be my prefered choice.. If I had the bandwidth I would set it up.. Raymond de Bourbon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Bartlett Sent: 29 March 2004 13:06 To: 'U2 Users

RE: U2UG Contract

2004-03-29 Thread Hamlin, Steve
What are the bandwidth requirements to service the lists? -Original Message- From: Raymond de Bourbon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 March 2004 13:20 To: 'U2 Users Discussion List' Subject: RE: U2UG Contract Yeah I agree, forums are a pain - A new mailing list would be my prefered

RE: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Donald Kibbey
British Humour in the morning ain't it great? Don Kibbey Financial Systems Manager Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett Dunner LLP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/29/04 05:36AM Cliff, We whose lists are about to die, salute you. -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: U2UG Contract

2004-03-29 Thread Lee, Andy
sbsolutions rbsolutions are on yahoo groups.. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sbsolutions you can select individual emails, digests or no email, and read on the website.. maybe a u2solutions? -Original Message- From: Raymond de Bourbon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 March 2004 13:20

RE: SB+ Information

2004-03-29 Thread Dennis Bartlett
For what it's worth I'm writing a trigger-based solution in-house. Progress has stalled for the mo' for a lack of time, but basically it's as follows: The RC means Revision Control Two files: RC.PROJECTS -stores a description, creation author, date, time

Re: U2UG Contract

2004-03-29 Thread Lee Bacall
Cliff, I would like to thank you for being a selfless and non-partisan moderator as well as an apparent workaholic all these years, supporting the needs of the Universe/Unidata user base as well as the incredibly diverse whimsey found within the ranks of your loosely coupled band of angels. I am

Re: [UV] Fault type 4

2004-03-29 Thread David T. Meeks
Basically, it means that you've hit a SIGILL, an illegal instruction signal, during the execution of the BASIC program, at address 5004. If that part of the error message is consistent (the address 5004), you can determine WHERE in the program it is failing by looking at the VLIST listing. I'd

Re: U2UG Contract

2004-03-29 Thread Glenn Herbert
Cliff, THANK YOU for all your years of service for the list. It's been great. Now, a question for everyone. Is the U2UG an IBM sponsored web forum that retains all the info? If so, I'm not going to be there very long... Thanks for any info on this. -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL

Re: U2UG Contract

2004-03-29 Thread Don Verhagen
U2UG.org is a not sponsored by IBM, it's an independent non-profit organization. Donald Verhagen 1690 S Congress Avenue, Suite 210 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delray

Re: U2UG Contract

2004-03-29 Thread Don Verhagen
It would give the U2UG.org organization rights *not* IBM, they are seperate from each other. Don Verhagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8:58:04 AM 03/29/2004 [snipped..] I heartily agree with Martin Phillips, that I would think twice and consult our legal advisors before posting anything (perhaps even a

ESC for OKIDATA

2004-03-29 Thread Ray Buchner
Anyone know what I equate ESC to for starting commands to an OKI 321? -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

RE: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Burwell, Edward
..Yes I'll see you, I'll see you on the other side... - Ozzy Osbourne -Original Message- From: Brian Leach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 5:36 AM To: 'U2 Users Discussion List' Subject: RE: The lists are closing Cliff, We whose lists are about to die, salute

RE: @WL ESC for OKIDATA

2004-03-29 Thread Neil Charrington
The escape (or ESC) is CHAR(27) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ray Buchner Sent: 29 March 2004 15:25 To: 'U2 Users Discussion List' Subject: @WL ESC for OKIDATA Anyone know what I equate ESC to for starting commands to an OKI 321? --

RE: ESC for OKIDATA

2004-03-29 Thread Eppel,Gary
Use CHAR(27) Gary Eppel Cerner Corp. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ray Buchner Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 9:25 AM To: 'U2 Users Discussion List' Subject: ESC for OKIDATA Anyone know what I equate ESC to for starting commands to an

RE: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Anthony Youngman
Ye'll tak the high road and I'll tak the low road ... Cheers, Wol -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Burwell, Edward Sent: 29 March 2004 15:35 To: 'U2 Users Discussion List' Subject: RE: The lists are closing ..Yes I'll see you, I'll see

RE: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Graham, David
I have a simple-minded idea that may increase the value of the U2UG website and prevent us from loosing the huge amount of already accumulated knowledge that resides in this list. Would it be possible to transfer the posts to the list to the website? I know that there may be some legal

RE: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread David Wolverton
I have a simple-minded idea that may increase the value of the U2UG website and prevent us from loosing the huge amount of already accumulated knowledge that resides in this list. Would it be possible to transfer the posts to the list tothe website? I know that there may be some legal

RE: OKI Code 39 BarCode

2004-03-29 Thread Eppel,Gary
I don't have any info in my Oki 321 manual on using bar codes. Sorry Gary -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ray Buchner Posted At: Monday, March 29, 2004 9:43 AM Posted To: Informix-mv Conversation: OKI Code 39 BarCode Subject: OKI Code

RE: SB error

2004-03-29 Thread David Wolverton
This would tell me that you have two programs running: Session 1 locks Record A Session 2 locks Record B Session 1 WANTS to lock Record B, and holds, awaiting the lock release Session 2 NOW Wants to lock Record A - if this happens, DEADLOCKS occurs - neither program will ever be able to progress.

What is going to replace this list?

2004-03-29 Thread Jerry Banker
Clif, Thank you for being such a good host, it has been a pleasure. I have belonged to this list (off and on as jobs changed) from the Mike O'Rear days and it will feel like a club has broken up. I have registered 3 times on the U2UG web site but have never gotten anything from the site. Is

RE: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread iggchamp
Or maybe there could be a way for us to download them in a zipped format? Probably too much data though huh? BTW, I too want to pay my respects to Clif for hosting the list. I have learned so much just by reading through other peoples problems/experiences and by the direct responses to my

RE: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Lee Leitner
The archives for the lists (which go back to the mid-90's) would remain for now at http://www.indexinfocus.com. But I don't yet see a way to go forward on our site archiving the IBM web content so they'd be static. We do plan real soon now to add other content. Is there a general opinion that

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Joe Eugene
I can't say if MV is slow or inefficient as far as database handling compared to various relational DBMS environments. I don't think its hard to prove that UV is Much IN-Efficient than other advanced DataBase Technologies. Here is a simple test... 1. Populate UV and Oracle with around 10

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Marlene Yokoyama
Joe 1) Check again... one of IBM's partners is Epicore http://www.epicor.com/www/ which is using a Unidata database and XML technology in several of their products. 3) Our company has two divisions one on Oracle and one on Unidata. The Unidata side has two programmers compared to the 8 on the

RE: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Steven M Wagner
I would argue that the lists should continue. With some employers offering e-mail, but not web-access to their employees, those employees would be able to contribute to an e-mail list, but not a forum. Steve Wagner At 11:02 AM 3/29/04 -0500, you wrote: The archives for the lists (which go

RE: U2UG Contract

2004-03-29 Thread Kevin King
While Yahoo groups hasn't been the best or most consistent host in the world, there is no plan at the time to move our sbsolutions folks over to u2ug. Not to be a stick in the mud, but things are working really well over there and there's no compelling reason to move at this point in time.

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Donald Kibbey
So, what's your point? Use C# against the UV database if that's what you want to do (I and others have been doing this for a couple of years now). If your so dead set against UV, then switch your site to Oracle or DB2. Send us another note in 6 months and let us know what you spent on

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Jeff Schasny
At the risk of being rude (which I don't really mind all that much). Your comments simply verify my initial suspicion that you are quite ignorant of the structure and usage of the Universe environment. Anyone who would characterize the Universe database as flat file is either A) an idiot or B)

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Joe Eugene
We have UV doing everything on the BackEnd, we also have MSSQL Server to Support Data Warehousing... Why 2 Databases Systems? Cause UV Cant support Data Warehousing? Doesn't this eventually introduce Disparate Systems? U2, for example, has support for Java connectivity, XML, and I believe

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Joe Eugene
Any Software that can do a TON of Stuff is MUCH More Complex! Is SAP easy to Learn? UV/PICK doesn't even use Strong Data Typing (Integer/Float/String)... Half the complexity and Performance is Lost there... Joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Eppel,Gary
I just tested the subscribe button on the Universe Forum and I am definitely receiving new posts as email. Unfortunately, to reply to the posting you have to do so on the webpage (there is a link provided in the email) :-( So it's half-way there in terms of the comments/wishes I've seen so far

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Joe Eugene
This is a Constructive Argument... Don't you have an argument to prove that UV is efficient rather than getting to Personal Stuff.! I have done my homework on Stress Testing Applications... If you can prove UV is efficient... DO IT! Joe Eugene -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Donald Kibbey
I can't speak for your in house guys, but here, we do warehousing on the UniVerse machine. It does support it quite well. We Use the UniVerse machine to feed data to a couple of SQL server based solutions (they are third party vertical apps). How does the data get from UniVerse to SQL

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Donald Kibbey
Funny, I find the fact that I don't have to deal with how long a string is to be a feature. Same with floats, inegers etc. You really do not understand anything about Pick or UniVerse. You should put down the keyboard and read a bit. No more replies on this please. Don Kibbey Financial

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Brian Leach
Joe, I shouldn't even dignify this crap with a reply, but anyway ... 1. Populate UV and Oracle with around 10 Million records. 2. Write fairly complex Web Application against it. 3. Run a Web Application Stress tool(around 1000 Users) switching Databases within the same DB Machine. We've

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Sunny Matharoo
Hi, Having been part of this list for only a short period I have found the discussions very useful and the answers to questions posed have always worked, even though we use Universe as our database, most of the solutions are universal across the MV community. I for one will be sorry to see the

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread David T. Meeks
So, UV does everything on the BackEnd, but SQL Server does your data warehousing. And you question why UV can't support the DW? Why not ask the alternate question of why the SQL Server can't handle the backend? No one is saying UV is a truly 'enterprise' class DB. It's not marketed as such.

RE: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Lee Leitner
Proof of seek and ye shall find. Thanks I have the www.indexinfocus.com archiver hooked up to it so it will archive the technical content. I am sure the site has archiving ability, but if you want the whole she-bang back to the heady-90's we have here. www.indexinfocus.com will include the u2

Re: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Will
You want Pick on the web... simple, use Visage! Patrick Will Williams, President American Computer Technics, Inc. 919-567-0042 Raleigh, NC - Original Message - From: David T. Meeks To: U2 Users Discussion List Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 6:37 AM Subject: RE: Modern Universe

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Joe Eugene
Brian, Correct me if I am wrong... IBM Says UV is an Extended relational database Well Some people call it MVDBMS. I wonder how this is different from Nested Table Data Structure within any RDBMS. Can you explain? Complex processing managed locally to the database, without having to add

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread David T. Meeks
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn - Clark Gable as Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind At 12:01 PM 3/29/2004 -0500, you wrote: With all due respects, Sir, you are beginning to bore the hell out of me! -- Clint Eastwood as Gunnery Sgt. Thomas Highway in Heartbreak Ridge

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Michael Spencer
Last I looked at Visage, it: 1) required javascript skills 2) had no published price 3) had no developer copy available 4) had not only a developers cost but a per seat cost Apart from those 4 problems, however, the movies did make it look like an impressive product. -Original Message-

Question for Donald Kibbey

2004-03-29 Thread george r smith
Don, Picked this up on your reply to the guy who thinks strong typing is a virtue. So, what's your point? Use C# against the UV database if that's what you want to do (I and others have been doing this for a couple of years now). I would like to use C# against unidata what do I need to do

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Joe Eugene
Why not ask the alternate question of why the SQL Server can't handle the backend? Simple Reason... Management Politics. No one is saying UV is a truly 'enterprise' class DB. WE AGREE 100% NOW! I was just trying to say the above. Going MainStream and staying with BIG THREE is Better for

COMMON Variable.

2004-03-29 Thread Carolina Lizama
Thanks Cliff for maintaining the wonderful user group. I will definitelyy miss it. Guys, Is there a way to pass some common variable to a Phantom program – which will be called using EXECUTE ‘PHANTOM ’. I’ve even tried named COMMON and it lost its value. Thanks. Carol.

Re: OKI Code 39 BarCode

2004-03-29 Thread Kent Walker
Ray, You don't say which model Oki you're using. Manuals are on-line at http://my.okidata.com . Did you first issue the ESC DLE A command to specify that Code39 is to be used? For testing, try a string (HEX) like: 27 16 65 08 02 00 01 01 02 02 03 01 Kent At 06:42 AM 3/29/2004, Ray Buchner

Re: COMMON Variable.

2004-03-29 Thread Allen Egerton
From: Carolina Lizama [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there a way to pass some common variable to a Phantom program - which will be called using EXECUTE 'PHANTOM '. I've even tried named COMMON and it lost its value. Common exists on a per-user basis. So, if your phantom initializes it, it can use

RE: Question for Donald Kibbey

2004-03-29 Thread George Gallen
-Original Message- From: george r smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 12:21 PM To: 'U2 Users Discussion List' Subject: Question for Donald Kibbey There are only 10 people in the world who understand binary and I am not one of them. Your not 01, so you must

RE: COMMON Variable.

2004-03-29 Thread Steve Kunzman
Carolina, Could you write the variable out to a file and read it in within your program? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Carolina Lizama Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 11:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: COMMON Variable. Thanks

RE: COMMON Variable.

2004-03-29 Thread Kevin King
Why not write the value to a commonly located record and then read it in the phantom? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Allen Egerton Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 11:11 AM To: U2 Users Discussion List Subject: Re: COMMON Variable.

RE: COMMON Variable.

2004-03-29 Thread vance . alspach
Or pass it in the phantom statement and parse in out in the program. EXECUTE PHANTOM %PARM1%PARM2%PARM3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] CONVERT % TO @FM IN VAR PARM1=VAR2 PARM2=VAR3 PARM3=VAR4 unless it is a record or dimensioned array Vance

Re: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread FFT2001
1) We DO want to leave the archives at indexinfocus. 2) We DONT want to replicate the archives onto u2ug 3) We DONT want the lists to continue Go to the web site, and enter each forum you are interested in and click on SUBSCRIBE this will make all responses come to your email box just as they do

Re: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread FFT2001
In a message dated 3/29/2004 11:07:24 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. Populate UV and Oracle with around 10 Million records. 2. Write fairly complex Web Application against it. 3. Run a Web Application Stress tool(around 1000 Users) switching Databases within the

RE: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Graham, David
Not to be obnoxious but why not keep data in one place? How would it benefit someone to start a question in one medium and then be referred to another? That sound counter-intuitive to me. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004

Re: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread FFT2001
In a message dated 3/29/2004 11:27:02 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: e.g. We pull XML Reports from our Vendors Real Time. I have to parse through the XML and give UV/PICK Guys a FLAT TEXT File... cause either UV Cannot handle the storage and Retrival of XML Data Using

Re: What are embedded databases

2004-03-29 Thread FFT2001
In a message dated 3/29/2004 11:55:51 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: embedded data base support The other day, someone asked me if I used an embedded database. And I was like ... what? Can someone give ten words or less of what an embedded database is? And then

[OT] Joe Eugene was Re: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread FFT2001
Please Speak LOUDER!!! *throws you a raw steak* Will raw steak Johnson In a message dated 3/29/2004 12:26:29 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Going MainStream and staying with BIG THREE is Better for the future of the Company's Needs. BIG THREE has A LOT OF INVESTMENT in

Re: COMMON Variable.

2004-03-29 Thread FFT2001
In a message dated 3/29/2004 1:11:11 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way to pass some common variable to a Phantom program - which will be called using EXECUTE 'PHANTOM '. I've even tried named COMMON and it lost its value. Yes Carolina. There are a

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Tony Gravagno
I think Joe may realize a couple things: 1) He doesn't know enough about the system to criticize it. 2) The IT people in his UV shop didn't know much either. Many Pick guys get into Pick because they know their business market but not much about technology, and Pick makes it easy to write

RE: Question for Donald Kibbey

2004-03-29 Thread Tony Gravagno
George, the best commercial integration option available for MV right now is the Pick Data Provider .NET from Raining Data. When IBM has UO.NET, that situation may change, but developers must research and understand the capabilities of both products before making assumptions and decisions - it

RE: COMMON Variable.

2004-03-29 Thread George Gallen
You don't seem to be able to put any values on the phantom line (and if you do, they seem to be ignored). I never tried Commons for this. Another method I use is I create a VOC entry based on UserNO and something static like: (ex. 101phantom) 1PA 2RUN LIB PROGRAMNAME PASSVAR1 PASSVAR2 PASSVAR3

Re: Question for Donald Kibbey

2004-03-29 Thread FFT2001
In a message dated 3/29/2004 2:28:38 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: George, the best commercial integration option available for MV right now is the Pick Data Provider .NET from Raining Data. But doesn't .NET take up like a gazillion bytes of space? And doesn't

A Parting Request

2004-03-29 Thread Darwin Tellinghuisen
Just as everyone else is, I too am sorry to see the list go away. My parting request is for help personally. I am currently unemployed or should I say an under-employed consultant after having been downsized about two years ago. I have over 20 year's experience with unidata/pick and IT project

Re: Question for Donald Kibbey

2004-03-29 Thread Donald Kibbey
(adjusting tin foil headgear) You do realize that Micro$oft is really in the hard drive business. Of course .Net takes up a gazillion megabytes and to use my method of getting to UniVerse with C# (so you can type in all those cool looking semi-colons) you'll have to load another half gazillion

RE: Question for Donald Kibbey

2004-03-29 Thread george r smith
Tony, Get the Pick Data Provider .NET from Raining Data and get the same support as Clink for mvBase - no thanks. There are only 10 people in the world who understand binary and I am not one of them. George Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A Parting Request

2004-03-29 Thread Moderator
Darwin, Sorry to hear you are in a dry spell. You might also consider posting your information on the Talent Available forum at www.u2ug.org, if you have not done so already. -- Regards, Clif I realize things are tough right now everywhere, but if you would be interested in speaking to me or

RE: Question for Donald Kibbey

2004-03-29 Thread James Canale, Jr.
But doesn't .NET take up like a gazillion bytes of space? And doesn't integration require an object? I can't speak of the Pick Data Provider for .NET, however, the .NET framework itself doesn't take up a 'gazillion' bytes. The framework (free download) is between 21 24MB (depending on the

Re: Question for Donald Kibbey

2004-03-29 Thread FFT2001
MvBase? I think he was saying best provider for MV not for MvBase Right? And I didn't say it, he did. Will the real Will not the fake posing Will's Johnson In a message dated 3/29/2004 3:09:59 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Will, Unless something has changed since

Unclassified RE: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread HENDERSON MICHAEL MR
Like Wol and a couple of others, my participation as a listener and occasional poster will stop if the medium changes from email to web or news-group. My employer does not permit desktop internet access - we do have a large and rich intranet - for reasons of security, of cost (we pay for TRAFFIC

Re: Question for Donald Kibbey

2004-03-29 Thread FFT2001
In a message dated 3/29/2004 3:15:09 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't really know what you are after with the integration requiring an object. Can you be more specific? Regards, Jim Yes. Integrate as a verb I think applies to mathematics. But if I say My

RE: Question for Donald Kibbey

2004-03-29 Thread James Canale, Jr.
It would have been easier if you just asked me to reread the original post ;-) I think I know what Tony meant with his statement, but, it isn't appropriate for me to answer for him so I won't. Thanks for the English lesson - I think. Regards, Jim [snip] Integrate in this sense requires a

RE: What are embedded databases

2004-03-29 Thread dave . meeks
Well, not sure about 10 words or less, but here's my effort: An embedded database is a technology that is deployed as the component responsible for data management within a business application. Dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 3/29/2004 2:18

Re: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Will
Michael, Visage does not require Javascript skills, but if you have those skills Visage allows you to use them. The published price for Visage Designer is $2,495 USD and comes with 3 Run-Time versions. Additional Run-Time Visage versions are $265 each... but that amount is a one-time-only

Unclassified RE: What are embedded databases

2004-03-29 Thread HENDERSON MICHAEL MR
Hmm ... I thought that what IBM mean by 'embedded database' is the database you didn't even know you had. [8 words!] I.E., there's a database 'embedded' in the software package you bought / use, but you may have no idea that there is a database in there, and even if you do understand that fact,

RE: What are embedded databases

2004-03-29 Thread dave . meeks
Yep... Very true... Dave -Original Message- From: Stevenson, Charles To: U2 Users Discussion List Sent: 3/29/2004 4:44 PM Subject: RE: What are embedded databases An embedded database is a technology that is deployed as the component responsible for data management within a

Re: COMMON Variable.

2004-03-29 Thread Trevor Ockenden
Is there a way to pass some common variable to a Phantom program - which will be called using EXECUTE 'PHANTOM '. I've even tried named COMMON and it lost its value. You could try 'named pipes' to pass the information BUT this is a large topic. You may need to do some investigation. It

RE: SB error

2004-03-29 Thread kafsat taiyus
Thank you David, I shall talk with the programmers. Regards Kafsat -Original Message- From: David Wolverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 30 March 2004 1:19 AM To: 'U2 Users Discussion List' Subject: RE: SB error This would tell me that you have two programs running:

Re: Your product

2004-03-29 Thread jimkuhle
Here is the file. -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

Re: OKI Code 39 BarCode

2004-03-29 Thread Mark Johnson
One could check www.okidata.com to see if there's any support for manual printer driver stuff like bar codes. I use www.hp.com to get beaucoups of HP PCL stuff. my 1 cent. - Original Message - From: Ray Buchner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'U2 Users Discussion List' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread djordan
Hi Joe I have worked with variety of databases and I think using one performance statistic to evaluate the capabilities of one database against another is meaningless. As a professional I consider all databases for any business requirement and select on their merits. To discount MV products

Re: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Results
Michael, If you have VISAGE questions, Ross Ferris of STAMINA is a list member (we still have a few days in which we can call ourselves list members) and I'm sure he can answer your pricing and technology questions. - Charles We'll miss Clif Barouch Michael Spencer wrote: Last I looked

Re: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Results
Joe, Here's a few things to consider. MV environments (including UniVerse), allow for small teams to develop and adjust business rules more quickly than you can you can in Oracle, Sybase, or Informix. Published statistics show that MV environments are roughly twice as efficient in disk

The U2 List is better than CDP

2004-03-29 Thread Craig Bennett
CDP is all very well, but the noice ratio can be quite high, not to mention the trolls. If we don't move to U2UG (and I think U2UG will be fine once we can reply by email and they clarify their intellectual property problem, and it would be nice if their emails contained a bit less guff) we

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Logan, David (SST - Adelaide)
Hi Joe, Perhaps you could share your actual searches, code and database structure? Were you searching 20 million records in a single column table? Multiple fields (or columns if you insist) in the Universe database? What is this PICK you keep talking about? Universe doesn't have a component named

Re: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Results
Joe, Have you checked the file sizes? Have you checked the index parameters? I'll make you a bet. You bring me in for a week (i'll probably need most of that week to prove my results, the fixes will take less than a day) and I bet you we can make a meaningful improvement in your response

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Joe Eugene
This is what I meant ... TYPO RESULTS Machine: 950 MHZ Athlon Database: MSSQL SERVER 2K Records: 20 Million Indexes: NO Search Column: First Name Search Type: Wild Card (*) Search Time: 2 Seconds -- Machine: QUAD Processor Box (4 GHZ) Database: UV Version 10.1 Records:

RE: PDP.NET, mvBASE, etc (was Question for Donald Kibbey)

2004-03-29 Thread Tony Gravagno
george r smith wrote: Get the Pick Data Provider .NET from Raining Data and get the same support as Clink for mvBase - no thanks. Well George, there are many more engineers and support people working on PDP.NET than on mvBASE. mvBASE is a dead-end DBMS product that RD inherited - Clink was dead

RE: Question for Donald Kibbey

2004-03-29 Thread Tony Gravagno
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: George, the best commercial integration option available for MV right now is the Pick Data Provider .NET from Raining Data. But doesn't .NET take up like a gazillion bytes of space? And doesn't integration require an object? As in... integration with .. what? Will

RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Don Kibbey
Dude, your like the dog that just won't stop humping the guests leg. Get over it already. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Eugene Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 8:31 PM To: U2 Users Discussion List Subject: RE: Modern Universe - was:

Re: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing

2004-03-29 Thread Trevor Ockenden
Joe Have you sized your UV file correctly? The 15-20 seconds suggests many things are not as they should be. Can you do an ANALYZE.FILE on this file and post the details. If it is a dynamic hashed file include the option STATS please. We may be able to help you after all. Cheers Trevor

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