Re: [UV] Variable never assigned a value warning

2004-03-03 Thread Martin Phillips
Marco, The easy answer is no. This would require the compiler to establish all possible paths through a program and determine whether it was possible to arrive at any place that uses a variable without setting it first. Although some compilers (many C compilers for example) make a good attempt

SV: SV: Performance Discussion - Unidata

2004-03-03 Thread Björn Eklund
Hi Martin, excuse the late answer, we have a StorageTek D280 with 1GB cache and we see good performance after tuning the cache. Björn Eklund -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: Martin Thorpe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Skickat: den 26 februari 2004 13:21 Till: U2 Users Discussion List Ämne:

Re: UV losing print characters

2004-03-03 Thread Martin Phillips
The most common cause of this in my experience is incorrect use of flow control with serial printers. For the non-techies (are there any on this list?) Your UV system can probably produce data faster than the printer can handle it so it needs a way to say stop!. There are fundamentally two

Re: UV losing print characters

2004-03-03 Thread gerry simpson
thanks for the reply martin. - Original Message - From: Martin Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: U2 Users Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 3:51 AM Subject: Re: UV losing print characters The most common cause of this in my experience is incorrect use of

RE: [UV] Variable never assigned a value warning

2004-03-03 Thread Brian Leach
Marco, The problem is that all it can do is warn that there *might* be a route through that would not assign a variable, depending on conditional logic. The Borland compilers do this - and boy is it annoying. For example, you might have a case statement that handles each potential and

Re: SCO/Samba

2004-03-03 Thread Donald Kibbey
Step One. Remove SCO and replace with your choice of (SuSE, Redhat, Gentoo, Mandrake, etc) Step Two. Install SAMBA http://www.groklaw.net for more info on why you may want to proceed with step one. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/02/04 11:57PM Gang, I'm installing SAMBA on SCO (Open Server 5)

Re: u2 maintenance agreements

2004-03-03 Thread Ron White
I have just encountered the same problem. IBM never sent a maintenance invoice and then complained when I tried to access support. I think it is very bad business practice to not bill your customer and then charge a penalty for letting your maintenance lapse. Ron White - Original Message

Re: u2 maintenance agreements

2004-03-03 Thread Richard A. Wilson
actually there was no penalty due to the current amnesty program.There was something on u2ug.org website awhile ago Ron White wrote: I have just encountered the same problem. IBM never sent a maintenance invoice and then complained when I tried to access support. I think it is very bad

Re: u2 maintenance agreements

2004-03-03 Thread Lee Leitner
Ditto for us, but it started back in 2002. We have tried to maintain four maintenance contracts with IBM and it has been an absolute mess dealing with them. Failure to invoice, failure to record our payments correctly, inability to resolve the contract problems, promises to look into it and then

Re: u2 maintenance agreements

2004-03-03 Thread Ron White
In all fairness IBM did wave the charge due to the amnesty program. However, if I had not happened to have a support issue at the time I did, I would not have known that my maintenance had lapsed and would likely have been charged the penalty. At that point I would have moved to JBase rather than

Re: u2 maintenance agreements

2004-03-03 Thread rlsmith
I must admit we too have the exact same problem with IBM. After some long drawn out dealings we finally got it all resolved with no penalties. We are currently looking into a new system and I'm sure this mess has left a bad taste in some of the mouths here. It might affect the type of system

Re: u2 maintenance agreements

2004-03-03 Thread Ron White
We had a similar problem right after the buyout. We had just renewed our maintenance with Informix. IBM sent us a notice that our maintenance had been terminated due to nonpayment. Even though we could prove that it had been paid we were required to pay it again. They better get this problem

RE: u2 maintenance agreements

2004-03-03 Thread Peter Olson
new database is it of the U2 flavor ? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Wally Terhune Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 11:06 AM To: U2 Users Discussion List Subject: Re: u2 maintenance agreements Notice of Confidentiality: The

Re: u2 maintenance agreements

2004-03-03 Thread Jerry Banker
We had the same problem. Wally, I'm sorry but this is not a whining issue it is very much a problem and it deals with a problem that should be resolved. If you think it is whining then you are obviously not the person that we should want to deal with. - Original Message - From: Wally

RE: u2 maintenance agreements

2004-03-03 Thread Marc Harbeson
Doesn't Raining Data have a Pick Product that supports .NET? :-) SNIP Isn't there a separate list server for whining? :-) SNIP -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

RE: u2 maintenance agreements

2004-03-03 Thread george r smith
I wish IBM would hurry up and get their C# .Net provider so we could leave Raining S... behind. There are only 10 people in the world who understand binary. George Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc

RE: u2 maintenance agreements

2004-03-03 Thread Donald Kibbey
Leave them today. C# works just fine with UniObjects for Java. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/03/04 11:39AM I wish IBM would hurry up and get their C# .Net provider so we could leave Raining S... behind. There are only 10 people in the world who understand binary. George Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How to start windows programs

2004-03-03 Thread Björn Eklund
Hi, Is there a way of starting windowsprograms on the users PC from a Unibasic program or do I need Wintergrate or some other tool to do that? I would like to send a invoice number away to an invoice archive on MS sql-server to get a pdf copy of the invoice in an Internet Exploreror acrobat

Re: How to start windows programs

2004-03-03 Thread Josh Volosov (3)
I will be conducting internal training at basys on the afternoon of 3/3/04. I will have limited access to e-mail. If this cannot wait until my return please e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], or call 410.691.2888. Thank you, Josh -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to start windows programs

2004-03-03 Thread Results
Björn, I know you can do it from AccuTerm, I don't know of a way to do it from wIntergrate. - Charles Barouch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Björn Eklund wrote: Hi, Is there a way of starting windowsprograms on the users PC from a Unibasic program or do I need Wintergrate or some other tool to do

RE: How to Add Triggers on Dicts

2004-03-03 Thread Tom Firl
ED VOC DICT.IN.MASTER 0001: F 0002: E:\accounts\_source.DEV\D_IN.MASTER 0003: E:\accounts\_source.DEV\D_IN.MASTER Conceptually, I don't see anything wrong with what you are doing. This VOC pointer seems to be all right. The work I was on UNIX running 10.1... I

RE: [UV] Variable never assigned a value warning

2004-03-03 Thread Stevenson, Charles
HEAR, HEAR! Incidentally, I find the worryingly common practice of setting all variables to zero / null at the top of a program very annoying as it hides the very useful unassigned variable trap, leaving you thinking your program works when actually it doesn't. Martin Phillips

RE: [UV] Variable never assigned a value warning

2004-03-03 Thread Bill H.
Marco: A useful alternative, which noone has ever fixed in over 25 years, is the message: [B10] in program MyProgram, Line 106: Variable has not been assigned a value; zero used. or [B10] in program MyProgram, Line 106: Nonnumeric where numeric required; zero used. Why in the world

Re: Eclipse

2004-03-03 Thread David Beahm
Sorry, I have done embarassingly little towards developing the desired plug-in. I had trouble finding a tutorial that matched what I saw in the current version of Eclipse, and recently have been using NetBeans much more than Eclipse, so have let things slide. Best, David Beahm Stuart Boydell

Re: u2 maintenance agreements

2004-03-03 Thread Richard A. Wilson
Wally, now I have a complaint g. Ibm keeps calling to resolve my maintenance renewal situation. 2 phone calls in 2 days. looks like I'll be back on track shortly. I hope others experience the same timely response. Rich P.S. Things do fall thru the cracks when you only submit a case number

Migration ReCompile

2004-03-03 Thread Brutzman, Bill
Right now we are using UV v8.3.3 on HP-Ux v10.01. When we upgrade both UV and the OS, will we need to reCompile all of our UniBasic programs? --Bill -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

RE: [UV] Variable never assigned a value warning

2004-03-03 Thread Stevenson, Charles
Is it technically or theoretically possible for the BASIC compiler (or any other compiler for that matter) to catch (during compilation) all the situations that might result in the use of unassigned variable at runtime within the scope of the subroutine being compiled? It's not exactly

U2 Maintenance

2004-03-03 Thread Wally Terhune
Folks: I really shot myself in the foot on this one. I had intended to indicate we took this seriously, but I didn't feel it needed to be discussed in this forum. IBM really does consider this a very important issue and is working very hard to rectify this. Yes, we are using a U2 database to

RE: How to start windows programs

2004-03-03 Thread Tony Gravagno
I have a new component which will launch multiple applications on any PC in a shop from any MV platform. No AccuTerm or wIntegrate involved, very affordable. It's currently named NebulaLaunch and is being incorporated into a couple other components here and will be available as a separate

spooler id question

2004-03-03 Thread Donnie Jacobs
Hello All, Is there a function with universe / basic to tell me the id of the last print job generated from my current uv login? Universe 10.0.13 RedHat Linux 8.0 Thanks for you help, Donnie Jacobs Sr Developer GC Services LP 713-776-6503 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL

RE: Migration ReCompile

2004-03-03 Thread Grant.Boice
It would probably be a good idea to re-compile and re-catalog. -Grant W. Boice, Jr. -Original Message- From: Brutzman, Bill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 2:34 PM To: 'U2 Users Discussion List' Subject: Migration ReCompile Right now we are using UV v8.3.3 on

RE: [UV] Does anyone know how to

2004-03-03 Thread Tony Gravagno
You really don't want to read a binary document into your app. It's relatively easy to create a COM Add-in for Word which can be controlled from any MV environment over any OS. See http://nebula-rnd.com/products/doc.htm as an example of what can be done in this area. I've been thinking about

RE: My apologies

2004-03-03 Thread Dawn M. Wolthuis
You are permitted to be human and speak with tongue in cheek at times too, even if you are an IBM employee, Wally. I suspect that most of us would MUCH PREFER to have IBM employees feel free to speak up and not think they have to be politically correct or run every word past a corporate marketing

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UNCLASSIFIED RE: [UV] Ever wondered how something works...

2004-03-03 Thread HENDERSON MICHAEL MR
Barry, Got neither of these verbs in my VOC We run INFORMATION flavour, which one do you use? But I've seen that error message before, when a program tried to execute the DOS command, but the user didn't have the correct rights to cmd.exe. Your UV users (a local group on the server, normally)

RE: [UV] Ever wondered how something works...

2004-03-03 Thread Hona, David S
My VOC doesn't have these entries you mention...nor does the UV Account VOC (always a good place to check for such things - or the NEWACC file). However, looks like your application once resided on a Prime Computer, under PRIMOS and using Prime INFORMATION. L and LD are 'list directory' PRIMOS

Re: How to start windows programs

2004-03-03 Thread Mark Johnson
I don't mean to over illustrate WIN.PCRUN but I must endorse it. I've got clients using it to FTP to remote sites for order downloads, delete remote data, instantiate text file transfers, link UPS tracking numbers to UPS.com and fedex. 2 of my clients maintain fleets of 20-30 dispatchable trucks

Re: [UV] Ever wondered how something works...

2004-03-03 Thread Louis Windsor
Hi, If you hate typing CLEARSELECT or any other long command why don't you just create a shortened command? Like CLS for CLEARSELECT. Why rely on a botch which happens to work on your system? my 2c Louis - Original Message - From: Barry Brevik [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: U2 list (E-mail)

Re: [UV] Ever wondered how something works...

2004-03-03 Thread Scott Richardson
David is absolutely 100% correct. Louis Windsor is also 100% correct. The reason the L VOC entry clears your active SELECT is that the command is not interpreted, therefore the botched command - since it did not work against your SELECT list - by default - clears your active select list. ED VOC

UniVerse 10 :Network writes not allowed within a transacton.

2004-03-03 Thread Ang Suan Yong
Dear U2 Users, Is anyone having idea regarding the uniVerse 10 when apply the Begin/End Transaction, it do not allow to write to the remote file. Once execute the program , it prompt the belowing messages Network writes not allowed within a transacton. Is it the security of the Database

Re: [UV] Ever wondered how something works...

2004-03-03 Thread Scott Richardson
You've definitely got VOC items that need clearing up and correction on that system. - Original Message - From: Barry Brevik [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'U2 Users Discussion List' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 10:09 PM Subject: RE: [UV] Ever wondered how something works...

Re: [UV] Ever wondered how something works...

2004-03-03 Thread Mark Johnson
I don't know exactly but LD may be short for LISTDICTS and since you're not providing a filename, it may bomb, taking the active list with it. Sometimes on UD i wish there were an easier way to clear an active list instead of CLEARSELECT. I used TIME on all native systems but UD is more durable

RE: UniVerse 10 :Network writes not allowed within a transacton.

2004-03-03 Thread Hona, David S
Do you have UV/Net installed on the remote server? Or are you using NFS? Apparently, you can't write to remote 'recoverable' (via UV/Net) files, during a transaction. I can't see any other restrictions, regarding UV/Net accessible files. Regards David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: UniVerse 10 :Network writes not allowed within a transacton.

2004-03-03 Thread Ang Suan Yong
Dear All, We do install the UV/NET. Even I can edit the remote file and save it. Only unable to write if combine with the BEGIN TRANSACTION / END TRANSACTION statement Regards Ang -Original Message- From: Hona, David S [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [UV] Variable never assigned a value warning

2004-03-03 Thread Stevenson, Charles
Marco, At that point I wasn't really adressing your question. Sorry for taking the thread off it's original topic. I probably should have started my own thread. Hey, it's all Martin Phillips' fault. His Incidentally,... paragraph got me off on a tangent, onto a soapbox. It's a sore spot where

Re: [UV] Ever wondered how something works...

2004-03-03 Thread Tony Wood
By the way, the fastest way to get rid of an unwanted Select list (in Universe): ED [Enter] [Enter] and the list is gone... Even quicker, who [Enter] Regards, T. -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

Re: [UV] Ever wondered how something works...

2004-03-03 Thread FFT2001
In a message dated 3/3/2004 10:03:01 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Even quicker, who [Enter] Regards T. Are you sure? I think on native pick systems you can use any command. However on Universe you have to use a command that actually uses up a select list. Since

Re: [UV] Ever wondered how something works...

2004-03-03 Thread Louis Windsor
Well WHO works on UniVerse personal edition on Windows XP. Louis - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 2:33 PM Subject: Re: [UV] Ever wondered how something works... : In a message dated 3/3/2004 10:03:01 PM Pacific Standard

RE: [UV] Ever wondered how something works...

2004-03-03 Thread Andrew Gissing
so I have to think the list will still be active after the WHO is completed. Not so. I discovered to my own use that simply using LIST, without file name, will clear the selectlist. And in any event, proof of who below: T C L SELECT CUST 3117 record(s) selected to SELECT list #0. WHO 120 mm

SV: How to start windows programs

2004-03-03 Thread Björn Eklund
That sounds great Stuart since we run netterm today. I'll try this out. Björn Eklund -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: Stuart Boydell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Skickat: den 4 mars 2004 00:49 Till: U2 Users Discussion List Ämne: RE: How to start windows programs Is there a way of starting

RE: [UV] Variable never assigned a value warning

2004-03-03 Thread Hona, David S
Actually Bill, PI/open and Prime INFORMATION (last couple of releases) had meaningful run-time and compile-time error/warning messages. Very similar to your examples with the variable/constant names. The online help also gave you more info for the error code that it displayed (sometimes useful