RE: We need a web based Forum!

2004-04-23 Thread Hogan, James
Seems to me a system where *email (the list) carries on as usual *All emailed responses are submitted as forum responses *All forum responses are whooshed out to the list as email I would whole-heartedly agree with this. BUT I have never seen such an animal in action myself. I

RE: We need a web based Forum!

2004-04-23 Thread Tony Gravagno
Two ideas, not entirely original: 1) The techie in me says It would be an interesting project to create the e-mail and web interfaces described in an MV system. (What a concept, a database for massive amounts of structured data...) It wouldn't have the bells and whistles of established e-mail

Re: [UV] Max RecId Length with Type1 files

2004-04-23 Thread chris
hard coded maximum type 19 files are based on machine limits Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: UniVerse: 10.0.10 Windows: 2000 Server We've encountered a problem such that when writing records to a Type 1 file, with a Record Id length greater than 41 characters, the Record Id is truncated to the

callFTP?

2004-04-23 Thread Daly, Mark
Anyone know if there's been talk about a callFTP function? That would be nice to have. Currently we're executing unix commands to ftp files around. But parsing the output to determine whether or not the transfer was successful seems a bit hap-hazard to me. If anyone would care to share their ftp

RE: [UV] Max RecId Length with Type1 files

2004-04-23 Thread Bob Witney
No probes on our Universe 9 i.e :ED BP 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 New record. : FILE 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 filed in file BP. :.X 01 ED BP 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 0 lines long. Which I realise is not actually a

Re: [UV] Max RecId Length with Type1 files

2004-04-23 Thread Results
John, Type 1 is only there for backward compatibility. Type 19 does the same job but has fewer complications. -- Sincerely, Charles Barouch www.KeyAlly.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've encountered a problem such that when writing records

RE: [UV] Max RecId Length with Type1 files

2004-04-23 Thread Bob Witney
create a new type 19 copy in the type 1 delete the type 1 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Claus Derlien Sent: 23 April 2004 13:13 To: 'U2 Users Discussion List' Subject: RE: [UV] Max RecId Length with Type1 files How do you change a type1

RE: We need a web based Forum!

2004-04-23 Thread Dennis Bartlett
I think I have found the holy grail! Mr Hogan, Sir I do believe you have it... -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

RE: callFTP?

2004-04-23 Thread Mike Dallaire
Mark, We are running on Windows and use ftp primarily for transferring files and records between branch or laptop systems and main office systems. We transfer type 18 files and records from type 19 files. Because we never truly loose the data, it is always still on the sending system, we don't

RE: How to schedule upl program in pick basic

2004-04-23 Thread Mark Eastwood
Reddy - please respond to the List (not directory to me). The Wizard will walk you through most of the Steps, the only fields you need to set are; Run: - Enter something like; D:\uv\bin\uvsh.exe PHANTOM RUN BP PROGRAMNAME Start In: - Directory Path of UV Account Run as: - User Name Password

How to schedule Pick basic programs

2004-04-23 Thread BReddy
Hi, Can some one tell me how to schedule the pick basic programs. tx in advance for the help regards, Reddy -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

RE: How to schedule Pick basic programs

2004-04-23 Thread Bob Witney
Are you on Unix ? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 April 2004 13:38 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to schedule Pick basic programs Hi, Can some one tell me how to schedule the pick basic programs. tx in

Re: callFTP?

2004-04-23 Thread David Beahm
We use Kermit scripts to allow error trapping of ftp processes. Can't say it's 100% foolproof, but it's a big improvement. For example: #!/bin/kermit + set transfer display crt if \v(argc) 2 exit 1 Usage: \%0 file ftp open dest_computer /user:usernm /password:passwd if fail exit 1

RE: How to schedule Pick basic programs

2004-04-23 Thread BReddy
windows 2000 -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

Re: We need a web based Forum!

2004-04-23 Thread David Beahm
Branching from your idea: Funny thing, last week two of us were discussing what a terrible job our company's spam/virus filter was doing, and concluded it's exactly the kind of thing MV does best, if only there was a true email interface. On top of that, many of us have had to make hacks to

RE: How to schedule Pick basic programs

2004-04-23 Thread marty . benson
Create a .bat file that contains UDT PROGAM.TO.RUN Use the scheduler on Win2k to call the *.bat file. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 8:49 AM To: U2 Users Discussion List Subject: RE: How to schedule Pick basic

RE: How to schedule Pick basic programs

2004-04-23 Thread George Gallen
Another method would be: ED VOC SCHEDULE-THIS 0001: PA 0001: LOOP (If you want this to repeat each day) 0002: SLEEP XX:XX (Time you want process to run) 0003: TCL COMMAND 0004: TCL COMMAND 0005: TCL COMMAND 0005: REPEAT (If you want this to repeat each day) PHANTOM SCHEDULE-THIS LO It works

How far can U2 scale?

2004-04-23 Thread Dawn M. Wolthuis
At what point in the life of application software would it be so large that you could not (or would not want to) support it with your existing UniData or UniVerse database? Is there a point where you would be better served by DB2 or Oracle, for example due to the scale you are working with? I

RE: How far can U2 scale?

2004-04-23 Thread Keith Upton
Across 3 systems, 7,500(ish) on-line Users, have benchmarked to 20,000+ Users. Spooler struggles and we have re-written parts of it. -Original Message- From: Dawn M. Wolthuis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 April 2004 14:50 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How far can U2 scale? At

RE: How far can U2 scale?

2004-04-23 Thread Gordon Glorfield
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dawn M. Wolthuis At what point in the life of application software would it be so large that you could not (or would not want to) support it with your existing UniData or UniVerse database? Is

RE: How far can U2 scale?

2004-04-23 Thread Brian Leach
Dawn, Looking at this from outside, I would suggest that session persistence creates the overheads, so if you are running a traditional application that needs to maintain a single session per user (e.g a green screen or UniOjects application) you are probably limited to several thousand users on

RE: Barcode printing

2004-04-23 Thread Kevin King
Are you looking to print barcodes as a component of another document, or independent documents such as shipping labels, warehouse tags, and the like? Is this something you're looking for dedicated barcode printers to service, or attempting to leverage your existing HP gear? --Kevin [EMAIL

OT RE: We need a web based Forum!

2004-04-23 Thread Wendy Smoak
I would whole-heartedly agree with this. BUT I have never seen such an animal in action myself. I think it's mythical. Will It is not mythical, one of the forums I use works exactly like that. You do have to be set up as a user and subscribe to the forums you want to read. But after

RE: Barcode printing

2004-04-23 Thread George Gallen
If you are just looking to print from One particular printer, there are also external devices you can hook inline to the printer and the cable, which will take ASCII codes and translate them to the appropriate HP codes to produce the bar code. the 128 barcode from Pick, (David Church's) should be

RE: Barcode printing

2004-04-23 Thread Lee Messenger
We will be using our existing HP team printers to generate the barcodes. Greg Bonebrake with PPI in St Louis sent me some code to generate 128 barcodes that works great. Thanks again Greg for your quick response. Lee J Messenger Sr VP Operations [EMAIL PROTECTED] DLT Transportation Services,

Re: Barcode printing

2004-04-23 Thread Mark Johnson
In my 15 years of printing/using bar codes, I've concluded that it's best to not re-invent the wheel and purchase printers that are bar code capable. Thus, you don't really make up the bar code lines themselves, you just send an escape sequence telling the printer what kind of code, orientation,

RE: How to schedule Pick basic programs

2004-04-23 Thread Eppel,Gary
This is so simple. Wish we would have discovered it 4 years ago. We've been doing it the hard way (batch/script file in Scheduler/cron in Windoze/AIX) up to now. Why didn't UV Support ever tell us about this? :-( Thanks George! Now, if you still want to use the batch file approach you may

Re: We need a web based Forum!

2004-04-23 Thread FFT2001
In a message dated 4/23/2004 4:16:59 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So will the U2 user group, like to look at this solution? This would give us both a web and mail list presence and would make ALL of us happy. It will also show that this community is happy to embrace new

RE: How to schedule Pick basic programs

2004-04-23 Thread Kryka, Richard
I like the scheduled approach (NT). A phantom in UniVerse like is shown below with the LOOP/REPEAT gets lost when the server is restarted. So you need to have a procedure that restarts the job. If you use the NT scheduler, it is always going to run -- even after a restart. Dick Kryka Director

Re: We need a web based Forum!

2004-04-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Will, I'm always happy to nominate someone else to do work. :) I second Will's motion. - Charles Where There's a Will... Barouch -- Original Message - Subject: Re: We need a web based Forum! Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:46:44 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

RE: How far can U2 scale?

2004-04-23 Thread Tom Firl
Interesting subject! I think I'm in Brian's camp on this one -- scalability is most dependent on application system and its architecture -- of which the database system is a critical component. I'm wondering where n-tier applications fit into this discussion. I don't think it's a stretch to

RE: How to schedule Pick basic programs

2004-04-23 Thread Glenn Herbert
Actually, this method has been in the documentation for at least 10 years. Though you'd think it would be documented in the UniVerse User Reference manual under 'uv', it's actually found under UV.LOGIN. Go figure. At least it still appears in the rev10 documentation in the same place. At

RE: How to schedule Pick basic programs

2004-04-23 Thread George Gallen
what I do for that is I have a script I run when either of UV admins logs in which checks the status of any phantoms that are supposed to be running on a daily basis, and if not, reports that they are not running. which is much easier in *NIX (with the ps command). I don't know what you would use

Re: OT RE: We need a web based Forum!

2004-04-23 Thread FFT2001
In a message dated 4/23/2004 11:32:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would whole-heartedly agree with this. BUT I have never seen such an animal in action myself. I think it's mythical. Will It is not mythical, one of the forums I use works exactly like

Universe on XP (Personal Edition)

2004-04-23 Thread Anthony Dzikiewicz
So, I am doing a kind of odd ball thing. I wrote some UV Basic programs to create batch files that are run via the scheduled tasks. I don't want Universe running on my machine all the time. So, I created a couple of '.bat' files to start and stop universe, which are also set up as scheduled

RE: Universe on XP (Personal Edition)

2004-04-23 Thread Eremenko, Sergey
this is proper sequence of shutting UV off net stop uvtelnet net stop universe net stop hsrexec net stop unirpc this is proper sequence of starting UV up net start universe net start uvtelnet net start unirpc net start hsrexec Sergey Eremenko -Original

RE: Universe on XP (Personal Edition)

2004-04-23 Thread Tony Gravagno
I use the same technique for starting D3, mvBASE, IIS, and other services form desktop shortcuts. Stopping services with a kill um all, let God sort um out macro like this can be problematic, it really depends on the service, but it's a nice way to free resources. You may see the command window

RE: Universe on XP (Personal Edition)

2004-04-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tony, Willing to share any of those scripts? Also, does anyone have a UinData version of these start/shutdown scripts? - Charles Scripted Barouch From: Tony Gravagno [EMAIL PROTECTED] I use the same technique for starting D3, mvBASE, IIS, and other services form desktop shortcuts.

RE: Universe on XP (Personal Edition)

2004-04-23 Thread Anthony Dzikiewicz
OK I just did it your way and I got the same results. I did a startuv, logged in via telnet, did a stopuv - telnet session is still alive and well. The book says you can use 'net' commands via the actual program or by using the 'description'. They should both do the same thing no ? Anthony

RE: Universe on XP (Personal Edition)

2004-04-23 Thread Eremenko, Sergey
OK. I've done some testing. It appears that your telnet connection to localhost UV will stay alive until you will leave that connection. Even if universe itself stopped, you still able to run simple commands like LISTU, LISTF, so on. I think that if you want to perform smooth clean and no-troubles

RE: starting and stopping processes

2004-04-23 Thread Tony Gravagno
Tony, Willing to share any of those scripts? Also, does anyone have a UinData version of these start/shutdown scripts? - Charles Scripted Barouch It's not rocket science, but here are some examples. Just create the scripts in a standard directory, then drag shortcuts to your desktop,

RE: Universe on XP (Personal Edition)

2004-04-23 Thread Anthony Dzikiewicz
That's the problem. Telnet isn't being kicked out. I am doing this (start/stop) from the command line already. No big deal though. I just thought it was kind of odd. We run the 'real' system on unix and linux where I don't have such troubles. Anthony -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: Universe on XP (Personal Edition)

2004-04-23 Thread Eremenko, Sergey
(I'm talking about UV / NT tandem - I'm not Unix guru) Unfortunately, stopping of UV telnet service will not log users out; it will just prevent future logons via telnet. Untill tl_server.exe process (corresponded to your connection to local UV) is not terminating by something, it will stay here

RE: How far can U2 scale?

2004-04-23 Thread djordan
Design plays a big role. Some banks have massive systems, because all the customer data is in one spot even though customers are spread over several cities and states. To me if you live in City A you conduct most of your transactions in city A and occasionaly on business or holiday you may do

[ADMIN] [AD] Passing the Baton (Repeat)

2004-04-23 Thread Clif Oliver
Dear Friends, As previously announced, after about nine years of hosting what has become the u2-users list, I have decided to pass the baton to a new host. I plan to use the time to pursue some other writing projects. One of these is to resume writing my column previously published in

RE: How far can U2 scale?

2004-04-23 Thread Ray Wurlod
There are quite a few sites running upwards of 2000 users in my region (Asia Pacific). The model is many small users (such as insurance brokers, accountants, tax agents, etc.) having dial-in access. One site is licensed for 3300 users, and sustains a load over 3000 users most of the day with

RE: How far can U2 scale?

2004-04-23 Thread Ross Ferris
I would imagine in any of the scenarios that has been given, if some form of local (client side) intelligence is employed, coupled with a non-persistent connection scheme to the central database, that the numbers that have been quoted here (2-10,000) could easily be multiplied by a factor of