Re: Input weirdo...

2004-04-28 Thread Glenn Herbert
Also, in place of the INPUT OPT.OUT,1 read to drain, you could use INPUTCLEAR to do the same thing without actually reading anything. At 10:54 AM 4/28/2004, you wrote: We have a program looping through all data files searching for something - sometimes it gets to a file containing several

Re: Help on uv syntax, please

2004-04-27 Thread Glenn Herbert
By array I assume you mean dynamic array and, as such, would use: NEWARRAY = CHANGE(OLDARRAY,@SVM, @VM) At 12:47 PM 4/27/2004, you wrote: Hi. Anybody got the syntax for universe for changing one string to another in an array? Mostly I use it for changing a subvalued field into a multivalued

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: can we stop with the pointless displays? was Re: Crystal Reports

2004-04-19 Thread Glenn Herbert
I believe I added this option years ago... try using DET.SUP or DET-SUPP. At 06:29 PM 4/17/2004, you wrote: In a message dated 4/17/2004 7:35:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: and had to watch the compiler meticulously display those line-by line asterisks during compiling.

Re: [UV] READ READU on a part file belonging to a Distributed file

2004-04-07 Thread Glenn Herbert
At 09:32 PM 04/06/2004, you wrote: Under Universe if I attempt to read a record (using READ) from a part file but using a key which actually maps (via the partitioning algorithm) to a different part file - then the READ just takes the ELSE clause without setting STATUS() to anything. Because

Re: VOC prompt issue?

2004-04-06 Thread Glenn Herbert
Or you could add CLEARPROMPTS prior to the inline prompt At 12:47 PM 04/06/2004, you wrote: I have this VOC item we run: ED VOC BIN.LOC 7 lines long. : P 0001: PA 0002: CLEARDATA 0003: CLEARSELECT 0004: SELECT INVMST WITH F12 = ENTER BIN LOCATION TO LIST ITEMS FOR: 0005: SELECT INVMST

Re: Lists are closing

2004-03-30 Thread Glenn Herbert
Ditto. I signed up for both the DataStage and U2UG forums, but I don't have time to keep web hopping around. If I check once or twice a week I would consider that good!! Here's hoping for a new listserver arrangement. At 09:29 AM 03/30/2004, you wrote: Well, I'm sorry the lists are

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: Optimisation ?

2004-03-26 Thread Glenn Herbert
I knew this!!! I believe there was also a New Zealander, Richard Pearce, who is eye witnessed to have flown in March 1903. Check out: http://www.nzedge.com/heroes/pearse.html At 03:02 AM 03/26/2004, you wrote: Did you know the Americans weren't even the first to build a successful aeroplane?

Re: How to open another process's stdin/stdout to a UV file descriptor?

2004-03-23 Thread Glenn Herbert
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Re: [OT] RE: Setting up SQL step 1

2004-03-18 Thread Glenn Herbert
I do agree that IBM has made a decent effort at keeping UV viable, and that is a very nice thing indeed. Some of us put in a LOT of ourselves to get it where it was at 9.6. I believe that upgrading is a good thing too, although only if undocumented features are kept at a minimum. At 09:43

RE: Strange results from I Descriptor

2004-03-17 Thread Glenn Herbert
Yeah. It's actually a bug in the program/itype unloading code that won't allow you to do this. I ran upon this in May 2003 and, subsequently, put in a fix within the DataStage engine so that it works. Should be an easy fix once its understood. At 10:05 AM 03/17/2004, you wrote: Cannot

Re: Setting up SQL step 1

2004-03-17 Thread Glenn Herbert
Will, I missed what you were trying to do. Still some people here who might be able to help if we knew the question. At 02:39 PM 03/17/2004, you wrote: Good news (I think) From what I learned - the admin user is set up when you load the operating system . I was told that if I re-installed my

Re: Setting up SQL step 1

2004-03-17 Thread Glenn Herbert
Will, According to the manual, you'd first grant CONNECT privileges, then you can grant DBA. Not sure why it says the admin id isn't an SQL user. On NT it should default to the administrator you installed with. At 02:56 PM 03/17/2004, you wrote: Glenn, et al. I have a client who has never

Re: Installing universe as uvadm

2004-03-15 Thread Glenn Herbert
Actually, you don't really INSTALL as non-root. The idea of uvadm is that it is an ADMINISTRATOR, thus, your initial root install sets the product up so that internally uvadm can administer all facets of the product without the need of su-ing to root. The fact remains that you still need to

Re: [UV] DELETE.FILE verb

2004-03-10 Thread Glenn Herbert
You can do this from the OS level: echo Y|delete.file fname At 12:59 PM 03/10/2004, you wrote: Sometimes when using DELETE.FILE, the system prompts that the data entry does not match expected data... because when the file was originally created LONGNAMES was off and now LONGNAMES is on. Is

Re: UV on Itanium

2004-03-09 Thread Glenn Herbert
So does this mean it's still a 32-bit app that now runs on RH itanium? Or does this mean its a real 64-bit app At 03:17 PM 03/09/2004, you wrote: Brutzman, Bill wrote: We need to buy a new server. Perhaps we should chill for a few months... I gather that HP-Ux runs on Itanium now. What

Re: UV on Itanium

2004-03-09 Thread Glenn Herbert
Thanks much for the info. At 04:09 PM 03/09/2004, you wrote: Glenn Herbert wrote: So does this mean it's still a 32-bit app that now runs on RH itanium? Or does this mean its a real 64-bit app At 03:17 PM 03/09/2004, you wrote: I'm sure UV is still a 32-bit app. I doubt there's currently

RE: [UV] Change prompt?

2004-03-08 Thread Glenn Herbert
Yep. Sure do. You could fix that with: 0001 PQ 0002 M 0003 IF #S Oany_text:+ 0004 IF S Oany_text+ 0005 IP #1 0006 P 0007 GO B At 03:16 PM 03/08/2004, you wrote: Seems however, you lose your marker that a select list is active. George -Original Message- From: Glenn Herbert [mailto

Re: UNCLASSIFIED RE: UV - Database backup

2004-03-08 Thread Glenn Herbert
I believe (since I wrote all that stuff) that issuing uv -admin will display all your available options. Since that original version, I've added additional (DataStage engine only) options for displaying things like engine status, active users, etc, as well as allowing you to start and stop

RE: COUNT modifying unix timestamp

2004-02-18 Thread Glenn Herbert
to see if it needs to be resized. Vance -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Glenn Herbert Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 9:18 AM To: U2 Users Discussion List; U2 Users Discussion List Subject: Re: COUNT modifying unix timestamp Actually, it was added

RE: UV write fatal error

2004-02-18 Thread Glenn Herbert
So what exactly is the particular data item that is causing the grief? At 02:50 PM 02/18/2004, you wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glenn Herbert Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 10:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: UV write

RE: UV write fatal error

2004-02-18 Thread Glenn Herbert
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glenn Herbert Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 12:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: UV write fatal error So what exactly is the particular data item that is causing the grief? Trim I am storing IP address information. My

Re: COUNT modifying unix timestamp

2004-02-17 Thread Glenn Herbert
Actually, it was added in during release 7.x of uniVerse to support the SQL optimizer. The optimizer used the count to make a determination on how long it would take to perform certain SQL operations such as outer-joins, etc, and spit out a warning message something like It will take 4307

Re: UV - NLS

2004-02-17 Thread Glenn Herbert
Barry, Sounds like the NMEMOFF value is not correct. What are yourDMEMOFF, PMEMOFF, CMEMOFF and NMEMOFF values? At 09:34 AM 02/17/2004, you wrote: I am attempting to install and activate NLS on a UniVerse system, 10.0.19 on an HP-UX 11.0 box. We just recent upgraded from 9.6.1.14 to 10

RE: UV - NLS

2004-02-17 Thread Glenn Herbert
vince lombardi _ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glenn Herbert Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 9:47 AM To: U2 Users Discussion List Subject: Re: UV - NLS Barry, Sounds like the NMEMOFF value is not correct

RE: UV write fatal error

2004-02-17 Thread Glenn Herbert
Does the data value actually get inserted into the type 25 file if you check after the write fails? Also, is the data pre-existing within the type 25 file and this is an update to that record? Sounds almost like a memory allocation or rotating file pool problem. The on error branch (actually

RE: UV write fatal error

2004-02-17 Thread Glenn Herbert
: No, the value does not get written to the type 25 file. The data is not pre-existing. The BSCAN is done to verify this fact before attempting the write. Thanks. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glenn Herbert Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 9:00

RE: Need/Want/Would like to know

2004-02-17 Thread Glenn Herbert
It's because the underlaying function first free's off the memory of X(100) before storing the value of A into it. Problem is, the contents for A actually reside in the just free'd up memory location for X(100), hence you are trying to store something that was previously defined in that

RE: Swap array values? In UV

2004-02-13 Thread Glenn Herbert
*lol* i agree it's nasty and not readily obvious as to it's intent, but that wasn't the question posed... sometimes it's just to exercise the mind At 02:36 PM 02/13/2004, you wrote: I understand why this works, but honestly, that's nasty. array(x)=BITXOR(array(x),array(y));

Re: Memo: Re: [UD] Determining if list exists

2004-02-05 Thread Glenn Herbert
At 12:12 AM 02/05/2004, you wrote: [snipped] The same applies (here) with a BASIC program that : 0011 SENTENCE = \SELECT MD WITH F! RUBBISH\ 0012 EXECUTE SENTENCE CAPTURING JUNK RETURNING ERR In this case ERR = 0 if there's no items, not 401 under vanilla (R83, AP) Pick Unless.. Is there a

RE: Memo: Re: [UD] Determining if list exists

2004-02-04 Thread Glenn Herbert
At 06:34 PM 02/03/2004, you wrote: Goo'day, Are you sure the IF E = 401 bit works in UV? This would not work within UV unless proc had been rewritten (doubtful). The error handling within uv is different and this is one of those areas affected by that difference. You can only test IF E or IF

Re: UV command failing mystery

2004-02-04 Thread Glenn Herbert
The 'uv' command is basically a small front ender to the 'uvsh' executable, which is really the guts of universe. The uv command does little more (for universe) then to check ulimit settings, increasing them when necessary, then issuing an execve() call to uvsh. If you bypass 'uv' and just

Re: Proc or Para

2004-02-04 Thread Glenn Herbert
At 12:38 PM 02/04/2004, you wrote: All, Is there a performance advantage to using one or the other? I realize this might be a touchy topic but it's one I've been wondering about for some time. the ProVerb manual makes it sound like procs were a migration tool of sorts. Paragraphs are only

Re: Re: [UD] Determining if list exists

2004-02-04 Thread Glenn Herbert
How about this one to end this thread? M S1 IH%1:U50BB: T %2,,+ IBP %1 H%1 P GO B -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

RE: VARIABLE-1 = '' Inconsistent behaviour

2004-02-03 Thread Glenn Herbert
In universe, the -1 is specifically tested for appending, not an accident as indicated (in scd.c) Maybe that is how it worked in Pick, but not in PI or UV. At 04:21 AM 02/03/2004, you wrote: Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Content-Type: multipart/alternative;