Re: Flushing memory

2004-04-28 Thread John Hester
Steven R. Shourds wrote: I am currently evaluating different platforms and have been lurking here for a bit. Very lively and informative! We currently use D3 on Windows. I had to integrate SYNC from Sysinternals to flush memory since Windows (or D3) does not seem do it right. We've had problems in

Re: [UV] Problem reactivating select list

2004-04-27 Thread John Hester
Thanks to everyone for all the suggestions. Turns out the solution was relatively simple. I just needed to use PERFORM ED instead of EXECUTE ED to make ED run in the wrapper program's workspace. This is in PICK flavor. Seems like I once knew the difference between EXECUTE and PERFORM in PIC

Re: [UV] Problem reactivating select list

2004-04-26 Thread John Hester
Mark Eastwood wrote: Have you looked at "Triggers" ? I wrote a wrapper for the ED command last week to keep an audit trail of any changes made to files outside our applications. I'm just writing a before and after version of an edited record to a temp file and comparing afterwards. Corr

Re: [UV] Problem reactivating select list

2004-04-26 Thread John Hester
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John what is wrong with this approach loop readnext id else done = true until done do list<-1> = id repeat select list to mylist loop readnext id else done = true until done do execute "ed ":file:" ":id repeat then before, after, between the two loops you can d

[UV] Problem reactivating select list

2004-04-26 Thread John Hester
I wrote a wrapper for the ED command last week to keep an audit trail of any changes made to files outside our applications. I'm just writing a before and after version of an edited record to a temp file and comparing afterwards. All seemed fine until one of my coworkers informed me he could

[OT] ANTIVIRUS - CA - GOOD

2004-03-24 Thread John Hester
John Jenkins wrote: Can we have a straw poll on AV software? Just post a subject of ANTIVIRUS - (name) - (version) *GOOD* or *BAD* as necessary - let's hear it. We're using CA's eTrust AV. It's installed on all WinXX workstations and servers. It's centrally managed, so you set up rule sets once

Re: D3 Automatic Faxing

2004-03-19 Thread John Hester
Karl L Pearson wrote: I don't know if it runs on D3 or not. Ask Esker Software (U.S. 800-556-4874). We use this product over 2 faxes. We routinely send between 150 to 300 faxes a day and over 600 at Month-End. I monitor it with a 'roll-my-own' package I wrote and it seems quite okay so far. There

Re: UV Secure ODBC drivers for AIX?

2004-03-10 Thread John Hester
Robert Stearns wrote: Is there a secure ODBC driver for this environment? Has anyone gotten ODBC to work over SSL or as a port tunnel of SSH? In the University environment, with users distributed all across campus, I really don't want unencrypted user names, passwords, and sensitive data on th

Re: File permissions problem with UniObjects for Java

2004-03-10 Thread John Hester
Wendy Smoak wrote: John Hester wrote: The default umask may be someplace like /etc/profile or /etc/default/login depending on your platform. Permissions on files created by OUJ logins on our system appear to be determined by the .profile of the UOJ login though. Don't know why yours

Re: File permissions problem with UniObjects for Java

2004-03-10 Thread John Hester
Wendy Smoak wrote: I have some UOJ code that runs a program on the database host and creates a file in _HOLD_. This is on HP-UX 11, and _HOLD_ has these permissions: drwxrws--- 2 user1live 37888 Mar 10 09:08 _HOLD_ But, when I run the UOJ program, the file gets created like this: -r

Re: UniVerse on NT vs *nix

2004-03-09 Thread John Hester
Sara Burns wrote: The general thinking is that it must be more effective to only have one operating system. Less staff training etc etc etc. As there is so much that is NT based they think that all should be on NT. That includes UniVerse and Oracle. Of course SQLServer doesn't have the choice. T

Re: UV on Itanium

2004-03-09 Thread John Hester
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 enough interest in a 64-bit version of UV for IBM to invest

Re: UV on Itanium

2004-03-09 Thread John Hester
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 is IBM's timetable for rolling out Itanium servers with AIX? When is UV targeted to run on Itanium? --Bill I beleive you can run UV on Itanium now if y

Re: [UV] Change prompt?

2004-03-08 Thread John Hester
Barry Brevik wrote: OK, I know about UVPROMPT, but it will only let you specify a single character. I work in numerous accounts, and it would be good if the LOGIN PA could change the prompt to have multiple characters so I can see which account I'm in. Believe me, all it takes is one mistake to le

Re: Brower based terminal emulator

2004-03-04 Thread John Hester
Vance Dailey wrote: We are considering running Linux on our user desktops and I am looking for a recommendation for a terminal emulation solution. One possibility is to find a terminal emulation program which runs locally on each desktop under Linux. A second possibility is to setup a server and u

[UV] Re: SPOOLER NUMBER

2004-03-04 Thread John Hester
Alan Yockey wrote: I am also interested in ways to manipulate spool files in Universe? The spool number would be a big help so I could use usm commands to redirect output externally to the report program which produced the spool file. Universe 9.3 on DGUX Is there a function with universe / ba

[UV] XML conversion in UV 10.1

2004-02-27 Thread John Hester
We're planning a platform migration to UV 10.1 and hope to utilize the built-in XML functionality to exchange data with our trading partners. From what I read on the IBM U2 site it appears that XML can be created from standard UV files in 10.1. Are there also tools that enbable data to go the

Re: Enabling ODBC for non-SQL file

2004-02-17 Thread John Hester
Nevermind. Appears the problem is on the client side. More specifically Excel in Office 2000. I was using Excel on a Windows server 2003 box running terminal services and Citrix. I decided to try OpenOffice on my XP Pro desktop, where I have no MS Office installed, and so far it appears to

Re: Enabling ODBC for non-SQL file

2004-02-17 Thread John Hester
Anthony Youngman wrote: Did you run HS.UPDATE.FILEINFO? Have you put the correct SQL type definitions in fields 8? Did HS.UPDATE.FILEINFO actually work correctly! THAT'S A BIGGIE! I've shoved a little article on pickwiki you might want to look at - multivaluedatabases>universe>odbcaccess Cheers,

Re: Enabling ODBC for non-SQL file

2004-02-16 Thread John Hester
on #4 (Update File Information Cache in an account). -Original Message- From: John Hester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 3:34 PM To: U2 Users Discussion List Subject: UV: Enabling ODBC for non-SQL file I'm trying to enable ODBC access to a standard UV non-SQL fil

UV: Enabling ODBC for non-SQL file

2004-02-16 Thread John Hester
I'm trying to enable ODBC access to a standard UV non-SQL file and have found the following in the ODBC manual: "To make UniVerse files accessible to ODBC applications, you must run the ODBC file access utility in the account." However, they don't bother to say what this ODBC file access utilit

UV 10.1 on RedHat AS 2.1

2004-02-16 Thread John Hester
Anyone running UV on RedHat AS 2.1 and planning to upgrade to UV 10.1? I'm preparing to migrate to RH AS 2.1 and need the MQ functionality built into UV 10.1. IBM has told me that it hasn't been ported yet but I can't get an answer on a timeframe for the port. Just wondering if anyone else ha

Re: Memo: RE: multi-currency

2004-02-16 Thread John Hester
Mike Randall wrote: Not sure if converting based on invoice date is legit. That's not the real value of the cash when you got it. Hence, the concept of gains and losses for rate fluctuations. Your actual USD balances will never match the computer with your strategy. Another level of convert