RE: DATA statement Clearing?
We have programs that make extensive use of data statements. And they regularly screwed up because people asked us to change the prompt sequence (adding new requests or whatever...) So I've been steadily rewriting them all to use arguments on the command line, retrieving it all from @SENTENCE. One little tip - I always add the option BATCH, which is set by looking for the word on the command line as the program starts. My input code then knows, if this flag is set, that there is no user to ask the information from. And if I'm asked to add more user input, seeing this option in other inputs reminds me that I need to add it here, and provide a default because I'm not allowed to prompt. Cheers, Wol -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karl L Pearson Sent: 01 April 2004 18:39 To: U2 Users Discussion List Subject: RE: DATA statement Clearing? You bring up a good point. Design-time decisions seemed to make sense that this would be the easiest way to do this project with the greatest amount of 'after the fact' support freedom, so, reading the data from a file wasn't considered. However, we just had a discussion and decided it wouldn't be that tough to make the change over. CLEARDATA works on uniVerse, too. Thanks. Darn Manuals. Why can't they just talk to me? Karl This transmission is intended for the named recipient only. It may contain private and confidential information. If this has come to you in error you must not act on anything disclosed in it, nor must you copy it, modify it, disseminate it in any way, or show it to anyone. Please e-mail the sender to inform us of the transmission error or telephone ECA International immediately and delete the e-mail from your information system. Telephone numbers for ECA International offices are: Sydney +61 (0)2 9911 7799, Hong Kong + 852 2121 2388, London +44 (0)20 7351 5000 and New York +1 212 582 2333. -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
RE: DATA statement Clearing?
Not sure about UniVerse, but UniData has a CLEARDATA verb. Rather than stuffing the data buffer with all this stuff, wouldn't it be just as easy to open the file from within a program and read/process it? Larry Hiscock Western Computer Services -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Karl L Pearson Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 8:41 AM To: u2-users Subject: DATA statement Clearing? I have a program that takes a printed replenishment order (sent via smoke and mirrors to a text file on our uniVerse server from remote sites), parses through it and passes DATA to an Order Entry program (4580 lines long). I'm curious if there's a way to clear those data statements up as part of clean-up in case of an error in the data structure at the remote site. I.E, there are 3 lines of text for each ordered product. On the first line, is pricing, so I do a findstr for a $-sign, which allows me to know I'm on the first of 3 lines for one item. With some of our clients, the inventory item is on the first line and with others it's on the 2nd or 3rd line. My code knows the difference by client number and process correctly, however on some clients, the inventory item number isn't where it's supposed to be, causing the order entry program to go into cardiac arrest. My cleanup then has to undo the locking mechanism (prevents more than one process at a time), plus release locks, etc. I need to be able to clear the data statements because they are currently being passed to the menuing system, which causes the operator to wonder what's going on and hope nothing bad just happened. INPUTCLEAR and CLEARSELECT don't work (I thought inputclear would...). Help? -- Karl L. Pearson Director of IT, ATS Industrial Supply Direct: 801-978-4429 Toll-free: 888-972-3182 x29 Fax: 801-972-3888 http://www.atsindustrial.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: DATA statement Clearing?
The theory is that our database (old version of ACCESS) will get on the client systems and clean up the data, thus making the different uses of this step unnecessary. Good old data consistency would be nice. Karl On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 10:50, Eugene Perry wrote: One thing you could do would be to pass the data a little more information. For example, you could pass it something like inventory#=xx etc. This way, your program could know which line it is on no matter which client. Eugene - Original Message - From: Karl L Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: u2-users [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 9:40 AM Subject: DATA statement Clearing? I have a program that takes a printed replenishment order (sent via smoke and mirrors to a text file on our uniVerse server from remote sites), parses through it and passes DATA to an Order Entry program (4580 lines long). I'm curious if there's a way to clear those data statements up as part of clean-up in case of an error in the data structure at the remote site. I.E, there are 3 lines of text for each ordered product. On the first line, is pricing, so I do a findstr for a $-sign, which allows me to know I'm on the first of 3 lines for one item. With some of our clients, the inventory item is on the first line and with others it's on the 2nd or 3rd line. My code knows the difference by client number and process correctly, however on some clients, the inventory item number isn't where it's supposed to be, causing the order entry program to go into cardiac arrest. My cleanup then has to undo the locking mechanism (prevents more than one process at a time), plus release locks, etc. I need to be able to clear the data statements because they are currently being passed to the menuing system, which causes the operator to wonder what's going on and hope nothing bad just happened. INPUTCLEAR and CLEARSELECT don't work (I thought inputclear would...). Help? -- Karl L. Pearson Director of IT, ATS Industrial Supply Direct: 801-978-4429 Toll-free: 888-972-3182 x29 Fax: 801-972-3888 http://www.atsindustrial.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- Karl L. Pearson Director of IT, ATS Industrial Supply Direct: 801-978-4429 Toll-free: 888-972-3182 x29 Fax: 801-972-3888 http://www.atsindustrial.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
