Re: [U2] [UD] running a subroutine

2004-10-15 Thread karlp
I don't think there's a way to do that with a subroutine. What we regularly do here is use input statements and pass the answers in DATA statements. I know that's not the answer you want, so consider this: get(arg.,1)VAR if VAR = '' then input VAR end To pass more than one commandline

Re: [U2][UV]telnet

2004-10-28 Thread karlp
I'm not sure you've given enough information. What would the script do? What's it for? I've created scripts that use ssh rather than telnet for automated processes but never telnet. Karl quote who=Stu Glancy I want to create a telnet script from a program and execute it. Can it be done? If

RE: [U2] [UV] Term settings for capture and no extra headings

2004-10-28 Thread karlp
I've read a few of these posts. Let me see if I understand the situation by sharing my solution. I roll my own printing routines for either paper or screen. Here's a skeleton of how I do it: execute 'SELECT FILE WITH PARAMS...' loop readnext KEY else DONE = 1 until DONE do execute 'LIST

[U2] UV 10.1.2 ?

2004-11-05 Thread karlp
Our server is running AIX 4.3.3 and I'm upgrading to 10.1.2. Is there any known gotchas with this combination that I should prepare for, or avoid by holding out for 10.1.4 or newer? Thanks, -- Karl L. Pearson Director of IT, ATS Industrial Supply Direct: 801-978-4429 Toll-free: 800-789-9300

Re: [U2] UV 10.1.2 ?

2004-11-06 Thread karlp
I guess we are just slow to adopt new technology. Var-driven mostly. All our apps are green-screen still. quote who=Scott Richardson AIX 4.3.3? Why not 5.x? - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 4:58 PM Subject: [U2] UV

RE: [U2] UV 10.1.2 ?

2004-11-06 Thread karlp
quote who=Michael Polak -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Karl, We in the same boat, and looking to upgrade between Christmas and New Year. We are doing the Universe upgrade first, shaking that out for a while, then will upgrade AIX to 5.3. Lesson 1 from school or hard

[U2] UniVerse 10.1.2 bug/error

2004-11-08 Thread karlp
I upgraded to uniVerse 10.1.2 over the weekend (AIX 4.3.3) and now if I do analyze.shm -x the login count shows 1, or at other times different numbers. There are currently 27 users logged in this system. Anyone heard of this? Is there a fix? We have a routine that uses this output to verify

RE: [U2] UV 10.1.2 ?

2004-11-11 Thread karlp
Our disappeared after upgrading last week. I just commented out the ASSIGN . . . 4001/2 lines and now both and appear as expected. However, the uvlictool issue is a show-stopper, so I'll be upgrading to 10.1.4 as soon as I can get my hands on it... Karl quote who=Dennis Bartlett Hi Mats

[U2] OT: PCL6 Codes?

2004-11-11 Thread karlp
We send PCL codes to our HP printers. I've Googled til I'm blue in the face and have yet to find a concise list of PCL codes. We have a new 'PCL compliant' HP printer (HP Laserjet 1320) and I'm under the gun to 'make that thing work' (never heard that line before? Let's trade places...) I think

RE: [U2] OT: PCL6 Codes?

2004-11-11 Thread karlp
quote who=Brutzman, Bill 1. HP has tech manuals available. Last time I looked, these books were only available to be purchased in hard copy. Check out the hp website or call HP. 2. What happens to the print job when another HP printer is connected at the same port? This is a networked

Re: [U2] OT: PCL6 Codes?

2004-11-11 Thread karlp
quote who=Results Karl, Have you tried printing to it from a pdf or other multi-font graphical format? You may have a bad printer or other problems. The odds are that this isn't your problem, but since it takes so little time to check, you might as well give it a try. I set it up on a

RE: [U2] OT: PCL6 Codes?

2004-11-11 Thread karlp
That's a good thing, except it didn't print a blessed thing. I wonder if PCL is turned off... I'll visit the config page on the device and see. KLP quote who=George Gallen The best resource is HP. They have a whole set of PCL technical reference manuals I got them a few years ago, I believe

RE: [U2] OT: PCL6 Codes?

2004-11-11 Thread karlp
You're my hero. It worked. Is the syntax different from 'regular' PCL? it doesn't look any different to me... KLP quote who=George Gallen oops: ESCEESC*p300X*p1650Y(s6H(s1BTESTESCE should be: ESCEESC*p300XESC*p1650YESC(s6HESC(s1BTESTESCE left out a few ESC... Yes, I know I make some of

RE: [U2] OT: PCL6 Codes?

2004-11-11 Thread karlp
quote who=George Gallen no. that's PCL3 pretty much. When you say your sending PCL, where is coming from? is it hard coded or from a printer driver. hard-coded using $include HP.LASER, our definition file. That file takes the format: CHR16 = ESC:(s0p16H ... As I think of it, I wonder if

RE: [U2] OT: PCL6 Codes?

2004-11-11 Thread karlp
Solved, though not the way I wanted: The printer comes with an HTML interface which I've never seen. This printer is USB connected to an XP Pro station. http://127.0.0.1:5225/ToolboxManager/deviceRegistry is how you access it using IE on the localhost. (127.0.0.1 always = localhost, btw). The

[U2] Error - Array Index

2004-11-16 Thread karlp
AIX 4.3.3 UV 10.1.2 What are the possible causes of this error that causes an abort to TCL? Program ED, pc = 4EA4, Array index out of bounds This is the only information we get and it happens about once or twice a day whether we are editing a record in a file or a source BP after a minute or

[U2] LIST.INDEX Build info

2004-11-17 Thread karlp
I have a report I run every week that prints the output of LIST.INDEX on all files that have indexes. These are I_X files in Unix where I 'field' off the I_ and do LIST.INDEX X and send the output to the printer. I see the under the Build column, it always says Not Reqd (except for new

Re: [U2] (solution) Error - Array Index

2004-11-22 Thread karlp
quote who=Ray Wurlod Source code for ED.B is in the BP file in the UV account. Make a copy of it, compile the copy (the original is compiled with the -I option), then use VLIST to see what's happening at address 0x4ea4. You may be able to adjust the maximum size of the array in question.

RE: [U2] LOOP or GOTO on READNEXT

2004-12-13 Thread karlp
quote who=Rick Ramsey example 2 does not test DONE - why not READNEXT K ELSE EXIT You are quite right. I forgot putting that line in. until DONE do . . . cannot prove it, but I suspect both of these paragraphs would function identically at the object-code level. Rick -Original

RE: [U2] LOOP or GOTO on READNEXT

2004-12-13 Thread karlp
I'm not sure of the BASIC SELECT. I've always used it and don't remember ever seeing any adverse affects therefrom. As for the safety option. It might apply somewhere else, but not in this little example. The file contained only about 80 items and a list showed no duplicates either before or

Re: [U2] LOOP or GOTO on READNEXT

2004-12-13 Thread karlp
quote who=Allen Egerton Loops are loops, they're executed internally with jumps and skips... The LOOP WHILE construct is for the programmer, not for the runtime machine. You really want faster? Create a new file sized appropriately, read the rec from original file, modify the key, write

Re: [U2] LOOP or GOTO on READNEXT

2004-12-13 Thread karlp
quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 13/12/2004 15:49:31 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've seen 2 ways to read a client key, change the length to 6 digits, then write it back out, delete the old one and move on: EXAMPLE 1 of 2: !(FIXEMPNO) - Fix the employee

RE: [U2] LOOP or GOTO on READNEXT

2004-12-13 Thread karlp
quote who=Dean Fox Your understanding of the BASIC select is correct. It starts in group one and works it's way down. In my early years of PICK programming I learned this the hard way. As this user hasn't yet seen adverse effects is luck vs. design. Okay, Bait taken. I just ran 2 programs.

Re: [U2] Anyone here using a Canon Imagerunner 5020/6020 as a copier/printer?

2004-12-10 Thread karlp
quote who=George Gallen So far, it has been good, easy to convert to, since it accepts PCL. I have found that most printer control codes work...except... I haven't been able to figure out how to get it to select the output bin. It has two bins...I tried Ec l # G (using both 1 and 2), but

[U2] LOOP or GOTO on READNEXT

2004-12-13 Thread karlp
I've seen 2 ways to read a client key, change the length to 6 digits, then write it back out, delete the old one and move on: EXAMPLE 1 of 2: !(FIXEMPNO) - Fix the employee number length open '','CUSTEMP' to CF else stopm 'Not' select CF 10: readnext K else stop read REC from

Re: [U2] LOOP or GOTO on READNEXT

2004-12-13 Thread karlp
quote who=Mark Johnson I agree. Be careful to not trip over a record written in later frames. Although WRITE after DELETE prevents the problem. I have an observed question. Is there any MV flavor that requires the null expression for DICT with opening the DATA level of a file. I stopped using

RE: [U2] LOOP or GOTO on READNEXT

2004-12-13 Thread karlp
quote who=Bob Witney Since you have the 2 pieces of code wouldn't the best approach be to benchmark it on the system which is going to run it. Or am I just getting old remembering when we needed to benchmark... BenchmarK? We can do that? You must live in a dream world... I guess I

RE: [U2] LOOP or GOTO on READNEXT

2004-12-13 Thread karlp
Your explanation finally sunk in. Thanks to the others who tried. My file was static with no updating possible, or at least likely. That would show the same items regardless of the select methodology. That's one lesson I've been lucky not to have learned the hard way. Thanks, Karl quote

Re: [U2] printer error

2005-01-03 Thread karlp
quote who=Mike Dallaire UV 10.1.3 Windows 2003 server We have a customer just going live and they are having problems getting UniVerse to recognize the printers. When we run SPOOL -LIST we get an error EnumPrinters failed with error 87. The error seems to occur as soon as it hits one of

Re: [U2] UV Pre-printed forms

2005-01-04 Thread karlp
quote who=Mark Johnson One of my clients would like to replace their pre-printed forms with those generated by the system. Basically the form has been re-created in MS Publisher and saved as a PRN file. I understand that there is some magic to send the form, keep the job open and then send

[U2] FYI: LISTU Solution

2005-01-07 Thread karlp
I have a solution for those who are doing a LISTU and want to limit the output to some searchable string. Here's the code CT VOC LU LU 0001 V 0002 /usr/bin/listu 0003 U 0004 TICRGM ATS [/home/karlp] cat /usr/bin/listu #!/usr/bin/ksh # from the uniVerse LISTU verb, with modifications

[U2] UV 10.1.2 bug

2005-01-17 Thread karlp
I'm seeing (another) bug in UV 10.1.2. Apparently, deleting items from files is taking up to 1 second per delete when done programatically, ie: DELETE FILE,KEY I'm waiting for an upgrade to 10.1.4. Has anyone else noticed this problem? Thanks, -- Karl L. Pearson Director of IT, ATS Industrial

RE: [U2] UV 10.1.2 bug

2005-01-17 Thread karlp
quote who=Ed Clark Sounds like the kind of thing that would happen if the file had a lot of overflow. That's what I would have thought, too. However, I'm seeing this on files that have recently been resized to about 10% larger than current need for growth. AND they aren't that big. 30,000 items

RE: [U2] UV 10.1.2 bug

2005-01-18 Thread karlp
quote who=Brian Leach Sounds like the kind of thing that would happen if the file had a lot of overflow. Or a very badly designed index, or trigger. Any of those possible? Brian We don't have any triggers on those files. There are no indexes on one of the files and the other one has 5

RE: [U2] UV 10.1.2 bug

2005-01-18 Thread karlp
Okay, tested the process against the file with no indexes. It ran in 19 minutes. it was taking hours before. I didn't save a copy of LIST.INDEX FILE ALL DETAIL but it did have some very skewed groups, as I watched it scroll by. But mostly it looked very even... I've never seen this behavior

Re: [U2] Universe 10 fnuxi problem

2005-01-21 Thread karlp
quote who=Jay Falck I need to move some regular Universe files from a Unix platform (HPUX) to Windows. These files have triggers and fnuxi by itself will not work. I've tried FORMAT.CONV -export on the HPUX box but it indicates the file is not a SQL table. If I just ftp the file to my Windows

Re: [U2] Universe full screen editor

2005-02-07 Thread karlp
UV.VI FILE ITEM will allow you to use vi to edit the record. While in the EDitor, type HELP and then either type a Character (C for Change) or press ENTER to see everything scroll off your screen before you can read it. . . HTH, Karl quote who=Scott Land I am working on a client's Universe

Re: [U2] Universe full screen editor

2005-02-07 Thread karlp
quote who=Susan Lynch Scott, Suggestion 1: if you have no UniVerse documentation, go to the IBM website and download yourself some UniVerse manuals! http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/u2/pubs/library/ Suggestion 2: take a look at the UniVerse Guide to the UniVerse Editor (from that

Re: [U2][UV] Synonym Accounts

2005-02-10 Thread karlp
quote who=Nick Cipollina Is there a way to set up a synonym account in UniVerse. Say I have an account called TEST and the path to the account is /home/TEST. I want to create an account called TEST.SYN who's path is also /home/TEST. I have figured out if I edit a record in UV.ACCOUNT called

Re: [U2] Universe full screen editor

2005-02-11 Thread karlp
quote who=Scott Land Charlie, Yes. I ended up using the line editor. I hadn't noticed until now how spoiled I've been since every system I have been on had some full screen editor. Now my problem is getting logged into another account so I can create files and catalog programs. I am

Re: [U2][UV] Forcing a port to close

2005-02-24 Thread karlp
quote who=Nick Cipollina Is anyone aware of a way to force a socket port to close at the operating system level. We are currently using Sun 9.xx. We have a process that opens a port and accepts socket connections. Whenever we stop it and try to restart it, we get a port in use message. The

RE: [U2] [UV] Help - REBUILD.DF sticking

2005-03-05 Thread karlp
quote who=Stevenson, Charles I had a similar problem once. I think it was on 9.6 or before. My one-shot, good'nuff solution that worked for me was to dissolve the original distributed file definition, leaving each (former) partfile standing on its own; copy all the partfiles to where I

Re: [U2] UV Programmer/Analyst contract position

2005-03-05 Thread karlp
quote who=George Griffeth My department, Residential and Student Services, at the Univeristy of California, Berkeley, is seeking a contract programmer/analyst to work on existing Universe business-type applications on an 11-month full-time closed-term contract at the Berkeley campus. The key

[U2] OT: Ascential/IBM

2005-03-14 Thread karlp
I just heard a radio news spot announcing IBM had just purchased Ascential for 1 Billion US$. Hopefully that will bring development closer together..?.. -- Karl L. Pearson Director of IT, ATS Industrial Supply Direct: 801-978-4429 Toll-free: 800-789-9300 1,29 Fax: 801-972-3888

RE: [U2] UV: Using UniAdmin/File Tool

2005-03-15 Thread karlp
That's easilly fixed. Add an entry in UV.ACCOUNT for each directory that has files you wish to show up in the file tool. Such as HIST with line 11 = /hist/PROGS/MFH.BP (that begs the question, why would you want to see what appears in your example as a source code file?). Karl quote

RE: [U2] UV: Using UniAdmin/File Tool

2005-03-15 Thread karlp
quote who=Hennessey, Mark F. snip That's easilly fixed. Add an entry in UV.ACCOUNT for each directory that has files you wish to show up in the file tool. Such as HIST with line 11 = /hist/PROGS/MFH.BP (that begs the question, why would you want to see what appears in your example as a

Re: [U2] Run a program in Silent mode

2005-04-27 Thread karlp
How about HUSH ON (then HUSH OFF at the end) Karl quote who=Burwell, Edward Hello, Is there a simple UniBasic command (kinda like ECHO OFF) that would cause all PRINT @(x,y) statements to be suppressed? I have a program that prints to the screen that I want to run in an automatic mode and

Re: [U2] Universe Availability Matrix - Linux

2005-04-28 Thread karlp
The first 2 numbers (2.4) are the critical ones. IBM has to put the whole kernel on which they tested so they are legally covered, just in case. Though I doubt it will be an issue, it could and they have to cover their bases. If your kernel is 2.4.18-14 (Redhat v8.0) or 2.4.20-8 (Redhat v9) then

RE: [U2] Universe Availability Matrix - Linux

2005-04-28 Thread karlp
No kernel is a 'Redhat' kernel. They are all the property of Linus Torvalds. Redhat uses which ever kernel they want based on the functionality they want to include in a given distribution. To find out what your kernel is, type (as root) rpm -q kernel, which will return the entire kernel string,

RE: [U2] Universe Availability Matrix - Linux

2005-04-28 Thread karlp
Boy, you have a tough one. I'm sorry I misunderstood. Maybe one of the IBM folks on the list can do a bit of checking? Karl quote who=Anthony Dzikiewicz Karl, I know that. I think you are missing the point of my question. The kernel that is on the grid is not a version of the kernel that

Re: [U2] Validating an email adress

2005-05-03 Thread karlp
Wouldn't you also have to check for email addresses with this pattern 1X0X'@'1X0X'.'1X0X'.'1X0X and other variants? Note the TO: for this email list, for one example. Karl quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 5/3/2005 4:43:20 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Re: [U2] Validating an email adress

2005-05-04 Thread karlp
quote who=Mats Carlid Oops the paste didn't work as expected - looked good but disappeared when sending - but here it goes: Mats Carlid wrote: To check the domain I use: EXECUTE \SH -c nslookup -q=MB \:DOMAIN:\\ CAPTURING RESULT nslookup is 'going away' and is only maintained for

Re: [U2] Printing from UniVerse

2005-06-03 Thread karlp
quote who=Hari T. K. Varma Hi all, I need to fire a print from UniVerse Basic where I want to change the Font size. Is there any function available in UniVerse to do the same? I use an include file, but this is for PCL codes directed at HP-compliant printers (emulate PCL5/PCL6).

Re: [U2] mvBASE to Unidata via virtual tape file

2005-06-16 Thread karlp
quote who=CDMI Anyone had experience with moving from mvBASE to Unidata via the VTF (virtual tape file) backup method provided by mvBASE ? FYI: the vtf is basically a tape file written to disk. mvBASE uses the same 'file-save', 'account-save', 't-dump' commands to tape as well as to VTFs.

Re: [U2] Clear Screen Problem

2005-06-28 Thread karlp
Hi All, We have moved our universe development environment from one server to other server. Now at the new server, we are facing problem with CS (Clear screen) command. Whenever we do CS, the screen is cleared but at the top right corner there is $20 prompt. We are using wyse50 terminals as

[U2] Identification Challenge

2005-06-29 Thread karlp
We are a small company (42 UV licenses) and so use AUTOLOGOUT on sessions based on importance. Some clients are set longer than others, and some employees likewise. The challenge I have is to figure out who/what is logging in when they are using a java telnet client we use for 'web-based'

RE: [U2] Identification Challenge

2005-06-29 Thread karlp
quote who=George Gallen Just a thought. When the initial HTTP connection is made, does it run a third part software for downloading? Otherwise at that point, you could capture the IP address, the question is how do you tie the java login to the http session. The java client is third party

Re: [U2] Re: Identification Challenge

2005-06-29 Thread karlp
quote who=Jeff Schasny The obvious (to me... YMMV) solution would be to have a process run out of the login paragraph which requires a username and password which could be stored in a file with an @id of their @userno. A second process which parses the output of a LISTU command and shows the

RE: [U2] Identification Challenge

2005-06-29 Thread karlp
quote who=George Gallen What your running into is a security feature of java, you can't telnet from java unless it's a local telnet (same machine), unless this has changed. No it hasn't changed. However, if we put our domain, then our firewall directs the telnet session to the correct system.

RE: [U2] high IO

2005-07-02 Thread karlp
Try the AIX command topas. It gives some very useful information. Karl quote who=Ray Wurlod You appear only to have one physical disk (c7t0d0) with a number of slices. You should be able to monitor the per-user I/O with a tool like top or sar (or Performance Monitor if you are on Windows).

Re: [U2] [UV] GET.LIST

2005-07-14 Thread karlp
quote who=Dianne Ackerman On a reality flavor UV account, I can do GET.LIST ACCOUNTNAME LISTNAME to get a list which exists on another account. But on PICK flavor, I don't seem to be able to do that. When I read the manual help on GET.LIST I don't see anything about getting a list from

Re: [U2] Universe editor Help for ^ character

2005-07-15 Thread karlp
Or you could also enter ^094XA or ^094MUD. ^^ is easier, however. Arthritic fingers like fewer typed characters. Karl quote who=Jerry Banker If you want to enter the character ^ you must enter ^^. So it would be ^^XA and ^^MUD. - Original Message - From: Pankaj Gupta04 [EMAIL

Re: [U2] pcl to pdf converter

2005-07-28 Thread karlp
We use a product from Esker Software called VSI-FAX. It converts PCL to pdf on the fly and sends it to a fax machine or email address. It's quite powerful. I wonder if it's cheap. We already owned it when I started and with maintenance the upgrades are free so I've not seen the cost. Karl quote

Re: [U2] New UV Accout VOC

2005-08-08 Thread karlp
RED FLAG!!! Don't ever copy a VOC file from one account to another. There's specific information in each account's VOC file that makes them NON-TRANFERRABLE. Anyone else experience the nightmares of corrupt data because of a copies VOC file? Karl quote who=Brutzman, Bill We need to setup a

Re: [U2] HP PCL5/6 Code Book

2005-08-08 Thread karlp
Hey Mark, if you get such a beast and it's not posted to the list, post it. Thanks, Karl quote who=Mark Johnson Does anyone have a useful single source for all of the HP PCL 5/6 codes. I find that every time I need them I go to google and search and get a different site every time. I would

Re: [U2] Remove Scenario

2005-08-11 Thread karlp
One thought. It seems I remember that using VAR += 1 is significantly faster than VAR = VAR + 1. It's not much, but maybe it will help. Karl quote who=Mark Johnson Here's a doozy. Thanks for the previous suggestion of using REMOVE instead of the extractions. That's working very well. New

RE: [U2] Listserver is Bowdlerising my posts... help

2005-09-08 Thread karlp
quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have tried plain text - but even that gets chomped (sometimes) All right admin folks... I'm out of ideas. If you Have Majordomo set to archive, then you could go searching in ~/majordomo-1.94.5/archives/u2-users.archive/NN for Stuart.Boydell and see what the

Re: [U2] Is there a UniData equivalent to the UV SEARCH command?

2005-09-09 Thread karlp
I wrote a program for searching through any file. It should work on both U2 DBs, though I'm not a whiz at UD and don't have a UD system available for testing, but I've pasted the source below my sig. -- Karl Pearson IT Director, ATS Industrial Supply, Inc. http://www.atsindustrial.com Toll-free:

Re: [U2] Capture Error (UV 10.1.7, AIX 5.2)

2005-09-15 Thread karlp
I'll do a bit of testing. Folks with A.D.D. like me do tend to move through things... Oh wait. I'm not even that fast. Karl quote who=Ray Wurlod Too fast? Generating the same capturebpaa file name because it's the same second between one and the next, and there's a bug that stops the

Re: [U2] Capture Error (UV 10.1.7, AIX 5.2)

2005-09-16 Thread karlp
quote who=Ray Wurlod Too fast? Generating the same capturebpaa file name because it's the same second between one and the next, and there's a bug that stops the sequencer (aa, ab, etc.) from doing its thing?) Just a guess. quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'll do a bit of testing. I

[U2] Extra DB License

2005-09-19 Thread karlp
Curious... We are adding clients and users and have bumped against the 'out of licenses' thing. I've ordered a few more, but am wondering what philosphies you may have implemented to determine how many, and if you get, extra licenses over and above what your userbase demands. Thanks, -- Karl

RE: [U2] [UV] Universe without root access

2005-09-26 Thread karlp
On our AIX Unix system, I set the sticky bits on the following programs: rws--x--x usa rws--x--x usm rws--x--x usp which are called by a routine we wrote to allow a few users to control printers. For example, our Accounts Payable clerk need to be able to manage the check printer. This isn't

Re: [U2] Blink Error - Backward Link error

2005-09-27 Thread karlp
Correction, you should only see loss of data after the BLINK error in he affected group only. Karl Pearson Senior uniVerse DBA and one who cut his teeth fixing blinks by hand (thanks to Mark Baldridge and Joel Yates). quote who=Stephen O'Neal Anmol, I don't have good news. You have a broken

Re: [U2] Blink Error - Backward Link error

2005-09-28 Thread karlp
Wow, what a concept! But then, that would reduce a bit of job security for folks like me, wouldn't it? I've always told clients going in that if I do my job right, I'll be out of a job. Yes, I tell my clients that. It's basically true, but there are certainly glaring exceptions. Karl quote

RE: [U2] Blink Error - Backward Link error

2005-09-28 Thread karlp
This is a good explanation I'd forgotten about. You were probably the one who explained it to me a little time ago... Long time... Karl quote who=Glenn Herbert Because of the manner in which the write subsystem was implemented, it is NOT a trivial task to either pre-detect or recover

[U2] Suggestion for Digesters

2005-09-29 Thread karlp
[I guess we are all digesters, just after we eat... but I digress.] May I recommend to those of you on DIGEST a simple practice I recommend to the ~4500 subscribers on my majordomo email groups? Please change the subject line from Digest No to an applicable subject for the topic to which you

[U2] Embedding JPG/GIF

2005-09-29 Thread karlp
We are currently printing checks to an Okidata printer with tractor-fed 3-part NCR pre-printed checks. We are going to get a 2-tray HP4200TN so detail can be printed to a blank page in tray 2. We have an old check signing machine that requires tractor-fed checks. I would like to scan in the

Re: [OT] [U2] chance encounter with a u2 site

2005-10-05 Thread karlp
quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] logging into is Unidata. The name of the store is Grants appliances based out of Joliet, IL. My questions to the list are have any of you had similar experiences and how much of a geek am I to get totally excited about seeing another U2 site in action? All the

RE: [OT] [U2] chance encounter with a u2 site

2005-10-06 Thread karlp
They aren't. They have switched to Sybase, IIRC. There are a couple former Dynix employees on this list that could verify that. Karl quote who=Robert Paterson Ah, but they could still be using U2 - just UniData 7.1 as the application server to DB2... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [U2] Unidata TCL - beginner question

2005-10-06 Thread karlp
quote who=Allen E. Elwood You can use : SORT filename BY PART BY.DSND DATE BY BREAK.ON PART And that will at least bring them up sorted by part with the latest date at the top of the stack. Other than that you would need to know the date and qualify by date range. Interesting side-note:

[U2] UV Abort

2005-10-18 Thread karlp
UV 10.1.7 on AIX 5.2.0 (5200-05) We have a cron job with the following line in a script: /u1/uv/bin/uv phantom BRIEF BO060.CRON a VOC entry which looks like: PA Daily cron process scheduled at 2pm RUN BP BO060 This process picks up back-orders, thus the BOnnn name. Periodically, when this

Re: [U2] UV Abort

2005-10-19 Thread karlp
quote who=Clifton Oliver Did the second run also cause the fault? Is there anything in that job or job stream that could be trying to build a huge dynamic array? Such as trying to READ and entire report into a variable? No, it executes a LIST file BY var LPTR style command... I have quite a

RE: [U2] UV Abort

2005-10-19 Thread karlp
quote who=Keith W. Roberts What did the phantom log say? You might DISPLAY something after the RUN cmd to make sure the fault occurs after the program completes. I haven't been able to replicate this behavior. Also, the BRIEF keyword causes the output to PH to be suppressed. I may remove that

Re: [U2] UV Abort

2005-10-19 Thread karlp
quote who=Clifton Oliver Did the second run also cause the fault? [brain cramp]... No, the second run from TCL caused no fault. Is there anything in that job or job stream that could be trying to build a huge dynamic array? Such as trying to READ and entire report into a variable? Oh, and

RE: [U2] [OT] BREAKING NEWS

2005-10-25 Thread karlp
quote who=Caryl Lange We missed you so...:) ... but our aim will get better . . . -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Taylor Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 1:03 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] [OT] BREAKING

Re: [U2] To Limit TCL Access Privilege

2005-10-28 Thread karlp
quote who=Allen Egerton From: John Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 7:28 AM Subject: RE: [U2] To Limit TCL Access Privilege Take a look at remote verbs - these are ideal for what you want to achieve. Essentially, you change the VOC

[U2] Bug in UV.VI

2005-11-02 Thread karlp
Line 17 Reads: * 03/15/00 24466 SAP Change code to read long record names in type 19 files. But, if my BP file is type 19, UV.VI returns an empty record. This is on uniVerse 10.0.7 on AIX 5.2. It was a problem with each of the previous releases, too. Just thought I'd throw this out as I

Re: [U2] Bug in UV.VI

2005-11-03 Thread karlp
Awesome. I'll give it a try (after bringing my mail/web/client-access server back from the dead after the mirror broke). Karl quote who=Craig Bennett Hi Karl, Below is an email from Tony Wood explaining how to patch UV.VI to work correctly. Apparanently IBM have had a GTAR outstanding for

Re: [U2] UV: Linux configuration question

2005-11-03 Thread karlp
quote who=Jerry Banker I was wondering if anyone knows if I should change any of the configuration parameters on our new system. We have a Dell Poweredge system running Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update 2), Kernel 2.4.21-15.EL, and uniVerse rev. 10.1.12 in Reality flavor,

Re: [U2] Fwd: [UV] Neiman Marcus posting for Sr. Technologist, UniVerse DBA

2005-11-08 Thread karlp
Thanks Clif, for posting this. Very interesting. Too bad they aren't 'in my town'... Oh, did you ask her if she has any good cookie recipes? Karl quote who=Clifton Oliver Posted on behalf of a non list member. Begin forwarded message: - This position will be a member of a small team of

Re: [U2] Shell Dispatch Quoting

2005-11-09 Thread karlp
quote who=Don Kibbey I'm attempting to make use of a program called mpack which requires some command line arguments to be quoted. While doing this, I'm getting some over quoting and things are not worked as they should. Is there another character or technique (aside from writing the command

Re: [U2] USB printer on D3

2005-11-28 Thread karlp
Get rid of the 1020. I've had nothing but trouble with them even when printing via windows drivers from other PCs in the network. When I do get it to print from U2, I get Unsupported Personality which I took personally the first time... The 1020 is NOT PCL compliant, so sending PCL strings to it

RE: [U2] Mod10 Credit Card Checksum

2005-12-02 Thread karlp
Thanks James. This is a project I'm embroiled in, too. Your code worked right out of the box. Karl quote who=James F Thompson SUBROUTINE CC.VALID(CCN,OK,CTYPE) * OK=0 ; WGT=2 ; SUM=0 ; CCLEN=LEN(CCN) DIGIT=0 ; CTYPE= CHK.DIGIT=CCN[CCLEN,1] ; MDIGIT=0 FOR X =

[U2] More Credit Card Info

2005-12-02 Thread karlp
To those of you who have automated CC processing: Have you any experience with PaymenTech? They are our vendor. They give us NO penalty for keyed in cards vs swiped cards. Other than that, I don't know much about this. -- karl _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ __o _/ _/

RE: [U2] More Credit Card Info

2005-12-02 Thread karlp
I'm curious about how data can be transferred. I'm interested in a text file via FTP or SFTP. Thanks, Karl quote who=Kevin King I've done quite a bit with Paymentech. What exactly is the question? -Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.PrecisOnline.com --- u2-users mailing list

RE: [U2] Decompiler

2005-12-07 Thread karlp
H. Appear to-good-to-be-true it does, my young Padowan. Perhaps unbalanced the uniVerse now is? KLP quote who=Allen E. Elwood http://www.infocus50.com/products/xtrico.html Believe it, or not -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of

RE: [U2] Emails into AIX

2005-12-09 Thread karlp
quote who=Larry Hiscock We've done it on Linux SCO, but not AIX, although the concepts should be the same. Under AIX, the locations and names of the files will undoubtedly be different ;-) There are a couple of issues: 1) I'm not sure I'd expose my application server's to receive email

Re: [U2] UniBasic PCL/PJL

2005-12-12 Thread karlp
A bit of specificity would be nice, but just to give you a bit to think on, here's what I have: DUPLEXBOOK = char(27):l1S ;! Duplex book DUPLEXTABLET = char(27):l2S ;! Duplex tablet DUPLEXOFF= char(27):l0S ;! Duplex off HTH Karl quote who=Brutzman, Bill I was unable to locate any

Re: [U2] T-DUMP

2005-12-22 Thread karlp
I hate to do this, but here goes: Do you *have* to use T-DUMP? I would be more inclined to write a routine to create a delimited text file, then compress the file, ftp to and uncompress it on the UD machine, then reverse the process... Just my two (or less) bits. Karl quote who=Bill Haskett

Re: [U2] [UV] Create hashed file in subdirectory?

2006-01-05 Thread karlp
quote who=Barry Brevik This is Universe 9.6.1.3 on Windows 2000. I have a type 19 file (in other words, a subdirectory) that looks like this in the VOC: 001.. F 002.. SCRATCH 003.. D_SCRATCH I use this to create temp files and other administrative type files which usually get deleted

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