RE: Membership Program

2004-01-29 Thread Stuart Boydell
ebase, http://www.ebase.org there's a free download for small membership registries. It's on filemaker pro. The download is a runtime version but it's still free and mod-able if you procure a copy of filemaker pro. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Membership Program

2004-01-29 Thread George Efstathiou
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/u2/universe/   -Original Message- From: Mark Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 7:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Membership Program   Does anyone know of a club membership accounting package that's w

RE: Help with UniObjects

2004-01-29 Thread Les Hewkin
Are you connecting each time you access the universe database? Sounds a bit of over kill, why not just reuse the connection? We came across a feature that caused us some headaches, after you use a method you MUST check for errors, if you don't things don't work. Les -Original Message- Fr

RE: Membership Program

2004-01-29 Thread Laursen, Mark
What type of Club?   Thanks Mark Laursen Marriott Vacation Club International (863) 688-7700 Ext. 4339 [EMAIL PROTECTED] This communication contains information from Marriott International, Inc. that may be confidential. Except for personal use by the intended recipient or as exp

[ot] Peoplesoft migrates to Ascential

2004-01-29 Thread Anthony Youngman
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/35207.html Bit off-topic I know, but I think the original post belongs on u2-users, especially as it may well be the (ex)Universe engine underneath ... Cheers, Wol *** This t

Re: Membership Program

2004-01-29 Thread Mark Johnson
Sort of a country club for pilots. I don't understand its purpose either but it's tied to an aviation trade association. - Original Message - From: Laursen, Mark To: 'U2 Users Discussion List' Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 7:12 AM Subject: RE: Membership Program

RE: SAMBA and VPN

2004-01-29 Thread Steve Moore
LMHOSTS and HOSTS are located in \winnt\system32\drivers\etc. Also, you might try using the actual IP address instead of the UNC name. Thats what works for me thru a CISCO VPN to our NT network from my home. The hosts that I connect to frequently I place in the LMHOSTS file and the others I con

Re: [ot] Peoplesoft migrates to Ascential

2004-01-29 Thread David T. Meeks
At 12:57 PM 1/29/2004 +, you wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/35207.html Bit off-topic I know, but I think the original post belongs on u2-users, especially as it may well be the (ex)Universe engine underneath ... Yep...  That would be the case... Dave

RE: [ot] Peoplesoft migrates to Ascential

2004-01-29 Thread Dawn M. Wolthuis
Thanks for passing that along. Is Ascential a Universe customer of IBM's or did they end up taking Universe and changing it so that they are yet another flavor of 'PICK' (not yet on my MultiValue Family Tree diagram)? If so, is it now called something other than Universe? Thanks. --dawn Dawn M

RE: [ot] Peoplesoft migrates to Ascential

2004-01-29 Thread Anthony Youngman
Ascential is what's left of Informix after they sold the database business to IBM ... They hung on to VMark's UV-based data warehousing business. Cheers, Wol -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dawn M. Wolthuis Sent: 29 January 2004 14:31 To

RE: [ot] Peoplesoft migrates to Ascential

2004-01-29 Thread Donald Kibbey
It's DataStage, which is a customized version of UniVerse. Some of the original UniVerse developers went with the company after it was created from the remants of Informix/Vmark/Ardent/?? to go after the data "cleansing" data loading market. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/29/04 09:30AM >>> Thanks for

RE: [ot] Peoplesoft migrates to Ascential

2004-01-29 Thread David T. Meeks
Actually, to be more accurate, Ascential is basically Ardent, but concentrated on the DataStage product. IBM got all of the database business (including UV), but pretty much all of what used to be VMark is who works for/runs Ascential.  There is almost NOTHING related to Informix left within th

Re: Help with UniObjects

2004-01-29 Thread Bryan Thorell
Try checking the .error property on your file object. UmFooFoo Murphy wrote: Hello List. I'm hoping that someone out there can help me. I have an application in Visual Basic that uses UniObjects. There is a text box that prompts for a record id. In the lost focus event of the record id's t

RE: [ot] Peoplesoft migrates to Ascential

2004-01-29 Thread David T. Meeks
Ascential is basically VMark/Ardent.  Almost all of the engineering, sales, support staff that were responsible for Universe up until UV Rel 9.6 work for Ascential (myself and Glenn being two you've come to know over the years) When the split occurred, IBM retained the rights to sell/develop th

Re: [UV] Scope of ASSIGN 1 TO SYSTEM(1017) : Prevents translation of "@FM" into "\n" (newline) when "WRITE" to Type 1/19 files

2004-01-29 Thread Herve Balestrieri
Craig and "U2 Users" list, Thank you for your precise questions (See below the copy of a previous private e-mail). For the "U2 Users" list, here is the detailed description of GTAR #25455 you quoted to tentatively describe what is the purpose of the internal value for "ASSIGN value TO SYSTEM(1017

RE: Using CALLHTTP with a Secure site

2004-01-29 Thread Laursen, Mark
Simon; Thanks, adding the protocolLogging to the program has helped greatly. Thanks Mark Laursen Marriott Vacation Club International (863) 688-7700 Ext. 4339 [EMAIL PROTECTED] This communication contains information from Marriott International, Inc. that may be confidential. Except for p

RE: [ot] Peoplesoft migrates to Ascential

2004-01-29 Thread Dawn M. Wolthuis
I knew all of this except that I thought that DataStage still ran on Universe, not a modified clone of Universe. So, this does add to my MultiValue database picture another imbedded PICK engine in a product and gets the Ascential company into the MultiValue Family Tree picture (next time I update

[UV] Resize - Dynamic or 64 bit?

2004-01-29 Thread iggchamp
Hi all, UV 9.6 / HPUX 11 I have a hashed file approaching the 2 gig limit. I need some help determining whether to go with the dynamic or 64 bit option. Here are some specifics. The file is our inventory history file which is, as you can imagine, used heavily. Approximately 85 percent of th

Error on a Dismount Tape

2004-01-29 Thread Baruch Salamander
I'm running a successful backup which has been verified on an internal DAT 8 tape drive on an NT 4.0 server, but I'm getting an error right before the tape gets ejected which states "Eject Storage Media...Storage device "HP 1" reported an error on a request to dismount the media...Error reported: B

RE: [ot] Peoplesoft migrates to Ascential

2004-01-29 Thread Glenn W. Paschal
Title: Message So, in simplest terms, Peoplesoft is now an MV/UniVerse like product? (forgive my ignorance, as I have never worked with Peoplesoft.) --Glenn. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David T. MeeksSent: Thursday, Janu

UNCLASSIFIED RE: [UV] Resize - Dynamic or 64 bit?

2004-01-29 Thread HENDERSON MICHAEL MR
Dynamic files are no help in your situation, they are 2GB or 64-bit just like hashed files. You need either 64-bit or a DISTRIBUTED file. [I think this kind of file is called 'dynamic' in UniData, just to make things confusing!]. A distributed file divides the data into several portions based on

RE: [ot] Peoplesoft migrates to Ascential

2004-01-29 Thread Phil Walker
Title: Message No.   Peoplesoft used Informatica to import/export and move data around within their product suite, now they use DataStage, NOT Universe. The data is stored in Oracle or other RDBMS – DataStage with its underlying engine based on UniVerse of 1-2 years ago processes the da

RE: [ot] Peoplesoft migrates to Ascential

2004-01-29 Thread Dawn M. Wolthuis
Not quite -- it is still an Oracle-based ERP solution, but Peoplesoft customer could become end-users of DataStage, an ETL (extract-transform-load) product that has a Universe-like product at its core. So, Peoplesoft companies would be MultiValue end-users. Then when Oracle buys them ... Smiles.

RE: [ot] Peoplesoft migrates to Ascential

2004-01-29 Thread David T. Meeks
PeopleSoft is a company that has a full suite of products for industry vertical solutions, and includes things like Asset Mgmt, Customer Relationship Management, etc... Their two main products of interest for Ascential are EnterpriseOne and Enterprise Performance Management. They embed DataStage

UniVerse based software

2004-01-29 Thread Glenn W. Paschal
Does anyone know of a list of popular business software that is written on top of UniVerse or other MV based databases?  I often find that companies know what "brand" of software they have, but no idea of what it is written on.  A list like this would be helpful in searching out new business

Re: [ot] Peoplesoft migrates to Ascential

2004-01-29 Thread Results
In short, Peoplesoft is using mv technology because RDBMS isn't good at everything. It's a 'best of breed' approach, like the one David Jordon is promoting to IBM - where you use MV for agility and RDMBS for the more traditional parts.     - Charles Barouch     [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phil Walker w

RE: UNCLASSIFIED RE: [UV] Resize - Dynamic or 64 bit?

2004-01-29 Thread Gordon Glorfield
In UniData there is no such animal as a distributed file. You only have the choice of static hashed or dynamic hashed. Dynamic files in UD are how you get past the 2 gig limit because the UD implementation of dynamic files breaks the file into different pieces. How many pieces and what goes into

RE: UNCLASSIFIED RE: [UV] Resize - Dynamic or 64 bit?

2004-01-29 Thread iggchamp
A distributed file does have two parts on UV. The file is created at the unix level as a directory with files DATA.30 and OVER.30. I always thought that as long as neither the DATA.30 or OVER.30 exceeded 2gig, life was good. > In UniData there is no such animal as a distributed file. You only h

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RE: UNCLASSIFIED RE: [UV] Resize - Dynamic or 64 bit?

2004-01-29 Thread David T. Meeks
At 08:32 PM 1/29/2004 +, you wrote: A distributed file does have two parts on UV.  The file is created at the unix level as a directory with files DATA.30 and OVER.30.  I always thought that as long as neither the DATA.30 or OVER.30 exceeded 2gig, life was good. Actually, a DISTRIBUTED file

RE: UNCLASSIFIED RE: [UV] Resize - Dynamic or 64 bit?

2004-01-29 Thread iggchamp
Whoops! That's what I meant. So, am I right about the DATA.30 and OVER.30 exceeding the 2 gig limit? > ___ > u2-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ u2-u

RE: UniVerse based software

2004-01-29 Thread Wendy Smoak
Glenn W. Paschal wrote: > Does anyone know of a list of popular business software that > is written on top of UniVerse or other MV based databases? I > often find that companies know what "brand" of software they > have, but no idea of what it is written on. A list like this > would be helpfu

RE: UNCLASSIFIED RE: [UV] Resize - Dynamic or 64 bit?

2004-01-29 Thread Kee, Kerry
You are correct. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 3:45 PM To: U2 Users Discussion List Subject: RE: UNCLASSIFIED RE: [UV] Resize - Dynamic or 64 bit? Whoops! That's what I meant. So, am I right about the DATA.30 and OV

RE: UniVerse based software

2004-01-29 Thread Daly, Mark
The Spectrum web site has a "Solution Finder". Doesn't seem to be working at the moment. http://www.intl-spectrum.com Glenn W. Paschal wrote: > Does anyone know of a list of popular business software that > is written on top of UniVerse or other MV based databases? I > often find that companie

RE: UNCLASSIFIED RE: [UV] Resize - Dynamic or 64 bit?

2004-01-29 Thread HENDERSON MICHAEL MR
Scott Unless you have a 64-bit dynamic file, neither part can exceed 2GB. But relying on some of your data going into OVER.30 to avoid either part going over 2GB seems very dodgy to me, except perhaps as a short-term 'quick fix'. Inventory History presumably has a date as part of the record key,

RE: UNCLASSIFIED RE: [UV] Resize - Dynamic or 64 bit?

2004-01-29 Thread iggchamp
Thanks for that info Mike. > Scott > > Unless you have a 64-bit dynamic file, neither part can exceed 2GB. > But relying on some of your data going into OVER.30 to avoid either part > going over 2GB seems very dodgy to me, except perhaps as a short-term 'quick > fix'. > > Inventory History presum

Distributed & multipart files [as RE: [UV] Resize - Dynamic or 64 bit?]

2004-01-29 Thread Stuart Boydell
I have never come across distributed files in a system and they sound a lot like multiple part files (like SYS.HELP,XXX). What is the difference / advantages / disadvantages between using distributed files and multiple data-part files? Can a distributed file also be a multiple part file? Che

RE: Distributed & multipart files [as RE: [UV] Resize - Dynamic or 64 bit?]

2004-01-29 Thread Logan, David (SST - Adelaide)
Title: Message Hi Stuart,   One large advantage (from my perspective) is the ability to address the file as one large file or as an single part individually. The open statement in the program is the same, only the name changes.   The ability to put the parts on different file systems, balan

Re: Distributed & multipart files [as RE: [UV] Resize - Dynamic or64 bit?]

2004-01-29 Thread Mark Johnson
Title: Message Just curious. Are Distributed files handled by the OS or the programmer. One client of mine had 12 monthly files (2-3 million records each) and the software combined the data into work files for cross-month queries.   thanks. - Original Message - From: Logan, D

RE: Distributed & multipart files [as RE: [UV] Resize - Dynamicor64 bit?]

2004-01-29 Thread Logan, David (SST - Adelaide)
Title: Message AFAIK it is handled by Universe (not too sure about Unidata). The System Description manual describes it well. David Logan Database Administrator HP Managed Services 139 Frome Street, Adelaide 5000 Australia +61 8 8408 4273 +61 417 268 665 -Original Message-

[UV] TAB characters in ED

2004-01-29 Thread Craig Bennett
Title: RE: looking for faster Ideas... Hi All,   does anyone know if you can adjust how ED displays TAB characters? Specifically if I can adjust the display width of the tab character?   thanks,     Craig Bennett     ___ u2-users mailing list [EMAIL

RE: [UV] TAB characters in ED

2004-01-29 Thread Hona, David S
Craig, I believe this is a function of your terminal emulator. Some emulators let you set the tab character spacing, etc. Checkout the source code to UV line editor in the UV account, in the BP file - ED.B. Regards David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

RE: [UV] TAB characters in ED

2004-01-29 Thread Phil Walker
Modify ED.B do get it to do what you want if it cannot. It is only BASIC source code which I had the unfortunate task of porting from PI/OPEN. Cheers, Phil Walker +64 21 336294 [EMAIL PROTECTED] infocusp limited \\ PO Box 77032, Auckland New Zealand -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTEC

RE: [ot]how much does datastage and universe differ now

2004-01-29 Thread djordan
Title: Message Hi David   How much is the universe and datastage products differ.  The other area I have been quite interested in, is where I have an application that I want to extract data out of a Peoplsoft or SAP application could I use the products datastage uses to talk to these applic

RE: [ot] Peoplesoft migrates to Ascential

2004-01-29 Thread djordan
Hi Dawn The arguments we had with Ardent management on this. Ardent Management were saying that they don't know why anyone would buy a multivalue database, whilst on the other hand they were promoting Datastage a UniVerse product, as being one of the best Datawarehousing tools on the market. Fig

RE: [ot] Peoplesoft migrates to Ascential

2004-01-29 Thread Tony Gravagno
Ardent was right on both counts. Datastage can claim to be an excellent Data Warehousing tool, and people do flinch on buying a MV database. The two statements are not really at odds. Most people will claim to embrace the philosophy that VARs sell solutions, not databases, but in the sales and m

Univerase 9.5.1/NT talking to Sql/Server 2000

2004-01-29 Thread Mark Warner
I’ve search the postings on the list, and from what I’ve read this should be fairly simple, but for some reason I just can’t seem to get this to work.  I’ve set up the uvodbc.config entry and have set up a odbc in the control panel, but when I try and use the CONNECT verb to get connected t

UNCLASSIFIED RE: UniVerse 9.5.1/NT talking to SQL/Server 2000

2004-01-29 Thread HENDERSON MICHAEL MR
Mark,   1) 9.5.1 is really old!  All this stuff is much easier / better / runs faster in current releases     2) Are you trying to access SQL server from UniVerse, or UniVerse from SQL Server?       * UV from SQL server is fairly easy, all the information is in the ODBC manual, at least fro

RE: [ot]how much does datastage and universe differ now

2004-01-29 Thread dave . meeks
Title: RE: [ot]how much does datastage and universe differ now  Well, it's hard to say exactly how much they differ, as I'm not responsible for UV development any longer.   Consider, however, that the last release done by myself and the Westboro staff was UV 9.6.2.  This would also include