uv System Administration manual chapter Adding Commands to the VOC File
says for 'V' entries that field 4
K - Keep select list
S - Uses select list
Of course it doesn't bother with tiny details like wich behavioiur is
default
or what effect these settings have when the program isn't f
Hi Wally!
Well here in Denmark we have had some outstanding good response from IBM
regarding maintenance renewal
our IBM contact person has really made a terrific job in following up on all
issues. :-)
now go see a doctor to patch up the hole in the foot :-)))
best regards from sunny fro
There should be some SYSTEM() functions to prevent read/write from altering
special chars in the record
if im remembering right its SYSTEM(1017)
best regards from Denmark
Claus Derlien
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Instead of CLEARSELECT you could use CS it does the same,
this works on my system universe 9.5.1
and it looks like this :
01 ED VOC CS
4 lines long.
: p
0001: V
0002: CS
0003: I
0004: BG
best regards from Denmark
Claus Derlien
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From: Barry Brevik [mailto:[EMAIL P
Hi,
I have written a program which run as a Phantom.
PROGRAM TEST
CONDITION = 0
LOOP
UNTIL CONDITION DO
READ R.RECORD FROM F.FILE, ID.RECORD ELSE NULL
LOOP
UNTIL R.RECORD<1> = '' DO
DEL R.RECORD<1>
REPEAT
SLEEP 60
<>
REPEAT
Then I will run it as
EXECUTE TEST
Sometimes, the process does nothing.
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 / basic to tell me the
What I'd do ...
This is UV, but I got the impression that UD might well work the same
way ...
A lot of our printers, rather than saying "AT DEVICE" in the SETPTR
statement, say "AT \\windows\sharename". So each printer is set up on
the local pc to which it is attached, and the UV server knows not
Do you need to modify a document created by someone else? Or can you
just spit out a Word document from UV?
Some of our report programs generate rtf documents from scratch. It can
be fun getting the format right (we make extensive use of tables to put
stuff in the right place), and Word is not the
Wade,
You ARE opening the file, right?
Are there any entries in the errlog file?
When you say 'check the process at universe level', how are you checking it.
Is there ever case where any response is required by the program? Any
conditional DEBUG statements?
john
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From:
Not to mention the infidel CLEAR statement that does the same thing, hides
errors.
I believe the practice of variable assignment at the top is a practice
brought over from other languages where all variables apparently need to be
defined up front with DIM statements and variable types. I support s
Firstly, I assume that ID.RECORD is assigned somewhere.
Secondly, do you have errlog enabled? If so, take a look in there for any
UV errors that might have terminated your process.
Martin Phillips
Ladybridge Systems
17b Coldstream Lane, Hardingstone, Northampton NN4 6DB
+44-(0)1604-709200
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> From experience (including from this thread) I'd say that the list is
> not kept unless there is a K.
Absolutely right! The definition is that termination of a command clears
any default select list unless the K processor mode is set in the VOC
record. Many years ago, I wrote a command whose
Barry,
Give me a call at the office tomorrow - we may be able to help
02 4953 8050
Ross Ferris
Stamina Software
Visage – an Evolution in Software Development
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>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
>Behalf Of Barry Brooks
>Sent: Thursday, 4 March 2004 3
On our UV 10.0.8 on a Sun box there is no "L" VOC entry. "LD" is someones
shortcut to LIST DICT.
Gordon J. Glorfield
Sr. Applications Developer
MAMSI (A UnitedHealth Company)
301-360-8839
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Behalf Of Barry Brevik
Se
Stuart,
Is your interest more in "Web Services", or "Eclipse/Java" ?
If the former, there may be other ways to achieve your goals - I suppose it then also
depends on whether you are looking at simply consuming a web service, or publishing one
FWIW, Viságe 6.50 will have a facility to enable you
Can one ask what you would actually DO with the word document once you have made your
substitutions ? Print ? Fax ? Email ?
We tackled this from the other end, and use Automation to drive word for production of
standard forms. If this is perhaps of interest you can download an eval from our
web
> Incidentally (Sorry Chuck, I'm at it again), I have come
> across one user who thought CS was a shortform for
> CLEARSELECT and reported it as a bug that it cleared the screen.
I always thought CS meant "Chuck Stevenson"
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The default behavior will be that upon completion of the command, ie
incorrect syntax, correct working, etc, any active SELECT list will be
cleared. The 'K' entry in field 4 overrides that so that when the command
exits any active SELECT will NOT be cleared. This behavior is strictly
flavor d
I have used a package called Demand Solutions www.demandsolutions.com with Epicor
Dataflo. You initially export 30 months of sales history and then each month export
the newest month and the oldest rolls off. The software generates a forecast which
you can import back into the MPS/MRP system.
Does anyone know if there is an interface driver for Pick into Clarion, or
if anyone has written such an interface?
I have a client trying to use the Clarion ASP for web interface into a Pick
database.
Your help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Glenn W. Paschal
PasTech LLC
Computer Consulting
ph. (931
We use Demand Solutions as well. It works great with our stock packaging division,
not so great with our custom packaging division. The main reason for this is short
life-cycle products in our custom packaging division. Extremely short life-cycles
mean little historical data to forecast futur
3 keystrokes... Q [Enter] [Enter]
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From: Tony Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 12:08 AM
To: U2 Users Discussion List
Subject: Re: [UV] Ever wondered how something works...
> By the way, the fastest way to get rid of an unwanted Select list (
We also use Demand Solutions with Epicor's Dataflo product.
Steve
We are looking for a 'standalone' Sales Forecasting System including
demand forecasting techniques and preferably
using a MV database. Or alternately a Sales Forecasting System that can
be integrated sensibly into a MV applicat
>The simplest method to open a pdf is to write the pdf to a server then send
>the URI of the pdf to the emulator via an escape sequence. For example, to
>open a pdf in your browser using ftp using Netterm: CRT
>CHAR(27):'[]ftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/invoice12345.pdf':CHAR(27):'[0*'
note that i
Yes, but "Q" will subsequently log you off the system in UV, even if at
the select list
-Dianne
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3 keystrokes... Q [Enter] [Enter]
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From: Tony Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 12:08 AM
To: U2 Users Discussion List
Su
Wol,
Thanks for the idea. Looks promising but we're on a Unix server. Is there a
way to refer to the local printers across operating systems? My SETPTR
documentation refers to mode 2 and the DEVICE setting as sending output to
the Unix special file. Can the shared printer be defined as a unix spec
John,
Thanks for your mail. Here is my response.
You ARE opening the file, right?
Yes, I do.
Are there any entries in the errlog file?
When you say 'check the process at universe level', how are you checking it.
There was no errors in the uv errorlog. I check the process using
PORT.STATUS comma
On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 09:38, uniVerse mailing list wrote:
> We currently use sbclient to do something similar, but keep ending up
> with a dos prompt on the screen whilst the program (such as a
> webbrowser) is being run - most annoying.
> Andy
you could try using "start ftp://username:[EMAIL PROT
Good Afternoon.
We are moving part of our application to Informix(From
Unidata). I need to convert some of the data Fields to
8 bite Integers through a UniBasic program and write
it to a flat file. Having problem converting data to 8
Bite Integers. Any suggestions would be highly
appreciated.
Che
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
Proving yet once again, your actual VOC file entries may vary - greatly!
Hence, why it's always important to periodically check out your VOC file,
or MD, and find out (& understand) what actually is in there, and why.
Customizations, or legacy leftovers, may no longer work if the account,
or appl
On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 10:53, Dana Baron wrote:
> Thanks for the idea. Looks promising but we're on a Unix server.
> Is there a way to refer to the local printers across operating
> systems? My SETPTR documentation refers to mode 2 and the DEVICE
> setting as sending output to the Unix special file.
Hi Fawaz,
Is this what you are looking for?
SEQ function
Syntax
SEQ (expression)
Description
Use the SEQ function to convert an ASCII character to its numeric string
equivalent. Expression evaluates to the ASCII character to be converted.
If expression
evaluates to the null value, null is retu
Universe 10.0.10
>ED VOC VVOC
4 lines long.
: P
0001: V
0002: vvoc
0003: E
0004: G
Bottom at line 4.
: Q
>
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From: Scott Richardson [mailto:[E
Hi David,
Thanks for the info. May be I didn't explain my
problem correctly. I have a Unidata numeric field
(Amount- 100.00 or -100.00) and I need to convert it
to a 8 Bite integer so that Informix will recognise
it.
Cheers
Fawaz
--- "Logan, David (SST - Adelaide)" <> wrote:
> Hi Fawaz,
>
> Is
INT( AMOUNT ) ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Fawaz Ashraff
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 2:43 PM
To: U2 Users Discussion List
Subject: RE: [UD] 8 Bite Integers
Hi David,
Thanks for the info. May be I didn't explain my
problem correctly.
If the number's an integer, how about using
HEX.STRING = DTX(var)
to get a hexadecimal equivalent of the number in question. Fill on the left
with zeros to 16 characters (8 bytes worth). Then, pick off hex characters,
2 at a time (1 byte), then do:
INFORMIX.CHAR = CHAR(XTD(thi
Hi Fawaz,
It really shouldn't matter. You should be able to write the data out to
the flatfile and have it appear "100.00" or "-100.00" and the load
programs (onpload, High Performance Loader etc.) will just convert
according to the schema that you have defined for that table.
Can you give an exa
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 use a web browser (suc
The windows desktops could use AccuTerm - Internet Edition, that runs from a browser
link BUT it is an ActiveX control, so no good for Linux.
Have you tried a GOOGLE looking for Linux TE's
Ross Ferris
Stamina Software
Visage – an Evolution in Software Development
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Look at the basic manual for !GETPU. It gives you access to every field that
SETPTR sets.
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I have just started the search and I figured that this group was the best
place to start. I am hoping to find a pioneer without too many arrows in
their back that could steer me to a workable solution. Another option I have
considered is to find a Windows solution that runs under Wine. Thanks for
t
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 13:53:31 +1100 , David Hona wrote:
>PERFORM prompt (TCL). I believe field 3 "PR" indicated a PRIMOS command
>under PI.
Actually, if I remember correctly, the "PR" was short for PRIMITIVE.
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maybe
SUBROUTINE( LONGID, USER )
LSCMD = 'ls -lt /uvwork/spool | grep USER
SHCMD = 'sh -c ':QUOTE(LSCMD)
EXECUTE SHCMD CAPTURING STUFF
LONGID = TRIM( STUFF< 1,1 > )
LONGID = FIELD( LONGID , ' ' , DCOUNT( LONGID ,' ' )
Vance:
I can't find the info just now, but I have seen a java implementation of a terminal
emulator that runs in a browser. It should pop up in Google rather readily.
Jim
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Sent: Thursday
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
doh!
LSCMD = 'ls -lt /uvwork/spool | grep ':USER
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Peter Olson
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 4:19 PM
To: 'U2 Users Discussion List'
Subject: RE: [UV] Re: SPOOLER NUMBER
maybe
SUBROUTINE( LONGID, USER )
Hi Glenn,
>Does anyone know if there is an interface driver for Pick into Clarion, or
>if anyone has written such an interface?
you could use ODBC (erk) but I believe that sockets will be the simplest
answer.
Depending on the version of Clarion you may have to buy sockets libraries
(see www.capes
Fawaz,
>I have a Unidata numeric field
>(Amount- 100.00 or -100.00) and I need to convert it
>to a 8 Bite integer so that Informix will recognise
>it.
Do you mean 8bit or 8byte?
For an 8 bit integer you need to output CHAR(n) where n is a number between
0 and 255.
For an 8 byte (64 bit) integer
Wade
Without seeing all the code it can be difficult, but anything which prompts
for an unexpected INPUT in a PHANTOM will be canned. If you have a
conditional DEBUG then if the DEBUG executes then the PHANTOM will can
itself.
Take it out and try again - put in some traces as well if you need to
>-Original Message-
>>Does anyone know if there is an interface driver for Pick
>into Clarion, or if anyone has written such an interface?
>From: Craig Bennett
>Hi Glenn,
>you could use ODBC (erk) but I believe that sockets will be
>the simplest answer. Depending on the version of Clario
One of our users decided to run a report this morning at 9:30 and it still running.
They lost the connection to the server, the process id is still out there and we
are unable to kill it. We tried the DELETUSER PID command and it did not go away.
The process is using 200 megs of memory.
We ar
Hi All,
Thanks for the input. It looks like Craig's suggestion
would work for me. We have to test whether this will
work with negative numbers.
Once again, thanks!
Cheers
Fawaz
--- Craig Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Fawaz,
>
> >I have a Unidata numeric field
> >(Amount- 100.00 or -100.
On Win32 you generaly have to "kill" the process from a DOS command line and
"LOGOFF" the user (by PID) from within universe
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From: Dave S [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 3:55 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How to safely kill a runaway unidata
Ideally the solution will work on both Windows and Linux desktops given that
some desktops will likely have to remain Windows based
Have a look at http://javatelnet.org/ can be run as an applet or an
application
Cheers,
Cam Booth
Disclaimer Notice
This message contains privileged and confi
> Is your interest more in "Web Services", or "Eclipse/Java" ?
Hi Ross,
I'm interested in all of the above but in the case of Eclipse, just the IDE.
It's very cool, have you seen it? It should be simple to create a plug-in
for it for U2.
For those who aren't familiar with Eclipse (www.eclipse.org
Stuart,
I saw an IBM presentation on Eclipse in 2002 and thought the same as you.
Trouble is I am not a Java programmer and my prefferred editor is vi (which
I wouldn't change for all the good things in the far off place).
But as a platform for U2 tools, I can't think of a better spot than open
s
Fawaz,
>We have to test whether this will work with negative numbers.
You need to find out how informix expects you to represent a negative
number. Most likely 2s complement.
For two's complement negatives, you need to invert the bit pattern and add
1. I think this will work ...
MAKE8BYTE:
Hi Fawaz,
I must admit to being a little curious as to how the data is being
loaded into informix. Which server are you using? Is this Dynamic
Server?
Regards
David Logan
Database Administrator
HP Managed Services
139 Frome Street,
Adelaide 5000
Australia
+61 8 8408 4273
+61 417 268 665
Dear All,
The patch Wally supplied runs the systest program during udtinstall
and from our testing thus far all is well.
Wally, thank you for such prompt service.
Regards,
Adrian
Auckland, NZ
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Try searching for software under the heading of "Fashion Inventory" which is a demand
forecasting system. IBM spent great gobs of money devising such a system for
department stores eons ago when I worked for them as a systems engineer.
Patrick
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From: [EMAIL PROT
Stuart,
I haven't looked at Eclipse for a while (don't tell Dawn I know how to spell cofe :-)
Maybe I should revisit to see if there are any nice "things" that we should
incorporate into Viságe (which is already a cool development environment for U2)
At one stage we had a nice schema generator
Ross,
[Warning: Let the flames begin] I don't see UML as a step that has
value. There are many ways to shape a project that reflect practical
considerations. My experience of UML is that it is a method for
separating projects from common sense and practical results.
- Charles "Rational R
Hello,
At 08:44 AM 5/03/2004, Craig Bennett wrote:
LOWESTBYTE = BITAND(ININT, 255)
ININT = INT(ININT/256)
When trying to implement hash algorithms i noticed values > 32 bits do not
work properly with some of the basic functions in unidata and i think
universe. Defi
> >ftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/invoice12345.pdf
>
> note that if they have the latest patch from Microsoft installed,
> then this solution *may* not work as it breaks the internet
> standard of ftp://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> However, the principle is sound. You could work round this by
> point
>> LOWESTBYTE = BITAND(ININT, 255)
>>
>> ININT = INT(ININT/256)
>When trying to implement hash algorithms i noticed values > 32 bits do not
>work properly with some of the basic functions in unidata and i think
>universe. Definitely MOD() and i think BITAND() had problems
Chuck,
Whilst on 1 hand I tend to agree, I think that anything that aids in the visualization
of a process is useful.
I've read history books that talk about an archaic art form called "flowcharting",
though I believe the practitioners are all but extinct, even though they were prolific.
UML i
Posted for Sara, who was having email problems.
Subject: TIME.MILLISECOND
>
> I got it wrong. As I am on leave today I have not had the chance to read
> the digest from yesterday.
> Further investigation has shown that I reached the wrong conclusion due
> directly to my inability to type correctly
In a universe database I have a file Customers.
In an Access database I have some of the fields of that same file as well, populated
from the source universe file via a flat file transport and import.
Now however I need to just update those rows that have changed.
So in Universe I already have a
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>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Maybe one of you has a trivial example of updating a row
>in a VB macro? All the examples I can find are doing it
>using a macro EXTERNAL to the database, when the one I'm
>using is run from inside the project... did t
> In a universe database I have a file Customers.
> In an Access database I have some of the fields of that same file
> as well, populated from the source universe file via a flat file
> transport and import.
Have you not got ODBC available?
> Now however I need to just update those rows that hav
It works great, thanks Stuart!
I run the UNC path (\\server\catalog\file) and that worked as a charm as a
URL.
/Björn
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At 12:58 PM 5/03/2004, you wrote:
That is because UV (and I presumed UD) work on two's complement integers, so
the top bit flips you between a positive and a negative integer. This is why
I work the algorithm with 8 bit blocks, so that bit 1 in the 32 bit integer
is never 1 and so BITAND works as e
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