RE: [UDT] Use of PCPERFORM and the PHANTOM command

2004-03-22 Thread Ken Wallis
Timothy Snyder wrote: >Graham, David wrote: > > >> I have a UniBasic program that executes the following line of code: >> >> PCPERFORM "cd \folder\folder\U2Account; udt PHANTOM ProgramName" > >> the process that executed the PCPERFORM command will wait until >> "ProgramName" has completed and *then

[UD] RFS and SAN storage

2004-03-23 Thread Ken Wallis
Although there aren't many people here who make use of UniData's RFS facility, I know there are a few. I'm hoping that one or two of those might have some experience (good or bad) of setting up RFS files which are physically located on a SAN rather than on local disk. A client of mine is has a po

RE: Optimisation ?

2004-03-25 Thread Ken Wallis
>> -Original Message- >> Behalf Of Jonathan Leckie >> I have the following piece of code : >> >> IF REC<1> £ '' THEN >> MAX=DCOUNT(REC<1>,VM) >> FOR LOP=1 TO MAX >> IF REC<1,LOP> = '' THEN >> REC=DELETE(REC,1,LOP,0) >> IF LOP = MAX THEN GO 300 >> LOP=LOP-1 >>

RE: UV on W2K3 - trying to add to path

2004-03-25 Thread Ken Wallis
Sara Burns wrote: > I have checked this at home where I have a Universe (9.5.1) > version on NT4. > I do not see the same behaviour. The path that I have > created for System is > also shown in my DOS shell from UniVerse. Is this a change > with W2K3? I am > only trying to add the path to the U

RE: Optimization ?

2004-03-25 Thread Ken Wallis
Glenn wrote: > I would think the TRIM would be the easiest and fastest way: > > PETE="THIS}IS }}}A TEST}}}" > CRT TRIM (PETE, @VM, "R") > > which would remove all redundant @VM marks. Someone > suggested this earlier but I saw no comment to it. I don't have a system to test this on, but what if

RE: (no subject)

2004-04-01 Thread Ken Wallis
Steve Mayo wrote: > I am trying to put together a demo application using > UniObject for Java. I > would like to be able to create a statement that selects > names that start > with "SMI". In Unibasic I would use the following statement: > > SELECT UBFMSTR WITH LAST.NAME = "SMI]" > > The Java sta

RE: Running total

2004-04-01 Thread Ken Wallis
jak wrote: > Thanks, but i was after something like > an itemised list for each mv entry > such as > > Field mv1 1 > mv2 2 > mv3 3 > > Field mv1 1 > mv2 2 > etc Have you tried @NV? On UniData I usually use a dictionary item like: MVCNT: V MVFIELD; @NV M

RE: Makeudt

2004-04-06 Thread Ken Wallis
Dirk Bartley wrote: >Found out from some googling around that I needed the elf libraries. >That got me to the ndbm issue. What other libraries did you discover >were required?? Is the gdbm library a correct replacement for the ndbm >library?? The other library I am stuck on is when compiling ic

RE: Objectcall headache...

2004-04-08 Thread Ken Wallis
> Client upgraded UD to 6.0.3 on an AIX 4.31 box. Try as I > may, I can no > longer get an Objectcall connection to that server. Well, IBM end-of-lifed ObjectCall a while ago, but I still think they ship it. IBM also end-of-lifed AIX 4.3 mid last year IIRC. Having just checked the availability

RE: Objectcall headache...

2004-04-10 Thread Ken Wallis
David Jordan wrote: > It is a while since I used objectcall, but as far as I remember > UniObjects has all the functionality and more that objectcall and is a > lot simpilar. You should be able to convert the application to > UniObjects reasonably quickly, unless it is done by some third party,

RE: Objectcall headache...

2004-04-13 Thread Ken Wallis
ng interface for UO or UOJ. Those are based on UCI AFAIK. There is no UNIX client piece for UCI that I know of. Last time I looked, InterCall did not seem to plug into UCI at all. Cheers, Ken >Ken Wallis wrote: > >I could be way off here, but I strongly suspect that ObjectCall has on

RE: Objectcall headache...

2004-04-13 Thread Ken Wallis
Hona, David S wrote: >Well, we've been using UCI on Solaris and HP-UX for a number >of years, so it is definitively available. Sorry David, can you just confirm that for me? You have client 'C' or other language programs running on Solaris and HP-UX which use UCI as the API which allows them to

RE: Objectcall headache...

2004-04-13 Thread Ken Wallis
Hona, David S wrote: >Yes, I can confirm - we have two "live" client 'C' >applications on Solaris >and HP-UX servers - utilising the IBM UniCall Interface (UCI) >library, to >interface to another Solaris host server (where the UV DBMS resides). > >The interface works quite well, albeit with a coup

RE: Unidata 6.0 upgrade from 5.7

2004-04-14 Thread Ken Wallis
Frank Bright wrote: > What are you plans? Do you plan to do an upgrade or > concurrent install? We do concurrent installs and switch the > pointers in our accounts to point to the new install. In the > past we have had global routines that needed to be pointed to > and test with the new account

[UD] Known ODBC Linux or 6.0 issues?

2004-04-21 Thread Ken Wallis
Sorry to have to throw this out without fully researching it first, but I've got a client with a pressing problem. They are in the final stages of preparing to switch over from their current DG-UX Intel platform running UniData 5.2 to a new Linux based system running 6.0 and ODBC doesn't appear to

RE: [UD] Known ODBC Linux or 6.0 issues?

2004-04-21 Thread Ken Wallis
Wol wrote: > I think at least one of the points was "does it rely on environment > variables or stuff set up by LOGIN?" It appears that ODBC has a > different login setup to a normal user - maybe even that UD needs a > correct $PATH to find the executable for SUBR? I dunno. Or do the > SUBRoutines

RE: [UD] Known ODBC Linux or 6.0 issues?

2004-04-22 Thread Ken Wallis
Dawn M. Wolthuis wrote: > I think someone posted the name of the voc entry required if you want > to do something at the time of an ODBC login, such as initializing > named common memory. Otherwise, I suspect it is in the doc somewhere > (sorry I don't have more details). Check the voc on your p

RE: NT files on Unidata

2004-04-28 Thread Ken Wallis
Eugene Perry wrote: >How does one open files in the NT file system on Unidata? Carefully? ;^) Seriously though: if you simply want to look at flat text files in a windows folder then you can set up a DIR pointer in the VOC which references the path to the folder and then just OPEN that VOC point

RE: Timestamp

2004-04-28 Thread Ken Wallis
Bill H wrote: >For those not familiar: > >SYSTEM(19) on D3: >Returns a unique item-id consisting of the current system date >in internal >format, followed immediately by the current system time in >seconds. If more >than one item-id is generated in a second, an alpha character >is appended to the

RE: UniVerse Personal Edition Telnet Service

2004-04-28 Thread Ken Wallis
Glenn W. Paschal wrote: > I am getting the following errors trying to start the Telnet Service. > UniVerse error: Unable to bind socket to telnet port 23. > It may be used > by other application. WSA error: 10038. > UniVerse error: Unable to bind socket to uvrpc port. WSA > error: 10038. >

RE: UniVerse Personal Edition Telnet Service

2004-04-29 Thread Ken Wallis
Glenn wrote: > Thanks for your help. Cool product... But confirmed my fear. > Nothing had port 23. As I was working on this, I also found a slew of > other serious problems regarding my network config... IE. Spooler not functioning, > network browsing not functioning, mapped drives not > functi

RE: [UD] Union Query

2004-05-01 Thread Ken Wallis
Gordon J. Glorfield wrote: > In that case, I'm sorry to say, there is no way to logically > do what you're asking with UD. Gordon, you should now better! ;^) sql> SELECT NAME ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP FROM ORDER_FILE UNION SELECT NAME ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP FROM ORDER_FILE_OTHER; All you need here

RE: [ADMIN] Why multiple digests, and a lecture on Netetiquette

2004-02-04 Thread Ken Wallis
John Cassidy wrote: >Bits? You had Bits? All we had were 1's. Unary. >And we were darn glad to have 'em. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/4/04 11:27:09 AM >>Back in my day, bits were smaller. We only had 0.5 and 1. There are 10 types of people who understand binary code: those who do & those who don't -

RE: EVAL and LIKE

2004-02-05 Thread Ken Wallis
on Thursday, February 05, 2004 12:16 PM Kevin Michaelsen wrote:: >I inserted your suggestion in line 9 This time I include >my full paragraph and the error message that comes up is a syntax >error. [snip] >009: TOTAL (INDEX(H.CS.ADM.EST.NEED ,'*',1) OR INDEX(H.CS.ADM.EST.NEED ,'Incomplete',1)) \

RE: UV command failing mystery

2004-02-08 Thread Ken Wallis
>From: Vance Dailey >It was suggested that I try to run dg_strace. I ran it on one >of the failing >uv processes. It generated a 1mb file. I can see where it >executes "uvsh" >and It fails just after the 7th occurance of "RUN APP.PROGS >PACKAGE.INS". >(The 7th run is just after the string >"SPECIA

RE: 2 gig limits

2004-02-10 Thread Ken Wallis
>From: Horn, John >> From: Dan Fitzgerald >> Or you can use dynamic >> files (although at the most - with a lot of luck - this gives >> you 4Gb), >What makes you say this? We have some dynamic files that are well >over 10-15 gig. They have multiple dat files that are all well >under the 2 gig

RE: VSG Invalid procedure call SCHEMA_ATTRIBUTE_MAP

2004-02-18 Thread Ken Wallis
on [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:: > I am using Visual Schema Generator to SQLize some UniData > files [snip] > I am getting the > message "Died in UCI::SQLExecDirect() with SQLSTATE S1001, Native > error:0 [IBM][SQL Client][UNIDATA] Invalid procedure call: > SCHEMA_ATTRIBUTE_MAP". Does anyone know

RE: Unidata, Monitoring system parameters

2004-02-18 Thread Ken Wallis
James Hogan wrote: >> From time to time we have customers who break a Unidata > parameter and the > program they are running will crash with errors such as "No > more entries in > MI table in 'LCT -n'". [snip] > I have had a look at the commands "sms", "gstt" and "lstt". > With some clever > scr

RE: The aforementioned and promised NAG about OVERQUOTING

2004-02-19 Thread Ken Wallis
on Thursday, February 19, 2004 5:38 AM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, Ray has spoken, so I guess that makes it gospel. Top posting is > "wrong-posting", and only newbies who don't know any better do it. I think Charlie is write to point out that dogmatism on any matter is usually wrong. Ray

RE: Help required on SEARCH

2004-02-25 Thread Ken Wallis
>Richard Sammartino wrote: >This could be happening because a record that esearch is >reading exceeds >the maximum record size that can be read in unidata. I get a similiar >error when AE tries to edit a record that exceeds it allocated >size. This parameter can be increased if needed. Yes, but

RE: UniVerse on NT vs *nix

2004-03-08 Thread Ken Wallis
Sara Burns wrote: >I am under considerable pressure to convert from UniVerse on >AIX to UniVerse on Windows 2003. > >We have licenses for 320 users and do get up to this number at times >although 300 is more normal. Sara, Perhaps you need to go to those applying the pressure with a confident air