Hi Curt,
We have migrated the software on a number of systems from mvBase to Universe
running on both Windows and Linux.
The good news is that the Pick-flavored account on Universe is very close to
mvBase.
Also good news is that Universe has two file types - type 1 and type 19 -
that are both directory-type files: ie. the Universe file is a Linux
directory/Windows folder and each item in the Universe file is a
Linux/Windows file in that directory/folder.
When a record is written to the Universe file, all the Attr. marks are
converted to CRLF sequences and then converted back when it is read by
Universe, so the records can even be edited with Notepad from ouside
Universe if you wish.
This means that you can strip out all the U-statements in mvBase code,
define your OS-level file as a type 19 file in Universe (supports long file
name compared with the type 1 file) and OPEN, READ, WRITE, etc. directly
to/from it just like you do with any other Universe file.
In our EDI translator, we use the U-statements in mvBase extensively in
reading/writing EDI documents to/from the database to OS-level files for
automatic transfer to/from other computers and all the U-statements have
been stripped out and replaced with normal OPEN, READ, WRITE statements
to/from type 19 files in the Universe version of the product.
The only significant difference between mvBase (and all other generic Pick
databases for that matter) and Universe is that Universe does not support
the generic Pick print spooler for assigning user print output to a queue
and assigning a printer to the same queue to enable the printing of the
print job to the printer, and all the other features of holding and spooling
print jobs to selected printers.
None of the generic Pick print spooler commands are available to perform
those functions - eg STARTSPOOLER, STARTPTR, SP-ASSIGN, LISTPEQS, SP-EDIT,
etc.
So all embedded SP-ASSIGN commands have to be converted to SETPTR commands,
new print procedures have to be developed and all users have to be retrained
in using a much less robust print architecture than they're used to using.
<AD> To bridge this gap in functionality, we developed SpoolerPlus, a
generic Pick print spooler, that runs on Universe, Unidata and QM, to
provide the generic Pick print spooler commands and functionality built into
software migrated from generic Pick databases.
I will be pleased to send you some infomation about SpoolerPlus if you
wish.</AD>.
Also, please feel free to ask any specific questions about minor differences
between mvBase and Universe and I'll be glad to answer them if I can.
Best wishes for a successful conversion,
Dave
Dave Taylor
Sysmark Information Systems, Inc.
Authorized IBM Business Partner
49 Aspen Way
Rolling Hills Estates, CA 90274
(O) 800-SYSMARK (800-797-6275)
(F) 310-377-3550
(C) 310-561-5200
www.sysmarkinfo.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Curt Stewart" <cstewa...@earthlink.net>
To: <u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 2:43 PM
Subject: [U2] Converting from mvBase to Universe
I have a client that is considering moving from an mvBase system to a
Universe (Windows) system. A lot of their processes are tied to specific
ports and ranges. Is there an easy solution in Universe to "nail" the
telnet ports for the users?
Also, they use UREAD and UWRITE and take advantage of the MVClients
ability
to read and write to the local workstation, instead of the server when not
using MVClient. I haven't heard of this separation being available in
Universe, other than using something like Accuterm, am I right? Or is
there
an easy way to distinguish between writing to the local drive vs. the
server? How has others handled this conversion issue? Right now we're
planning on assigning each user a directory on the server to write to,
does
anyone have any alternate ideas?
Thanks for the help, I appreciate hearing your solutions.
Thanks,
Curt
TRI-SYS Consulting
u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
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