I'm not sure what you're asking, Jerry, but this may help.
The SP-ASSIGN commands differ in syntax between the generic Pick print
spooler and the Reality spooler, as follows:
Ex. (Pick® syntax): SP-ASSIGN (options) (copies) F(queuenumber),
R(printfilenumber)
Ex. (Reality® syntax): SP-ASSIGN = (queuename) (options) (copies)
<AD> SpoolerPlus® supports both of these forms of the SP-ASSIGN
command.</AD>
Universe has its own form of SP.ASSIGN (SP-ASSIGN works also) command, and
their syntax is slightly different for Universe/nix vs Universe/doz
platforms and is unlike both the generic Pick and Reality syntax above.
I don't know if there is a difference between the syntax of the Universe
SP-ASSIGN command in a Pick-flavor account vs in a Reality-flavor account on
the same operating system. There is no indication in the IBM documentation
of such difference based on the flavor of the account.
In Universe/nix: the documentation states "Use SP.ASSIGN to set the line
printer spooler options for each of the 256 logical print channels."
In Universes/doz: the documentation states "Use SP.ASSIGN to set the line
printer spooler options for Windows platform."
These differences are due to the fact that Universe/nix does have a spooler
that provides some ability to manage and control print jobs other than just
print them to the printer, where as Universe/doz has no spooler whatsoever
and prints directly to the doz printer, after which ofcourse you lose all
control over the print job from Universe.
In both cases, regardless of the platform, Universe prints to printers, not
to queues, and does not support the print architecture used in both Reality
and in other generic Pick databases (which afterall began with Reality) of
printing to queues and then printing from queues to printers, including all
the flexibilty of holding/suppressing/both any print job, redirecting a
print job from one printer to another, using the same printer for multiple
print jobs with time to change paper before changing queues, listing and
managing all print jobs on hold, etc.
<AD> Changing the printing practices of an entire organization, including
rewriting printing procecedures, retraining personnel, expanding the number
of printers and serial/network connections and network support necessary to
implement a far less powerful and flexible print architecture is usually far
more costly than the license fee for a complete generic Pick print spooler
solution like SpoolerPlus.</AD>
If I didn't anwer your question, please rephrase it so maybe I'll understand
it.
hth,
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: "jpb-u2ug" <jpb-u...@hotmail.com>
To: "'U2 Users List'" <u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org>
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 9:23 AM
Subject: Re: [U2] Converting from mvBase to Universe
Is the SP-ASSIGN command that different in UV or is this just flavor
dependant? We have an SP-ASSIGN and we are in Reality flavor.
Jerry Banker
-----Original Message-----
From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org
[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Dianne Ackerman
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 9:23 AM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] Converting from mvBase to Universe
We actually wrote our own subroutine SP-ASSIGN so that all embedded
SP-ASSIGN commands within basic programs don't need to change - they
just use our subroutine which calls SETPTR with appropriate commands.
-Dianne
Dave Taylor wrote:
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
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