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[Robert DunnMiller]

> Is there a way to print PDF files from AIX using a command from UniData?

I have a client who is using txt2pdf. They do a tremendous amount of
printing, and have found the package to be highly functional. See:
http://www.sanface.com/txt2pdf.html


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RE: [U2] high IO

[Ray Wurlod]

You appear only to have one physical disk (c7t0d0) with a number of slices.

You should be able to monitor the per-user I/O with a tool like top or sar (or 
Performance Monitor if you are on Windows).
Relate the pids from that report back to the pids of your UniVerse processes.

Definitely investigate making more than one disk spindle available, to spread 
the I/O load.

Contact your support provider (IBM Malaysia?) about performance monitoring and 
database tuning services.
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RE: [U2] Printing PDF from UniData/AIX

[Ian McGowan]

> The printers are connected to the network JetDirect cards, 
> and some of them are old (e.g., HP 4+).  I don't know how to 
> use cat to send data to an IP address, or I would have tried 
> that.

OT for the original question, but netcat [1] can do this handily.

#cat file | nc 192.168.1.1 9100

[1] 

Ian
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RE: [U2] Printing PDF from UniData/AIX

[Haas, John]

We use pcl2pdf, works great from the command line.  www.visual.co.uk

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Is there a way to print PDF files from AIX using a command from UniData?

One of our vendors has provided a PDF file that they want us to include with 
shipments of their product.  It would be nice if I could have my existing 
process determine that a qualifying product is being shipped, and automatically 
print a copy of the PDF, rather than having to keep a stack on hand.  Our 
shipping departments use terminals, and personnel do not always have PC access.

I know Adobe has Acrobat Reader for Unix.  I've downloaded it from their 
website, but have not installed it since I don't have a graphic/wysiwyg 
terminal connected to our AIX box.  Does anyone know of an AIX command line or 
script that would let me specify the PDF file & printer and have Acrobat (or 
some other program) print it correctly?

Thanks.

--Tom Pellitieri
  Century Equipment
  Toledo, Ohio
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RE: [U2] Printing PDF from UniData/AIX

[TPellitieri]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/01/2005 5:53 PDT

> Is there a way to print PDF files from AIX using a command
> from UniData?

Troy Buss of Logitek Systems replied off-list on 07/01/2005 15:18:40 EDT:

> As a one time setup, you can also print the PDF to the printer
> using the correct windows driver but select 'print to file' and
> take the output file that would have gone to the printer and put
> it in the AIX filesystem, then shell out (of unidata) and print
> the file using lp cat or some other aix command to send the file
> directly to the printer.

I tried that.  I did a binary ftp to put  in /tmp, and tried lp -d
 /tmp/.  The escape sequences for the PJL got stripped off,
and I had to cancel the job.

The printers are connected to the network JetDirect cards, and some of them
are old (e.g., HP 4+).  I don't know how to use cat to send data to an IP
address, or I would have tried that.  Besides, my users specify an AIX form
queue to have documents print there - I can't change that end of the logic.
I need to be able to use the form queue name to determine where to print
it.

Thanks for the suggestion, however.

--Tom
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RE: [U2] high IO

[Stephen O'Neal]

Alas, there is no command to determine what application is consuming disk
reads/writes within UV.  There are OS commands that show what CPU usage is
for an individual user.  Sometimes there is a correlation between CPU usage
and the amount of disk requests coming from the application. I am unaware
of any OS command that shows the disk usage by each user.  There may be a
command, but I am not aware of it.

I concur with what Rodney Baakkonen stated.  If you don't have enough disk
drives to service all of the reads and writes, then you just plain have to
add more disk drives.

But, another alternative is to add Memory to the main system.  By retaining
more disk segments in memory, you will reduce the TOTAL number of disk
READs requested from the host system - which is a very good thing.  Another
interesting benefit is that the heavily used disk segments get "hiked
higher" in memory and are not paged out.  In other words, the more a disk
segment is used, the less likely it will have to be read again.

In all Operating Systems, any left over memory is used for disk caching.
The order of memory usage is:
1) Operating System
2) UDT or UV requirements
3) Variable space used by users
4) any memory left unused will be used for Disk Caching  (note: some OS
configurables may have to be changed for it to recognize all of the
memory).

Another benefit of more memory is a reduction in time to process all SELECT
or LIST statements!  The more memory available, the faster the sorting
function will complete.

So, you may wish to max out the memory in your system first before adding
disk given the dual benefit of faster sorts and less disk reads coming from
the host system.

A related topic is to STRIPE your data across disk drives.  This will allow
many disk drives to be active against the same file.

Striping also leads to the question of the RAID configuration.  RAID 10
(Striping and Mirroring) is best, but requires more disk drives.  RAID 5 is
the slowest and "may" cause problems on systems where they are right on the
edge of having enough disk drives.  I won't dive into it here, but just
remember that the RAID configuration can have a HUGE impact.

Respectfully Submitted,
   Steve

   Stephen M. O'Neal, CDP &  IBM U2 Certified
   Services Sales Specialist
   North America U2 Lab Services
   Information Management, IBM Software Group
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[U2] [OT] Happy Independence Day!

[Gordon J Glorfield]

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RE: [U2] Printing PDF from UniData/AIX

[Ian McGowan]

> Is there a way to print PDF files from AIX using a command 
> from UniData?

If you have a postscript printer you could always use pdf2ps to convert to
ps and then print that.  There's probably a creative way to convert from ps
to pcl if you don't have postscript printers.  Probably need ghostscript:



We do things the other way around and use a2ps and distiller to turn print
jobs into pdf files, which get mailed to the users.  You can do a lot of
neat things with custom spooler scripts.

Hth,
Ian
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Re: [U2] Printing PDF from UniData/AIX

[Anthony W. Youngman]

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om>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes

Is there a way to print PDF files from AIX using a command from UniData?


Ghostscript?


One of our vendors has provided a PDF file that they want us to include
with shipments of their product.  It would be nice if I could have my
existing process determine that a qualifying product is being shipped, and
automatically print a copy of the PDF, rather than having to keep a stack
on hand.  Our shipping departments use terminals, and personnel do not
always have PC access.

I'd just create a printer driver that expects a pdf file (that is, if 
there isn't one configured already), and execute a "shell to AIX" 
command.


And there are some modern printers that'll print pdf as just another 
alternative to eg PCL or postscript now, too...


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Re: [U2] Re: U2 Users Digest V1 #718

[Key Ally]

Brian, Ross,
   That's why I still use Delphi 7,

   - Chuck

Ross Ferris wrote:


But are the leaks in Delphi, or the CLR !???

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RE: [U2] Universe

[Anthony Caufield]

Thanks to all I think I have a ton of options now. 

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CONFIG { ALL | DATA }from any account - the remainder from the UV
account only

ANALYZE.SHM -c  also from O/S as analyze.shm -c or smat -c what
is in uvconfig
ANALYZE.SHM -t  also from O/S as analyze.shm -t or smat -t what
is in .uvconfig (therefore in memory)
ANALYZE.SHM -t0 also from O/S as analyze.shm -t0 or smat -t0   same
as -t but no "*" on non-default values

ED &UFD& uvconfig
CT &UFD& uvconfig
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[U2] Printing PDF from UniData/AIX

[TPellitieri]

Is there a way to print PDF files from AIX using a command from UniData?

One of our vendors has provided a PDF file that they want us to include
with shipments of their product.  It would be nice if I could have my
existing process determine that a qualifying product is being shipped, and
automatically print a copy of the PDF, rather than having to keep a stack
on hand.  Our shipping departments use terminals, and personnel do not
always have PC access.

I know Adobe has Acrobat Reader for Unix.  I've downloaded it from their
website, but have not installed it since I don't have a graphic/wysiwyg
terminal connected to our AIX box.  Does anyone know of an AIX command line
or script that would let me specify the PDF file & printer and have Acrobat
(or some other program) print it correctly?

Thanks.

--Tom Pellitieri
  Century Equipment
  Toledo, Ohio
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RE: [U2] high IO

[Baakkonen, Rodney]

Wow, you have some serious disk usage going on. 5 disks 100% busy. If you
resize regularly, and nothing is found with the programming, I think you
need to spread your data out amongst more disk.

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From: Ang Suan Yong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 11:00 PM
To: U2-Users New Lists
Subject: [U2] high IO


Dear All,


Is it possible to have any command to know which users UniVerse
process that causing a hugh IO ?

coz sometimes (not everyday)the Universe server is very slow. when i
iostat, realize some I/O is 100%.
We closely monitor the file size in system to ensure no overflow.
network is healthy.
some user is access the UniVerse server thru application using
uvobject or ODBC like datastage , excel file. Will this causing high IO ?


i use top as well to check what are the top 10 users is doing but
still no idea how to find out the causing



  0.00.00.00.0  0.0  0.00.00.0   0   0 c7t0d6
  0.00.00.00.0 57.5 20.00.00.0 100 100 c7t0d0
  0.00.00.00.0 27.8  3.00.00.0 100 100 c7t0d0s0
  0.00.00.00.0 10.0  5.00.00.0 100 100 c7t0d0s1
  0.00.00.00.0  0.0  0.00.00.0   0   0 c7t0d0s2
  0.00.00.00.0 11.0 10.00.00.0 100 100 c7t0d0s3
  0.00.00.00.0  8.7  2.00.00.0 100 100 c7t0d0s4
 

TIA

Regards





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RE: [U2] Re: U2 Users Digest V1 #718

[Ross Ferris]

Ahhh,

But are the leaks in Delphi, or the CLR !???

Ross Ferris
Stamina Software
Visage - an Evolution in Software Development


>-Original Message-
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-u2-
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Leach
>Sent: Friday, 1 July 2005 6:37 PM
>To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
>Subject: RE: [U2] Re: U2 Users Digest V1 #718
>
>I have found Virtual PC to be one of the most useful
>> offerings to have come out from Microsoft.
>
>And another thing they bought rather than developed. I remember I was
>trying
>to get the go ahead to pay to upgrade our versions, when MS bought it
and
>added it to the MSDN subscription. So thanks there. It is truly an
>excellent
>piece of kit at a reasonable price.
>
>Of course, having bought it they somehow managed to bloat it out and
>increase the memory consumption required ... Like they did with - erm -
>Visual Basic, the Delphi expertise behind .Net ...
>
>But then Borland have beaten them on those stakes. 120MB to load the
Delphi
>2005 IDE. Restart every hour to clear memory leaks. Urgh. Having used
>Delphi
>since the week it came out, I almost gave up there. If it weren't still
the
>best compiler around...
>
>:-)
>
>Brian "Occasionally says something nice about Microsoft"
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RE: [U2] Re: U2 Users Digest V1 #718

[Brian Leach]

I have found Virtual PC to be one of the most useful 
> offerings to have come out from Microsoft.

And another thing they bought rather than developed. I remember I was trying
to get the go ahead to pay to upgrade our versions, when MS bought it and
added it to the MSDN subscription. So thanks there. It is truly an excellent
piece of kit at a reasonable price.

Of course, having bought it they somehow managed to bloat it out and
increase the memory consumption required ... Like they did with - erm -
Visual Basic, the Delphi expertise behind .Net ...

But then Borland have beaten them on those stakes. 120MB to load the Delphi
2005 IDE. Restart every hour to clear memory leaks. Urgh. Having used Delphi
since the week it came out, I almost gave up there. If it weren't still the
best compiler around...

:-)

Brian "Occasionally says something nice about Microsoft"
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