Re: Input weirdo...
Malcolm Bull has provided a chart on his web site of the codes for multiple multivalue databases. Have a look at http://members.aol.com/mbtexts/93.html Ron White - Original Message - From: Dennis Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'U2 Users Discussion List' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 7:10 AM Subject: RE: Input weirdo... Thanks Mark! Bjorn managed to find his reply (in an Advanced Pick manual) just after I'd sent the request, which kinda worked, but not exactly, but your length of inputbuffer works a charm. Speaking of these SYSTEM thangs - is there anywhere I can get a list of all the settings / variables included in SYSTEM(x)? -Original Message- [snip] SYSTEM(14) is the length of the typeahead buffer. D3 for sure and possibly UV/UD. The CLEARSELECT is UV/UD specific. -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users --- [ Eckel certifies this E-mail to be virus free. ] --- [ Eckel certifies this E-mail to be virus free. ] -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: UniVerse Personal Edition Telnet Service
Check to see if the Microsoft Telnet service is running. If so, stop the service and set its start property to disable or manual. Then stop the UniVerse services and restart them and you should have telnet. An alternative is to use UniAdmin to change the port UniVerse uses for telnet so the two do not conflict. That is what I have done and it works well. If this is not a MS installnever mind! :-) Ron White - Original Message - From: Glenn W. Paschal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 4:35 PM Subject: UniVerse Personal Edition Telnet Service 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. Ok, I realize what this is telling me... Obviously, I installed something or configured something that is running conflict. My question is... How do I find out what is running in conflict or what has grabbed port 23? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Tried re-installing the UV engine... didn't help, nor did I really think it would... just seemed to be a shot in the dark. Glenn W. Paschal PasTech LLC Computer Consulting ph. (931) 526-9631 fx. (931) 526-9678 email. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] web. http://www.pastech.net/ www.pastech.net -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users --- [ Eckel certifies this E-mail to be virus free. ] -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: How do we convert lowercase letters to uppercase in Pick basic
ICONV or OCONV(fieldname,'MCL') uppercase to lowercase ICONV or OCONV(fieldname,'MCU') lowercase to uppercase Ron White - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 2:11 PM Subject: How do we convert lowercase letters to uppercase in Pick basic Hi, Can some one tell me how to convert lower case letters to uppercaseand vise versa tx in advance for the help regards reddy -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users --- --- [ Eckel certifies this E-mail to be virus free. ] -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: What client platform do YOU use (Parallel to GUI thread)
When Apple came out with the XServer we were all excited and started looking at transitioning our servers and clients to the Apple environment. This project never went anywhere because IBM would not commit to supporting UniVerse in that environment. Since Mac and XServer are OS X and OS X is based on FreeBSD 4.x I thought it would be something IBM might want to do to provide an avenue of escape from the M$ strangle hold. No joy... Ron White --- [ Eckel certifies this E-mail to be virus free. ] -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: The lists are closing
- Original Message - From: Anthony Youngman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] U2UG is OF the users, BY the users, and FOR the users. [snip] Cheers, Wol If this statement is true it sounds like someone wasn't listening or asking the users if they were even interested in this forum idea. It seems to have been done without the input of the very people it is supposed to serve. For the record, I have unlimited internet access both at work and at home but I think the forum idea sucks. I want my list info via email so I can filter it and read it offline at a time that is convenient for me and my employer. I have subscribed to U2UG but I don't expect to spend much time there. Ron White --- [ Eckel certifies this E-mail to be virus free. ] -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [OT] Access Denied Continued
- Original Message - From: Ray Buchner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'U2 Users Discussion List' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 10:47 AM Subject: [OT] Access Denied Continued Earlier this week I posted a message about getting an access denied message when printing to a shared printer in a Universe application. This is more of a networking issue, but I thought I'd pick y'all's brains. I'm running UV10 on an NT4 server. The printer is a Zebra bar code printer connected via LPT1 on a WindowsXP Pro machine. The printer/machine in question is networked to the corporate domain via 3Com wireless bridge. snip I run several wireless barcode scanners and I sometimes get timeout weirdness if someone takes a unit beyond the signal reach of the bridge. When they return to where the signal strength is strong sometimes windows no longer seems to recognize the device and frequently UniVerse will not resume their session. I don't know what type of environment you are in but I am in a manufacturing plant and we have large 10 ton overhead hoists that move on beams. If one of these gets positioned near a bridge it disrupts the signal and can cause problems. This is some of the weirdness I have seen but if signal loss is not a problem I would look at the security tab of the printer properties and make sure that everyone has print access. Getting too tight with the security might work against you. I am now out of straws to grasp at. :) Ron White --- [ Eckel certifies this E-mail to be virus free. ] -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [UV] SP.EDIT SP.ASSIGN HS
If you are the owner of all of these print jobs type SP.EDIT (MD If you are not the owner of all the jobs, log in as administrator and type SP.EDIT (UMD If entry are present in the spool file that you do not want to delete the user the spooler id number with the command: SP.EDIT 01200 (MD Ron White --- [ Eckel certifies this E-mail to be virus free. ] -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: Alpha-Micro to D3
- Original Message - From: Mark Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 12:39 PM Subject: Alpha-Micro to D3 Dear All: One of my clients has a 40 user Alpha Micro native system that's in need of a migration. I want to migrate to D3/W2K. I've done a few and am comfortable supporting it remotely as a consultant instead of as an employee. While I welcome the possibility of going to 'nix U2 or NT U2, I want to focus on D3/W2K. Has anyone had any experience converting from Alpha Micro to D3 or UD/UV and are there any pitfalls regarding incompatible source code. I can expect some slight differences in syntax but I'm looking to see if there's a major roadblock. I don't suspect anything beyond PQ proc but IIRC an earlier conversion from GA to AP-Pro brought with it some missing commands like SWAP and MAX. Thanks in advance. -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users --- D3 does have the SWAP statement, but like several other statements you need to but a $OPTIONS EXT compiler directive in your program or it will not compile. My documentation does not mention a MAX statement. I wish you luck dealing with Raining Data. At my earliest convenience I will kick D3 and Raining Data out the back door and run everything on UniVerse. RD has raised their maintenance to 90 USD per seat and have instituted a 50% charge to get a major release (release 8.0 is due out this year). They have mostly stopped enhancing the product and to get anything fixed or added to the product you must submit a business requirements statement to them convincing them that it is in their business interest to provide the fix or function. That doesn't sound like a company that is very interested in keeping D3 around for the long haul. YMMV Ron White --- [ Eckel certifies this E-mail to be virus free. ] -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: Alpha-Micro to D3
Very true. Upgrading from an earlier version of RD databases to D3 is a no-brainer. I just don't like their business policies and practices. Ron White - Original Message - From: Mark Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: U2 Users Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 9:12 AM Subject: Re: Alpha-Micro to D3 Perhaps I've been buffered by the wrath of RD as i don't work with them directly. I work with a company called Zumasys and they've been incredibly helpful with the migrations and new systems that I've installed. I did go to bat with RD directly discussing a licensing issue and was able to convince them of my perspective. It was regarding the 50% discount on D3 for currently supported native systems. There was a loophole that i identified and they accomodated me. They do play hardball on virtually everything else. I have existing UV and UD clients, all of which had their environments converted prior to my involvement. Thus, I've never experienced the birthing pains of converting from native to U2. Observing all the conversations on this forum regarding the release levels, implementations, connectivity etc, and that I am an outside consultant and not an employee, a delivered virgin D3 system on W2K is about as clean an environment one could expect to start from. Pop in the last file-save, do the restore and compile. In fact, converting from AP-pro doesn't even need the compiling. I observe all the unix and NT commands being offered and they're out of my league. Plus, my clients, being native to begin with, aren't aching for the ODBC, triggers, sockets, IIS and other magic features of today. They just want to continue with their green screen apps. Thanks. Someone earlier posted a comparison between Pick and Microsoft. It stated that MS is happy with 10% paying licenses out of 100,000,000 while Pick wanted 100% paying licenses out of 10,000. - Original Message - From: Ron White [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: U2 Users Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 9:22 AM Subject: Re: Alpha-Micro to D3 - Original Message - From: Mark Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 12:39 PM Subject: Alpha-Micro to D3 Dear All: One of my clients has a 40 user Alpha Micro native system that's in need of a migration. I want to migrate to D3/W2K. I've done a few and am comfortable supporting it remotely as a consultant instead of as an employee. While I welcome the possibility of going to 'nix U2 or NT U2, I want to focus on D3/W2K. Has anyone had any experience converting from Alpha Micro to D3 or UD/UV and are there any pitfalls regarding incompatible source code. I can expect some slight differences in syntax but I'm looking to see if there's a major roadblock. I don't suspect anything beyond PQ proc but IIRC an earlier conversion from GA to AP-Pro brought with it some missing commands like SWAP and MAX. Thanks in advance. -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users --- D3 does have the SWAP statement, but like several other statements you need to but a $OPTIONS EXT compiler directive in your program or it will not compile. My documentation does not mention a MAX statement. I wish you luck dealing with Raining Data. At my earliest convenience I will kick D3 and Raining Data out the back door and run everything on UniVerse. RD has raised their maintenance to 90 USD per seat and have instituted a 50% charge to get a major release (release 8.0 is due out this year). They have mostly stopped enhancing the product and to get anything fixed or added to the product you must submit a business requirements statement to them convincing them that it is in their business interest to provide the fix or function. That doesn't sound like a company that is very interested in keeping D3 around for the long haul. YMMV Ron White --- [ Eckel certifies this E-mail to be virus free. ] -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users --- [ Eckel certifies this E-mail to be virus free. ] --- [ Eckel certifies this E-mail to be virus free. ] -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: u2 maintenance agreements
I have just encountered the same problem. IBM never sent a maintenance invoice and then complained when I tried to access support. I think it is very bad business practice to not bill your customer and then charge a penalty for letting your maintenance lapse. Ron White - Original Message - From: Richard A. Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 4:52 AM Subject: u2 maintenance agreements Just a quick note that you may want to confirm your agreements are up to date. Just the other day I was attempting to access some webpages at ibm that required customer # etc and found out that our agreements were not current. This could have to do with not receiving an invoice in 2003. I'm not totally sure all of the vmark/ardent/informix records have totally migrated. I'm off now to confirm all clients received/paid for maintenance back in 2003 Rich -- Richard A. Wilson Lakeside Systems Smithfield, RI, USA Voice 401-231-3959 Fax 401-231-3943 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.lakeside-systems.com -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users --- [ Eckel certifies this E-mail to be virus free. ] --- [ Eckel certifies this E-mail to be virus free. ] -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: u2 maintenance agreements
In all fairness IBM did wave the charge due to the amnesty program. However, if I had not happened to have a support issue at the time I did, I would not have known that my maintenance had lapsed and would likely have been charged the penalty. At that point I would have moved to JBase rather than pay such a huge fee. IBM said their records show that someone tried to contact me but was told I was out of town. I never received another call. I really hope they change this bad policy and send out invoices or some kind of written notice before the termination date. Ron White - Original Message - From: Richard A. Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: U2 Users Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 8:47 AM Subject: Re: u2 maintenance agreements actually there was no penalty due to the current amnesty program.There was something on u2ug.org website awhile ago Ron White wrote: I have just encountered the same problem. IBM never sent a maintenance invoice and then complained when I tried to access support. I think it is very bad business practice to not bill your customer and then charge a penalty for letting your maintenance lapse. Ron White - Original Message - From: Richard A. Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 4:52 AM Subject: u2 maintenance agreements Just a quick note that you may want to confirm your agreements are up to date. Just the other day I was attempting to access some webpages at ibm that required customer # etc and found out that our agreements were not current. This could have to do with not receiving an invoice in 2003. I'm not totally sure all of the vmark/ardent/informix records have totally migrated. I'm off now to confirm all clients received/paid for maintenance back in 2003 Rich -- Richard A. Wilson Lakeside Systems Smithfield, RI, USA Voice 401-231-3959 Fax 401-231-3943 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.lakeside-systems.com -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users --- [ Eckel certifies this E-mail to be virus free. ] --- [ Eckel certifies this E-mail to be virus free. ] -- Richard A. Wilson Lakeside Systems Smithfield, RI, USA Voice 401-231-3959 Fax 401-231-3943 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.lakeside-systems.com -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users --- [ Eckel certifies this E-mail to be virus free. ] --- [ Eckel certifies this E-mail to be virus free. ] -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: u2 maintenance agreements
We had a similar problem right after the buyout. We had just renewed our maintenance with Informix. IBM sent us a notice that our maintenance had been terminated due to nonpayment. Even though we could prove that it had been paid we were required to pay it again. They better get this problem fixed or customers will start to leave for greener pastures. Ron White - Original Message - From: Lee Leitner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: U2 Users Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 9:33 AM Subject: Re: u2 maintenance agreements Ditto for us, but it started back in 2002. We have tried to maintain four maintenance contracts with IBM and it has been an absolute mess dealing with them. Failure to invoice, failure to record our payments correctly, inability to resolve the contract problems, promises to look into it and then no reply and more. Towards the end of 2003 after spending a huge amount of time and making absolutely no progress with them, I gave up trying to get it resolved and just walked away. When the amnesty program was announced I had no desire to head back into that mess again and ignored it. From my perspective, IBM is just letting the U2 maintenance business disintegrate. Lee On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Ron White wrote: I have just encountered the same problem. IBM never sent a maintenance invoice and then complained when I tried to access support. I think it is very bad business practice to not bill your customer and then charge a penalty for letting your maintenance lapse. Ron White - Original Message - From: Richard A. Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 4:52 AM Subject: u2 maintenance agreements Just a quick note that you may want to confirm your agreements are up to date. Just the other day I was attempting to access some webpages at ibm that required customer # etc and found out that our agreements were not current. This could have to do with not receiving an invoice in 2003. I'm not totally sure all of the vmark/ardent/informix records have totally migrated. I'm off now to confirm all clients received/paid for maintenance back in 2003 Rich -- Richard A. Wilson Lakeside Systems Smithfield, RI, USA Voice 401-231-3959 Fax 401-231-3943 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.lakeside-systems.com -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users --- [ Eckel certifies this E-mail to be virus free. ] --- [ Eckel certifies this E-mail to be virus free. ] -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- Lee J. Leitner, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.leitner.org/~leitnerl The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. -- Jacob Bronowski V.13.0 --- -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users --- [ Eckel certifies this E-mail to be virus free. ] --- [ Eckel certifies this E-mail to be virus free. ] -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
