Re: [U2] Printing from UniVerse

2005-06-06 Thread Clifton Oliver
Particular? Peculiar might be a better word. Was this instructor trained in Computer Science or General Semantics. :-) -- Regards, Clif On Jun 6, 2005, at 6:22 PM, Bill Haskett wrote: However, with "EQUATE VM TO CHAR(254)" there is no such relationship, so I was taught not to do this a

Re: [U2] When do globally cataloged programs get removed?

2005-06-06 Thread eperry
Wendy, If you log off and log back on, it should be changed. Eugene > I'm trying to modify a globally cataloged subroutine I'm using as a > trigger, and the changes don't seem to "take" for a while. > > The docs say "Periodically, sbcs checks shared memory and removes loaded > programs that are

RE: [U2] Recommendations for reporting tools

2005-06-06 Thread Bill Haskett
Clif and David: Don't let the Raining Data price fool you. Mv.NET will offer the same thing for a ___LOT___ less! I'm testing out SQL Reporting services using ODBC and it works nicely. At this point it's free. I'm going to be testing it with OleDB shortly. Still, at this point it's free or, a

RE: [U2] Finding last day of month

2005-06-06 Thread Stevenson, Charles
Mark, What are these timing tests? They kinda look like the tool PI has. I can almost remember the name of it now, but it was so long ago. Is this a tool we users can run or is this something internal at IBM? If internal, do you have a complete set of comparative speeds for the various operations

Re: [U2] Unidata Indexing

2005-06-06 Thread Allen Egerton
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 20:58:28 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: >I've got a naive Unidata question, but figured I'd throw it out there >anyway. In short, does indexing a field in a given file help performance >when querying for an empty string? ie: > >SELECT MY_TABLE WITH MY_FIELD='' > >I've always assumed

RE: [U2] Printing from UniVerse

2005-06-06 Thread Bill Haskett
Charlie: It's funny you should raise Microdata. I was taught to never use EQUATEs unless I wanted to create a relationship between both sides of the equation. e.g I'd use the following: EQUATE APFILE$CUSTDATE TO APFILEREC(1) This would allow me to manipulate either side of the equate and know b

[U2] Unidata Indexing

2005-06-06 Thread jbutera
I've got a naive Unidata question, but figured I'd throw it out there anyway. In short, does indexing a field in a given file help performance when querying for an empty string? ie: SELECT MY_TABLE WITH MY_FIELD='' I've always assumed yes but would like to hear other's thoughts. Jeff Butera,

RE: [U2] Recommendations for reporting tools

2005-06-06 Thread Ross Ferris
I'm obviously biased, but they could do worse than look at our Visage.Reporter product. Comes in 2 varieties for report production - 'free' production with Visage [web] clients, client preview etc, or server based version for direct output to any server accessible printer, options for fax, email

RE: [U2] When do globally cataloged programs get removed?

2005-06-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wendy Smoak wrote: > I'm trying to modify a globally cataloged subroutine I'm using as a > trigger, and the changes don't seem to "take" for a while. > > The docs say "Periodically, sbcs checks shared memory and > removes loaded programs that are no longer in use." > > How long is "periodically"?

RE: [U2] External SubRoutine Problems

2005-06-06 Thread Mark Eastwood
Do the programs use a CLEAR statement? Is Error.Msg in a COMMON statement? Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brutzman, Bill Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 3:18 PM To: 'u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org' Subject: [U2] External SubRoutine Problem

RE: [U2] Recommendations for reporting tools

2005-06-06 Thread Tony Gravagno
Clifton Oliver wco-at-oliver.com |U2UG| wrote: > One of my clients has asked me what reporting tools, > other than Crystal Reports other U2 shops favor. > Any recommendations of what they might want to evaluate? The answer sort of depends on how much of a canned solution they want vs how OK they a

RE: [U2] External SubRoutine Problems

2005-06-06 Thread Brutzman, Bill
False alarm... I found a pesky typo. --Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brutzman, Bill Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 6:18 PM To: 'u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org' Subject: [U2] External SubRoutine Problems Using UniVerse, UniBasic, I am tr

[U2] When do globally cataloged programs get removed?

2005-06-06 Thread Wendy Smoak
I'm trying to modify a globally cataloged subroutine I'm using as a trigger, and the changes don't seem to "take" for a while. The docs say "Periodically, sbcs checks shared memory and removes loaded programs that are no longer in use." How long is "periodically"? Likely I wouldn't want to cha

[U2] External SubRoutine Problems

2005-06-06 Thread Brutzman, Bill
Using UniVerse, UniBasic, I am trying to... call *SUB.BIN.TO.BIN.R0 (Part.Nbr, Qty.Pieces, Source.Bin, Target.Bin, Error.Msg ) (give, give, give, give, get ) begin case case Error.Msg # '' ; gosub Error.Handler end case This

RE: [U2] Recommendations for reporting tools

2005-06-06 Thread David Jordan
Microsoft SQL Reporting Services is a good product and I think it is Rainingdata that is providing an interface between MV and SQL Reporting Services. Regards David Jordan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clifton Oliver Sent: Tuesday, 7 Jun

Re: [U2] Recommendations for reporting tools

2005-06-06 Thread Dave S
We use Mvquery. Mvquery does a nice job with ad-hoc reports. It does have it's limitations. Clifton Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One of my clients has asked me what reporting tools, other than Crystal Reports other U2 shops favor. Any recommendations of what they might want to evaluate? Th

[U2] Recommendations for reporting tools

2005-06-06 Thread Clifton Oliver
One of my clients has asked me what reporting tools, other than Crystal Reports other U2 shops favor. Any recommendations of what they might want to evaluate? Thanks in Advance. -- Regards, Clif ~~~ W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER & ASSOCIATES

RE: [U2] Source code question {Unclassified}

2005-06-06 Thread HENDERSON MIKE, MR
Steve, > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Steven M Wagner > Sent: Sunday, 5 June 2005 14:40 > To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > Subject: Re: [U2] Source code question > > The answer is a big fat maybe. It will depend on how > differ

RE: [U2] Crystal Reports XI ODBC connection to Universe 10.1.7

2005-06-06 Thread Mark Eastwood
We had a very similar problem except on Crystal 9. Loaded all the patches (2?) from Crystal's web site and now "appears" to be working. We are now in process of testing on X and XI. Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Moderator Sent: Mon

[U2] Crystal Reports XI ODBC connection to Universe 10.1.7

2005-06-06 Thread Moderator
POSTED ON BEHALF OF NON-MEMBER ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Hi all, New to the list; I've browsed the archives but cannot find anything relating to specifically the problem I am having, so if anyone can offer assistance it would be much appreciated. Crystal Reports XI trying to access Universe 10.1.7

[U2] John C. Dvorak Reference to "Pick"

2005-06-06 Thread David Wolverton
In his June 28th, 2005 PCMagazine column, John Dvorak references how Longhorn was going to try to do what Pick OS did 30 years ago - make the file system a database... Sort of 'Industry' relevant - and it's mainstream press, and - whooo hooo - not negative! Just that Microsoft couldn't pull it o

Memo: RE: [U2] Source code question

2005-06-06 Thread asvin . dattani
>I'd also wonder about port-specific usage. I believe I > worked on a Unix > box a while back where they mapped the ports so that every > time a person logged > in they got the same port number. Don't ask me exactly how > they did this. HP-UX has a facility called DDFA. It is meant to be use

RE: [U2] Source code question

2005-06-06 Thread Brian Leach
>Someone already mentioned the issue of TIME() which also > impacts things > like SLEEP and RQM and NAP. This is tuneable in the UniVerse config. As long as you stick to working in whole seconds - which always used to be the default - this should be fine. >I'd also wonder about port-spe