Re: [U2] RE: Get a grip - was ads - was U2 University Last

2007-09-07 Thread Brian Leach
Dawn (and fellow list members) I appreciate where you're coming from, but 1. Please remember that the U2UG are the stewards and not the owners of this list. The U2UG has agreed to run the lists according to the wishes of the list membership, but the Board has no mandate to decide on the

RE: [U2] RE: ads - was U2 University Last Week In Denver

2007-09-06 Thread Brian Leach
All I'm with Tony on this. In a community in which people frequently complain about the perceived lack of tools and visibility of solutions, the truth is that there are precious few places to promote or recommend good technologies when they come along. I have no problem with people like Tony

[U2] U2UG and the U2-Lists

2007-09-06 Thread Brian Leach
around, but the two communities are officially separate. Brian Leach (U2UG President) --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/

RE: [U2] [UD7.1] [Solaris 9]SOAP calls

2007-08-16 Thread Brian Leach
Bjorn The problem is that the remote service doesn't understand the way UniVerse is qualifying the method. The packet generated using SoapSetRequestParameters has the method name qualified thus: ns1:ConvertSpeed xmlns:ns1=http://www.webserviceX.NET/;

RE: [U2] Looking for a White Paper

2007-08-10 Thread Brian Leach
Charles Do you must mean the internal tests done for IBM's own system? The announcement below was posted to this list by Stephen O'Neal under the thread: 15,200 users attained on IBM's U2 UniVerse (which is a bit more than 2K..). He or Tim may have more details. Here's the original post:

[U2] Website Questions

2007-08-10 Thread Brian Leach
Hi All Can someone answer these two questions, posted on the U2UG website? Thanks in advance Brian 1. Is there a 64 bit ODBC/OleDB driver available for UniVerse? 2. Users getting kicked out of UniVerse. We have Universe 10.1 running in Windows 2003. It seems like when we are getting close

RE: [U2][UV] Speeding up a big BY.EXP select

2007-08-09 Thread Brian Leach
Stuart Do you mean you need to explode them, but not sort them? If so, use an SQL UNNEST keyword, e.g. SELECT SURNAME,FORENAME,TITLE_ID,QTY,PRICE FROM UNNEST BOOK_SALES ON SALE_ITEMS; You can explode a field to a select list by using the TO SLIST clause, e.g. SELECT

Re: [U2][UD 7.1][Solaris 9]

2007-08-09 Thread Brian Leach
Bjvrn, Would a simple UniObjects/VBscript do the job? It could connect to both servers and act as a quick and dirty shuttle. Something along the lines of : Dim sess1,sess2 Dim HostName1,UserName1,AccountPath1,Password1,FileName1 Dim

RE: [U2] RE: Cleaner Case Statement

2007-08-04 Thread Brian Leach
Guys/Gals 1. Please trim. 2. Please note that this has moved to U2-Community. Brian --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/

RE: [U2] Another gripe about IBM not letting end users access the articles in the knowledge base

2007-07-28 Thread Brian Leach
JayJay Can IBM set a link to this form so we can put the link on the website with some instructions? Thanks Brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Jenkins Sent: 27 July 2007 21:55 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject:

RE: [U2] [jBASE] SELECT operator precedence

2007-07-27 Thread Brian Leach
Marco You might want to send this to the JBASE group - not the U2 group! They are completely different products. You can find the jBase group on Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [U2] U2 University link

2007-07-21 Thread Brian Leach
Dave The U2UG board were discussing webinars at the last meeting. FYI IBM are starting an interesting ball rolling with some podcasts coming out in the next months - personally I think these are a great idea because a) they are low tech b) I can listen in my car c) they tend to be a little more

RE: [U2] U2 University link

2007-07-20 Thread Brian Leach
All I would definitely urge everyone to attend their nearest venue. The price is extremely reasonable (especially compared with the other IBM conferences) and these things need to be supported. I'll certainly be attending the London event, and looking forward to meeting as many fellow members as

Re: [U2] UniData 7.1 vs. MS SQL 2005 performance

2007-07-18 Thread Brian Leach
Nancy this was discussed in the past at great length! To summarize: When the U2UG was formed, we petitioned for IBM to open up their knowledge sources. The problem is their vars, some of whom do not want their users to get access (and presumably show up how p*ss p**r their support may be). So

RE: [U2] MultiValue TextBook

2007-07-18 Thread Brian Leach
So Bill Just... write the book in say Word, and zap it into Adobe. There is a (Xerox ?) commercial on TV about publishing a book this way. There is a (Nike) commercial on TV about... Just Do It. Since it's so easy, we'll await your publication... personally I find it takes me weeks to write

RE: [U2] [UV] Conversion code for week number

2007-07-13 Thread Brian Leach
Actually that was one of my earliest support calls to VMARK, and AFAIK it still ain't fixed.. The Chinese year does not change on the 1st of January... Brian Year of the Horse (or just an old nag) This is silly and a bit off-topic - but I remember the day I found out that you could perform

RE: [U2] Universe and virtual machines

2007-07-10 Thread Brian Leach
Eugene I do all my development work on Microsoft Virtual PC (in fact going back to when it was owned by Connectix). It is solid. If you're using this for local copies, remember to also have some form of source control system in place. I'd recommend SubVersion with TortoiseSVN windows explorer

RE: [U2] UD Backups - DBPAUSE for UniVerse? {Unclassified}

2007-07-06 Thread Brian Leach
Better still... The U2UG are launching a Wiki Real Soon Now (we've already got it on the site, we're getting user feedback on the one we've chosen). There are a couple of annoyances though, so we're not done with the final decision. However An article on different ways of doing backups would

RE: [U2] Tony Jones/WA/QBE/Insurance is out of the office.

2007-07-05 Thread Brian Leach
That's why I always encourage D4 conversions in training. So much more convenient! Brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 July 2007 15:26 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Tony

RE: [U2] Error Message

2007-07-03 Thread Brian Leach
Karen It's normally a spooler entry number. Brian UniVerse Rel 10.1 I received the following error message: Message[001467] with no associated error text. I cannot find any references to it in the ERRMSG file. Is there anyone out there who can shed some light on this? ---

Re: [AD] [U2] Basic developments reverse engineering tool ?

2007-06-29 Thread Brian Leach
That's very difficult to trap. Mark It's a valid point and a common scenario. I've taken two approaches in the past: 1. Dynamic analysis This replaces certain constructs in the source code automatically with calls to subroutines or external functions that update the maps in real time. So for

RE: [U2] Basic developments reverse engineering tool ?

2007-06-28 Thread Brian Leach
All This is something we're keen to add to the U2UG website. We're testing out a couple of different Wikis at the moment. We expect to have something in place very soon for the community to add technical tips, FAQs, learning materials, utilities, possibly vendor pages and similar materials.

RE: [U2] Basic developments reverse engineering tool ?

2007-06-28 Thread Brian Leach
Tony/Susan Having written two such 'system auditors' I can tell you from experience that it's not that easy to do a good source analysis. The problem is that every system is different, adopts different standards, use different tools, are often very incomplete, and most include lots of bad

[U2] Credit Card Verification Software

2007-06-28 Thread Brian Leach
All I'm looking for recommendations on credit card verification software that will integrate nicely with an MV application. It needs to perform real-time authorisation, and should support the standard credit cards used in the UK - Diners, Amex and charge cards are not required. Direct or

RE: [U2] The best way to access SQLServer from UV [not-secure]

2007-06-27 Thread Brian Leach
Jerry Sorry I send my previous reply before seeing this post. I was thinking of the bulk update side. Brian Basically it has to do with PCI. We are putting all of our card data on a secure encrypted SQLServer so we can access the data from all of our applications. The records will most likely

RE: [U2] The best way to access SQLServer from UV

2007-06-27 Thread Brian Leach
Jerry If by 'built-in' you include the middleware that comes with UV: 1. Create a .Net client. 2. Use the UniXML class to produce a dataset from a RetrieVe or SQL XML statement. 3. Iterate through the dataset and use a dbCommand to push that into SQL via a stored procedure. Simple and

Re: [U2] Basic developments reverse engineering tool ?

2007-06-27 Thread Brian Leach
Herve I have something that may do what you need (mvScan). I'll contact you off-list with some details. Brian To clarify the inquiry : I am seeking for a tool reading Basic source code modules and producing a technical documentation of an application automatically. This is not the purpose of

RE: [U2] Documentation generation

2007-06-17 Thread Brian Leach
Tom I have some tools that may help. They form a framework that includes built-in static analysis of impacts (files, programs, executed commands, PROCs, variables used, common blocks used, cataloging - all that sort of thing) with the ability to write your own plugins to extract e.g. header

RE: [U2] Restricted TCL prompt - UniVerse 10.2?

2007-05-13 Thread Brian Leach
Gabe I would think the only real ways are A) create your own TCL shell as a BASIC program. But there is always the danger of someone breaking out of it accidentally. B) Create a second restricted account and remove various verbs from there (including COPY, ED and anything that would allow a

RE: MV Books (Formerly: [U2] Incubator - News from the board)

2007-05-13 Thread Brian Leach
Mark Please don't feel my reply to your 'DOS-like' post was an attack. It absolutely wasn't. I just get frustrated that we - as a community - don't seem willing to spread the word that this IS a vibrant and modern technology, but seem to glory (and sometims wallow) in its past. Sometimes it

RE: [U2] How to SELECT (SQL) a TFile field?

2007-05-07 Thread Brian Leach
Hi First, what are the problems you are seeing with your Tfile field? Can you post an example with the field definition? Is this a straight Tfile in 8 or an F; correlative with a Tfile? I'm able to select a simple Tfile on my version. Second, you should always be able to add new field

[U2] AIX question

2007-04-27 Thread Brian Leach
Does anyone know how to changing the max number of ttys on AIX? Preferably without rebooting what is a 24x7 uv server? Thanks Brian --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/

RE: [OT]:RE: [U2] Mark Shannon/Australia/IBM is out of the office.

2007-04-23 Thread Brian Leach
Huh! That's nice, Dan. Don't offer any of your co-listers a coffee then.. ___O / / / /\ ++ --+ ||+ \||| |cafe|# |~Le|||=# ||+ |Cafetiere| # ++ | ||| # |=|=# |X|

RE: [U2] U2 / mv.net

2007-04-14 Thread Brian Leach
Nick I use both - along with just about anything else I can get my hands on. To all intents and purposes there is NO difference between C# and VB.net. There was at earlier releases - whether deliberate marketing or not, at 1.0 and 1.1 some aspects of C# did perform better. That's no longer the

[U2] Backing up UniData on HPUX

2007-03-28 Thread Brian Leach
All The following question has just been posted on the new U2UG website and I thought it deserved cross posting to the list. I think a number of us would be interested in the replies. Thanks, Brian Original Post: I am the new SA for a Unidata implementation running on HPUX. Though I am

RE: [U2] Uniobjects.Net

2007-03-28 Thread Brian Leach
Hi It depends. UniObjects is not an additional paid product like RedBack. However the latest version with UV 10.2 supports (optional) inbuilt connection pooling. If you want to take advantage of that you will need the new pooled connection licence. Brian -Original Message- From:

RE: [U2] Print Server Printing problem

2007-03-27 Thread Brian Leach
Kevin Does it absolutely need to be a physical print? Can you spool to a file and either email it or it place that somewhere where they can print it off from Windows if they wish? blatant ad mvPDF can capture spool jobs to produce PDF documents. Find out more on my website at

RE: [U2] Texas U2 Members listening?

2007-03-27 Thread Brian Leach
Baker May we wish you and your new group every success. The more of us shouting that message, the more people will hear us. Keep flying the MV flag! Brian Leach -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Baker Hughes Sent: 27 March 2007 19

RE: [U2] New to UV/PICK, programming a banner

2007-03-26 Thread Brian Leach
but did a STOPM which prints a quoted message to standard out. One can compose the message in any format containing any information desired. Now I don't know if .NET will accept that, but I bet it does. We still use green-screen here. Karl quote who=Brian Leach Karl Just one

RE: [U2] New to UV/PICK, programming a banner

2007-03-25 Thread Brian Leach
Duh! Make that: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\IBM\UniVerse\CurrentVersion You'd all have worked it out anyway. Brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Leach Sent: 25 March 2007 16:48 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject

RE: [U2] New to UV/PICK, programming a banner

2007-03-25 Thread Brian Leach
Karl Just one problem with that technique. If you do this inside a subroutine (and I DO see people use STOP inside subroutines all too often) you're locking into a legacy terminal environment. Call that from e.g. .NET and the subroutine stops - but you don't get any message back as to why.

RE: [U2] New to UV/PICK, programming a banner

2007-03-25 Thread Brian Leach
Gabe Good to have you on board! FYI: UV.LOGIN in the UV account is a global for anyone connecting to UniVerse - think of it like the /etc/profile under UNIX. LOGIN is an optional startup for a specific account: it goes into the VOC file for that account and is usually the point for startup

RE: [U2] UniObjects / Read Timeout

2007-03-18 Thread Brian Leach
-12 at 19:53 +, Brian Leach wrote: You might want to take a look at the unirpcservices file on the server. This is a text file located in the unishared directory. The last entry on each line is a timeout value in 1/10th seconds. Brian -Original

RE: [U2] UniObjects / Read Timeout

2007-03-18 Thread Brian Leach
Sorry all This had been stuck in my phone's Outbox for a week. Brian -Original Message- From: Brian Leach[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18/03/07 15:42:09 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.orgu2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] UniObjects / Read Timeout Depending

RE: [U2] User discrepancy

2007-03-17 Thread Brian Leach
] On Behalf Of Brian Leach Sent: 14 March 2007 23:08 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] User discrepancy Hi First, to clear the excess licences you can run the following from a CMD prompt: uvlictool clean_lic -a This should check against actual processes and reset the count

RE: [U2] User discrepancy

2007-03-17 Thread Brian Leach
that determines what is - and is not - part of a shared pool). If I have misunderstood this one could you clarify please and the database and client software versions? Regards JayJay -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Leach Sent

RE: Spam:RE: [U2] Universe/UniObjects and Visual Studio

2007-03-15 Thread Brian Leach
Leslie HTH I did some poking around earlier and found that the GenerateXML actually seems to call down to a subroutine named GETXMLSUB held in the BP file of the uv account. On some 10.1 versions it is present, but not cataloged: I found when I added it to global catalog as *GETXMLSUB it worked

RE: [U2] [UD] CALL @progname

2007-03-15 Thread Brian Leach
Duh duh duh (slaps forehead). I missed the UD bit in the subject line. Apologies. Brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Leach Sent: 15 March 2007 20:38 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] [UD] CALL @progname

RE: [U2] [UD] CALL @progname

2007-03-15 Thread Brian Leach
David If you look at the MAP command, globally cataloged programs keep track of the number of times they have been run since being cataloged. That suggests that their headers are updated when they are called, which would explain why they are slower. Normally UniVerse cached subroutine object in

RE: [U2] User discrepancy

2007-03-14 Thread Brian Leach
Hi First, to clear the excess licences you can run the following from a CMD prompt: uvlictool clean_lic -a This should check against actual processes and reset the count correctly. I found problems with device licencing and versions of UO.NET - this incorrectly reported the wrong client IP

RE: [U2] Help with File Pointers

2007-03-12 Thread Brian Leach
Susan UniVerse thankfully doesn't have the @ variable insertion. Remember that on Windows, forward and backward slashes can be generally used indiscrimiately, e.g. C:\data\myaccount/myfile Then of course there are symbolic links under UNIX, case insensitivity in Windows.. Brian

RE: [U2] UniObjects / Read Timeout

2007-03-12 Thread Brian Leach
You might want to take a look at the unirpcservices file on the server. This is a text file located in the unishared directory. The last entry on each line is a timeout value in 1/10th seconds. Brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: Getting started resources (was [U2] catalog command)

2007-03-07 Thread Brian Leach
Mike I know you know have to fly the flag but REALLY - the manuals are reference material. They are not a tutorial. None explain how or why. They assume a lot of background knowledge. That's why we need to pull together on the learner pack. Brian -Original Message- From: Michael

RE: [U2] Hold File Entry ID in a Basic Program

2007-02-08 Thread Brian Leach
Dave You should be able to get that using the !GET.PU subroutine (type HELP BASIC !GET.PU for details). Regards Brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Taylor Sent: 08 February 2007 02:35 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org

[U2] [BB] $OPTIONS for WRITE .. ELSE

2007-01-31 Thread Brian Leach
All A potential Better and Better request: There has been some interesting discussions going on in the jBASE list regarding compatibilty with the optional ELSE clause on the UniVerse WRITE statement: Write Record On FileVariable, Id Else Crt Unable to write record. End There is a

RE: [U2] IBM Course U2125 in Australia? {Unclassified}

2007-01-30 Thread Brian Leach
Guys, I'm converting some of my training courses into self-paced learning materials. Of course it's not the same as flying me over to Auckland! but if that would interest any of you please email me offlist and I'll push it up the priority list. Regards, Brian -Original Message-

RE: [U2] Email Archive Search

2007-01-19 Thread Brian Leach
Yes that link has been down for ages :( However, if you go to the U2UG website and choose the next menu item down (U2 Users News Feed) that opens the archive at Gmane, which has a search box at the bottom of the page. Brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [U2] re: Integration of UniVerse with Microsoft Team System 2005 {Unclassified}

2007-01-18 Thread Brian Leach
Clif You're right of course. Mea culpa - I'd forgotten that. Interestingly, using a SQL expression doesn't require that: LIST BOOK_TITLES EVAL PRICE * UNITS PRICE * UNITS WRITE attempt on read-only file. Unable to write item EVAL1496.1. I-descriptor PRICE * UNITS was not compiled. SELECT

RE: [U2] Integration of UniVerse with Microsoft Team System 2005 {Unclassified}

2007-01-17 Thread Brian Leach
Kevin Absolutely agreed: dictionaries have a strange place in the MV world since they can be user defined for a useful report, but changes might screw up a selection required for a program. Which, as we all know, can be bad bad BAD. My approach has been to make everything 'source'. Rather than

RE: [U2] re: Integration of UniVerse with Microsoft Team System 2005 {Unclassified}

2007-01-17 Thread Brian Leach
. Only designated DBA's had Unix level WRITE permissions to the DICT account - so everything was locked down. And of course, now that there are the CONV, FMT, COL.HDG and EVAL keywords in RetrieVe there is no need to use synonym dictionaries for reports, and thus no real need to give even

[U2] [BB] Calling a Java Class from a subroutine

2007-01-10 Thread Brian Leach
I think the comments today raise two Better and Better issues. 1. The ability to call Java classes from UniVerse directly would be a positive step in further opening the product and allowing developers to extend the built in functionality. jBASE already supports this through their CallJ

RE: [U2] Is there a website which has all or most of the email submitted to this list?

2007-01-09 Thread Brian Leach
Hi The listserver website is just that: it handles the list traffic rather than acting as a store. There is a searchable list of the postings at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.u2.general Regards Brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: [U2] Outputting XML to a file [uv]

2007-01-08 Thread Brian Leach
David SORT filename field field TOXML [ELEMENTS] [WITHDTD] Or SELECT fieldlist FROM filename TOXML [ELEMENTS][WITHDTD] There is a short tutorial on using XML with Retrieve on the U2UG knowledge base. (www.mvopen.org/kb) I don't think your version of uv has the 'TO' keyword to capture XML, so

RE: [U2] Outputting XML to a file [uv]

2007-01-08 Thread Brian Leach
into the titles.xml. BUT I can't get rid of the initial blank first line that way. Brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Leach Sent: 08 January 2007 09:14 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] Outputting XML to a file [uv

RE: [U2] IF Statement in PROCs

2007-01-08 Thread Brian Leach
Mark IF %1 = %2 G 40 Regards Brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Elliott Sent: 08 January 2007 11:48 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] IF Statement in PROCs Hello, I want to check to see if 2 values in

RE: [U2] IF Statement in PROCs

2007-01-08 Thread Brian Leach
Doh! I should really know this, but have never needed to compare procbuffer values in the 16years of using Pick/UniVerse. Thanks, Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Leach Sent: 08 January 2007 12:23 To: u2-users

RE: [U2] voice recognition software

2007-01-04 Thread Brian Leach
Steve I've used various voice recognition packages for dictation, with varying degrees of success. Get the best quality headset you can buy: that really makes a huge difference in accuracy. One of the unsung additions to Vista is decent voice support. MS have completely rewritten their speech

RE: [U2] Configuration Code

2007-01-03 Thread Brian Leach
Phil It's generated as part of the installation. If you're on Windows, go to the UniVerse control panel applet, select the Licence tab and you will see a button marked Config code. Brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of phil walker

[U2] Active Directory and UniVerse

2006-12-21 Thread Brian Leach
All, I have an urgent issue and hope someone can help me out. I have two sites experiencing problems logging into UniVerse TELNET sessions when using Active Directory for authentication. Both are running on Windows 2003 server SP1 with appropriate versions of UniVerse. The problem they both

RE: [U2] Active Directory and UniVerse

2006-12-21 Thread Brian Leach
) Tony Caufield IS Manager Harbor Wholesale Grocery Inc. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Leach Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 1:48 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] Active Directory and UniVerse All

RE: [U2] New list convention: [BB] prefix for enhancement ideas

2006-12-20 Thread Brian Leach
Agreed. When we first asked for enhancement requests, the simple fact was that many of them were for features that were already in the products, but people didn't realize they were there or how to get at them. So it became a question of working out what was a real enhancement request and what

Re: [U2] UniVerse Personal Edition

2006-12-13 Thread Brian Leach
You would need to think about how to restore data over 10,007 mod as uvrestore won't create the file and you can't open the file to resize it on the PE version either. Brian -Original Message- From: Francis Bennett[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13/12/06 01:15:43 To:

RE: [U2] 7 years not using UV

2006-12-13 Thread Brian Leach
Raul Yon can create a file pointer to the directory holding the file, e.g. ED VOC TMP F C:\temp D_VOC Then read the dos file as a record. If it is binary you will need to read/write from Basic using OpenSeq, ReadBlk and WriteBlk: OpenSeq c:\temp\myfile.dat to FL Then Status FStat from FL

RE: [U2] SQl vs. RetrieVe Statement

2006-12-12 Thread Brian Leach
LIST WGSTAMM WITH EVERY G.TARIF 10 Brian -Original Message- From: Babic Marinko[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12/12/06 11:06:01 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.orgu2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] SQl vs. RetrieVe Statement Hello Data on the UniVerse

RE: [U2] Welcome Back

2006-12-12 Thread Brian Leach
Bill 'Twas not 'two weeks' .. Since Thursday pm (my timezone) Typically two problems hit at the same time .. Just glad to be back :) Brian -Original Message- From: Bill Haskett[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12/12/06 18:50:11 To:

RE: [U2] Creating XML Extraction File

2006-12-04 Thread Brian Leach
David Here is a simple example (UV syntax, adjust for UniData accordingly) Hope this makes sense. I'll turn it into a knowledge base article when I have time. Assuming the following XML file: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? !DOCTYPE ROOT SYSTEM titles.dtd ROOT BOOK_TITLES

RE: [U2] Program Mgmt System

2006-12-01 Thread Brian Leach
Barry You might want to contact Susan Joslyn (SJ +) - she sells a configuration package. For deployment I'll make a shameless plug for mvInstaller (www.brianleach.co.uk) Brian -Original Message- From: Barry Rogen[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01/12/06 14:02:44 To:

RE: [U2] Printer Creeping

2006-11-30 Thread Brian Leach
Karl Is it under-running or over-running? Dave is probably right about tractor errors, but if it is over-running, does the printer auto-sense the top of form, or is the top of form/page depth manually adjustable? It's a long time since I used a greenbar, but I remember some of them had manual

RE: [U2] UniObjects for .NET - Reference / Experience / Advice

2006-11-28 Thread Brian Leach
Ray I have used UO.NET for WinForms development and found it to be fast and stable : just as its predecessor (UniObjects) has always been. I used UniObject (uvObjects) since it first came out for all kinds of heavy data applications - from 4GLs to reporting tools - and have never been

RE: [U2] UniOLEDB hangs

2006-11-28 Thread Brian Leach
Hi You might want to look at an article entitled How to Access U2 Data using ODBC and OleDB in the U2UG Knowledge Base (www.mvopen.org/kb). It is a primer and may help. Regards, Brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wang, Cody

RE: [U2] UniObjects for .NET - Reference / Experience / Advice

2006-11-28 Thread Brian Leach
Stephen Thanks. That's good to know. Brian The connection pooling portion of UO.NET has be extremely tested for one U2 Channel Partner (what we used to call VARs) that has approximately 500 end user sites that are up to over 1,000 users at some locations. This particular Partner

RE: [U2] [UV] Phantom Limits

2006-11-27 Thread Brian Leach
Stu Phantoms on uv do not consume a regular licence. However, certain functions - notably those that are socket related - will cause a phantom to consume an 'iPhantom' licence. This was to prevent unscrupulous sites circumventing the normal licencing by purchasing a small number of users and

RE: [U2] Access to IBM knowledgebase for in-house developers

2006-11-15 Thread Brian Leach
for announcements and instructions on how you can nominate yourself or someone you think can make a difference, and consider whether you want to give something to this community. Brian Leach U2UG Vice President -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Debster

RE: [U2] Slow uniobjects connections

2006-11-14 Thread Brian Leach
Marc Sorry I missed the original post. Are you connecting using the host name or directly specifying the IP address? Host name lookups can sometimes be slow. Also how are you authenticating the user ? If you are on Windows using domain credentials that can be a bottleneck. If the connection is

RE: [U2] Access to IBM knowledgebase for in-house developers

2006-11-12 Thread Brian Leach
Exactly ! A good knowledge flow opens people's eyes and creates opportunities. And it's not just an end user issue. Without knowledge flow where will the next generation of vars come from? Who will bring new blood and investment? How will we encourage developers into our market ? How much more

RE: [U2] SB+ Documentation

2006-11-08 Thread Brian Leach
An on that note, if anyone here is using SB+ and hasn't read Kevin's book - shame on you! It is an excellent resource. Brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clifton Oliver Sent: 08 November 2006 18:56 To:

RE: [U2] The Next Big Thing

2006-11-08 Thread Brian Leach
Dave Exactly. We're working on putting together a 'knowledge pack' that will include sample code (at all levels of interface), tutorials and examples. We hope this will be included in the image and will certainly be made available for download. Regards Brian -Original Message- From:

RE: [U2] The Next Big Thing

2006-11-08 Thread Brian Leach
Unfortunately when we (the U2UG board) first tried to get the IBM knowledge base opened for our members, IBM were tied by the desire of certain vars who do not want their end users to get access - something for which I have NO sympathy whatsoever. Frankly any var offering services should do so

RE: [U2] [PQ] UV ProVerb help capturing manipulating output

2006-11-07 Thread Brian Leach
Charles I don't think you can. Short of executing a little program that PROCWRITEs the result back, or creating a custom user exit. All rather cludgy. Brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stevenson, Charles Sent: 06 November

RE: [U2] Query calculating 120 days.

2006-10-25 Thread Brian Leach
You don't say what problem you're having with the second one. Can you simply create a dictionary of the form DATE_LESS_120 1 I 2 Date() - 120 3 D4 4 120 days ago 5 12R Then select with whatever date you're trying to match = DATE_LESS_120 ? Brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [U2] [OT] goodbye to the list(s)

2006-10-23 Thread Brian Leach
Claus We'll all miss your wit, exertise and the weather reports from Denmark. Good luck, Brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Claus Derlien Sent: 23 October 2006 13:00 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] [OT] goodbye

RE: [U2] [UV] Retreive Paragraph Comment Statement ?

2006-10-04 Thread Brian Leach
* will work, as long as it is followed by a space. Otherwise it will expect you mean a globally cataloged routine e.g. *MYPROG. But beware: if you comment out a line with an inline prompt, the prompt will still be run. This is an old convenient way of getting inline prompt values at the start of

RE: [U2] UniObject.Net error

2006-09-30 Thread Brian Leach
Jason Make sure you to an explicit CloseSession before exiting: Try UniObjects.CloseSession(Sess) UniObjects.CloseAllSessions() Catch ex As Exception End Try I suspect Dispose destroys the objects out of sequence. I've been using UO with .NET 2 for a year and that message is the only

RE: [U2] Web-Base Terminal Emulation

2006-09-28 Thread Brian Leach
I have been dabbling with Adobe's new Flex product, for use with UniObjects for Java. Flex looks promising. It's a lot better than writing plain old Flash. But it is still a bit of mare even with the crappy development studio thingy they've finally added.. I looked a while back at a couple

RE: [U2][UV] Version question

2006-09-21 Thread Brian Leach
LOGTO uv .L RELLEVEL Brian -Original Message- From: Nick Cipollina[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21/09/06 13:50:29 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.orgu2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2][UV] Version question How can I tell which version of universe is installed on

RE: [U2] [UV] TEXT box subroutine

2006-09-14 Thread Brian Leach
Bob I can send you one off-list. Just need to make sure I get all the dependent code :) Feel free to adjust as you wish. Brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Woodward Sent: 14 September 2006 00:02 To: U2-Users List Subject:

RE: [U2] Debugging a program using distributed files causes core dump

2006-09-14 Thread Brian Leach
To explain Stuart's remark: distributed files use a partitioning algorithm to determine which physical file the record should hash into. This algorithm can optionally be a user-supplied BASIC subroutine. So the debugger may be getting lost trying to step into the partitioning code. Which doesn't

RE: [U2] PICK/Universe training video

2006-09-14 Thread Brian Leach
Larry You might want to check out some of the webcasts offered by Nathan at International Spectrum. I think he does some intro level stuff. (http://www.intl-spectrum.com) I have some self-paced course materials if you're interested, but they're not backed up with video or webcasts at yet;

RE: [U2] Selection Problem - Index?

2006-09-11 Thread Brian Leach
Tom Is there a difference in the justification between your index and your field? Could one be looking left-aligned? Brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 September 2006 14:27 To:

RE: [U2] uo.net question

2006-09-11 Thread Brian Leach
Symeon I try not to! Basically if you are using ReadList statements, that probably means you are doing a lot of round trip processing in your application (I may be wrong since I don't know your app, so don't flame me!). Now my advice is always to avoid the direct objects likes files and select

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