RE: [U2] Unidata proc manual

2006-08-08 Thread Karjala Koponen
I've never seen one. I came from a Prime environment to UniData and, of course, didn't have a clue how to interpret all the procs. I finally found the MicroData manuals from before the company's conversion to UniData and used those. Based on my experience, I'd guess that proc manuals for other

RE: [U2] UniData performance problems

2006-06-08 Thread Karjala Koponen
Brad, Others will undoubtedly talk about file sizing issues. We had a problem where we had some jobs locking up to 30,000 records where the system was geared to handle, maybe, scores or hundreds of locks. Jobs that should have taken a minute, or less, were taking hours. I wrote a program to

RE: [U2] [UD] Not a verb Paragraph Error between accounts

2005-11-28 Thread Karjala Koponen
Caleb, 'LANDSCAPE' is not a standard verb but is apparently some piece of custom code on your system. The VOC entry for 'LANDSCAPE' exists in the one account but is missing in the other. You can copy VOC LANDSCAPE from one account to another after finding/creating a VOC file pointer in one

RE: [U2] Is there a way to associate un-associated multi-value fields on the fly?

2005-11-28 Thread Karjala Koponen
Mick, I'm not aware of any method of overriding the association field 7 of a dictionary. A couple of thoughts: 1) Create a copy of the dictionary that has the association you desire and use the 'USING DICT alt dictionary' phrase. 2) Write a subroutine that accepts the parameters (fields, for

Re: [U2][UV] UPS rate calculator

2005-10-27 Thread Karjala Koponen
Is this something that can be done with the U2 SOAP API as written up by Nik Kesic of IBM at http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/dm-0508kesic/ ? The link came from the U2UG site. Karjala [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/26/2005 7:35:49 PM Has anyone directly integrated UPS's

RE: [U2] printing images through unidata

2005-09-27 Thread Karjala Koponen
refused to print (I caught a typo). I'm not really a PCL 5 guy, I just happened to have the most experience using it in my group... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-u2- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karjala Koponen Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 3:24 PM To: u2

RE: [U2] Good Programming Practice Question.........

2005-09-27 Thread Karjala Koponen
But I take the middle road with labels like: A001.mainline: code RETURN ;* from A001.mainline A010.open.and.init B100.select.file B200.pre-process.validity.checks C500.print.invoices C700.update.files Z900.error that I order by prefix. I get ordering, description, and grouping. I also

Re: [U2] SQL Grant Rights

2005-09-14 Thread Karjala Koponen
Kevin, I ran into this when we moved data from one machine to another and the UIDs as shown in listuser were not the same for the userid. The 'privilege' file in the account where you're doing the VSG processing has some records with IDs that look like 39 Top of 100*JOB_TIME_DIRECT_COST in

RE: [U2] Phantoms - The license debate

2005-07-29 Thread Karjala Koponen
From the UniData 6.1 readme (accessed through the product availability matrix) in the UniData 6.0.13 section: Issue 32049 - Problem Description UniData -- Historically, PHANTOM processes have been used only for batch or background processing that allowed no interaction. As such, no database

[U2] running enable and disable commands on Solaris 2.8

2005-07-05 Thread Karjala Koponen
We are converting from AIX to Solaris 2.8 with UniData 6.0.9. On AIX I could put users into the printq group and they could run procs/paragraphs that execute PTRENABLE and PTRDISABLE commands when mounting and printing on forms and then returning to normal stock. I have found that I cannot do

[U2] Solaris, SBClient, keyboard and terminal issues (missing @(-n) variables)

2005-03-29 Thread Karjala Koponen
I am running UniData 6.0.9 on a Sparc running Solaris 8. I am using SBClient 5.2.4. ... 2) How do I set the @(-n) variables that have no value, like @(-52), which should have something to match to the delete key, but is empty? A little more looking at this piece - I suspect the reason is

[U2] [AD] Software Developer - Central Vermont, USA

2005-01-28 Thread Karjala Koponen
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RE: [U2] UniData index behavior

2005-01-10 Thread Karjala Koponen
We are running UniData 5.2 on AIX 4.3.2. I have defined 16 alternate indices on a file. I have always ASSUMED (why?) that when a record is written that all indices are updated, even when values have not changed. I have run into some index behavior that shows that I am mistaken and that the

RE: [U2] [UV] UO.NET

2004-10-22 Thread Karjala Koponen
Nick, Peter, You can get UO.NET from the UniData 6.1 client utilities CD. If you're on UniVerse I expect that you might have a harder time getting an upgrade CD to UniData than a UniData user would. Other than that I believe that we will have to wait for the UniData 6.1 personal edition to

RE: [U2] Any work on UD 6.1 PE?

2004-10-12 Thread Karjala Koponen
I asked at the IBM database conference. It's got to go through the release process (question to leaky memory self: were there outstanding non-technical issues?) and hoped to be available in November. I cannot recall what part of November but I'd assume later rather than earlier. No

RE: [U2] UniData index sort oddness

2004-10-07 Thread Karjala Koponen
. Karjala ... -Original Message- From: Karjala Koponen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... I recently added an additional alternate index to one of my files. ... The sort order of SELECT JOB WITH CONO = 001 changed from an ascending ID sort before the re-indexing to a descending ID sort after. I did

[U2] UniData index sort oddness

2004-10-06 Thread Karjala Koponen
I recently added an additional alternate index to one of my files. Procedure: DELETE.INDEX JOB ALL CREATE.INDEX JOB CONO fourteen other fields DESC at the prompt for length I entered 50. BUILD.INDEX ALL I changed the length from 8 to 50. 8 was already too short for some of the existing

RE: [U2] UniData index sort oddness

2004-10-06 Thread Karjala Koponen
Message- From: Karjala Koponen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... I recently added an additional alternate index to one of my files. ... The sort order of SELECT JOB WITH CONO = 001 changed from an ascending ID sort before the re-indexing to a descending ID sort after. I did the same things

RE: [U2] UniData index sort oddness

2004-10-06 Thread Karjala Koponen
to get the proper handling of numbers like 001 - although we weren't working with an index at the time. Sorry, I don't recall which option it was Hth Colin Alfke -Original Message- From: Karjala Koponen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... I recently added an additional alternate index to one

Re: [U2] vi editor question - using DUP

2004-09-29 Thread Karjala Koponen
Brad, I learned vi from O'Reilly's Learning the vi Editor that also comes with a pocket reference. I'm not remembering mode names at this point and somebody else has the book so: I use uppercase 'Y' to select a single line or 'nY' to select multiple (n) lines when in command(?) mode - not

[U2] Copying transactions to outside database via ODBC

2004-09-13 Thread Karjala Koponen
UniData 5.2 on AIX. I want to copy transactions from UniData to a FileMaker database. My intention is to: 1) copy the transactions to an upload transaction file 2) initiate an ODBC query to pull the records into FileMaker 2a) one of the dictionary items will write a flag to the record as it is

RE: [U2] EVAL formatting

2004-08-20 Thread Karjala Koponen
I run on UniData 5.2. I have used the first field conversion and formatting feature of EVAL by inserting a field that has the conversion and formatting I want as the first 'phrase' (stuff to first semi colon) of an EVAL statement as in ... EVAL FIELD.WITH.CONV.FMT.DESIRED;eval I want that

Re: [U2] [UD] READU

2004-07-19 Thread Karjala Koponen
Shawn, Somebody else will undoubtedly answer more technically but a file variable is a beast you cannot put in a dynamic array and expect to be read correctly. Use a dimensioned array. Karjala [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/19/2004 3:59:00 PM I'm attempting to use READU in the following fashion, but

Re: [U2] Unidata 6 XML DTD question

2004-07-01 Thread Karjala Koponen
According to my O'Reilly XML Pocket Reference 2nd ed. page 25 the occurrence operator * appearing within the parentheses means that the single element (or a grouping of elements contained inside parentheses) May appear any number of times or not at all (zero or more times). The ? occurrence

RE: [U2] Date Conversion Format

2004-06-10 Thread Karjala Koponen
To be explicit, I think you'll have to create a dictionary item. I don't know how to do a date conversion with spaces removed using a single date conversion function/format. Something on my wish list... (UniData) - of course the second conversion could be in attribute 3. 001: V 002:

Re: [U2] Date Conversion Format

2004-06-10 Thread Karjala Koponen
Ed, Wonderful! Another technique I had no idea existed. Karjala [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/10/2004 11:17:14 AM D4A {value-mark} MCN Ed Weissman - Original Message - From: Dave S [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: U2 USERS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 10:20 AM Subject: [U2] Date