The ED/AE editor has excellent inline documentation, type "HELP" at the editor
prompt, and start exploring.
As others have said, if you're using AE to edit programs, you're probably doing
it wrong. I love using it with prestores to do bulk updates of data (let's see
eclipse do that, Doug!), wh
If I have a "recall" (our terminology for a canned query) like this:
RECALL.SHELL Info-Trieve Shell03 Mar 2014
BOTW_DEV217:38:03
Command Name MARKETING.REP
Modified: ( by
If you're not already, it's a really good idea to consider creating something
that will make producing excel files (the number one choice of accounting
groups everywhere) from your "reports" easily. Many years ago we used to
physically print a bunch of reports each night, but since creating a t
I love learning little tidbits like this, that's awesome!
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Haskett
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2014 10:39 AM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] Left Outer Join Questio
The usual "pick" way to do this is to create an attribute:
AE DICT FILE1 BLACKLIST
001: I
002: TRANS("FILE2", @ID, 0, 0) ; or really old-school OCONV(@ID,"TFILE2;X;0;0")
003:
004:
005: 20L
006: S
:GET.LIST L1
1000 Items Selected
:SELECT FILE1 WITH BLACKLIST = ""
600 Items Selected
-Origi
y more
powerful products. By the way, I never was a UniData employee, just a
free-lance programmer playing a wild card. The whole deal was a
handshake and a few notes on scraps of paper.
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That's not true for me, at least in Unidata - it inserts a literal space.
Either there's a system option that controls it, or your application doesn't
care about spaces in the data ;-) Try a "CA/ /*" after entering some spaces
and see what you see?
BOTW_DEV2>ae trin.temp test
Top of New "TEST"
re in Denver.
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 5:53 PM, McGowan, Ian < james.mcgo...@bankofthewest.com>
wrote:
> It's well worth spending some time reading the AE help pages. One of
> my favorites is "help +" which ends with the gem "We could go on and
> on about thi
It's well worth spending some time reading the AE help pages. One of my
favorites is "help +" which ends with the gem "We could go on and on about
this, but you probably get it." I'm a huge fan of AE, even though I spend most
of my programming time inside a visual editor (I like joe
[http://j
vn
to the &PH& file, which would give you date / time evidence of calls to launch
(the advantage is that it has tools designed for
analysis)
JAVA ETC: Java etc calls can be logged outside of UniData.
On 7 January 2014 12:27, McGowan, Ian wrote:
> That's a good question - always g
mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson
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Subject: Re: [U2] Logging program execution in Unidata?
So Ian, everything is globally catalogued?
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To: U2 Users Li
n since being catalogued, which
always seemed to be an odd choice for me.
It may have been run a thousand times, but not run at all in the past ten years.
But if I ruled the world, things would be different.
Not better just different.
Anyway, let us know how it works for your purpose.
-Origi
answer the Q as to whether it's "actively" executed.
>
> You also get the number of times is has run since being catalogued, which
> always seemed to be an odd choice for me.
> It may have been run a thousand times, but not run at all in the past ten
> years.
>
when a program is
called and how often and by who and from where.
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Subj
file contains the most recent execution date for
> cataloged programs. Programs that are just "RUN" I don't know of any way.
>
> Dale
>
>
> On 01/06/2014 06:08 PM, McGowan, Ian wrote:
>> We're looking into a major conversion late this year, which will
&g
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Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 4:14 PM
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Subject: Re: [U2] Logging program execution in Unidata?
On 1/6/14, 7:08 PM, McGowan, Ian wrote:
> We're looking into a major convers
t: Re: [U2] Logging program execution in Unidata?
Ian,
In universe the map file contains the most recent execution date for cataloged
programs. Programs that are just "RUN" I don't know of any way.
Dale
On 01/06/2014 06:08 PM, McGowan, Ian wrote:
> We're looking into a maj
We're looking into a major conversion late this year, which will involve
checking out several thousand programs (mostly opens, reads or writes). Some
programs are run many times a day, whereas some were throwaway and haven't been
touched in years. It would be great to get some sense of which o
There's an xkcd for everthing: http://xkcd.com/1179/
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Haskett
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 6:13 PM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] [OT] Interview Questions
I actually think this is a really good solution and was my first thought.
Assuming you are allowed to update the dictionary in the source file, you could
add an ATB to do a TRANSLATE and make the select of those records that are in
the source and not in the dest easier. Do what you need to do
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5877575/a-way-for-c-code-to-access-records-from-the-universe-database
https://docs.rocketsoftware.com/nxt/gateway.dll/RKB14/unidata/7.2/intrcall.pdf
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One suggestion is to divide and conquer - break your problem into two pieces.
Before trying to make outbound requests from the HP server, use something like
SoapUI and get a handle on WSDL's and XML etc.
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[mailto:u2-users-bou
ng extra i/o for each
> RFS read. But we can usually fully recover our site in a couple of
> hours. We are on Unidata 7.1 and hope to move to Unidata 7.2.13 soon.
>
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> boun...@listserver.u2
We had a server crash 4pm yesterday (very unusual for IBM RS6000) and after
guide/fixfile we had so much data corruption that a restore from previous days
backup was needed.
The question for the list is if anyone is successfully doing RFS or other
incremental type backups? A quick google searc
I'll share the general sentiment that writing some code or debugging a live
program is important.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/02/why-cant-programmers-program.html for
why. I think it's fair to have access to google while doing this, but
reasonable people can disagree on that.
I don
Anna, welcome to U2 Users! It's a little difficult to understand your
question, don't know if google translate or someone local could help phrase it
better? Your English is definitely better than my Spanish though ;-)
Couple of suggestions, in order of easy -> hard:
1) It's not clear what you
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Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2013 1:46 PM
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Subject: Re: [U2] Interesting... Unidata VLIST options
What is "!strings" ?
I have no such command in Universe
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To:
oject itself knows the name of what it's opening.
So you can walk the object code, and reconstruct any literal strings within it.
In fact I think I have a tool that does that
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Sent: Wed, Oct 2, 2013 9:
>The use of PORT.STATUS using the "PID" option and "LAYER.STACK" (>PORT.STATUS
>PID 123456 LAYER.STACK)
> over and over again can show you what hex address in the program your process
> is at. I suggest calling this
> 50 or 100 times in a row and inspecting the output. Once you have the hex
Huh, Will, thanks for the heads up - haven't seen this message before: "Invalid
UserID 111, preferences not saved. (Preferences require cookies, but no cookie
was sent.)". Checking into that.
Another suggestion is to share code on www.github.com. Which I think applies
to anyone that codes - e
Not sure if this is elegant or an ugly hack, but running "start
/path/to/excel/file.xlsx" (or perhaps "cmd /c start ..file.xlsx") works, and
can be handy if some people use Excel and others use OpenOffice - it's driven
by whatever file associations you have in windows explorer.
Regards,
Ian
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Create new T)ranslate ATB's in Y.INFO to lookup the data in X.INFO, and just do
the query directly from Y.INFO? One thing that's common in this situation is
to have an xref file where the key is PACKET.ID and attribute 1 is a
multivalued list of keys for Y.INFO. If this is a packaged app, you
At least on Unidata you can put the foreign key in the select statement, and
that's the id that will be used:
#SELECT X WITH STATUS = "ccc" Y.PACKET.ID
#SAVE.LIST L1
#GET.LIST L1
#LIST Y
If you put two atb names in the select, they are interleaved in the resulting
saved list, which can be a qui
Assuming Unidata (because Unibasic) the IN() function is handy (a working
example at http://www.pickwiki.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?GetLineStack )
Syntax
IN( )
Description
The UniBasic IN function captures raw data from an input queue or
from a terminal.
Tip: IN can capture function, arrow, and other s
www.Pickwiki.com *is* disorganized, despite heroic attempts from Wendy, Rex and
Tony to wrangle the content. Simpler is usually better, but pickwiki may be a
little too simple - Tony did a lot of work porting 90% to mediawiki, but it's
probably too much for one person to take on.
As for assura
Not an endorsement, but my kneejerk response is java:
https://code.google.com/p/java-sharepoint-library/
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Tony Gravagno
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 3:14 PM
To: u2-u
We use smbclient, scripted as though we were doing ftp's.
DO.SMB:
FTP.REC="lcd ":LOCALDIR
FTP.REC<-1>="cd ":REMOTEDIR
FTP.REC<-1>="put ":FILE
FTP.REC<-1>="quit"
WRITE FTP.REC ON HOME.F, "FTP.SCRIPT"
PRINT "SMBing to ":ADDRESS
E="!smbclient ":ADDRESS:" ":PASSWORD:" -U ":USER:"
Not a technical solution, but after trying timeouts, tandem and nagging, what
worked for us is peer pressure. We have a menu program that users access
before getting into Unidata. I added a "show idle users" option to that
program and we trained people to call the idle offenders when they rece
Screen, or the more modern tmux, is awesome for not disconnecting - we use it
during upgrades or long-running processes in the evenings when it's possible
that the dreaded windows patches will decide to install just as you're
finishing a 4-hour process. It's also convenient in day-to-day use to
Another great tool, with a little bit of a learning curve though, is exiftool:
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
I am using it to reorganize a large photo library (which it's awesome for), but
this page talks about updating tags:
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/#writing
If you're still using telnet in 2013, that's a security problem - you must not
be in a regulated industry ;-)
Putty[1], is a free ssh client (ok, it does telnet too), that seems to be the
defacto standard on windows. My ROI is infinite, since I use it constantly and
it's free.
[1] http://www.
Seems like a fun, if tedious, exercise in understanding the internals of
compiled code. Surely different between ud and uv, given their lineage. Are
there any tools or documentation available to give a head start? Does the
debugger leak any information on the internals?
It comes down to the
Steady now - the comment was about mediawiki attracting link spammers. Nothing
'dangerous' about it, except for the google juice of the person hosting the
site.
Perhaps we can move past the conversation about code collaboration being doomed
to fail and have those who want to try give it a shot
O ye of little faith! ;-) It exists, but for me is besides the point. A wiki
is *not* a great method to collaborate on the actual code. It's obviously
possible, but there are much better ways (cough, github).
To move this from the abstract to concrete, what kind of "code" do people
imagine co
Rex Gozar wrote:
>But let's face it, nobody's going to change or tweak your program code just
>because they can. If your code is useful to them, then they might download and
>use it.
>...This is not a tool or convenience problem. Most people are simply not
>inspired
>to share what they know; tho
I respectfully disagree - through the years the few times I've been royally
screwed, it's always by a closed-source vendor. I have never made a major
commitment to an open-source tool and been burned. Debian, Eclipse, Tomcat,
Apache and Postgres have been good to me for a long time. Not sayin
The one on PickWiki (http://www.pickwiki.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?TclStack) is mine,
and attempts to be somewhat "bash compatible" with ^A, ^E, ^D doing the usual
things. It is (unfortunately) vt100 centric, with a small nod at wy50. I've
had plans forever to add tab-expansion of file names but y'a
Only 20 minutes!? How many times did he say "Orthogonal"? The best part of
comp.databases.pick was teasing meaning from Henry's posts. It was always
worth the effort, but often required a dictionary ;-)
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It turns out to be at that threshold where it interferes with the day job.
Setting up mediawiki isn't a big deal, but the conversion from the current
format is a semi-manual process.
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.o
If you want to script some process, passing it input as though a real user were
typing, "expect" is a good tool to use.
http://www.nist.gov/mel/msid/expect.cfm
I'm not sure if it will help your sigint problem, but it should be immune to
the CLEARINPUT verb...
Ian McGowan
925.609.2554
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If you can, email the user a pdf :-)
I went to a lot of trouble many years ago printing via samba on AIX to local
windows printers, and while it worked, it was painful to support (and then the
requirements changed to have remote users with ssh but not vpn access).
You can do some amazing things
] On Behalf Of McGowan, Ian
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 6:25 PM
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Subject: Re: [U2] AccuTerm File Transfer
If you can arrange for the terminal emulator to run a command, you can fire off
(for example):
"cmd /c start http://myserver/files/abc123.pdf";
And the end user
If you can arrange for the terminal emulator to run a command, you can fire off
(for example):
"cmd /c start http://myserver/files/abc123.pdf";
And the end user's PC will launch the default browser and attempt to connect to
the web service. You set the mime-type to application/pdf, include som
Before everyone piles in, those candidates who cannot figure out which
continent this job is offered on need not apply..
:-)
Ian McGowan
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bryan Evans
Sent: Friday, A
OpenQM or MaVerick seem to be the only options for freely distributing a pick
basic runtime. MaVerick may be interesting, in that it cross compiles pick
basic to java. Robert Calhoun (?) has an antlr parser for basic.
http://www.maverick-dbms.org/doc/install.html
http://www.maverick-dbms.org/s
Java or .Net, the red pill or the blue pill :-)
You can use uniobjects to connect to your existing data and actually
deliver some business value as you learn things. Write some web based
query screens that you can roll out to the existing userbase. They
won't care how rough it is, it will blow t
doug chanco wrote:
>The main issue I am trying to get resolved is to lock the record at the
pick level , in
>case someone does nto check out a code and then tries to edit it when
another developer
>already has it checked out, since most of our developers use a "pick
aware" editor as
>long as the r
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