Re: [U2] Reporting Tools

2014-03-03 Thread Rutherford, Marc
Jeff, I would second Rodney Baakkonen's suggestion of writing out your delimited data to a Unix directory and ftp the blob to wherever the user would like to find it. This vastly expands the possible size limitations you would next hit at the Unix level. Of course if the existing reports

Re: [U2] UD PE 7.1.0 - Use of EXECUTE with the RTNLIST option

2013-11-21 Thread Rutherford, Marc
Bruce, The order of the clauses is important. I always use in the following sequence: EXECUTE stmt PASSLIST RTNLIST CAPTURING RETURNING Marc Rutherford Principal Programmer/Analyst Advanced Bionics LLC 661 362-1754 -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org

Re: [U2] [OT] Interview Questions

2013-10-08 Thread Rutherford, Marc
My all-time best interview was 20 years ago at FigiGraphics in San Diego. I was given a (Basic) program I was told had 12 known bugs in it. I was given twenty minutes to find and fix them. Some were trivial, but annoying to debug none the less. Others were more subtle, and several involved

Re: [U2] [OT] Interview Questions

2013-10-08 Thread Rutherford, Marc
don't suppose you have a copy of that program you'd be willing to share? Charlie On 10-08-2013 10:10 AM, Rutherford, Marc wrote: My all-time best interview was 20 years ago at FigiGraphics in San Diego. I was given a (Basic) program I was told had 12 known bugs in it. I was given twenty

Re: [U2] Large DICT affecting I/O

2013-08-07 Thread Rutherford, Marc
Jerry, As previous posts have pointed out a Dictionary is no different than any other file. It need to be properly sized for the data it holds. When properly sized will have maximum performance by definition. No need to 'split' files At TCL: 'file.stat DICT filename'

Re: [U2] [way ot] - Electronic Button Purshers?

2013-05-03 Thread Rutherford, Marc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solenoid Marc Rutherford Principal Programmer Analyst Advanced Bionics LLC 661) 362 1754 -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of George Gallen Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 8:32

Re: [U2] What tools do you use for data warehouse...

2013-04-26 Thread Rutherford, Marc
Ditto. We have used Kourier for over eight years; it has been definitely an IT 'best buy' for us. We support a data warehouse and numerous edi/system integrations. Marc Rutherford Principal Programmer Analyst Advanced Bionics LLC 661) 362 1754 -Original Message- From:

Re: [U2] Unidata index and short-circuit evaluation

2013-03-08 Thread Rutherford, Marc
Jeffery, I would say #1 does the trick. Any U2 TCL query evaluates from left to right. When one term eliminates the record the query on that record stops, and the query continues to the next record. So #1 is exactly your most effective, leaving the complex i-descriptor to evaluate only

Re: [U2] VOC Pointer

2013-03-04 Thread Rutherford, Marc
John, If this is one-time manual transfer I would suggest you use ftp. Marc Rutherford Principal Programmer Analyst Advanced Bionics LLC 661) 362 1754 -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Israel, John

Re: [U2] VOC Pointer

2013-03-04 Thread Rutherford, Marc
So --- you want to a Unix process to drive a script (Remote Procedure Call) which would run on Windows; the RPC would gather the required files from elsewhere in the Windows world a copy them to the share folder? Marc Rutherford Principal Programmer Analyst Advanced Bionics LLC 661) 362 1754

Re: [U2] VOC Pointer

2013-03-04 Thread Rutherford, Marc
-Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Rutherford, Marc Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 4:24 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] VOC Pointer So --- you want to a Unix process to drive a script (Remote Procedure

Re: [U2] Q-Pointers

2012-09-13 Thread Rutherford, Marc
] On Behalf Of Rutherford, Marc Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 8:27 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Q-Pointers I recently read a piece by Brian Stone that 'Q-pointer' meant 'Query-Pointer'. It was part of a Pick history discussion I believe on Linked In. Sorry I don't have the reference at hand

Re: [U2] Q-Pointers

2012-09-10 Thread Rutherford, Marc
I recently read a piece by Brian Stone that 'Q-pointer' meant 'Query-Pointer'. It was part of a Pick history discussion I believe on Linked In. Sorry I don't have the reference at hand now. I will see if I can track it down tonight. Marc Rutherford Principal Programmer Analyst Advanced

Re: [U2] Friday type of question

2012-08-31 Thread Rutherford, Marc
David, Create an 'I' type dictionary which with this function: 1 Top of REC_LEN 001: I 002: LEN( @RECORD ) 003: 004: LEN 005: 10R 006: S Select the file with your new dict = 0 SELECT PARTS WITH REC_LEN = 0 Marc Rutherford Principal Programmer Analyst Advanced Bionics LLC 661) 362 1754

Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay?

2012-08-30 Thread Rutherford, Marc
Ah yes, Microdata - my first Pick machine. We were running a 32 user ERP on 64K of main memory and a 30MB drive. Marc Rutherford Principal Programmer Analyst Advanced Bionics LLC 661) 362 1754 -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org

Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay?

2012-08-29 Thread Rutherford, Marc
Additionally I would use RQM in batch loops that ran for a huge number of iterations, and where I was not concerned about the final completion time. At the end of each loop I would issue RQM would release any remaining time-slice - I would get my big butt out of the way. This would allow

Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay?

2012-08-27 Thread Rutherford, Marc
While OT to your question, I miss the true RQM (release quantum) from the OS days. A nice way to make a resource-hungry program more courteous to other users. Marc Rutherford Principal Programmer Analyst Advanced Bionics LLC 661) 362 1754 -Original Message- From:

[U2] Sockets programming on Unidata

2012-08-20 Thread Rutherford, Marc
Unidata 7.1.8 HP-UX 11.11i I am attempting my first sockets programming project. It appears that 'initServerSocket' and 'openSocket' are working OK. 'getSocketInformation' returns info. But 'acceptConnection' only seems to timeout, yet it returns a RESULT of '0' (no error). The

Re: [U2] Sockets programming on Unidata

2012-08-20 Thread Rutherford, Marc
Got it, I am the client - so the 'init' and 'accept' not applicable. So I should both 'write' and 'read' using the same SocketHandle? Marc Rutherford Principal Programmer Analyst Advanced Bionics LLC 661) 362 1754 -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org

Re: [U2] Sockets programming on Unidata

2012-08-20 Thread Rutherford, Marc
Works like a charm, Thanks Larry. Marc Rutherford Principal Programmer Analyst Advanced Bionics LLC 661) 362 1754 -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of lar...@wcs-corp.com Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012

Re: [U2] trimming a list (a test of your ability)

2012-07-12 Thread Rutherford, Marc
Use 'STEP -1' so as to work from the back to front. That would avoid the need to reset DISPLAY.LOOP and KEY.COUNT 1295 FOR DISPLAY.LOOP = KEY.COUNT TO 1 STEP -1 1296 UTILITY.ID = KEY.LIST1,DISPLAY.LOOP 1297 GOSUB GET.UTILITY.RECORD 1298 IF

Re: [U2] Reasons to continue with Software vendor support

2012-06-29 Thread Rutherford, Marc
John, This is tough one, it happened to me and I lost out. I personally miss the convenience of grabbing the phone and calling my 'old friends', but I have found that I can plow through most problems. For our management the main consideration is that we will not be doing any future upgrades

Re: [U2] Reasons to continue with Software vendor support

2012-06-29 Thread Rutherford, Marc
-Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Rutherford, Marc Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 9:16 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Reasons to continue with Software vendor support John, This is tough one, it happened

Re: [U2] Why did this compile??

2012-06-08 Thread Rutherford, Marc
Ditto, I have found using liberal white space has saved me a lot of trouble over the years. Plus now that my eyes are 'of a certain age' I appreciate even more the habit of an easy-read coding style. Marc Rutherford Principal Programmer Analyst Advanced Bionics LLC 661) 362 1754

Re: [U2] User timeout question

2012-05-01 Thread Rutherford, Marc
On Unidata use TIMEOUT.This will logoff the session when inactive keyboard exceeds the desired time period. Marc Rutherford Principal Programmer Analyst Advanced Bionics LLC 661) 362 1754 -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org

[U2] Monitoring a U2 server?

2012-04-13 Thread Rutherford, Marc
I have a request to help setup a monitoring process for Unidata on HP-UX. So far the outside tools have not been specified, but will most likely be MS Windows based. I am looking for any examples/documentation on what can be done to provide visibility into system status. Has anyone done

Re: [U2] Monitoring a U2 server?

2012-04-13 Thread Rutherford, Marc
that could send out an email or sms. David A. Green (480) 813-1725 DAG Consulting -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Rutherford, Marc Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 8:50 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org

Re: [U2] Monitoring a U2 server?

2012-04-13 Thread Rutherford, Marc
monitoring system. You can look at it for inspiration (or show it as proof of concept, or just use it). I haven't checked XAdmin though. hth Colin -Original Message- From: Rutherford, Marc Sent: April 13, 2012 9:50 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] Monitoring a U2 server? I

Re: [U2] Monitoring a U2 server?

2012-04-13 Thread Rutherford, Marc
there was some issue with that particular thing. I think you need to define what sort of things you want to monitor. -Original Message- From: Rutherford, Marc marc.rutherf...@advancedbionics.com To: u2-users u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Fri, Apr 13, 2012 8:50 am Subject: [U2] Monitoring a U2

Re: [U2] Monitoring a U2 server?

2012-04-13 Thread Rutherford, Marc
list of services available on this machine. Oh, and did I mention it's free. Rutherford, Marc wrote: I have a request to help setup a monitoring process for Unidata on HP-UX. So far the outside tools have not been specified, but will most likely be MS Windows based. I am looking for any

Re: [U2] Change default UniVerse account on Solaris and ManFact

2012-04-06 Thread Rutherford, Marc
John, On our HP-UX I look in '/home'. There is a directory for each user id and '.profile' is in there. Marc Rutherford Principal Programmer Analyst Advanced Bionics LLC 661) 362 1754 -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org

[U2] Is It Time for NoSql 2.0?

2012-03-02 Thread Rutherford, Marc
I am posting this as a share only because it has 'multi' in the copy; I will study up it more this evening. Is It Time for NoSql 2.0? HyperDex employs a unique multi-dimensional hash function to enable efficient search operations...

Re: [U2] Including Code - A Best Practice?

2012-02-08 Thread Rutherford, Marc
Baker, In production at my current site I have used Include only once, but for reasons very different from what has already been discussed. I have a Shipment print program customized into a true monster. It had not been rolled forward during previous vendor (Dataflo) upgrades because of the

Re: [U2] DataFlo

2011-10-11 Thread Rutherford, Marc
AB runs Dataflo -18 years and going strong. Marc Rutherford Principal Programmer Analyst Advanced Bionics LLC 661) 362 1754 -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of John Varney Sent: Tuesday, October 11,