Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-08-02 Thread Hona, David
' Subject: Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing Dale The stamp I use assigns a dummy variable using strings that contain searchable keys. That means when the code is compiled these strings end up unaltered in the object code string table, so that they can be easily found and extracted. For example

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-08-02 Thread Wjhonson
Subject: Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing David I add version stamps to my code that compile into the object code, so at least I can easily check that the source and object (including that in catdir) matches what I expect. That's at least a small and easy step in the right direction, though

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-08-01 Thread Hona, David
., etc. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Haskett Sent: Wednesday, 31 July 2013 6:06 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing John: That's an interesting thought. We do

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-08-01 Thread Brian Leach
-Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Hona, David Sent: 01 August 2013 10:49 To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing In UV we're had similar strange problems with seemingly unchanged

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-08-01 Thread dale kelley
-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Hona, David Sent: 01 August 2013 10:49 To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing In UV we're had similar strange problems with seemingly unchanged source/object code - not work as per normal and things going amiss for no good reason

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-08-01 Thread Brian Leach
-Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of dale kelley Sent: 01 August 2013 12:27 To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing Brian, Is the stamp just VERSION = 123 ,? Could you explain what you

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-07-30 Thread John Hester
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 12:25 PM To: U2 Mail List Subject: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing We've been having an anomaly that has occurred over the past 7 years we've been using UniData on Windows. Yesterday one of the accounts on our ASP server, that contains about 30 accounts, had a billing

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-07-30 Thread Bill Haskett
- Original Message - *From:* jhes...@momtex.com *To:* U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org *Date:* 7/30/2013 11:01 AM *Subject:* Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing I would also consider the possibility of data corruption at the hardware

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-07-29 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: Charlie Noah 1. If POLREC6 is null, an empty value won't be inserted... 2. INSERT sometimes doesn't like delimited source 3. If POLREC6 has multivalues itself... Charlie, you present a valid discussion of a failure with the Insert statement, but that might not be the problem at

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-07-26 Thread dale kelley
This is all very interesting to hear. I have a customer who has occasional instances when they complain that a supply receipt has failed to update the last receipt fields. This is the code: 0092: *** 0093: 7000:* UPDATE

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-07-26 Thread Israel, John R.
suspect)? JRI -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of dale kelley Sent: Friday, July 26, 2013 9:42 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing This is all very interesting to hear. I

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-07-26 Thread Woodward, Bob
Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of dale kelley Sent: Friday, July 26, 2013 6:42 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing This is all very interesting to hear. I have a customer who has occasional

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-07-26 Thread dale kelley
Thanks Bob, I'll try that validation, maybe even write SUPREC and read it back for another validation. (It's a low intensity system.) At least that way I could be telling them rather than them telling me! dale ___ U2-Users mailing list

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-07-26 Thread David A. Green
Consulting -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of dale kelley Sent: Friday, July 26, 2013 9:32 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing Thanks Bob, I'll try that validation, maybe even write

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-07-26 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: Woodward, Bob If this occasional problem is consistently the same lines then just validate the insert afterwards... Dale, don't accept that solution. (Sorry Bob) Note, we're still not really Sure yet that this is a good definition of the problem, just a working theory... Overall, the

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-07-26 Thread Woodward, Bob
-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing From: Woodward, Bob If this occasional problem is consistently the same lines then just validate the insert afterwards... Dale, don't accept that solution. (Sorry Bob) Note, we're still not really Sure yet that this is a good

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-07-26 Thread dale kelley
Tony made a key qualification in his suggestion, paying customer. In this case, the system has been unupgraded for 7 and unsupported for 6 years. (With this exception UniVerse is just so dependable!) I've noticed that hard to track problems just become albatrosses around the customer

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-07-26 Thread Charlie Noah
Tony, I think Bob may have a good troubleshooting technique here. It would be simple to eliminate causes. Line 107 has a couple of potential problems: 0107: SUPREC = INSERT(SUPREC,2,1,0,POLREC6) I have seen these 3 situations in more than 1 MV implementation/flavor - 1. If POLREC6 is null,

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-07-26 Thread dale kelley
On 07/26/2013 04:37 PM, Charlie Noah wrote: Tony, I think Bob may have a good troubleshooting technique here. It would be simple to eliminate causes. Line 107 has a couple of potential problems: 0107: SUPREC = INSERT(SUPREC,2,1,0,POLREC6) I have seen these 3 situations in more than 1 MV

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-07-26 Thread Robert
Could you post the entire program in case there are the frame boundary issues that Tony talked about? Thanks, Robert Norman ROBERT NORMAN AND ASSOCIATES 23441 Golden Springs Dr., #289, Diamond Bar, CA 91765 (951) 541-1668 i...@keyway.net mailto:i...@keyway.net http://users.keyway.net/~ice/

[U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-07-25 Thread Bill Haskett
We've been having an anomaly that has occurred over the past 7 years we've been using UniData on Windows. Yesterday one of the accounts on our ASP server, that contains about 30 accounts, had a billing issue. This issue was created because a single BASIC program didn't run a couple of lines

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-07-25 Thread Wjhonson
Put the five into a single transaction. You will never see the issue again -Original Message- From: Bill Haskett wphask...@advantos.net To: U2 Mail List U2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Thu, Jul 25, 2013 12:25 pm Subject: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing We've been having

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-07-25 Thread Tony Gravagno
Bill, at Pick Systems we occasionally saw issues like this, where the object code would behave differently if specific statements (their opcodes/tokens) were broken across frame boundaries. Until DBMS patches become available, the problem could be avoided with some carefully-placed NULL

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-07-25 Thread Woodward, Bob
. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Tony Gravagno Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 1:05 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing Bill, at Pick Systems we occasionally saw issues

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-07-25 Thread Robert
I have seen this recently with either UNIVERSE or UNIDATA. I don't remember which. I have very very rarely seen this happen in 26 years. I believe it is a glitch in the compiler or in the RUN command. I was able to rewrite the offending part of the program and it would work. I wish I had the

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-07-25 Thread Robert
Subject: Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing Bill, at Pick Systems we occasionally saw issues like this, where the object code would behave differently if specific statements (their opcodes/tokens) were broken across frame boundaries. Until DBMS patches become available, the problem could be avoided

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-07-25 Thread Bill Haskett
...@keyway.net *To:* U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org *Date:* 7/25/2013 1:57 PM *Subject:* Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing I just remembered another situation I saw once where a program behaved strangely. When we used the command to verify the object code (BVERIFY?) it didn't verify

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-07-25 Thread Bill Haskett
- *From:* 3xk547...@sneakemail.com *To:* u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org *Date:* 7/25/2013 1:04 PM *Subject:* Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing Bill, at Pick Systems we occasionally saw issues like this, where the object code would behave differently if specific statements (their opcodes/tokens) were

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-07-25 Thread Wjhonson
You can turn off automatic reboots. -Original Message- From: Bill Haskett wphask...@advantos.net To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Thu, Jul 25, 2013 3:11 pm Subject: Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing Robert: ...the object code became corrupt due to a system

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-07-25 Thread Bob Wyatt
of luck! Regards, Bob Wyatt -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Haskett Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 6:11 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing As always, thanks G-Man! I

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-07-25 Thread Wjhonson
Do you have the two-inch lead shielding around your server room to block cosmic rays? -Original Message- From: Bob Wyatt bwyatt_...@comcast.net To: 'U2 Users List' u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Thu, Jul 25, 2013 5:28 pm Subject: Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing I recall

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-07-25 Thread Bob Wyatt
Subject: Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing Do you have the two-inch lead shielding around your server room to block cosmic rays? -Original Message- From: Bob Wyatt bwyatt_...@comcast.net To: 'U2 Users List' u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Thu, Jul 25, 2013 5:28 pm Subject: Re

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-07-25 Thread Ed Clark
Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 8:36 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing Do you have the two-inch lead shielding around your server