Re: RE: [U2] OCONV Extraction Question - Good Practice

2007-11-27 Thread Colin Jennings
Good code. What (TF) is that and how does that relate to a statements inclusion in a manual or not? Explain yourself and - the rules for you are - don't peek in a dictionary or use an electronic grammar or spell checker. ;-) Stuart Boydell Hi Stuart. Ignoring all dictionary and thesaurus

RE: RE: [U2] OCONV Extraction Question - Good Practice

2007-11-26 Thread Symeon Breen
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry Banker Sent: 23 November 2007 16:18 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: RE: [U2] OCONV Extraction Question - Good Practice I felt the same way with that part of the test. I have never seen a need for some of the conversion codes

Re: RE: [U2] OCONV Extraction Question - Good Practice

2007-11-26 Thread Colin Jennings
Yeah - I remember thinking on some of those conversion questions that I did not really know what they did - when it comes to strange or complex conversions like that I just get the manual out. It is certainly not something one does every day. Symeon. Exactly the point I was making - if

RE: RE: [U2] OCONV Extraction Question - Good Practice

2007-11-26 Thread Symeon Breen
- well there are thousands of them -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colin Jennings Sent: 26 November 2007 10:23 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: RE: [U2] OCONV Extraction Question - Good Practice Yeah - I remember thinking

RE: RE: [U2] OCONV Extraction Question - Good Practice

2007-11-26 Thread Boydell, Stuart
Good code. What (TF) is that and how does that relate to a statements inclusion in a manual or not? Explain yourself and - the rules for you are - don't peek in a dictionary or use an electronic grammar or spell checker. ;-) Stuart Boydell -Original Message- Yeah - I remember thinking

RE: [U2] OCONV Extraction Question - Good Practice

2007-11-23 Thread Brenda Price
Oh yeah, what Certification ? If any exists, I haven't stumbled upon it. Mark Johnson Go to http://www-03.ibm.com/certify/tests/test_index_bd.shtml#0 If you look down the page you will see the list of certifications IBM has available for U2, just under the Informix certifications, there are 6,

Re: RE: [U2] OCONV Extraction Question - Good Practice

2007-11-23 Thread MAJ Programming
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RE: RE: [U2] OCONV Extraction Question - Good Practice

2007-11-23 Thread Jerry Banker
@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: RE: [U2] OCONV Extraction Question - Good Practice Go to http://www-03.ibm.com/certify/tests/test_index_bd.shtml#0 If you look down the page you will see the list of certifications IBM has available for U2, just under the Informix certifications, there are 6

Re: RE: [U2] OCONV Extraction Question - Good Practice

2007-11-23 Thread Colin Jennings
Go to http://www-03.ibm.com/certify/tests/test_index_bd.shtml#0 If you look down the page you will see the list of certifications IBM has available for U2, just under the Informix certifications, there are 6, 5 for UniData and UniVerse Administration and 1 for U2 Family Application Development.

RE: [U2] OCONV Extraction Question - Good Practice

2007-11-23 Thread Jerry Banker
or the conferences free of charge. Otherwise, I believe they are available at any time for a charge. Jerry -Original Message- From: MAJ Programming [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 11:49 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] OCONV Extraction Question

Re: [U2] OCONV Extraction Question - Good Practice

2007-11-22 Thread MAJ Programming
: Thursday, November 22, 2007 1:56 AM Subject: RE: [U2] OCONV Extraction Question - Good Practice Using FMT forces correct syntax use. Having the trailing formatting characters, can cause all kinds of issues with small typos in the code (especially when the compiler just takes it all in it's stride

Re: [U2] OCONV Extraction Question - Good Practice

2007-11-21 Thread MAJ Programming
@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 10:00 AM Subject: RE: [U2] OCONV Extraction Question - Good Practice I don't like it. I've been in the language for over 25 years and have passed the certification a couple of times and when I looked at this I was scratching my head for a while. Obviously you

Re: [U2] OCONV Extraction Question - Good Practice

2007-11-21 Thread MAJ Programming
- From: Susan Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 3:56 PM Subject: Re: [U2] OCONV Extraction Question - Good Practice Also, according to the UniBasic Reference Manual, The FMT function can produce different results based on the BASICTYPE setting

RE: [U2] OCONV Extraction Question - Good Practice

2007-11-21 Thread Womack, Adrian
-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] OCONV Extraction Question - Good Practice I gotta ask. How is it a disaster waiting to happen. This 'best practices' exercise may die an early death with such unauthorized conclusions. How are you judging the CRT example as 'disasterous'. Mark Johnson

RE: [U2] OCONV Extraction Question - Good Practice

2007-11-20 Thread Jerry Banker
. -Original Message- From: MAJ Programming [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 11:12 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] OCONV Extraction Question - Good Practice Oddly enough, to make things more interesting, I would have coded it this way: CRT VAR1R0#6: :VAR2

Re: [U2] OCONV Extraction Question - Good Practice

2007-11-20 Thread Jeff Schasny
(VAR3,MD4),R#14) The old method is a disaster waiting to happen. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MAJ Programming Sent: Tuesday, 20 November 2007 2:12 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] OCONV Extraction Question - Good

RE: [U2] OCONV Extraction Question - Good Practice

2007-11-20 Thread Bill Haskett
. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MAJ Programming Sent: Tuesday, 20 November 2007 2:12 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] OCONV Extraction Question - Good Practice Here begins the voting for differences. I actually do

Re: [U2] OCONV Extraction Question - Good Practice

2007-11-20 Thread Susan Lynch
: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 3:14 PM Subject: RE: [U2] OCONV Extraction Question - Good Practice Adrian: I'm not sure about the disaster part. We've moved from D3 to Unidata (a trying experience) and the string handling seems to work fine. We have code like: CRT OCONV(VAR1, 'MD0') R(#06) : CRT

Re: [U2] OCONV Extraction Question - Good Practice

2007-11-19 Thread MAJ Programming
: RE: [U2] OCONV Extraction Question - Good Practice The problem of printing non-atomic data gets worse when doing reports with tables, that is, long lines with several variables. Consider the following remedy. The alternative is a nightmare. --Bill Speaking of mis-used commands and side

RE: [U2] OCONV Extraction Question - Good Practice

2007-11-19 Thread Womack, Adrian
to happen. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MAJ Programming Sent: Tuesday, 20 November 2007 2:12 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] OCONV Extraction Question - Good Practice Here begins the voting for differences. I