How do you make critical program changes for update routines against your production databases? The creation of a separate account for testing and training is a keystone for good program development. The ingrained mindset needs to changed by you "the new kid" to take the shop forward in basic software development practices. It will be a lot of work up front since probably like our own "garage" built system most of the VOC file pointers are hard-coded to a directory. If not then there should be some cheap used IBM hardware systems that you could purchase.
The perennial question is how much money would it cost the company to hand enter all the transactions for one day, if some program corrupts your data? Garry L. Smith Dir Info Systems Charles McMurray Company V# 559-292-5782 F# 559-346-6169 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doug Chanco Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 8:36 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] execute code/proc question HELP!!!!!!!! Yeah we discussed the separate account idea 9we did that at my last job) but here its more difficult and for ,whatever> reason people are against it <sigh> Your other idea is not bad, but then we would have to change it in any calling programs BUT I suppose that may be the best I can get out of universe. Hopefully there is some super genius lurking around that might have some additional thoughts (I hope) Thanks for the response Dougc -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kritan Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 10:14 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] execute code/proc question HELP!!!!!!!! The best would be to have a development account to separate the code. Without that option, the easiest would be to rename the program in DOUG.BP to something a bit different (I.e. DOUG.DEV). compile and catalog the original DOUG in EURO.BP and DOUG.DEV in DOUG.BP. Users could run the original DOUG. When you are done fixing DOUG.DEV, copy it over DOUG in DOUG.BP and recompile. Steve -------------------------------------------------- From: "doug chanco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 6:20 AM To: <u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org> Subject: [U2] execute code/proc question HELP!!!!!!!! > is there any way in Universe 10.x (running on AIX) to "path" how universe > finds code to execute? For example I have a program called > > "DOUG" in EURO.BP and copy it to DOUG.BP and compile/catalog it there, so > that now the VOC entry points to DOUG.BP but I would like other users to > be able to run the original version while I fix my version. > > For those familiar with jBASE this is easily solved by modifying each > users path to that they "search" for the object code in a specific order. > for example > > PATH=$PATH:/usr2/zircon/DOUG.O:/usr2/zirocn/EURO.BP.O > > this way it looks in DOUG.BP.O and if the object code is found executes it > otherwise look in EURO.BP.O and if found there execute it. Now all I have > to do is modify other users PATH to NOT search DOUG.BP.O or move EURO.BP.O > in front of DOUG.BP.O and it will find EURO.BP.O first (and stop looking) > > I am hoping that there is something equivalent in universe or some way > that I can duplicate this (I am even willing to look at doing it "with > basic code" if possible) > > ANY and ALL suggestions are welcomed! > > thanks > > dougc > ------- > u2-users mailing list > u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by SecureMail, and is believed to be clean. ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
