I spent half of yesterday trying to get so I can communicate with Rocket. I have given up - going to U2U in Sydney next week, so shall see if we can get any help there! -- Kate Stanton Walstan Systems Ltd 4 Kelmarna Ave, Herne Bay, Auckland 1011, New Zealand Phone: + 64 9 360 5310 Mobile: + 64 21 400 486 Email: k...@walstan.com
On 18 February 2011 14:42, Wally Terhune <wterh...@rocketsoftware.com> wrote: > Hi, Kevin. > I don't find any support cases opened by you recently. > Can you provide a support case number so I can review your interaction with > our team and the technical bits, as well. > thanks > > Wally Terhune > U2 Support Architect > Rocket Software > 4600 South Ulster Street, Suite 1100 **Denver, CO 80237 **USA > Tel: +1.720.475.8055 > Email: wterh...@rs.com > Web: www.rocketsoftware.com/u2 > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org > [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Kevin King > Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 5:48 PM > To: U2 Users List > Subject: [U2] Frustrated with Rocket / Unidata 7.2 > > About a week ago I upgraded Unidata 7.1 on Windows XP/32 to Unidata 7.2 on > Windows 7/64. Everything I need in Unidata seems to work fine on this > release with one notable exception: Unidata 7.2 on Windows will no longer > properly execute the Windows ftp program. Rocket support has basically said > that in this version they changed the telnet server so that it can only run > fully stdin/stdout compliant programs in the shell. Because the Windows ftp > program isn't exactly stdin/stdout compliant, it is no longer a functional > PCPERFORM program. Even if the ftp program is scripted to connect, > transfer, and exit with no additional inputs or outputs, the ftp program > will still fail. Of course, in this case if there's a put in the commands > it'll fail after writing a zero byte file, potentially overwriting > something. > > I could be frustrated with Microsoft because, after all, it's their program > that's failing, I'm more frustrated with Rocket. While it's frustrating to > have a past ability removed it's more frustrating to have received > absolutely zero warning from Rocket that this could happen. I've searched > the docs for 7.2... can't find a word about this change. (Hey, and I could > be missing something; that's certainly a possibility.) > > It's fortunate that this install isn't a big production system, but what if > it was? There are several production systems running Unidata on Windows, so > if any of y'all are using ftp or any OS commands that may not meet Rocket's > muster, please be aware of this change in 7.2. > > BTW, for me the fix was to use WinSCP (in command line mode) instead of > Microsoft's FTP program. So far it seems to work just fine though the > scripting is a bit different from Microsoft's ftp client. > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
