Recent News and Tips
Difference in Months, between two dates!
Customer called to ask if Suprtool could calculate the difference between two dates, in months:
The key to the problem is this:
ext mmdiff=(($truncate(matdate / 100) * 12) + matdate mod 100) - &
(($truncate(todaydt / 100) * 12) + todaydt mod 100)
The entire article can be found on the HowDo I web page:
Difference in Months, between two Dates.
7/02/2009
Canada Day Closing, eh!
Hey all you hosers, it's like, Canada Day, eh! The Robelle Admin and R & D offices will be closed because the staff will be consuming brown pops and back bacon on Wednesday July 1, 2009. Technical Support will be available on that day. Contrary to popular belief, Canada Day is NOT called Bob and Doug MacKenzie day.
All of Robelle, Support and Admin will be closed Friday July 3rd, 2009 for the July 4th holiday weekend.
6/26/2009
Suprtool 5.2 Released
Suprtool version 5.2 is now available as the current production download.
Suprtool 5.2 MPE
- STExport has a new feature to handle bad Zoned data. See Set ZonedFix On.
- Various bugs in byte addressing and memory management have been uncovered
and addressed.
- The $edit function now supports the colon as a delimeter character for
time edit masks.
- Suprtools if command would not recognize a field starting with SPECIAL if
it was on the right side of the equation.
Suprtool 5.2 HP-UX
- STExport has a new feature to handle bad Zoned data.
- The $edit function now supports the colon as a delimeter character for time edit masks.
- Suprtools if command would not recognize a field starting with SPECIAL if
it was on the right side of the equation.
- Suprtool is now available is now native Itanium, in all flavours.
Suprtool for HP-UX, Suprtool with dynamic loading and Suprtool for AMXW.
- Suprtool now has Set Oracle PassShift On (default) or Off to turn off the
upshift of a password. This is to accomodate Oracle 11 which will allow
for case-sensitive passwords.
- The Add command in Suprtool for HP-UX would cause a subsequent task to
fail in some cases.
- The Add command in Suprtool for HP-UX would fail if the target was a
small record.
6/23/2009
Suprtool 5.2
We've released the first edit of Suprtool 5.2 documentation. Feel free to peruse, but keep in mind that some sections are still being edited, specifically information about Suprtool and Native Itanium version. To review the documentation please go to
our ftp site.
6/03/2009
IDent/3000
IDent is designed to allow MPE sites to significantly enhance their ability to monitor and control access to restricted data, and to create highly secure audit logs. IDent is tailored to the particular needs of companies faced with becoming compliant with PCI (Payment Card Industry) standards.
IDent's features are tightly integrated, but may be divided into the following major areas:
- User Keystroke Logging
- TurboIMAGE Database Password Management
- TurboIMAGE Dataset Access Security and Logging
- File Access Security and Logging
- Critical File Purge Protection
- Detecting Modifications to User-Defined 'Critical' System Files
Click here for an expanded summary on IDent/3000 or you can read the user guide.
IDent/3000 is from Paul Taffel long time 3000 guru and friend of Robelle. If you're doing Credit Card processing on the 3000 then you need IDent/3000.
6/02/2009
Victoria Day
The Robelle Sales and R & D offices will be closed Monday, May 18, 2009 for Victoria Day. Technical support will be open and available as usual.
5/15/2009
Good Friday
The Robelle Sales and R & D offices will be closed April 10, 2009 for Good Friday. Technical support will be open and available as usual.
4/09/2009
Testing New Suprtool without putting into Production
Some customers have expressed interest, in installing the latest version of Suprtool without putting it into production.
Read this HowDoI article for details.
Using Clean Features
Many of these same customers want to use some of the new Clean features in Suprtool and STExport.
Read this HowDoI article for an introduction to the various Clean features.
3/17/2009
Call for Beta Testers
We are looking for Beta Testers for a version of Suprtool for HP-UX that runs in Native-Mode on Itanium machines. We are looking for batch mode testing with preferably, large amounts of data in a non-production environment.
The basic requirements are that you have an Itanium machine, Oracle or Eloquence data to test and your own test environment.
If you are interested please contact Neil Armstrong at: neil at robelle.com.
3/05/2009
Domain Name Issues
We had some issues with some of the Domain Name resolution of some of our domains, which impacted our mail service and our main web server. The issue has been resolved and all should be well.
If you have any issues or returned mail, please send again. If for some reason you still have issues with e-mail you can send to neil@nancweb.com and I will make sure the mail gets forwarded and you get an answer.
3/02/2009
Family Day
The Robelle Sales and R & D offices will be closed February 16th, 2009 for Family Day. Technical support will be closed for Presidents Day.
2/12/2009
December Holidays
The Robelle Sales offices will be closed the following days over the December holidays:
Closed December 25th
Closed December 26th
Closed December 29th
Closed December 30th
Closed January 1.
The Technical Support offices will be closed:
December 25
December 26
January 1st
As always there will be engineers on call for emergencies on these days.
12/04/2008
US Thanksgiving
Direct phone access to Robelle for Sales and Admin will be closed Thursday, November 27 and Friday, November 28, 2008 for the US Thanksgiving holiday. E-mail support will be available from support@robelle.com as per usual.
11/25/2008
Upcoming Holidays
Sales & Admin offices will be closed Tuesday November 11 for the Remembrance Day. The Support office will be open the regular hours on that day.
11/10/2008
Upcoming Holidays
Sales & Admin offices will be closed Monday October 13 for the Canadian Thanksgiving holiday. The Support office will be open the regular hours on that day.
10/13/2008
Archived News and Tips...
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