Contents
Introducing
Suprtool Version 5.8 4
Overview............................................................................................................... 4
Highlights in Suprtool 5.8....................................................................................... 4
Highlights in Suprtool 5.7....................................................................................... 4
Highlights in
Suprtool 5.6....................................................................................... 5
Known Problems.................................................................................................... 6
Itanium vs PA_RISC.............................................................................................. 6
Compatibility........................................................................................................ 8
Itanium
Compatibility............................................................................................. 9
CPU Serial Number (uname)..................................................................................... 9
Documentation....................................................................................................... 9
Installation 10
Overview............................................................................................................. 10
Installation Instructions.......................................................................................... 10
Installation Assistance............................................................................................ 10
Enhancements in
Version 5.8 11
Introduction......................................................................................................... 11
Input
($first/$last)................................................................................................. 11
Introduction......................................................................................................... 12
stexpmgr............................................................................................................. 12
linkmgr............................................................................................................... 12
$Proper............................................................................................................... 12
$Translate............................................................................................................ 13
Enhancements in
Version 5.6 17
Introduction......................................................................................................... 17
Extract Command................................................................................................. 17
Data Items Support................................................................................................ 18
$SubCount.......................................................................................................... 18
CCTL on Output.................................................................................................. 19
Defined Items
Support........................................................................................... 19
Bugs Fixed 20
Bugs Fixed In
Suprtool 5.6.10................................................................................ 20
Bugs Fixed In
Suprtool 5.5.11................................................................................ 20
Bugs Fixed In
Suprtool 5.5.04................................................................................ 20
Bugs Fixed In
Suprtool 5.5.03................................................................................ 20
Bugs Fixed In
Suprtool 5.5.02................................................................................ 20
Bugs Fixed In
Suprtool 5.5.01................................................................................ 20
Bugs Fixed In
Suprtool 5.5.................................................................................... 21
Use Suprtool/AMXW to read, select, and sort data from
Oracle, Allbase and Eloquence databases and data files with fixed-length
records. Suprtool/AMXW is designed to be similar to Suprtool for MPE while
providing necessary HP-UX features. It is designed to work with AMXW an MPE
environment from Speedware that runs on other platforms.
Suprlink/AMXW provides high-speed data-file linking based
on a sort key. Use STExport for AMXW to convert fields in a self-describing
input file into an output file that can be imported into different
applications.
·
Set CleanChar to a
single character, after a Set CleanChar “<null>” would not come into
effect due to the special null flag not being reset. This was in both Suprtool
and STExport.
·
The input command
now accepts the keywords($first/$last) when inputting a range of records.
· Suprlink now has it’s own “Suprmgr” file. Suprlink
will process all the commands in /opt/robelle/linkmgr on startup.
· STExport now has it’s own “Suprmgr” file. STExport
will process all the commands in /opt/robelle/stexpmgr on startup.
· Suprtool for AMXW would not stop / abort Suprtool
when using the list command and the target file filled up.
· Suprtool now has the $proper function which will
shift the first character in a string and any first character after a space or
ampersand.
· Suprtool now has the Translate command and a
$translate function to obfuscate test data or any byte field from being
readable.
· Suprtool output,else with
extract commands and sort in play would write bogus data to the Else file.
(non-MPE platforms)
· Suprtool for AMXW did not create a self-describing
file when output,link was specified and the input
source was a non-self describing flat file equated to a dataset. (Fixed in
Build 2)
· Suprtool for Itanium and Suprtool/Open incorrectly
reallocated if/extract code space on subsequent tasks, which would eventually
cause Suprtool to fail with the error, “Unable to allocate heap space.”. This
issue could also contribute to a Sort failure errors,
in Suprtool for AMXW.
·
Suprtool for AMXW
had a conflict with the AMXW copy command when copying a C/ISAM or emulated
KSAM file.
·
Suprtool for AMXW
could not append to an empty KSAM file.
·
Suprtool, Suprlink
and STExport now handle 512 fields on HP-UX and Open platforms.
·
Suprtools' extract
command now has three special keywords to help with extract using a range,
which is designed to make your Suprtool scripts more easily maintained.
Suprtool now has $all, $first and $last which respectively means all fields,
the first field or the last field. Note that $first and $last may only be used
in a range extract.
·
$subcount has been
added to keep a running count for a given sort break.
·
Suprtool for HP-UX and AMXW would potentially
incorrectly set the decimal or date attribute on a straight copy of an SD file.
This was introduced by the fix to copying SD files with duplicate fieldnames
and was in 5.5.04 pre-release and 5.5.11 and 5.6 Build 1. This is fixed in
Suprtool 5.6 Build 2 and Suprtool/Open Build 3.
·
Suprtool for AMXW would print an error message
when doing a straight get of a dataset to a flat file with no extract command.
(Fixed in Suprtool 5.6 Build 2)
·
Suprtool for AMXW would not show fieldnames on a
list of an SD file with no extract command. (Fixed in Suprtool 5.6 Build 2)
·
Suprtool for AMXW
will now detect if the output file has CCTL and will use the correct
controlcode on the FWRITE to the Output file.
·
Suprtool for AMXW Itanium version now supports
more defined fields.
·
Suprtool would use
an incorrect field definition when copying a file where the input file had a
duplicate field name with different field definition, the second field would
utilize the first definition.
·
Suprtool would give
an incorrect result when doing an arithmetic expression with more than one set
of brackets and the data involved is Packed-Decimal. (Itanium only)
·
Suprtool and
STExport would incorrectly assume a positive sign for a packed-decimal field
that had an invalid sign value, when converting from Decimal to Ascii. (Itanium
only)
·
Suprtool for AMXW
did not allocate enough space to support the same number of defined fields and
items as previous versions.
· Set
Ifouroutput on
extracts would fail at xeq time with an "Unknown if execute phase" error in the PA_RISC version,
when an alignment
issue would occur in some
circumstances.
·
Suprtool for AMXW
would fail to open a "KSAM" file in AMXW when the implementation was
done via CISAM.
There are no known problems at this time. If you have any
questions or concerns or feedback, please feel free to e-mail me at: neil@robelle.com
There are two types of machines that HP has that run
HP-UX, the older machines are based on the PA_RISC chip and the new machines
that use the Itanium (and Itanium 2 chips). There are also program files that
are specific to each chip. PA_RISC programs can run on both PA_RISC and Itanium
machines, however, Itanium programs can only run on Itanium machines.
Any program that runs on Itanium must utilize libraries
that match its own program type. Therefore if a
PA_RISC program runs on Itanium and looks for a library, it must find/load the
PA_RISC version of the libraries that it needs and conversely an Itanium
program must load the libraries specific to its type.
How to Tell what Machine I am on?
There are many ways to tell what kind of machine you are
on, here are a couple:
uname -m
getconf MACHINE_MODEL
In each case the Itanium machine will typically say ia64
somewhere in the result of the above two commands. PA_RISC machines typically
say "9000" somewhere in the string.
What is the Program
File Type?
Since there are two types of machines there are also at
least two types of program files. Suprtool is primarily either PA_RISC 1.1 or
ELF-32 / IA64 which is also known as Itanium. To determine the type of program
file you can use the file command:
Itanium
file suprtool
suprtool: ELF-32 executable object file - IA64
PA_RISC
file suprtool
suprtool: PA-RISC1.1 executable dynamically linked
-not stripped
The PA_RISC binary can run on both platforms but you need
to have PA_RISC libraries for Eloquence or Oracle if you are using the Oracle
module. An Itanium binary will not run on a PA_RISC machine and will fail with
"cannot execute".
Of
course we've made a provision to identify if you are running the
ia version of Suprtool in the banner and verify command with the ia after the
UX :
SUPRTOOL/UXia/Copyright Robelle Solutions
Technology Inc. 1981-2009.
(Version 5.2 Internal) MON, JUN 8, 2009, 11:26 AM Type H for help.
PA_RISC Loading
Suprtool by default looks in the libraries in any of the
directories named in SHLIB_PATH. For
example to insure that Suprtool resolves the library loads you can set the SHLIB_PATH system
wide in your /etc/profile file in the following manner:
export SHLIB_PATH=/opt/eloquence6/lib/pa11_32:/opt/oracle/lib
If you do not have the SHLIB_PATH variable set to a value
where the libraries can be found, Suprtool will then try to load from their
default names locations. For Eloquence
the default location is :/opt/eloquence6/lib/pa11_32.
The Oracle interface will first try to load libclntsh.so
and then attempt to load libclntsh.sl from $ORACLE_HOME/lib32/libclntsh.sl.
Itanium Loading
You can change Suprtool to pay attention to
LD_LIBRARY_PATH and use dlopen to load libraries, you can set the environment
variable:
export ROBELLE_DYN_LOAD =Y.
It is generally advisable to use DLOPEN or the
ROBELLE_DYN_LOAD option when using the Itanium version. The PA_RISC version of
Suprtool can use
either type of loading, the default or the dlopen method invoked
with ROBELLE_DYN_LOAD.
Running the PA_RISC
version on Itanium:
You can of course run the PA_RISC version of Suprtool,
however, given that the PA_RISC version requires SHLIB_PATH to point to PA_RISC
libraries may go against the configuration necessary for other programs that
may need SHLIB_PATH to point to Native Itanium libraries.
The solution to this is fairly simple, you can create a
command file (let's say /opt/robelle/cmd/suprtool) that runs suprtool for you,
of course you need to insure your path variable has /opt/robelle/cmd before
/opt/robelle/bin.
You can then have the following commands in the
/opt/robelle/cmd/suprtool command file:
export SAVED_SHLIB_PATH=$SHLIB_PATH
export
SHLIB_PATH=/opt/oracle/pa_risc/lib:/opt/eloquence/lib/pa11_32
/opt/robelle/bin/suprtool $@
export SHLIB_PATH=$SAVED_SHLIB
Essentially all it does save the current SHLIB_PATH
setting, sets it to point to PA_RISC libraries, runs suprtool and then resets
the library back.
Suprtool for
Itanium
Now that you know all about PA_RISC and Itanium you do
need to be aware of what Suprtool for Itanium is in terms of new code and risk
for potential issues. Suprtool for Itanium is completely in C code. This does
not mean that it is all new C code however, the majority of the Suprtool code
is still based on SPL, but is converted to C, using Allegro's SPLASH compiler.
So while the C code is new it is based on the original
SPLash code, however, given differences between C and SPLash not all code can
be automatically converted in some cases. We worked closely with Allegro to
find ways to have the source code work and address the various issues that came
up. The entire time Allegro improved the SPLash to C converter.
So while we are based on the original Suprtool we do have
new code paths in the Native Itanium version and other potential issues where
the C code might not work in exactly the same manner as the SPLash code.
Having said that we have tested this against our test
suites, and improved and added a large number of tests to our HP-UX test
suites. We also began Alpha testing 24 months ago and have been beta testing
for the last year with our two best VAR customers.
Suprtool for AMXW would use the file size stored in the
SD label as opposed to the actual physical file size that AMXW uses.
::FILE FILE80;REC=-80,,F,ASCII
::supramxw
SUPRTOOL/AMXW/Copyright Robelle Solutions Technology Inc.1981-2007.
(Version 5.0) TUE, JAN 08, 2008, 2:42 PM Type H for help.
>I STFILE
>DEF ABCXYZ,1,11
>EXT ABCXYZ
>O FILE80,LINK
>X
IN=26, OUT=26. CPU-Sec=1. Wall-Sec=1.
>FO FILE80
File: FILE80 (SD Version B.00.00) No linefeeds
Entry:
Offset
ABCXYZ
X11 1
Limit: 1023 EOF: 26 Entry Length: 11 Blocking: 1
>E
::LISTF FILE80,2
ACCOUNT= AMXWQA
GROUP= FDE
FILENAME CODE
------------LOGICAL RECORD----------- ----SPACE----
SIZE TYP
EOF LIMIT R/B SECTORS #X MX
FILE80
1084 82B FA
26 1023
1 9 1 *
So what happens is if an output link file is created
with a file equation making the file bigger, any subsequent files that are
created from the resulting output file are actually made smaller as you can see
below.
::supramxw
SUPRTOOL/AMXW/Copyright Robelle Solutions Technology Inc.1981-2007.
(Version 5.0) TUE, JAN 08, 2008, 2:42 PM Type H for help.
>i FILE80
>O FILE80A
>X
Warning: Using Output FILE80A,Link
IN=26, OUT=26. CPU-Sec=1. Wall-Sec=1.
>E
::LISTF FILE80A,2
ACCOUNT= AMXWQA
GROUP= FDE
FILENAME CODE
------------LOGICAL RECORD----------- ----SPACE----
SIZE TYP
EOF LIMIT R/B SECTORS #X MX
FILE80A 1084 11B FA
26 1023
1 2 1 *
Suprtool for AMXW now honours the physical record
size and the FILE80A file will now have a record size of 80.
The HP-UX and AMXW versions of AMXW no longer have Set
varsubcompat on as the default. The
default is now off and can be turned on with the set command or the –cv option.
Previously, Suprtool would treat an “R” type field in an
Eloquence database as an R type while the data inside Eloquence is stored and treated
as IEEE therefore incorrect results would occur with coercions and arithmetic
operations. Suprtool now by default maps all Real and Long fields to their
respective IEEE fields. You can change Suprtool back to the previous behaviour with Set
RealMap Off.
A form command will still show the fields as being “R2” or
“R4”, but internally Suprtool will treat as IEEE, which is how Eloquence stores
and treats the numbers.
Consequently STExport will now
support items in SD files that are condidered R type, however it correctly will
map them to IEEE.
Suprtool/UX 5.0 is now compatible with all versions of
HP-UX 11.2x, as well as Oracle version 8 and higher.
Suprtool/UX version 4.8.02 and lower is compatible with
HP-UX 9.0 and higher and Oracle 7.
Fastread option is now set to On for Suprtool for HP-UX
the regular version. The Dynamic loading version of Suprtool has a default value of
off to start.
Suprtool 5.2 is necessary for use with Oracle 11 and case
sensitive passwords.
There are a couple of differences in the Itanium version
of Suprtool, which you need to be aware of.
The DBEdit module
is not available in the Itanium versions of Suprtool. This module is invoked by
the EDIT command.
The layout for the
Verify command is slightly different then the PA-RISC versions of Suprtool.
This program runs only on CPUs whose serial numbers have
been encoded (the "uname" on HP-UX). If it fails to run and you get
an "invalid HPSUSAN" error message, contact Robelle for assistance,
via support@robelle.com or the support
number at 1-800-453-8970.
The user
manual contains the full description of all the Suprtool suite of products
including Dbedit, Suprlink, STExport, and Suprtool2, as well as usage tips and
commands for each. The manuals are up-to-date with all the latest changes. To
see only the changes in the latest version, see the "What's New"
section of the manual.
You can
download our manuals and Change Notices in various formats and order printed
(hardcopy) manuals from our web site at:
http://www.robelle.com/library/manuals/.
The following instructions describe the installation
process of a new Suprtool release. The new version overwrites an existing
version of Suprtool on your HP-UX system.
There are typically two main types of installations. You
can find the Suprtool for AMXW regular install instructions here:
http://www.robelle.com/downloads/install-amxwprod.html
You can find the Suprtool for AMXW build on your system
instructions on the link below. You will need this install if you are going to
require the KSAM option, Dynamic Image loading or Omnidex support, or intend to
run on Itanium:
http://www.robelle.com/downloads/install-amxwbuildprod.html
If you have any questions or run into any problems, please
call us. Technical support is available on weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Pacific
time at 1.289.480.1060. Technical support can also be obtained via e-mail at: support@robelle.com If your new version of software will not run,
you can page someone from technical support by calling the support number, or
you can typically easily run extend with the disaster option to tide you over
until business hours. Instructions for this are available at:
http://www.robelle.com/disaster/
Suprtool
is constantly being updated with new features. The following section describes
the new enhancements to Suprtool since Suprtool 5.7.11
Suprtool now has $first and $last mnemonics, which can be
used on a range selection of records on the input command. It was designed to
handle a request to list the last N number of records in a file as in:
Input somefile($last-10/$last)
Suprtool will parse the Range selection and semantically
check if the record range entered is logical. For instance, $first-2 and
$last+10, which do not make logical sense would throw and error. Similarly if a record only has 5 records in it then $last-10
or $first+7, would also throw an error.
Enhancements in
Version 5.7
Suprtool
is constantly being updated with new features. The following section describes
the new enhancements to Suprtool since Suprtool 5.6.
STExport now has it’s own “suprmgr” file now, which will
be executed on startup of STExport. STExport will by default look for
/opt/robelle/stexpmgr, or if $ROBELLE variable is set it will execute
$ROBELLE/stexpmgr.
Suprlink now has it’s own “suprmgr” file now, which will
be executed on startup of Suprlink. Suprlink will by default look for
/opt/robelle/linkmgr, or if $ROBELLE variable is set it will execute
$ROBELLE/linkmgr.
Suprtool now has the $proper function which will shift to
upper case the first character of a byte type field and after any space or
ampersand. It will also shift to lower case any other characters in the
byte-field.
>in mprod
>list stan
>xeq
Apr 29, 2014 13:00 File: mprod Page 1
PRODUCT-DESC
skil 3/8" variable speed drill
b&d router
skil var. sp. auto-scroll saw
skil 8 1/2" circular saw
b&d cordless screwdriver
makita 8 1/4" circular saw
b&d variable speed jigsaw
makita 1/2" router
makita 3/8" var. speed drill
skil router
b&d 7 1/4" circular saw
b&d 3/8" variable speed drill
makita 1" jigsaw
Considering the following data, you can fix all of the
product names with one simple task:
>in mprod
>ext product-desc=$proper(product-desc)
>list stan
>xeq
May 01, 2014 11:40 File: MPROD Page 1
PRODUCT-DESC
Skil 3/8" Variable Speed Drill
B&D Router
Skil Var. Sp. Auto-Scroll Saw
Skil 8 1/2" Circular Saw
B&D Cordless Screwdriver
Makita 8 1/4" Circular Saw
B&D Variable Speed Jig Saw
Makita 1/2" Router
Makita 3/8" Var. Speed Drill
Skil Router
B&D 7 1/4" Circular Saw
B&D 3/8" Variable Speed Drill
Makita 1" Jig Saw
Note that any
character after a space, “&”, or “-“ is upshifted
for a proper name. Suprtool will also downshift those characters that do not
qualify as needing proper capitalization and it is a capital character, the
proper function will downshift those characters. See an example below:
>IN NAME
>LIST
>XEQ
>IN NAME.NEIL.GREEN (0)
>OUT $NULL (0)
NAME
= NEIL ARMSTRONG
>IN NAME
>EXT NAME=$PROPER(NAME)
>LIST
>XEQ
>IN NAME.NEIL.GREEN (0)
>OUT $NULL (0)
NAME
= Neil Armstrong
The $proper function only works on byte type fields.
(5.6.12)
Suprtool now has a $translate function which in
conjunction with the translate command allows you to build a translation table,
whereby you can translate from any byte character to any character. We have
also added a method to a supplied translate table which will allow you to
obscure the data such that it can’t be read.
>in
newprod
>list
>xeq
>IN
NEWPROD.NEIL.GREEN (0) >OUT $NULL (0)
PRODUCT-DESC = Skil 3/8" Variable Speed Drill
>IN
NEWPROD.NEIL.GREEN (1) >OUT $NULL (1)
PRODUCT-DESC = B&D Router
>in
newprod
>translate
tounread
>ext
product-desc=$translate(product-desc)
>out
unread,link
>xeq
IN=13,
OUT=13. CPU-Sec=1. Wall-Sec=1.
>in
unread
>num
1
>list
>xeq
>IN
UNREAD.NEIL.GREEN (0) >OUT $NULL (0)
PRODUCT-DESC = Hzxo .2)? Epcxpqot Hatts Rcxoo
Warning: NUMRECS exceeded; some records not processed.
IN=2,
OUT=1. CPU-Sec=1. Wall-Sec=1.
>in
unread
>translate
toread
>ext
product-desc=$translate(product-desc)
>list
>xeq
>IN
UNREAD.NEIL.GREEN (0) >OUT $NULL (0)
PRODUCT-DESC = Skil 3/8" Variable Speed Drill
>IN
UNREAD.NEIL.GREEN (1) >OUT $NULL (1)
PRODUCT-DESC = B&D Router
