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Contents
Introducing
Suprtool Version 6.2
$LENGTH (Works on Byte-type and numeric
fields)
You can clean it up with the following:
Use Suprtool/UX to read, select, and sort data from Oracle, Allbase and Eloquence databases and data files with fixed-length records. Suprtool/UX is designed to be similar to Suprtool for MPE while providing necessary HP-UX features.
Suprlink/UX provides high-speed data-file linking based on a sort key. Use STExport to convert fields in a self-describing input file into an output file that can be imported into different applications.
· Rport has a new command called Hide which is intended to not report on a field in an SD file.
· Rport has a new command called Comma, which will place appropriate commas in an ascii field that was converted from a numeric field.
· There is a new setting in RPORT that is called set maxlen on, which calculates the maximum size that a field can be, including commas and dollar signs.
· Suprtool/Open now defaults to /bin/bash when a users shell is not found in the user information.
· The $eom/$bom function wouldn’t work properly when $stddate was nested in a $month function and the to month had 31 days.
· Sdlinux version is available for Linux to convert the .sd file for use on Linux is now available on Linux. You can now directly copy a data file and sdfile from HP-UX and convert it for use on Linux.
· Two new sub-functions of $BOM and $ EOM are now available in the $stddate and $month functions. The $BOM function returns the starting day of the month and the $EOM returns the last date of the month for a given month.
· String functions in Suprtool now have better length and bounds checking of the 4095 string limit.
· Rport a new simple report writer has been added to the Suprtool suite of products.
· Set Limits Override has been added to the Suprtool for MPE version. (6.1.01)
· The Itanium version of Suprtool would lose track of Table data information even if the table was held between two tasks.
· Suprtool has a new function called $length that will return a double integer value of the length of a byte and/or numeric field.
· The $ROBELLE variable has been expanded to 58 characters.
· Suprtool has a new option called Set EditSignNeutral which tells the $edit function to treat Neutral zoned and packed fields to be positive and treated as such by the $edit function.
· Suprlink now supports 8192 bytes on both the input file and the link file.
· Suprlink now supports 16384 bytes on the output file in Suprlink
· Stexport now supports 8192 bytes on both the input file and output files.
· The List command now has a NOSAMETO option to turn off the SAMETO feature.
· Set Backwardchain On, will cause the Chain command to do a backward chained read.
·
STExport has a new set
command called Set Excel Leadzero On which tells the Excel command to add
leading zeroes to the fields specified in the Excel Preserve command.
·
Suprtool has a new function
available to the if/extract commands called $inrecnum, which expects a double
integer result.
·
Suprtool has a new function
called $leadzeroz, which will add leading zeroes to a display field and will
optionally justify the field.
·
Suprtool has a four new
string handling functions, specifically, $justifyl, $justifyr, $leadzerob and
$respace.
·
The Add command to add data
to an Oracle table would fail on some tables with an abort if there were a
large number of tables in the database.
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 by setting 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.
The Itanium version will make one more attempt at loading the Eloquence libraries from hpux32/libimage3k.sl and hpux32/libeqdb.sl as most users are setting SHLIB_PATH and LD_LIBRARY_NAME pointing to the lib directory.
Fastread option is now set to Off for Suprtool for HP-UX. The Dynamic loading version of Suprtool the option is set to off.
Suprtool production versions 5.1 thru 5.4.01 would incorrectly double the record size for an output,data file when either Set Ifouroutput or Set Oracle Integer were on. This has been fixed but if your script accounted for a doubled record size this may cause and issue as we no longer incorrectly write out double the bytes. If you want to have the old bug behaviour to be re-instated you can Set Oracle DataBug On. The default for this setting is off.
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 1.289.480.1060.
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.
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.
All Robelle software is available via a download link which you can get to by filling out this form:
http://www.robelle.com/forms/request-prod-release.php
If you don’t know your Account number please provide enough information for us to find you in our database.
You can find the HP-UX download install instructions here:
http://www.robelle.com/downloads/install-sxprod.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 call 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/
You
can download our manuals and Change Notices in various formats from:
http://www.robelle.com/library/manuals/.
Suprtool
is constantly being updated with new features. The following section describes
the new enhancements to Suprtool since Suprtool 6.1.10.
Rport will by default calculate the maximum size of a field, including, commas, decimals and dollar signs. The previous version just took into account, decimals. This is on by default, you can just use the old calculation by adding set maxlen off to your rportmgr file.
Rport has a new command called comma,
where you can specify a fieldname or list of fieldnames to tell Rport to add
commas to a given numeric field, when it is reported on and converted to ascii.
The same rules will apply for a given fields subtotal and total field. This
command can only be entered after the input command.
Rport has a new command called Hide which when given a fieldname will remove that field from the report. The report will be adjusted accordingly and also the Hide command must be entered after the input command.
If the user id isn’t found or a shell name isn’t returned the Open version of Suprtool suite of products will assume a shell of /bin/bash.
The combination of nested $stddate within $month would handle months with 31 days incorrectly if the from date was a month with less that 31 days and the to month was a month with 31 days.
All versions of Suprtool, MPE, HP-UX (PA-Risc and Itanium), and Suprtool / Open have a new component called Rport, which is a simple report writer.
The code below represents one of the more complicated reports, and shows some of the attributes that you can control. Rport works off of self-describing files and is available on MPE, HP-UX (PA-Risc and Itanium) and on all Linux platforms that Suprtool/Open runs on.
The Title command divides the lines into quadrants, primarily, left, center and right and two lines are supported. The heading column option prints the Heading information specified in each column. You can also specify Heading Fieldnames, where Rport will divide the field name into each column, and you can do your own layout for each Heading Line:
head 1 Add " CharIntege Double Packed Packed* Quad"
head 1 Add " IdLogica DblLog Zoned"
head 2 add "Field Field Field Field Field Field"
head 2 add " Field Field Field Field"
The Size command tells Rport the maximum size of the column for the data. By default Rport picks the maximum size that a field will be when converted to Ascii, as shown in the following table:
Field Format |
Output Size |
I1, J1 |
6 bytes |
I2, J2 |
11 bytes |
I3, J3 |
16 bytes |
I4, J4 |
20 bytes |
K1 |
5 bytes |
K2 |
10 bytes |
E2 |
12 bytes |
E4 |
23 bytes |
R2 |
12 bytes |
Zn |
n+1 bytes |
Pn |
n bytes |
The integer specified beside the fieldname is the length for the field to use for the report. If the data overflows the field will be filled with asterisks. The Subtotal and Total commands are pretty self-explanatory.
in
file1.rporttst
title
line 1 left RPNAME "SampReport"
title
line 1 center RPCOMPANY "Robelle Solutions"
title
line 1 right rppageno tag "Page No : "
title
line 2 left rpdate tag "Date : "
title
line 2 right rpruntime tag "Run Time : "
head
1 col "Char"
head
2 col "Field"
head
1 col "Integer"
head
2 col "Field"
head
1 col "Double"
head
2 col "Field"
head
1 col "Packed"
head
2 col "Field"
head
1 col "Packed*"
head
2 col "Field"
head
1 col "Quad"
head
2 col "Field"
head
1 col "Id"
head
2 col "Field"
head
1 col "Logical"
head
2 col "Field"
head
1 col "DblLog"
head
2 col "Field"
head
1 col "Zoned"
head
2 col "Field"
size
int-field 8
size
dbl-field 8
size
packed-field 7
size
packed*-field 7
size
quad-field 7
size
logical-field 7
size
dbllog-field 7
size
zoned-field 8
subtotal
int-field dbl-field packed-field packed*-field quad-field id-field
subtotal
logical-field dbllog-field zoned-field
total
int-field dbl-field packed-field packed*-field quad-field id-field
total
logical-field dbllog-field zoned-field
out
REPORT01
xeq
The above code creates the following report. The report shows that it can handle most data types (the field names are the data types) and provides a simple layout and automatically aligns the subtotals and the total lines. The subtotaling works off the sorted field, (in this case char-field) and prints a subtotal line each time the char-field changes.
SampReport Robelle
Solutions Page No : 1
Date :
20191024
Run Time : 12:45
Char
Integer Double Packed
Packed* Quad Id
Logical DblLog Zoned
Field Field
Field Field Field
Field Field Field Field
Field
11111 11.11
111.11 +111.11 +111.11
111.11 1 11.11
111.11 111.11
11.11 111.11
+111.11 +111.11 111.11
1 11.11 111.11
111.11
22222 22.22
222.22 +222.22 +222.22
222.22 1 22.22
222.22 222.22
22222 22.22
222.22 +222.22 +222.22
222.22 2 22.22
222.22 222.22
44.44 444.44
+444.44 +444.44 444.44
3 44.44 444.44
444.44
33333 33.33
333.33 +333.33 +333.33
333.33 1 33.33
333.33 333.33
33333 33.33
333.33 +333.33 +333.33
333.33 2 33.33
333.33 333.33
33333 33.33
333.33 +333.33 +333.33
333.33 3 33.33
333.33 333.33
99.99 999.99
+999.99 +999.99 999.99
6 99.99 999.99
999.99
44444 44.44
444.44 +444.44 +444.44
444.44 1 44.44
444.44 444.44
44444 44.44
444.44 +444.44 +444.44
444.44 2 44.44
444.44 444.44
44444 44.44
444.44 +444.44 +444.44
444.44 3 44.44
444.44 444.44
44444 44.44
444.44 +444.44 +444.44
444.44 4 44.44
444.44 444.44
177.76 1777.76 +1777.76 +1777.76 1777.76
10 177.76 1777.76
1777.76
55555 55.55
555.55 +555.55 +555.55
555.55 1 55.55
555.55 555.55
55555 55.55
555.55 +555.55 +555.55
555.55 2 55.55
555.55 555.55
55555 55.55
555.55 +555.55 +555.55
555.55 3 55.55
555.55 555.55
55555 55.55
555.55 +555.55 +555.55
555.55 4 55.55
555.55 555.55
55555 55.55
555.55 +555.55 +555.55
555.55 5 55.55
555.55 555.55
277.75 2777.75 +2777.75 +2777.75 2777.75
15 277.75 2777.75
2777.75
611.05 6111.05 +6111.05 +6111.05 6111.05
35 611.05 6111.05
6111.05
Suprtool has two new subfunctions called $BOM and $EOM which are now available in the $stddate and $month functions. The $bom returns the beginning of the month date, “01” and the $eom, returns the end of the month for the given date.
For Example, the $stddate function will return the converted curdate, with either the beginning of the month for the day or the end of the month for the given curdate.
in file131
item curdate,date,ddmmyyyy
ext curdate
ext curbom=$stddate(curdate,$bom)
ext cureom=$stddate(curdate,$eom)
You can also use $stddate to convert a date that is already in ccyymmdd format to the beginning of the month or the end of the month respectively.
You can also use $bom and $eom as part of the $month function even if the date is not in ccyymmdd format.
Item curdate,date,ddmmyyyy
ext curdate
ext curbom=$month($stddate(curdate),+6,$bom)
ext cureom=$month($stddate(curdate),+6,$eom)
Some of the String functions in Suprtool did not have proper length checks in place to insure that the an overflow wouldn’t occur for specific functions. The length for most string fields to be checked is 4095 bytes. Suprtool will now throw a more generalized error of:
Error: Field in function is greater than 4095 bytes
If a function is longer than the 4095, the field is potentially corrupted and/or truncated.
SDLinux is a utility that will convert the Self-Describing information, such that Suprtool/Open can read the file. Specifically it is meant to convert the .sd file from an HP-UX system to be read on Linux natively.
Sdlinux, will change the sd version field which tells Suprtool/Open the endianness of the sd file.
SD Version |
Endianness |
Extended Names |
B.00.00 |
BIG (HP-UX) LITTLE(LINUX) |
NO |
B.00.01 |
BIG (HP-UX) LITTLE(LINUX) |
YES |
B.00.02 |
BIG |
NO |
B.00.03 |
BIG |
YES |
The sdlinux utility has four options, -f, -r, -h and –d. Only one option can be specified at any given time:
Option |
SD Version |
Integer Field |
-f |
B.00.00 becomes B.00.02 and B.00.01 becomes B.00.03 |
Any integer/logical field gets flagged as
BE. |
-r |
B.00.02 becomes B.00.00 and B.00.03 becomes B.00.01 |
Any integer/ logical field gets the
Endianness flag turned off. |
-h |
B.00.02 becomes B.00.00 and B.00.03 becomes B.00.01 |
No effect. |
-d |
No effect. |
Any integer/logical field gets the
Endianness flag turned off. |
The sdlinux utility gets run with the above options and a filename for an argument as in:
./sdlinux ‘-ffilename’
./sdlinux ‘-rfilename’
./sdlinux ‘-hfilename’
./sdlinux ‘-dfilename’
The filename specified just needs to be the data file name not the sd filename. Regardless, sdlinux will figure out what to do if the .sd extension is in the filename argument.
Set Limits OverRide tells Suprtool for MPE to ignore any subsequent Set Limits TableSize command. This was added since the new MPE table size is now 2 GB and works well without any limit. It was also added as Suprtool 4.4 and lower did not calculate the Set Limits Tablesize limit properly. So if a user had Set Limits Tablesize 25, Suprtool would allow for a table greater than that old limit, while the new version of the table would stop with "Table Full" as prescribed by the command.
Overriding the TableSize, allows for customers to set in a global suprmgr file and not have to search thru code to remove the specific command.
Suprtool has a new function called $length which returns a double integer number that is the length of a given byte or numeric field. For byte type fields Suprtool starts at the right most byte position to look for any non-space character and calculates the length of the data. For numeric fields Suprtool will convert the number to display and starting on the left will search for any non-zero character to establish the length.
Below is an excerpt from the manual, that describes how it can be used:
Purpose of the $length frunction is to return the length of the specified byte field as if the field has had the $rtrim function applied or the position of the rightmost non-space character.
if $length(NAME) >= 15
Define LenField,1,4,double
extract LenField=$length(byte-field)
The $ROBELLE variable on HP-UX and Open platforms has been expanded to 55 characters for the $ROBELLE directory name when you are installing outside of /opt/robelle. You use the $robelle variable to tell suprtool and all of the programs that come with suprtool where to find where it is installed.
The $edit function converts data from numeric to byte and applies an edit mask to format the data. Neutral data is not considered to be signed so if you have neutral data, a positive sign will not be applied to the edit mask. With Set EditSignNeutral turned on, Suprtool will consider the Neutral data to be positive and therefore print out the “+” or “DR”, depending on the edit-mask used.
Set EditSignNeutral On
STExport now supports 8196 bytes on the input, and the output file.
Suprlink now supports 8196 bytes on the input file, link file and 16384 bytes on the output file.
The List command now has a NOSAMETO option to turn off the SAMETO feature.
The Set command, Backwardchain when turned on will tell the Chain command to do a Backward Chained read.
The if / extract commands can now utilize a new function called $INRECNUM, which allows you to use the input record number in certain tasks. For example, the task below would find record number 11.
In somefile
If $inrecnum=11
You can also, utilize the $inrecnum function in the extract command:
In somefile
Def recnum,1,4,double
Ext recnum=$inrecnum
The $inrecnum function was designed to find records especially in the instance where duplicate records are in a particular data source and cannot be isolated by any other means.
$NUMBER is capable of fixing up numbers, but the new $LEADZEROZ function is more lightweight and simply adds leading zeroes, and has an option to justify right as shown below. The source data looks like this:
/PRINT LEADZERO
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
12
12345
220
You can format with the following:
>IN LEADZERO.SUPRTEST
>DEF A,1,12,DISPLAY
>EXT A=$LEADZEROZ(A,J)
>out *
>xeq
000000000001
000000000002
000000000003
000000000004
000000000005
000000000006
000000000007
000000000008
000000000009
000000000010
000000000012
000000012345
000000000220
IN=13, OUT=13. CPU-Sec=1. Wall-Sec=1.
The $LEADZEROZ function cannot fix issues like commas and decimal places in a display field, this can be handled by the $number function.
The if / extract commands can now utilize a new function called $LEADZEROB, which allows you to add leading zeroes to a specific byte field. This was designed specifically for the extract command and fixing up data but can be used in the if command as well. The data looks like this:
/PRINT LEADZERO
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
12
12345
220
You can clean it up with the following:
>IN LEADZERO.SUPRTEST
>DEF A,1,12,byte
>EXT A=$LEADZEROB(A,J)
>out *
>xeq
000000000001
000000000002
000000000003
000000000004
000000000005
000000000006
000000000007
000000000008
000000000009
000000000010
000000000012
000000012345
000000000220
IN=13, OUT=13. CPU-Sec=1. Wall-Sec=1.
The if / extract commands can now utilize a new function called $JUSTIFYL, which allows you to left justify text to the left side of a field.
>in leadzero
>def b,1,12,byte
>ext b=$justifyl(b)
>out *
>xeq
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
12
12345
220
IN=13, OUT=13. CPU-Sec=1. Wall-Sec=1.
The if / extract commands can now utilize a new function called $JUSTIFYR, which allows you to right justify text to the right side of a field.
>in leadzero.suprtest
>def a,1,12,byte
>ext a=$justifyr(a)
>out *
>xeq
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
12
12345
220
IN=13, OUT=13. CPU-Sec=1. Wall-Sec=1.
The if / extract commands can now utilize a new function called $RESPACE, which allows you to fixup byte data that has multiple spaces in between text. For example your data looks like this:
>in respace.suprtest
>def text,1,40
>ext text
>out *
>xeq
this is a test
this is a test
this is a test
this is a test
this is a test
this is a test
please note this is a test
this is a test
this is a test
this is a test
this is a test
this is a test
this is a test
this is a test
dummy record
this is a not test
silly record
IN=30, OUT=30. CPU-Sec=1. Wall-Sec=1.
It can easily be fixed up and converted to what is shown below:
>in respace.suprtest
>ext text=$respace(text,J)
>out *
>xeq
this is a test
this is a test
this is a test
this is a test
this is a test
this is a test
please note this is a test
this is a test
this is a test
this is a test
this is a test
this is a test
this is a test
this is a test
dummy record
this is a not test
silly record
IN=30, OUT=30. CPU-Sec=1. Wall-Sec=1.
Suprtool now has a utility called sdlinux, which will help convert an HP-UX self-describing file which will have Big Endian numbers, in the Self-Describing information and in the integers in the data file.
Sdlinux, is a small utility that will change the sd version field which tells Suprtool/Open the endianness of the sd file.
SD Version |
Endianness |
Extended Names |
B.00.00 |
BIG (HP-UX) LITTLE(LINUX) |
NO |
B.00.01 |
BIG (HP-UX) LITTLE(LINUX) |
YES |
B.00.02 |
BIG |
NO |
B.00.03 |
BIG |
YES |
The sdlinux utility has four options, -f, -r, -h and –d. Only one option can be specified at any given time:
Option |
SD Version |
Integer Field |
-f |
B.00.00 becomes B.00.02 and B.00.01 becomes B.00.03 |
Any integer/logical field gets flagged as
BE. |
-r |
B.00.02 becomes B.00.00 and B.00.03 becomes B.00.01 |
Any integer/ logical field gets the
Endianness flag turned off. |
-h |
B.00.02 becomes B.00.00 and B.00.03 becomes B.00.01 |
No effect. |
-d |
No effect. |
Any integer/logical field gets the
Endianness flag turned off. |
The sdlinux utility gets run with the above options and a filename for an argument as in:
./sdlinux ‘-ffilename’
./sdlinux ‘-rfilename’
./sdlinux ‘-hfilename’
./sdlinux ‘-dfilename’
The filename specified just needs to be the data file name not the sd
filename. Regardless, sdlinux will figure out what to do if the .sd extension
is in the filename argument.
Please see the
following example how you can move data from HP-UX, to Linux natively without
having to export to ascii. On HP-UX, you simply create a self-describing file
as you normally would:
Base mydb
Get mydataset
Out outfile,link
Xeq
Then you can use
sdlinux to make some quick changes to the Self-describing information,
specifically the version in the header and the integers and logicals get
updated with the big endian flag being turned on:
sdlinux ‘foutfile’
You can then ftp
the data file and the sd file over to your Linux box:
ftp linuxbox.robelle.com
user
password
put outfile outfile
put outfile.sd outfile.sd
quit
You can then
reverse the effects of the –f option with the –r option:
sdlinux -routfile
Then on Linux
you can read the sd file natively even though the sd information has big endian
information and the data file can be read with bigendian integers and logicals.
>in outfile
>form
File: outfile (SD Version B.00.02) Has linefeeds
Entry: Offset
CHAR-FIELD X5 1
INT-FIELD I1 6 BE
DBL-FIELD I2 8 BE
PACKED-FIELD P12 12
PACKED*-FIELD P12 18
QUAD-FIELD I4 24 BE
ID-FIELD I1 32 BE
LOGICAL-FIELD K1 34 BE
DBLLOG-FIELD K2 36 BE
ZONED-FIELD Z5 40
FILLER X36 45
Entry Length: 80 Blocking: 1
>num 3
>list
>xeq
>IN outfile (0) >OUT $NULL (0)
CHAR-FIELD = 11111 INT-FIELD = 1111
DBL-FIELD = 11111 PACKED-FIELD = +11111
PACKED*-FIELD = +11111 QUAD-FIELD = 11111
ID-FIELD = 1 LOGICAL-FIELD = 1111
DBLLOG-FIELD = 11111 ZONED-FIELD = 11111
FILLER =
Add Command. The Add command would fail if a Table in an Oracle database accessible by a given username had more than 2.1 billion entries on Oracle 11 and higher.
Banner. The opening banner at runtime would display the wrong day and day of month. This was only an issue in Suprtool 5.8.
Set CleanChar. 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.
STExport/Suprlink. PA_RISC versions of Suprlink and STExport would fail when attempting to report an error on an OUTPUT file if the user specified a directory that didn’t exist or the user didn’t have write permission to.
Output , Display Command. Suprtool for Itanium and Suprtool/Open would not properly convert negative, single and double integers when output/,display is invoked
Quad Integer Input Parsing. Suprtool/Open would not parse a negative number into a quad integer container.