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January 2002
Bob Green, President To: Users of Robelle Software Re: News of the HP e3000 and Robelle, 2002 #1 If you haven't been visiting the Robelle web site, www.robelle.com, at least once a week, here is what you have been missing. Included are many of the stories posted to the web since the last What's Up DOC newsletter in December 2001.If you are reading a PDF or text version of this newsletter, remember that the headline of every story is actually a web link to the full story or more information. If you want to follow a link to get more information, go to the web home of the current newsletter: http://www.robelle.com/library/newsletter/latest.html Table of Contents: |
HP e3000 Solutions Symposium
April 3- 6, 2002
San Jose Hyatt - San Jose, CA
The HP e3000 Solutions Symposium is a training environment like no other. You'll get the information you need to get more out of your systems. You'll spend 3 1/2 days, side-by-side learning, hands-on with the industry's best-known and respected e3000 experts and architects — the people who understand these solutions and the implications of migration, better than anyone. You'll also be provided with migration strategies, tools, application roadmaps and first hand migration case- studies to enable a cost effective, smooth transition when you are ready to migrate to a new platform. New this year. Sponsored by the Ecometry User Group, this 1 1/2- Day technical training track for Ecometry users will focus on Ecometry performance, reporting and system management, cycle counting and purge processes, system maintenance and tips, tricks and techniques and more!
Click the link above to read more about this year's Symposium, or click here to read reports from last year's symposium.
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For more information on scripting, visit the Qedit for Windows Scripting Language page.
After constructing a practical solution, the Test Center reached the following conclusion: Linux and associated Linux applications can accomplish many of the same tasks as the Wintel standard at a much lower initial cost,in this case, for 93 percent less than the software cost of a similar Windows-based network,and without many of the licensing hassles presented by traditional software platforms.
For more Windows tips, visit the permanent location of these articles.
Click the link above for an application note.
Getting Used to UNIX: This Robelle Tech column from the December issue of the 3000 NewsWire, relates the MPE commands and concepts that you are familiar with to similar commands and concepts on HP-UX. This will not be a debate on the merits of MPE/iX versus HP-UX. It is intended to assist the MPE user, programmer, and operator to navigate and use commands on the HP-UX operating system.
We are prepared to support Suprtool on MPE/iX as long as customers demand it, and we hope that is a long time. But we also have Suprtool on HP-UX and have had it for many years. We are even doing research right now to improve it to make migrating applications more convenient (news of that research in the weeks to come).
Suprtool from Robelle is already widely used to help integrate HP 3000 systems with HP-UX systems by sharing data. For example, one Robelle customer uses Suprtool/iX and Suprtool/UX to distribute their data from the 3000 to a nationwide network of HP-UX boxes, and then bring new data back to the 3000 for integration. If you decide to migrate some apps to HP-UX, Suprtool/UX will be there for you.
Click the link above to read the entire column.
We will continue to provide hardware support for our beloved 3000 and partner with the gurus at Allegro to provide software support.);
Atlantic Tech Services (ATS) is a hardware maintenance company and has been servicing the 3000 line since 1984 and will continue to do so.
ATS is located in NE Ohio, between Akron and Cleveland. It started as a regional maintenance company, but has grown into a multi-office company with coverage extending throughout the United States. Add them to your list of alternatives to HP for maintaining your HP 3000 hardware.
I like to think of MPEX as an old friend. Up until about a year ago, I still had one of the original manuals we got from Vesoft — the address was on Mockingbird Lane. Many is the time this old friend has come to my rescue. An even older friend is Robelle’s Qedit. It was the first editor I used other than Editor/3000. When I changed jobs to a TDP-using site about 15 years ago, within a year I had everyone using Qedit. These two old friends can work together to make your tasks complete faster and easier — and isn’t that what friends are for? They qualify for the “Plays Well with Others” award.
But when the users access the Internet, they all appear to live at the same IP address. They can pick up their email, surf the web, run Qedit for Windows (this did require using the Qwin/firewall option on MPE), even Instant Messaging.
This seems like magic. How can answers come back to the correct PC, when they all look like they same came from the same place?
The link above is to an article that explains the answer: Network Address Translation, also known as IP Masquerading.
Robelle Solutions Technology Inc. provides the What's Up, DOCumentation? newsletter as a service to our customers. The newsletter is available on the web: in HTML format for browsing and PDF format for printing. Visit www.robelle.com/library/newsletter/
Comments about this issue, as well as ideas for future issues, including news, tips, and suggestions for articles, can be sent to bgreen@robelle.com.
* Suprtool Tips: Exchange data between Image and Oracle
The Robelle Tech columns in the November issue of The 3000 NewsWire shows how the Ecometry site Hammacher Schlemmer exports data from IMAGE on the 3000 to be imported by Oracle SQL-Loader on Windows NT.
Another case study shows how Alliant Foods is using Suprtool to synchronizing IMAGE and Oracle databases on HP-UX.
* Use Suprtool to check business rules in your database
Business rules are usually included in the data entry programs but sometimes 'stuff happens' and the data gets messed up. Suprtool's IF command can help find these problem records.
* Future of the HP 3000
After HP's announcement of the five-year plan for the HP3000, the HP3000 community responds with commitments and plans.
These are just some of the informative articles in this issue. Read the complete issue to learn more!
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