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March 2002
Bob Green, President To: Users of Robelle Software Re: News of the HP e3000 and Robelle, 2001 #3 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.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 Eloquence is an IMAGE-like database that runs on HP-UX, LINUX and Windows NT/2K. It is owned by HP Germany and supported by a 3rd party, Markmeier. For more information, click the link above.
We are looking for a few select alpha testers, who are familiar with Suprtool on MPE and are looking at HP Eloquence on HP-UX.
We have the same Suprtool commands that you are familiar with on MPE now working on HP-UX, and we need people to try the software out, especially in testing the various data types available in HP Eloquence.
Please send an e-mail if you are interested, with some information as to whether you already have Eloquence installed, whether you have a database built, and what your plans are or even if you are just investigating.
Sincerely, Neil Armstrong (neil@robelle.com)
Ecometry has found an outside buyer for its catalog and e-commerce software business: Syngistix, a Denver-based software company which used to be an HP 3000 software vendor named Distribution Resources Corp. (DRC). It’s been a very long time since there was any significant 3000 development at Syngistix, which gave the gate to much of its MPE expertise over the last several years.
Our goal is to take care of the customer, as if we were them, knowing what we know. Our motto is 'anyone can call about anything anytime'. Our support is immediate, like having a ‘phone a friend’ who can answer the question or solve the problem more than 95 percent of the time on the first call.
An example was a customer who was frustrated at having to dial in every night to check in on a credit card upload job. We showed her how to use a freeware e-mail client from Telemon to e-mail her pager if the job failed. The special experience is that we take care of our customers as if they were family.
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cust-id seq-num comment
12A 001 want web delivery but
12A 002 limited by bandwidth,
12A 003 so use FTP.
88X 001 Send doc in "PDF" format.
99Z 001 Make sure all changes
99Z 002 are approved by John.
In the CSV transfer file, we want to merge the related records into a single record, and also convert any double quotes to single quotes (you need to do something about internal quotes if you want to use quotes around fields in the CSV file!). For example,
for first three Note records are combined into a single record like this:
"12A","want web delivery but limited by bandwidth, so use FTP."
Although Suprtool cannot produce this transformation directly, it can front-end the database extract portion, and let a straight-forward Perl script do the merging. To learn how, click the link above.
Price: $900 for 3 days. Can be taught at your site.
The Software Inventory Utility (SIU) is a tool(script) to aid system managers better understand what files exist on their system. SIU can scan all databases, files, groups, directories, and accounts, accumulating disk usage, file code data, tracking the largest file, group, account, etc. For Image databases jumbo sets are counted, partial key index files are handled, DBE files are reported. Allbase database are also counted.
With HP announcing its sunset for the HP 3000 in 2007, I thought some of you might be feeling nostalgic for some history. The original 16-bit HP 3000 (later called “the Classic”) was released in 1972 and re-engineered into a 32-bit RISC processor in the 1980s. ...
| Company Name: | CALI-SYS Consultants, LLC |
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| Specialty: | AMISYS Suprtool |
| Description: | Configuration Migration - all and selected subsets, Data extracting with audit logic for all subsystems, Benefit and Pricing claim copy jobs for automated Config testing. |
| Contact: | Jan Geiger |
| Email: | JanLgeiger@cs.com |
| Location: | Corona, Calif. |
| Phone: | 909.278.9703 |
| Fax: | 909.278.9918 |
| Web site: | www.calisys.net |
| Suprtool Experience: | 6 years. Have trained consultants, configuration staff and financial staff on Suprtool. |
| References: | Numerous Managed Care and other Health Care companies. Call for References. |
A rangelist can be specified on most commands to identify which lines to operate on. In Qedit 5.0.10 and higher, a rangelist can contain up to 10 strings. Strings are separated from each other by an OR keyword. Each string can have its own search set such as column range and options. For example,
/List "abc" or "xyz"
{ search for abc or xyz }
/C 1/2 "ME" "abc" (u 30/35) or "xyz" (50/60 s)
{ search for caseless "abc" in columns 30/35 or }
{ smart "xyz" in columns 50/60 }
Each string is compared in turn against the text. As soon as a match is found, the line is selected. Thus, the most commonly found strings should be placed at the beginning of the list to increase speed.
The complete rangelist is saved and used when the "previous string" syntax (i.e., a null string) is entered. For example, /List "".
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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.
* OpenMPE Corporation Has a Board
It is the intent of the OpenMPE group "to carefully and calmly evaluate the viability of the MPE/iX Operating System moving to an alternative entity that would allow for its support and enhancements to continue beyond the scheduled December 31, 2006 end of support date from Hewlett-Packard."
* About HP-UX At Robelle
We have had a lot of questions about HP-UX since HP's announcement of the "sunset" of MPE. This article provides answers to many questions, information on HP-UX solutions with Qedit for Windows and Suprtool/UX, plus links to many useful HP-UX web pages (some even written for MPE users!).
* Suprtool/UX--An Old Friend
Robelle has had Suprtool on HP-UX for many years. Suprtool is already widely used to help integrate HP 3000 systems with HP-UX systems by sharing data. 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).
* STExport For Moving Data
Using STExport, you can export data from IMAGE SQL, Oracle or Allbase databases that reside on your HP 3000 or 9000 to just about any other platform, all without having to write a custom program. You can control field delimiters, quotation marks, numeric and date formats among other things.
* Newswire: HP-UX Admin for MPE Users
"I think the biggest difference for most MPE administrators is just the concepts of admin work. For example, there aren't roles in UNIX like there are in MPE. The administrator is left with the task of figuring out how to give the operator the permissions they need to do their job without giving permissions that could end up destroying the system."
* Shawn Gordon: Beginners Guide to LINUX
Learn about "distributions", installation of packages, and web sites where you can become LINUX-literate.
* Robelle Tech: Perl on the HP 3000
The Robelle Tech column from the most recent issue of the 3000 NewsWire magazine, contains an introduction to the programming language Perl and information on Ken Hirsch's Perl interface to Suprtool.
These are just some of the informative articles in this issue. Read the complete issue to learn more!