Recent News and Tips
Acucorp announces support for HP COBOL features. For example,
most HP COBOL syntax and extensions are supported on all ACUCOBOL-GT platforms, as well as
most of the HP COBOL preprocessor and macros.
7/31/2002
George Statchnik's fourth transition series webcast is now online. The fifth webcast was in July, on database issues.
We will post the link as soon as it is online.
7/31/2002
This is a firm that specializes in providing both direct permanent
staffing and consulting solutions to a broad cross-section of
7/30/2002
George Statchnik's third transition series webcast is now online.
7/30/2002
The 3000 NewsWire has a
special offer for 3kworld members: they will give you a password to access
the 3000 Newswire articles on-line: All of the NewsWire's continuing coverage of developments in the HP 3000 user community - plus technical reviews and advice on managing the systems through a Transition to either Homesteading or Migration futures - will be available to any 3kWorld Colleagues who request access to the NewsWire site.
7/29/2002
George Statchnik's second transition series webcast is now online.
7/29/2002
Paul Edwards, a Robelle-authorized training instructor, will come to your site and
teach your staff how to use Suprtool: the course consists of lecture and hands-on labs with plenty of examples. The object of the course is to take the student through the fundamentals of SUPRTOOL syntax followed by a more advanced discussion of SUPRLINK, STEXPORT, DBEDIT, tables, duplicates, Web reports, SUPRTOOL2, SpeedDemon, How Messy, and a PowerHouse interface. If you are trying to learn SUPRTOOL on your own or not using the rich features of the product to make your data extraction processes more efficient, then you need to seriously consider having this course taught at your company.
7/26/2002
Duane Percox of QSS writes on 3000-L:
"For our other applications we are choosing an open source database that is
relational and sql-92 compatible.
For those who believe that open source, freely available databases, are not
worth investing your future product plans, I suggest you point your
favorite web browser at www.sapdb.org and spend some time checking out
their story. Not only will you have an entirely new perspective on the
open source movement, you just might find the motivation and ammunition
you have been waiting for to justify selling the last of your oracle
stock holdings :-)"
7/25/2002
HP's George Stachnik has been hosting a series of webcasts dealing with
the issues of HP's November 2001 announcement of the death of the HP 3000.
Archives of these webcasts are now coming online. The original January 22, 2002 webcast,
"First Steps", can be viewed and listened to by clicking the link above.
Over the coming days, we will give the links to the other webcasts.
7/24/2002
This PDF file contains Bob Green's paper for HP World in Los Angeles (Sept 23-27, 2002).
It presents practical tips on how to transform TurboIMAGE data so that it can be
used on other databases: HP Eloquence, Oracle, SQL Server, mySQL, and PostgreSQL.
7/23/2002
PostgreSQL is an Object-Relational database management system that supports almost all SQL constructs, including subselects, transactions, and user-defined types and functions. It is free to download, use, and modify provided the included copyright notice is included. Also, it is able to run under many OS types, include Unix variants and Windows machines under the Cygwin environment.
Click the link above to read about migrating data to PostgreSQL.
7/22/2002
Robelle programmer Francois Desrochers
originally published this article in the July issue of the 3000 News Wire:
I was looking for training on Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC). This is taught at many sites across North-America, but only a couple are found in the Montreal area. The courses at these sites are scheduled at most twice a year. Last year I signed up for one, just to have it cancelled at the last minute.
Since I did not want to travel, I decided to look at web-based training (a.k.a. e-learning). ...
7/19/2002
Clink the link above for our summary of HP's TurboIMAGE look-alike database for HP-UX.
7/18/2002
Dennis is teaming up with his brother, Bill Hassell, to provide seamless 3000 to 9000 migration expertise. Please contact him to arrange for an assessment of needs for your business.
7/17/2002
The July 2002 issue of Robelle's What's Up DOCumentation newletter is
now available. Some of the highlights from this issue:
* HP "Blesses" Eloquence. Minisoft ODBC support.
* MPE: Long versus Short numbers
* Understanding RAID drives
* Suprtool tips: Using tables to replace Quiz links, Subtotals and
sorting, Long IF commands, Exception reporting.
* Porting IMAGE data to Oracle
* Searching a fileset with Qedit
Browse the HTML issues at
http://www.robelle.com/library/newsletter/w2002-07.html
Download the PDF issues at
http://www.robelle.com/library/newsletter/w2002-07.pdf
Hope you enjoy this issue.
Bob Green
President
Robelle Solutions Technology Inc.
7/16/2002
From our Robelle Tech column in the July 3000 NewsWire,
technical details of transforming TurboIMAGE data for the MS SQL Server database.
7/15/2002
Here is Alfredo Rego's classic on how close reading of the manual can lead
to impressive improvements in results (from Robelle's HP Encyclopedia.
7/12/2002
According to this report on The Register web site (and confirmed on
other news sites), it will get increasingly harder to buy a PC with Windows 2000
installed, with no more after 9 months.
7/11/2002
Larry McAfee specializes in HP 3000 applications. In 2001 we migrated the data for an entire MM3000
application to AS/400.
7/10/2002
A useful tip from the 3000 NewsWire.
7/09/2002
Qedit for Windows 5.3 contains a new syntax coloring feature
that is customized by language definitions, which exist as XML files. This article shows how to customize one
of the XML language definitions for your own special needs.
7/08/2002
First 3000 Vendor to Support Eloquence: Robelle forges a clear migration path,
amidst the panic and
uncertainty surrounding HP's November 14th 2001 announcement regarding the end
of e3000 production. By March 2002, Robelle led the way by expeditiously adding
support for HP Eloquence databases
into the HP-UX
version of Suprtool.
7/06/2002
The hardware support life for all currently supported HP e3000 systems is now extended, uniformly, to the end of December 2006. HP also is extending the support life for MPE/iX Release 6.5 to December 31, 2004. (This announcement does not change the status of products for which support has already ended, such as the 917 - 987 family)
7/05/2002
In our Robelle Tech column for July, we discuss techniques for transforming
TurboIMAGE data for Microsoft SQL Server.
7/04/2002
Adtech's TransPort product migrates applications in COBOL and other languages to new platforms.
Former Robelle employee Ken Robertson now works at Adtech and says their tools are quite "cool".
7/03/2002
You can use MPE/iX variables in Qedit commands by prefixing the Qedit command
with a colon and a slash (:/). The colon tells Qedit to send the command to
MPE, which knows how to dereference variables, then the slash tells Qedit
that it is really a Qedit command, not a MPE command.
For example, to change the string {insert date here} to the value of the
"mydate" variable in all lines,
run qedit.pub.robelle
text myfile
:/change "{insert a> here}" "!mydate" all
7/02/2002
The 3000 NewsWire quotes Jeff Vance of HP's 3000 group as
saying “Patches will be generated through EOL,” meaning the end of the 3000 line in 2006, not the end of sales. "
7/01/2002
Archived News and Tips...
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