> Does anybody know why ?
Gavin Scott of Allegro replied:
I believe everyone involved considers this change to be a Good Thing(tm).
The product will now be directly owned by the company that wrote
it and supports it, who will not have to deal with the HP
bureaucracy when it comes to deciding what enhancements to fund, etc.
There were also concerns by a number of people that they could
not be sure that HP wouldn't suddenly stop supporting Eloquence
the way that they stopped supporting MPE. The only way to
completely allay people's fears that HP would stop supporting it
was to get HP to stop supporting it :-)
In fact I think you'll find that significant forces are in motion
to provide expanding worldwide support and accelerating growth
for the Eloquence product, especially in terms of its use as a
TurboImage replacement. Some URLs that may be interesting:
http://www.eloquence3000.com/
http://www.mbfoster.com/enews/press_releases.cfm?Open=152
11/26/2002
We have added to the "grids" of product status down the left hand side of the main Robelle web page. The new grids
denote the current production and pre-release versions, as well as the minimum version numbers for each release of
MPE and HP-UX.
We also added a note that says the version number for either OS are the "minimum" version for support on that
version of the OS. If you have a later version of our product, of course you are okay as well.
11/25/2002
Suprtool 4.3.02 now supports HP Eloquence 7. This means that the Get, Update, Form and Chain commands support all major functionality of Eloquence. But in addition, the Base and Put commands were enhanced with new syntax to support the flexible ways in which Eloquence can specify the database to be opened.
11/22/2002
Here is a chart on the Openmpe web site showing the tiers for different processors for HP's MPE software licensing.
11/20/2002
As you may know, HP has removed the block-mode routine from HP-UX version 11.
This eliminated Visual mode from our host-based Qedit, a serious loss of
functionality. However, after requests from many users, especially at HPWorld,
we have re-implemented Visual Mode using a line-at-a-time screen read, as
is done in Pscreen. Downloads of this prerelease 5.3.12 are available for Qedit/UX
customers to evaluate.
11/19/2002
"At 8:30 a.m. today, November 4, 2002 I turned off our faithful H-P 3000 and the INLEX software for the last time..."
INLEX is a package for libraries produced by DRA (now merged into SIRSI).
In this 3kworld article, Howard Pringle of Waukesha Public Library
describes how he feels about shutting down his amazingly reliable hardware/software combination.
11/18/2002
If you are a long-time HP 3000 user, you may be able to answer the questions in
this challenging Trivia Quiz (for example, "What colors did the original HP 3000 come in?").
11/15/2002
Today is the one-year anniversary of HP's end-of-support" announcement for
the HP 3000. I re-read our press release of November 14, 2001 and I still stand by it today.
If you decide to migrate, we will help you. If you decide to homestead on your HP 3000, we will
help you too. Since last year we have done many enhancements to our Qedit and Suprtool
product lines, for both MPE and HP-UX, and we plan to continue that support in the future.
11/14/2002
You know there is an invalid key value in a TurboIMAGE automatic master,
but you don't know which of the 16 details contain the bad
value. How to find them all?
You could create a custom Suprtool job that looks in each of
the linked datasets. But perhaps you have not worked on this
database in a year or so. It could take a long time to get the
names of the related sets, and the names of the key field in each
one, all spelled correctly! Nothing difficult, but time-consuming.
Click the link above to discover the one simple Suprtool command that solves this problem.
11/14/2002
We are pleased to announce that the November issue of Robelle's monthly newsletter has been
posted to our web site. Normally, this newsletter is shipped to our customers by email
and web delivery, but this month we are mailing a physical copy instead. If our customers have
as much junk email as we do, they may have missed the announcements.
Topics for November: Eloquence 3000 Inc, Suprtool Many-to_many links, a powerful beta release of Suprtool,
IMAGE tips ("can your capacity be too large?"), and much more.
11/12/2002
Firmware Patch for A-Class
HP has announced a firmware upgrade for the original release of A and N-class servers for MPE.
It is hard to find this patch on the IRTC web site. Try going to "Individual Patches" and
entering patch ID of PF_CPREGSPA0111. You can't locate it through either the FIRMWARE path
or the HP 3000 path, as one would have expected. (Thanks to Steve Cooper for this tip.)
Here is what the IRTC has to say:
- The A6696A GSP firmware provided in PF_CPREGSPA0111
incorrectly reports that the firmware is a BETA version.
After PF_CPREGSPA0111 is installed, the GSP "HElp" command
reports the following:
=== GSP Help =========(Administrator)===
Hardware Revision 8 Firmware Revision A.01.11
BETASep 25 2002,09:45:01
- The A6696A GSP firmware provided in PF_CPREGSPA0111 is not
a BETA version and is fully supported by HP. HP recommends
that the A6696A GSP firmware be updated using
PF_CPREGSPA0111 to address the issues documented in the
patch. The reference to the firmware being a BETA version
can be ignored.
- This issue will be addressed in the next A6696A GSP firmware
patch.
Update: HP posted a new patch, Revision A.01.12, identical
to A.01.11, but with the word "BETA" removed. Our A-class server has
been updated to that level without incident.
11/11/2002
CASE is a long-time Robelle VAR whose flagship product, ABLE, does portfolio management for asset-based and corporate finance lenders
11/08/2002
Host-based Qedit may not have the fancy user interface of Qedit for Windows, but it does have two very nice features for word processing: the Justify command to flow text into even paragraphs, and the Spell command to check the spelling of words in your text. Click the title above for examples!
11/07/2002
This page on the CSY web site links to HP technical resources for MPE/iX users.
11/06/2002
Unicode is a character encoding standard that is designed to cover 95% of the world's written
languages.
11/05/2002
This module allows TurboIMAGE access from Perl.
Maintenance is being taken over from Ted Ashton by
David Oksner, who is adding Eloquence and HP-UX support.
11/04/2002
Neil Armstrong, the Suprtool architect, writes:
I am truly proud to announce the release of Suprtool 4.6.02, which is one of the most
exciting pre-releases of Suprtool in a long time. This version has many features that we
(Bob and I) feel are very useful and have been asked for, for a very long time.
Bob and I collaborated on the new Table features on HP-UX, Bob wrote the underlying
file handling and I incorporated the new code into Suprtool for HP-UX so that Update
from a table is available on HP-UX as well as expanded tables.
Not to mention support for HP Eloquence version 7!!!!
Please see the What's new pre-release page and watch for upcoming articles on our
web site. Suprtool 4.6.02 is available for download now.
I will post more on this very soon, but some of the key new features are as
follows:
* The Table command now supports filenames up to 80 characters.
* The Table command truncated filenames at the limit of 36
characters.
* The number of defines allowed in Suprtool has been increased to
768.
* Suprtool and STExport now support features to Clean your data.
* STExport now supports an Escape command which will escape out
certain characters.
* Suprtool now supports a $Counter function which will increment
an integer field for output record.
* Suprtool now supports a $Total function which will total a
specified field.
The HP-UX version has the following bug fixes and features:
* Suprtool for HP-UX now supports environment variable
substition.
* The Table command now supports filenames up to 80 characters.
* The Table command truncated filenames at the limit of 36
characters.
* The number of defines allowed in Suprtool has been increased to
768.
* Suprtool has been enhanced to support HP Eloquence 7.0
features.
* The Base and Put commands have been changed to support new
syntax.
* Suprtool now supports the expanded database limits in HP
Eloquence 7.0.
* Suprtool now support extract from a table and larger tables on
HP-UX.
* Suprtool and STExport now support features to Clean your data.
* STExport now supports an Escape command which will escape out
certain characters.
* Suprtool now supports a $Counter function which will increment
an integer field for output record.
* Suprtool now supports a $Total function which will total a
specified field.
11/01/2002
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