Recent News and Tips
Soccer First!
Robelle's software lab is located in the Caribbean on
the island of Anguilla.
The Anguilla National Football team defeated Nevis on Sunday June 29th. The final score as 4-1.
What makes this match noteworthy is that the Suprtool Software
Architect, Neil Armstrong, played on the national team
in this match, his first international team competition. Congratulations to Neil!
[Click the picture above to enlarge it.]
6/30/2003
HP White Paper: Compilers and User Interfaces
This is HP's white paper with their ideas on migrating programming
language compilers and user interfaces.
6/27/2003
Learn all about MPE internals and ways to get a hint of what may be wrong on your system, before calling for support. Link above is to on-line web version, or
download the
MS Word file.
6/25/2003
Read Bob Green's newly updated and expanded article on the use of search keys in TurboIMAGE.
6/23/2003
John Burke has posted net.digest for June, including this interesting
question:
Is the root file the root of all knowledge?
This was the question: “I have an Image database in which the item declarations have been added willy-nilly, and now I'd like to sort those declarations for easier readability without breaking my database and without doing a reload. Will this work?” He then went on to describe how he wanted to generate a schema with Adager, sort the item list, create a new empty database with this schema and replace the original root file with the new one.
The net.digest for May 2003 is also worth reading, even if
just for the fact that the Unix Haters Handbook is
now available on line.
6/19/2003
Rene Woc writes:
Bob Green's article on "zero secondaries" in the June
newsletter
explains very well the pitfalls and solutions when using
"integer keys" in IMAGE master datasets. However, I believe
Bob's article missed a 5th solution, one that guarantees
no-secondaries with integer keys, if you know how the key
values are assigned. This is the most common case. The
solution is described in Fred White's article "Integer
Keys: The Final Chapter" available from the Adager's web site.
It's the solution Adager customers with "integer keys" use.
Any HP3000 user can always call Adager to obtain the proper
capacity values for their particular case.
6/16/2003
John's great column in the NewsWire is now online and full of useful information, including this Q&A:
How can I find out what is installed on my system?
Andreas Schmidt replied:
HPSWINFO.PUB.SYS shows the OS Level, patch level, and hp patches applied as long as standard patch routines have been used. No third party software is listed in HPSWINFO, however.
Robert Mills added that for third party tools you could try the 'System Inventory Utility (SIU)' written by Jeff Vance. It's available as a free download from Jazz (http://jazz.external.hp.com/src/scripts/siu/index.html)
John Burke noted that for HP software, xeq psirpt.pred.sys gives a complete listing of products/bundles.
Note: the
May column is online now as well.
6/12/2003
This presentation from the recent Solutions Symposium helps answer the question: "what size system(s) will you need to run your migrated 3000 application on a new platform?". To save the PowerPoint file (.ppt) right click/save-as
here.
Here is a quote from the concluding slide:
"Feedback from some early benchmarks suggests that
an overall increase of 25-50% in processing power was
about the right amount for those benchmarks.
Each site needs to approximate what will be needed,
based on the guidelines found here.
Verify your approximations with performance tests
before you go live!"
6/10/2003
Here is a nice list of HP 3000 consultants on the Adager web site, with short descriptions of each one.
6/05/2003
The June 2003 issue of our customer newletter is
now available. Browse the newsletter online at the link above, or download the PDF issue.
Among the interesting stories this month:
* HPWorld in Atlanta is fast approaching.
* Is a "Zero Secondaries" Report Good News?
* New Suprtool has unbelievable enhancements
* New Qedit for Windows release
6/04/2003
Here is a list of the latest MPE talks and tutorials in August.
6/03/2003
The HP take on how to migrate IMAGE databases.
6/01/2003
Archived News and Tips...
HP 3000 Book
HP 3000 Evolution:
Edited by
Bob Green of Robelle, from articles written by Robelle,
by The 3000 Newswire, and by other
experts in the HP 3000 field.
This 300-page book contains the latest information on three important
topics:
Homesteading
HP 3000 Tune Up
Migrating a 3000 application.
An essential reference for every desk!
Order your copy on-line for US$25.
