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April 2002
Bob Green, President To: Users of Robelle Software Re: News of the HP e3000 and Robelle, 2002 #4 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: |
As far as IMAGE/SQL alternatives go for customers who would benefit from keeping their “Image-calls” and do a “one-step at-a-time” approach, he said that he is committed to promoting HP Eloquence to fill that need. He said that it’s “likely the best approach,” and that “the product is very solid and very strong …”
The Symposium is going well... it's only been one day long so far. Our Trans/port product [migration of HP 3000 code to other platforms] is being well received, and some people, especially those who need to do spl to c++ are quite interested. AcuCorp is also very interested in our V/Plus to AcuCobol solution. I was surprised to find that my talk, scheduled at 6:00 PM, had the room filled to capacity with several people standing. About 80-100 people attended my talk.
HP's main thrust is migration. They are pretty non-specific about guidance, but they have scheduled "webinars" for the last Tuesday of each month addressing different topics. This series runs through July.
There are now three platinum partners with HP to facilitate migrations - Lund, MB Foster, and Speedware Corp. MB Foster proposes offering a "bumper to bumper" solution. Speedware is actively working on a Transact to Speedware conversion, for those folks who want to stick with a 4GL. I'm not sure how Lund fits in, as I missed their talk so that I could chat with Ron Seybold, a most interesting person to talk with!
HP announced support for fibrechannel 3000's, but didn't announce any new machines.
HP is pushing the HP Eloquence database, and it has been ratified by SIG Image. They do admit that there are improvements to be made, and that they are only targetting small to medium businesses.
There are several companies, including DISC, who are offering Image to SQL wrappers. I will be investigating these offerings soon. Duane Percox has done some timings for some wrappers that his firm QSS wrote, and discovered that for a fairly small database of 12,500 records, a program's run time went from 3 cpu seconds to 10. His approach sounded intelligent, leaving the master records in an Image DB with the details in a SQL database. If the program had been less intelligent, perhaps it would have taken even longer to execute.
. It is very clear that most attendees are at this conference to learn about migration.
Well, I'm off to more sessions. I'll keep you posted!
The first deadline in the HP campaign to move customers off the 3000 slipped here in California, when attendees at the Interex e3000 Solutions Symposium learned they now have three extra years to purchase 3000-to-HP 9000 conversion kits for their N-Class and A-Class 3000s. The announcement was one of several designed to motivate more customer acceptance of HP-UX platforms. Separately, channel partners at the conference reported HP has told them it will not be hurrying customers to migrate.
Click the link for Ron's full report.
The second path would amount to a “life extension” for MPE, but probably not a great deal of growth. This road would involve options such as software to emulate the HP e3000 hardware on, say, a Windows or Linux system, allowing one to run the existing PA-RISC MPE/iX operating system and all its applications on cheap PC-class hardware, third-party support to replace the HP Response Center, and some minimal maintenance of the operating system itself (perhaps even without source code) to keep it running indefinitely with today’s functionality.
... From an MPE point of view, I believe it will be the second or middle path that turns out to be the most useful, if HP will permit it to happen. If HP will allow it, then various companies will make it possible for people who want, need or must keep running MPE applications in 2007 and beyond to do so indefinitely.
Unfortunately, MPE uses MR as shorthand for both Multiple-RIN capability and Multi-Record access, which are totally unrelated concepts.
Click the link above to learn the differences.
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Click the link above for a detailed application note.
Do you know who is using your CPU on MPE/iX? If you do a :SHOWJOB command, MPE/iX will dutifully report what jobs and sessions are logged on, but it won't show the processes running within each job session. ... The purpose of this article is to share a few techniques for determining exactly what is running.
| Company Name: | Practical Technology Solutions |
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| Specialty: | An independent/self-employed provider of premium and practical HPe3000 (MPE) business system solutions. Services specializing in HP3K MIGRATION TO OTHER PLATFORMS, COBOL, Sqlplus, Oracle, Qedit, Suprtool, Powerhouse (Quiz, Quick, QTP), Management, Operations, Database (Dbgenrl), and Analysis consultations. IT/HP-MPE purveyor since 1985. |
| Contact: | Jim Chance |
| Email: | jim_chance@yahoo.com |
| Location: | Ohio |
| Phone: | 419.651.6704 |
| Web site: | practical_technology.tripod.com |
| Suprtool Experience: | Have used Suprtool since 1987. |
| Qedit Experience: | Have used Qedit since 1987. |
| References: | Resume and references supplied upon request. |
| Notes: | Long live the HP3000!!! |
| Company Name: | Pro 3K |
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| Specialty: | HP e3000 System Management Consulting |
| Description: | Providing a full range of MPE/iX services. Pro 3K is devoted to the HP 3000. |
| Contact: | Mark Ranft |
| Email: | mark@pro3k.com |
| Location: | Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota |
| Phone: | 612.804.2774 |
| Fax: | 651.994.4810 |
| Web site: | www.pro3k.com |
| Suprtool Experience: | Pro 3K's has had experience with SUPRTOOL since the 1980's. Training classes provided. |
| Qedit Experience: | Pro 3K's consultants have experience with QEDIT since 80's. Training classes provided. |
| References: | HP DSPP and HP Cerifications. Other references available upon request. |
It was the same in Qedit as well, which emulates MPE's Redo. Commands entered at the Qedit prompt are saved in something called the redo stack. You can recall commands from this stack by using the Redo, Do and Listredo commands. The redo stack was stored in a temporary file and discarded as soon as you left Qedit. This did not allow the stack to be preserved across Qedit invocations.
But then Alfredo Rego of Adager insisted that Qedit could be much better: it could save the redo commands in a permanent file almost as easily as a temporary file. So now the Set Redo command allows you to assign a permanent file as your redo stack. For example, to assign "myredo" as the persistent redo stack, enter:
/set redo myredo
If the file does not exist, Qedit creates it. Otherwise, Qedit uses the existing file. All your subsequent commands are written to the persistent redo stack. If you want to use a persistent stack every time you run Qedit, you just insert the Set Redo command in one of our Qeditmgr configuration files.
P.S. Suprtool now has persistent Redo as well.
Web pages allow you to specify European characters from the ISO Latin-1 Character Set (8859-1). This standard also served as the basis for the ANSI character set of MS Windows, but naturally Microsoft extended and improved their version so that it doesn't exactly follow ISO Latin-1. Warning: the wrong way to do European characters in a web page is to insert the Windows character that displays properly in your editor. This character is non-standard and will display as garbage on many browsers. The right way to do it is to encode the character was a tag. For example, à is coded as `
To learn more and for a useful link to all the character encodings, click the link above.
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* Ecometry Sold to Syngistix
* Export Multi-line Records with Suprtool and Perl
* HP-UX Admin: Managing Disk Space
* Freeware: HP 3000 Software Inventory Utility
* Robelle Tech: Early History of the 3000
* Consultants Corner: Info-Trans and CALI-SYS
* Host-Based Qedit: How to Search for Alternate Strings
These are just some of the informative articles in this issue. Read the complete issue to learn more!