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Quote from Robelle customer Craig Erwin of Tempe City Government. Gordon
Gavin of Cygnus Business Media writes: It's
always such a pleasure to read "What's Up Doc!" ... there is always
at least one snippet to glean from the contents. Keep up the good work. Steve
Cooper writes: As I reflect back on Allegro's 20 years and my own 26 years
in the HP 3000 business, I cannot help but marvel at how lucky we are to be a
part of this community. It has been an honor and a pleasure to work in such an
exciting, dynamic, and supportive environment... Click
the link above and read what
others have to say. Homesteading and MPE TipsThe
Feb 2004 issue of The
3000 Newswire contains a good interview with Frank Smith of Alden Research,
who offers certified MPE/iX training. Frank even developed MPE training classes
for HP. Contact him via email at falden@aol.com or tel: 410.750.2101. Many
other MPE consultants
also offer MPE training, so it should not be a problem to get training for new
staff for quite some time. "The
concept of homesteading comes from the 19th century United States law and
practice of people moving west to settle the open public lands available. These
rugged settlers had to endure many hardships to have a 160-acre plot of their
own to cultivate and raise a family. Often they were far from their nearest
neighbors and had to fend for themselves. My mother's family used the land runs
in Oklahoma territory to acquire land for their settlement. We still have
several pieces of family furniture in our house that were in their wagons used
for the Run." "This
concept applies to the HP 3000 site that will continue to provide self-support
for the platform long after the support from HP is gone. Since their
announcement, HP has not shown to be proactive in providing the kind of support
you have been used to in the past. But you don't have to be left out in the
wilderness on your own if you apply the information in this article." John
Burke has posted his December column from The 3000 Newswire, including tips on Samba and a good
discussion of spare peripherals (why the A and N class are better than the
older systems). John
Burke has posted the January column from The 3000 Newswire. Topics include automating ftp logons, CI
functions SIB request update and Nike Arrays. John
Burke's web site has the Dec issue of this column from The 3000 Newswire,with
Q&A on tape drives, home up without CR/LF, file create, modify, etc. times
down to the second, FINFO on temp file only, KSAM/XL space reuse, restricting
VT-MGR connections, multiple LANICs on the same network, patch
"versions", and more. A good read. John
Burke has posted the January 2004 version of his "Hidden Value"
column from The
3000 Newswire. Topics included: frozen program, login IP address,
networking error messages, limits on the CI buffer, and much more. Beechglen Technical Articles
on the 3000 Here
is a very useful archive of technical tips that you should bookmark for future
reference. Dozens of topics, including Traceroute from MPE, Speeding Up
Backups, using CI variables with FTP, and much more. Qedit TipsMerge
is a Qedit command that matches lines in the current workfile with lines from a
"merge" file, based on the line number. Qedit pre-release 5.4.12
contains a new option, MergeJ, which appends the corresponding line from the
merged file, rather than replacing. |
Suprtool TipsDbedit for Eloquence, and
more... Suprtool
pre-release version 4.7.11 has some excellent improvements:
Suprtool
is a high-speed data extraction tool which, at times, depending on your type of
system, version of OS, and the amount of memory you have, will consume too many
resources. Read Neil Armstrong's suggestions for tuning Suprtool to be more
resource friendly. A must read for any customer who has a system with
greater than 2Gb's of memory. HP-UX and Migration Planning Recently
I was asked why Suprtool for HP-UX doesn't work or even exist, when our web
site had references to the product all over. I was incredulous, but apparently
someone had been saying that Suprtool for HP-UX did not exist!!!! Well
nothing could be further from the truth, and what is even more important is
that we have some great new enhancements and options available! However, one of
the biggest questions in the last three weeks is what are the differences
between MPE and HP-UX. It is evident that many customers recognize the
investment that they have in their Suprtool code and want to know the types of
changes they need to make to their code in order for it to work on HP-UX if
they move from MPE. .. read Neil’s complete article. Jean-Marc
Jalbert of Speedware writes: "We
officially support Eloquence on Windows and UNIXs. It is supported in the AMXW
product, a recent Speedware acquisition. You can do a search on the Speedware
Web site to get more info: www.speedware.com
- Eloquence is also supported in our 4GL and CASE Tools : Speedware V7. We also
support Omnidex for Eloquence on Windows and UNIXs." City
and County Credit Union describes their successful migration from MPE to HP-UX.
The Summit application uses the Eloquence database and our Suprtool/Qedit
products on HP-UX. Links/ Resources/ Industry News Trivia Questions
About the 3000 We
added questions from Eugene Volokh to our trivia quiz. Here are several to test your knowledge of
history:
The
Summit users meeting will be held May 17-20 at La Costa resort near San Diego,
with a golf tournament on May 16. Bob and Mary Ann Green from Robelle plan to
attend. Getting Rid of the Cool Web Search Hijack You
go to Google and type in a search, but you end up at some other web site. You
have been infected by a variant of the CoolWebSearch (CWS) hijack, which
exploits the ByteVerify vulnerability in the MS Java VM. The infection comes from
browsing the web, not from email or downloads, and some of our PCs have been
invected despite having Norton and/or McAfee anti-virus installed. It is quite
difficult to remove CWS - almost impossible in the latest variants. Click the
link above for the CWShreader program to remove CWS and, optionally, protect
you from re-infection. More details. Customer
Comments on Our Newsletter Neda
Bahrani of Superior Dental Care, Inc. writes: "If it were not for What's Up Doc, I would
never get to learn new things!" Read
Tyler Cowen's post about Google's competitors and then try these two new search
engines: Teoma and Mooter. |