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Suprtool/Qedit
Training Dates:
May 18th - 20th Kubler
Consulting, Inc., an authorized SUPRTOOL Training partner with Robelle
Solutions Technologies Inc., is offering a three-day SUPRTOOL and QEDIT
Training course in Tampa, Florida. This course is being offered by popular
demand at an eastcoast site and is being hosted by the SUNCOAST CREDIT UNION.
If you have an interest in the training please send email to
jeff@kublerconsulting.com or call 541-745-7457. Eugene Volokh, Top 20 Legal
Thinker and "Boy Wonder" Eugene
Volokh is one of the Top 20 Legal Thinkers in America! Or at least, he's one of
the Top 20 most prominent and respected legal thinkers that blog readers know
about. The rest of the results of the Legal Affairs "poll" is
available online. Of course, take the poll results for whatever they're worth. Eugene
is, of course, the creator of MPEX. Click link above for details. Mark
Hurd, HP's new CEO, held his first press conference, as reported in The
Register. Also see links to other articles at the bottom of this article. You
can learn a lot from Ron Seybold's "3000 Newswire". In the 108th
edition of their Online Extra, we learned that:
For a small sample of
the Newswire, read the
latest "Newswire Flash Paper". "Ecometry
will be sunsetting all MPE versions prior to 611V on August 31, 2005. ... If
you are unable to upgrade by the August 31st deadline, Ecometry will still
provide you with software support, however, due to code modifications in
versions U and V we will not be able to provide you with code fixes until you
upgrade to 611V or higher." From
HP's web site: "We realize our customers take license compliance seriously
and want to be assured that the products they are using are compliant with HP
terms. The License Transfer Process offers our customers the ability to remain
complaint and continue to use HP software and systems with confidence. All
systems being transferred into the United States will also be required to
include the $400 transfer processing fee, plus applicable sales taxes (based on
the buyer’s location), for each system being transferred. HP will accept
checks, money orders, Visa, MasterCard, and American Express. All checks/money
orders should be made payable to Hewlett-Packard." Other
topics covered in the link above:
The
Resource 3000 consortium has published their first newsletter. Articles include:
"Time Is NOT Running Out On Your HP e3000!" and "The HP Never
Hangs ... Or Does It?" There is also a teaser about using hot-swappable
disk drive arrays on the HP 3000 (full article is here). How to Order Printed Robelle
Manuals Of
course, the product downloads for Qedit and Suprtool include the user manuals
and help files in digital format. But
did you know that you can also order printed manuals? You can have your own
personal manual to hold, mark up and dog ear! Robelle
allows you to order the most recent manuals on-line. These professionally bound
manuals will be printed immediately upon your request and billed to your credit
card (via a service called OnDemandManuals.com). The price is $25 US. Staying, Migrating and SurvivingThe
new buzzword on the Internet is "secure FTP". This can mean several
things, so click the link above to read our article and get up to speed. Shell Scripts - More
MPE for Unix Users Both
MPE and Unix have scripts, but there are a number of differences. This new
article by Bob Green discusses MPE Scripts Versus Unix Scripts, Structure of a
Command File (aka CI script), Parameters, Options, Handling Errors, User
Defined Commands (UDC), and Links to More Information. This is part 5 of our
series, "MPE for Unix Users": |
Tim
Ericsons’ collection of UDC’s and Command files has recently been resurrected
and re-published in the public domain on www.3k.com (click link above). Chris
Bartram Seeking 3000 Contributed Programs (from 3000-L) Sender: HP-3000 Systems Discussion From: Chris Bartram chrisb@3k.com Organization: 3k Associates, Inc.Subject: Seeking contributed programs
To anyone out there with
contributed programs (or command files)... I'm in the process of
expanding the public domain software links on www.3k.com:
Anyone with programs they'd like to make available (since the old CSL swap
tapes seem to be hard to come by these days) please let me know. I'll either
link to your location, or happily host the software on our web/ftp servers.
More direct link: http://www.3k.com/index_software.html
The intent is that all
this software be easily locatable and freely downloadable in perpetuity; or as
long as our 3000s keep chugging (which will be quite a while!). We've got a pretty good collection out there
already, but I want to ensure that we pick up as many other contributions as
possible, before more of the 3k community "drops offline"... Anyone with
contributions, drop me a line at chrisb@3k.com :-) The
system is down - the hard drive is toast - you may have to restore your IMAGE
database from yesterday's backup. In the past, this is the scenario that
typically got HP 3000 system managers interested in the transaction-logging
feature of the TurboIMAGE database. But
now, as a result of the Sarbanes-Oxley law (SOX), IMAGE Logging is also being
used to create audits for data changes. Managers who have never used
transaction logging before are now enabling it to create an evidence trail for
their SOX auditors. Click
the link above to read our entire story. Update:
One day after I finished the article above, I received an Online Extra
newseltter from Ron Seybold at the Newswire. In it was an advert for a
new IMAGE logging report program, 3000Audit as an
aid in SOX audits! Qedit TipsQedit has two very nice features for word processing: the Justify command to flow text into even paragraphs, and the Spell command (MPE only) to check the spelling of words in your text. These two features can come in handy when you are writing program documentation and quick memos or emails.For example, the Justify command can reformat messy text into paragraphs that are of regular width, squaring off both margins and putting two spaces after periods. The Spell command can help you find and correct any spelling errors. After the Spell command has highlighted the mistakes, we need to correct them by hand. Problem: we don't know the correct spelling of "asistance". Solution: the Word command's sound-alike search (denoted by "!"). (Note: if Spell is not installed on your system you will see an error message when you try to use it. ) Click the link above for
the full article and Spell install instructions. Suprtool TipsYou
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.
Or,
you could use the List;Related command of Suprtool's Dbedit module. This
extremely simple command shows you all the entries in the database that are
linked to one specific entry! For
example, I know that there is an invalid key value "N45 0002" in the
A-ACCOUNT-SITE automatic master, but I don't know what detail sets have the
offending data. Remember, automatic entries are created, uh, automatically,
when you insert data into a related detail. If you want to have the detail
insertion to fail unless the key value has been previously inserted, you would
use a manual master dataset. For
more details, click link above. |