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Re: Accessing file on shaerd mapped drive (windows)

bs...@paradise.net.nz (Brian Speirs) — Fri, 11 Nov 2009 19:08:43 UT

OK. I've had this problem before ...

Look in the ERR.H item in the SYSCOM file. This gives the error
translations.

Error 3007 is 'No VOC record'.

So, looking back at your original post, you have defined a VOC entry -
but there is no dictionary component. So create a dictionary:

CREATE.FILE DICT JUNK

Re: Accessing file on shaerd mapped drive (windows)

g...@unaweep.com (glh) — Fri, 11 Nov 2009 17:48:21 UT

Hi All,

Thanks for your response(s)

(1) Does appear when responding to a DOS dir cmd

(2) Does appear when responding to a !dir cmd in QM

(3) Responds with the 3007 error when attempting to open in basic
program in QM

(4) QM version 2.9.9. Have tried setting NETFILES=1 & NETFILES=2 W

Re: Very large variable

martinphill...@ladybridge.com (Martin Phillips) — Fri, 11 Nov 2009 09:21:08 UT

Hi Brian/Cedric,
We do something very much like this. We are investigating some performance
issue in management of large strings but the general perception of our users
appears to be that we do not have a significant problem.
Martin Phillips
Ladybridge Systems Ltd
17b Coldstream Lane, Hardingstone, Northampton, NN4 6DB

Re: Accessing file on shaerd mapped drive (windows)

bs...@paradise.net.nz (Brian Speirs) — Thu, 11 Nov 2009 20:20:43 UT

Another couple of things to try:

Open a DOS box from Windows and try to list the shared folder using a
DIR command.

If that doesn't work, you've got general networking issues.

Assuming that does work, try the same thing from the QM command
prompt:

! DIR path_to_sharedfolder

If that works, then you should be able to access the data from

Re: Very large variable

bs...@paradise.net.nz (Brian Speirs) — Thu, 11 Nov 2009 19:53:17 UT

In general, multi-value systems can run run into speed issues when
dealing with large dynamic arrays - but it depends on the
optimisations built into the language and on how you are using it.

Long, long ago, in a galaxy far away, MV databases used to count down
the dynamic array whenever you accessed the variable. This made many

Re: Very large variable

cfonta...@spidmail.net (Cedric Fontaine) — Thu, 11 Nov 2009 18:46:54 UT

It is an item we read and then on a very large attribute we are doing
locate, insert and delete.

Re: Very large variable

martinphill...@ladybridge.com (Martin Phillips) — Thu, 11 Nov 2009 15:49:52 UT

Hi Cedric,
Please explain a bit more about how you update this variable. We regularly
work with data of this size and bigger with no problems.
Martin Phillips
Ladybridge Systems Ltd
17b Coldstream Lane, Hardingstone, Northampton, NN4 6DB
+44-(0)1604-709200

Very large variable

cfonta...@spidmail.net (Cedric Fontaine) — Thu, 11 Nov 2009 15:34:07 UT

Hello,

We're working on very large variables (300 000 bytes) and it seems too
heavy for QM to work on this large variable and so time is exponential
when adding data to this big variable.

Is there any optimization on QM part we can do to work faster with
big items ?

Re: Accessing file on shaerd mapped drive (windows)

c...@swbell.net (CDMI - Steve T) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:56:53 UT

why set a 'mapped drive' ?
why not just:

READV MAPPED.DRIVE FROM PARAMETER.FILE,MAPPED-DRIVE,1 ELSE
MAPPED.DRIVE = "\\CDMI-WEB\CDMIWEB_F\QMSYS"
END
**** something like that above... then
OPENPATH MAPPED.DRIVE TO FILE ELSE
CRT \Could not open \:MAPPED.DRIVE:\ status \:STATUS():\ os.error \:OS.ERROR()

Re: Accessing file on shaerd mapped drive (windows)

martinphill...@ladybridge.com (Martin Phillips) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:45:39 UT

Hi Gary,
Try a simple program that attempts to open the file and print the values of
STATUS() and OS.ERROR() in the ELSE clause.
Martin
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Hi Martin,
I had already set NETFILES to 1 (or does it need to be set to 2) with

Re: Accessing file on shaerd mapped drive (windows)

g...@unaweep.com (glh) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:31:17 UT

Hi Martin,

I had already set NETFILES to 1 (or does it need to be set to 2) with
the same results.
Anything else I should be looking at?

Thanks,

Gary

On 25 Nov, 11:00, "Martin Phillips" <martinphill...@ladybridge.com >
wrote:

Re: Accessing file on shaerd mapped drive (windows)

martinphill...@ladybridge.com (Martin Phillips) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:00:55 UT

Hi Gary,
This should work fine but the NETFILES configuration parameter must be set
to enable remote access (See the QM Reference Manual). This is because there
are potential locking issues that QM cannot resolve.
Martin Phillips
Ladybridge Systems Ltd
17b Coldstream Lane, Hardingstone, Northampton, NN4 6DB

Accessing file on shaerd mapped drive (windows)

g...@unaweep.com (glh) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:56:26 UT

Hopefully just missing something obvious. Simply want QM to be able to
'see' (read/write) a file on a windows shared mapped drive. I have
tried all sorts of permutations of what I thought the following should
be to no avail ...

VOC entry ...

0001 F
0002 shared name (ie ... z:\ or \\computer\sharedname , etc...

Re: Transfer current application from 2000 server to 2008 server

rwil...@lakeside-systems.com (Richard_Wilson) — Fri, 11 Nov 2009 13:54:15 UT

Thanks

fyi I've already contacted easyco and have scheduled support just in
case I shoot myself in the foot

Rich

On 20 Nov, 08:47, "Martin Phillips" <martinphill...@ladybridge.com >
wrote:

Re: Transfer current application from 2000 server to 2008 server

martinphill...@ladybridge.com (Martin Phillips) — Fri, 11 Nov 2009 13:47:58 UT

Hi Rich,
Almost.....
The easiest way to do this is the other way around.
1. Copy the QMSYS directory and all its subdirectories across.
2. Copy all the application account directories across.
3. Now install QM on the new system.
By doing it in this order, you don't have to worry about what parts of the

Re: Transfer current application from 2000 server to 2008 server

rwil...@lakeside-systems.com (Richard_Wilson) — Fri, 11 Nov 2009 13:15:40 UT

1) clean install of new qmsys, so services etc are installed on the
new server

2)windows copy existing qmsys to new c:\qmsys (overwriting)
so catalog space etc is retained

3)move applications to their new destination (yes same location will
be used)
L:\directory name

?? will the indexes require rebuilding/remapping like universe?

Re: Transfer current application from 2000 server to 2008 server

martinphill...@ladybridge.com (Martin Phillips) — Fri, 11 Nov 2009 13:06:49 UT

Hi Rich,
QMSYS needs to be installed in a position where it can be seen by all users.
Copy the application account directories unchanged from the old system,
preferably keeping their pathnames unchanged.
The only component in QMSYS that needs updating is the ACCOUNTS file. You
should be able to copy this from teh old system too. If you have changed any

Transfer current application from 2000 server to 2008 server

rwil...@lakeside-systems.com (Richard_Wilson) — Fri, 11 Nov 2009 12:39:21 UT

I have two application that needs to be moved to a client's new 2008
server.

I searched the archives/etc and did not find any information related
to the recommened method of transfer.

My 1st confusion is where to install qmsys since the 2008 server will
have multiple virtual servers defined

Re: Where to add MED (tool) created menu as startup menu after account login

boogiet1...@yahoo.com (boogie) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:51:13 UT

Thanks a lot guys...........that woked...........See Ya....

On 17 Nov, 16:42, "Martin Phillips" <martinphill...@ladybridge.com >
wrote:

Re: Where to add MED (tool) created menu as startup menu after account login

martinphill...@ladybridge.com (Martin Phillips) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 22:42:19 UT

Hi Darryl,
The menu itself should preferably go in the VOC butit can be put in another
file with a remote pointer (R-type record) in the VOC instead. This latter
approach has the advantage of allowing a central menu file that can be
accessed from multiple accounts if that is useful.
To make the menu display when the user logs in, simply reference it from the

Re: Where to add MED (tool) created menu as startup menu after account login

c...@swbell.net (CDMI - Steve T) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 17:19:25 UT

QM uses the MD/VOC item 'LOGIN' whereas mvBASE, D3 would have used the MD item 'ACCOUNTNAME' (ie whatever the account name you just logged in to)

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Where to add MED (tool) created menu as startup menu after account login

boogiet1...@yahoo.com (boogie) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 16:42:18 UT

This is my first post.......I am an OLD PICK guy....and we used PROC's
to create a menu....OpenQM would prefer that PROC's not be
used......so I used the MED tool to create my starting menu. Now I
don't know where to place the menu..... I need it to display
immediately after user account login.......I would appreciate any

Re: Unicode UTF-8 workarounds

eppic...@yahoo.com (eppick77) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 15:07:52 UT

I hope that the query rewrite is going well for you!

Eugene

On Nov 16, 10:40 am, "Martin Phillips" <martinphill...@ladybridge.com >
wrote:

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I'm going to have to check this out, Tony.

RE: Excel [ad for NebulaXLite]

wosclx...@sneakemail.com (Tony G) — Mon, 11 Nov 2009 19:24:50 UT

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Re: Unicode UTF-8 workarounds

martinphill...@ladybridge.com (Martin Phillips) — Mon, 11 Nov 2009 15:40:10 UT

Hi Ed,
Extended character set support remains one of those highly desireable items
that has yet to find its way to the top of the wish list. Whether we do
UTF-8, Unicode or some other variant is open to discussion. There are strong
arguments for a fixed size character in memory but equally strong arguments

Unicode UTF-8 workarounds

ejahn3...@yahoo.com (Edward Jahn) — Mon, 11 Nov 2009 15:01:43 UT

This is a contribution to a discussion that has come and gone a few times in this group – Unicode support.
I have been working with Unicode UTF-8, and found some things that might be useful for those who want to use it. This applies to Windows, which is probably the most difficult environment, but the one that I am currently forced to work with.

Re: @SELECTED Compatability

martinphill...@ladybridge.com (Martin Phillips) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 12:48:25 UT

Hi Gary,
This will be fixed for the next build. We can let you have a patch to the
current release if you need it.
Martin Phillips
Ladybridge Systems Ltd
17b Coldstream Lane, Hardingstone, Northampton, NN4 6DB
+44-(0)1604-709200
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To: "OpenQM" <openqm@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009 5:29 PM

@SELECTED Compatability

g...@unaweep.com (glh) — Sat, 11 Nov 2009 17:29:55 UT

Hi Martin,

@SELECTED returns the number of records returned from the last EXECUTE
(D) 'SELECT' or 'SSELECT' performed. However, "QSELECT' does not.
Universe ( also using @SELECTED ) does return the count from all three
operations as does D3 and Unidata ( when using SYSTEM(11) ).

Thanks,

Gary

Re: Server load

cfonta...@spidmail.net (Cedric Fontaine) — Fri, 11 Nov 2009 22:47:36 UT

We can wait. I restarted QM at the beginning of this week and it seems
fine now.

Re: Server load

martinphill...@ladybridge.com (Martin Phillips) — Fri, 11 Nov 2009 16:53:42 UT

Hi Cedric,
We have identified the probable cause of this problem. The fix will be in
release 2.9-10 though no date is set for this yet. If you need an urgent
pre-build, please let me know.
Martin Phillips
Ladybridge Systems Ltd
17b Coldstream Lane, Hardingstone, Northampton, NN4 6DB
+44-(0)1604-709200

Re: 2.9.8 problems

g...@unaweep.com (glh) — Thu, 11 Nov 2009 20:50:33 UT

Hi Martin,

Just installed 2.9.9 and the problem appears to have been resolved :)

Thanks,

Gary

On 4 Nov, 13:01, "Martin Phillips" <martinphill...@ladybridge.com >
wrote:

QM 2.9-9 released

martinphill...@ladybridge.com (Martin Phillips) — Thu, 11 Nov 2009 14:23:37 UT

QM 2.9-9 is now available on the web site.

The main contents of this release are:

This release includes a modification to the sort algorithm used for
right justified fields in the query processor and in alternate key
indices. This modification provides greater compatibility with other
multivalue products where the items contain a mix of numeric and non-

Re: 2.9.8 problems

martinphill...@ladybridge.com (Martin Phillips) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:01:17 UT

Hi Gary,
It's probably not worth taking this any further as we have made a change for
release 2.9-9 (this week if all goes to plan) that will not repaint the line
unless it needs to do so to show the command correctly after use of panning,
an overlong command or recalling a command from the history.

Gregory Michael Amov, programmer & musician, 1959-2009, RIP.

sdav...@systemstheory.net (sdavmor) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:23:16 UT

Good morning,
it is with regret, but also relief, that I pass on that Systems
Theory band-member, long-time Multi-Value/dbms programmer and
computer teacher Greg Amov died last night after a hard few months
battling cancer for the second time. Some of you may recall that
he had esophageal cancer three years ago. Eventually it came back,

Re: 2.9.8 problems

g...@unaweep.com (glh) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:25:59 UT

H Martin,

Using Accuterm as the terminal emulator. Have tried numerous term
types (vt100,vt320, vp series, etc.)
all with the same result. Again, whats unusual is that the localhost
connection (also using Accuterm with one
of the aforementioned term types) does behave correctly.

Thanks,

Re: 2.9.8 problems

martinphill...@ladybridge.com (Martin Phillips) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:24:31 UT

Hi again Gary,
I have taken a look at the way in which the command processor repaints the
line on entering a command to ensure that the panning command line is
correctly displayed. I can see that we could optimise it a bit to remove the
repaint if the line is not panned and the command is not bing recalled from

Re: 2.9.8 problems

eppic...@yahoo.com (eppick77) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:37:53 UT

Ironically, I moved from the Firestone/Longmont area a couple of years
ago.

Eugene

Re: 2.9.8 problems

g...@unaweep.com (glh) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 17:33:35 UT

Yes - In Denver

Re: 2.9.8 problems

g...@unaweep.com (glh) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 17:32:26 UT

Hi Martin,

No, fast connection -> 10/100/1000 wired switch. - Visually, it gives
a 'blinking' effect (off/on)

WIl check out the OPTION setting - thanks

On 3 Nov, 10:24, "Martin Phillips" <martinphill...@ladybridge.com >
wrote:

Re: 2.9.8 problems

eppic...@yahoo.com (eppick77) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 17:28:02 UT

I can not speak to problem 2.

However, I believe that the solution for problem 1 is to have an
option for PICK.ML.CONV.MASK.

I have this turned on for my system.

I just tested this on a prebuild of 2.9-9 and it works fine.

Here are the results:

(303)123-4567

Eugene

P.S. Are you located in CO ?

Re: 2.9.8 problems

martinphill...@ladybridge.com (Martin Phillips) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 17:24:05 UT

Hi Gary,
See the PICK.ML.CONV.MASK mode of the OPTION command for the solution.
If this happens it is because the panning command line feature may need to
repaint the line. Even if it is happening, I am surprised that you can see
it. Are you on a very slow connection?
Martin Phillips
Ladybridge Systems Ltd

2.9.8 problems

g...@unaweep.com (glh) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 16:58:28 UT

Just installed 2.9.8 and noticed the following problems (do not know
if problems exist on previous releases)

(1) OCONV("3031234567","ML(###)### -####") results in ... 30)312-3456

(2) When telneting remotely (not localhost), when pressing <RETURN>
from TCL command line, the current line seems to 'clear' and then

Re: Server load

ashley.chap...@billabong-services.co.uk (Ashley Chapman) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 09:41:52 UT

That matches up with my memory of the CPU process hoggers I had. It
was a while back, so memory is hazy. Restarting QM would not get rid
of them, so a full reboot was needed.
Ashley Chapman

Re: Server load

martinphill...@ladybridge.com (Martin Phillips) — Mon, 11 Nov 2009 10:32:50 UT

Hi Eugene/Cedric,
I have responded off-list to Cedric on this problem. The qmlnxd process that
is consuming all the processor power is looping trying to wait on a
semaphore that doesn't belong to QM at all. We are investigating the
possibility of a timing glitch that could cause a loop if QM is shutdown

RE: Web Services

wosclx...@sneakemail.com (Tony G) — Fri, 10 Oct 2009 21:32:37 UT

Sockets provide a low-level pipe for moving data.
Protocols like Telnet, SMTP, HTTP, and FTP are designed to move
data over a socket in a specific way.
Web Services provide a general purpose pipe, usually according to
the SOAP specifications, so that you can move any kind of data
you want between departments, companies, applications, and

Re: Web Services

eppic...@yahoo.com (eppick77) — Fri, 10 Oct 2009 19:35:59 UT

Kevin,

That would be great.

Thanks

Re: Web Services

kpow...@gmail.com (Kevin Powick) — Fri, 10 Oct 2009 18:00:38 UT

Glen has essentially described it. Most entities offer web services
in order to expose a part of their business system to third party use
and/or development.

For instance, you could have a regular web site that customers log
into so that they can review their order status by viewing pages in

Re: Web Services

batch...@bellsouth.net (Glen Batchelor) — Fri, 10 Oct 2009 16:57:39 UT

It's any programmatic service you can consume using the HTTP
protocol. Typically it is XML based, but it can be anything from a
SOAP interface to a proprietary text comm service.

Glen.mobile
RewriteRule ^(garbage|junk)$ /$1 [NC,L]

Web Services

eppic...@yahoo.com (eppick77) — Fri, 10 Oct 2009 16:47:44 UT

Since postings seem to be a bit slow lately, I thought that I would
bring up the subject of Web Services.

What are Web Services and how would we do them using QM?

Thanks

Eugene