Suprtool 5.3 for AMXW: Change Notice
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1. Suprtool 5 3 for AMXW Change Notice Enhancements in Version 5 2 e 13 Bugs Fixed Bugs Fixed In Suprtool 5 3 Large Files Suprtool Itanium Build 4 did not have some modules compile to support Large Files Fixed in Build 5 Sort with specific sized output file Suprtool for AMXW would not sort a file properly if the output file size was 32 bytes and a blocking factor of 16 the input file was larger and using Suprtool 5 2 12 and higher linked with AcuVision STexport Abort STExport would potentially abort after the verify command had been specified after an input or output command Fixed in Build 3 Itanium only STexport Delimiter STExport did not properly write a tab between fields when using Delimiter Tab Fixed in Build 2 Itanium only Extract Suprtool did not properly coerce a double integer into a single integer Table Sorted Suprtool would fail with a Stack Overflow or simply fail when using the Table command with the sorted option if the key value was a double integer single integer or a single logical Set Ifouroutput and Set Oracle Integer Suprtool did not coerce properly from Packed to Quad integer when using Set Oracle Integer on and Set Ifouroutput on It would improperly round a number up by one This was for some numbers greater than 16 digits Itanium Only Fixed in Build Six Table Command Suprtools Table command would not find a field in the Table file when using Set SDExtname On Itanium Only Fixed in2. No linefeeds Entry Offset ABCXYZ X11 1 Limit 1023 EOF 26 Entry Length 11 Blocking 1 gt E LISTF FILE80 2 ACCOUNT AMXWOA FDE FILENAME SPACE EOF LIMIT R B SECTORS X MX 26 1023 1 8 e Introducing Suprtool Version 5 3 Suprtool 5 3 for AMXW Change Notice So what happens is if an output link file is created with a file equation making the file bigger any subsequent files that are created from the resulting output file are actually made smaller as you can see below supramxw SUPRTOOL AMXW Copyright Robelle Solutions Technology Inc 1981 2007 Version 5 0 TUE JAN 08 2008 2 42 PM Type H for help gt i FILE80 gt O FILE80A gt X Warning Using Output FILE80A Link IN 26 OUT 26 CPU Sec 1 Wall Sec 1 gt E LISTF FILE8S0OA 2 ACCOUNT AMXWOA GROUP FDE FILENAME CODE SPACE EOF LIMIT R B SECTORS X MX FILE80A 1084 11B FA 26 1023 1 Suprtool for AMXW now honours the physical record size and the FILE80A file will now have a record size of 80 The HP UX and AMXW versions of AMXW no longer have Set varsubcompat on as the default The default is now off and can be turned on with the set command or the cv option Previously Suprtool would treat an R type field in an Eloquence database as an R type while the data inside Eloquence is stored and treated as IEEE therefore incorrect results would occur with coercions and arithmetic operations Suprtool now by default maps all Real
3. PA RISC1 1 executable dynamically linked not stripped The PA_RISC binary can run on both platforms but you need to have PA_RISC libraries for Eloquence or Oracle if you are using the Oracle module An Itanium binary will not run on a PA_RISC machine and will fail with cannot execute Of course we ve made a provision to identify if you are running the ia version of Suprtool in the banner and verify command with the ia after the UX SUPRTOOL UXia Copyright Robelle Solutions Technology Inc 1981 2009 Version 5 2 Internal MON JUN 8 2009 11 26 AM Type H for help PA_RISC Loading Suprtool by default looks in the libraries in any of the directories named in SHLIB_PATH For example to insure that Suprtool resolves the library loads you can set the SHLIB_PATH system wide in your etc profile file in the following manner export SHLIB_PATH opt eloquence6 lib pall1_32 opt oracle lib If you do not have the SHLIB_PATH variable set to a value where the libraries can be found Suprtool will then try to load from their default names locations For Eloquence the default location is opt eloquence6 lib pal 1_32 The Oracle interface will first try to load libclntsh so and then attempt to load libcIntsh sl from ORACLE_HOME lib32 libclntsh sl Itanium Loading You can change Suprtool to pay attention to LD_LIBRARY_PATH and use dlopen to load libraries you can set the environment variable export ROBELLE_DYN_LOAD Y It is generally advi
4. and Long fields to their respective IEEE fields You can change Suprtool back to the previous behaviour with Set RealMap Off A form command will still show the fields as being R2 or R4 but internally Suprtool will treat as IEEE which is how Eloquence stores and treats the numbers Consequently STExport will now support items in SD files that are condidered R type however it correctly will map them to IEEE Suprtool UX 5 0 is now compatible with all versions of HP UX 11 2x as well as Oracle version 8 and higher Suprtool UX version 4 8 02 and lower is compatible with HP UX 9 0 and higher and Oracle 7 Fastread option is now set to On for Suprtool for HP UX the regular version The Dynamic loading version of Suprtool has a default value of off to start Suprtool 5 2 is necessary for use with Oracle 11 and case sensitive passwords Itanium Compatibility There are a couple of differences in the Itanium version of Suprtool which you need to be aware of The DBEdit module is not available in the Itanium versions of Suprtool This module is invoked by the EDIT command Suprtool 5 3 for AMXW Change Notice Introducing Suprtool Version 5 3 e 9 The layout for the Verify command is slightly different then the PA RISC versions of Suprtool Some calculations are more accurate on Itanium On PA_RISC both MPE and HP UX some calculations did not round properly On Itanium these calculations are corrected We are not able to e
5. by spaces Bugs Fixed In Suprtool 5 1 List Command Suprtool would not get the proper record size and foptions from FOPEN FGETINFO of SUPRLIST under AMXW This would cause the List command to fold lines at column 80 Suprtool 5 3 for AMXW Change Notice Bugs Fixed e 15
6. does not mean that it is all new C code however the majority of the Suprtool code is still based on SPL but is converted to C using Allegro s SPLASH compiler So while the C code is new it is based on the original SPLash code however given differences between C and SPLash not all code can be automatically converted in some cases We worked closely with Allegro to find ways to have the source code work and address the various issues that came up The entire time Allegro improved the SPLash to C converter So while we are based on the original Suprtool we do have new code paths in the Native Itanium version and other potential issues where the C code might not work in exactly the same manner as the SPLash code Having said that we have tested this against our test suites and improved and added a large number of tests to our HP UX test suites We also began Alpha testing 24 months ago and have been beta testing for the last year with our two best VAR customers Compatibility Suprtool for AMXW would use the file size stored in the SD label as opposed to the actual physical file size that AMXW uses FILE FILE80 REC 80 F ASCII SUPramxw SUPRTOOL AMXW Copyright Robelle Solutions Technology Inc 1981 2007 Version 5 0 TUE JAN 08 2008 2 42 PM Type H for help gt I STFILE gt DEF ABCXYZ 1 11 gt EXT ABCXYZ gt 0 FILE80 LINK gt X IN 26 OUT 26 CPU Sec 1 Wall Sec 1 gt FO FILE80 File FILE80 SD Version B 00 00
7. A_RISC There are two types of machines that HP has that run HP UX the older machines are based on the PA_RISC chip and the new machines that use the Itanium and Itanium 2 chips There are also program files that are specific to each chip PA_RISC programs can run on both PA_RISC and Itanium machines however Itanium programs can only run on Itanium machines Any program that runs on Itanium must utilize libraries that match its own program type Therefore if a PA_RISC program runs on Itanium and looks for a library it must find load the PA_RISC version of the libraries that it needs and conversely an Itanium program must load the libraries specific to its type How to Tell what Machine I am on There are many ways to tell what kind of machine you are on here are a couple uname m getconf MACHINE_MODEL In each case the Itanium machine will typically say ia64 somewhere in the result of the above two commands PA_RISC machines typically say 9000 somewhere in the string What is the Program File Type Since there are two types of machines there are also at least two types of program files Suprtool is primarily either PA_RISC 1 1 or ELF 32 IA64 which is also 6 e Introducing Suprtool Version 5 3 Suprtool 5 3 for AMXW Change Notice known as Itanium To determine the type of program file you can use the file command Itanium file suprtool suprtool ELF 32 executable object file IA64 PA_RISC file suprtool suprtool
8. Build Six Numrecs Command The Numrecs with a percentage would not calculate properly if the input source was an Oracle Table Itanium Only Fixed in Build Seven Divide and Coercion to Packed or Zoned Suprtool would be round incorrectly if doing a divide operation and the target for the result was a packed or zoned decimal field if the data was a positive value Bugs Fixed In Suprtool 5 2 SPECIAL The if command would fail with and error if a field started with the SPECIAL keyword and if the field was on the right side of the equation 14 e Bugs Fixed Suprtool 5 3 for AMXW Change Notice BASE Command The Base command would not parse the database name if it was preceded by a command that did not have any parameters and a previous database was open Itanium Build 2 Bugs Fixed In Suprtool 5 1 02 Edit Function The edit function would replace a numeric with a colon if the edit mask had a different number of decimal places than the item had and the last number to be rounded was a nine Bugs Fixed In Suprtool 5 1 01 Table Command Suprtool s Table command would fail with Error Sorted file is not in the correct sequence in some cases Chain command Suprtool s chain command now handles J2 TPI keys in Master datasets 69 Open Command Open Oracle could not parse a dbnameO machine name with a in the name Open Command Open Oracle did not correctly parse three tokens in the Open command when each token was separated
9. KSAM The Add command which adds an input file to an Oracle table now allows for the syntax of ownername tablename A Select operation on an empty table or if the select would result in zero records it would fail if Set Ifouroutput was on This was for the Itanium version only Suprtool would not properly store the number of bits to store on a bitwise operation in the if command or extract Itanium only The chain command would not work if a data set entry length was evenly divisable by 128 Itanium only Extract to a Logical target would produce a zero result Itanium only Suprtool 5 3 for AMXW Change Notice An extract with a arithmetic divide would not round properly if the target field was an single integer double integer quad integer single logical or double logicals Itanium only Suprtool would fail with Stack Overflow message or simply fail when loading a table with the sorted option if the key data type was a double integer small integer or small logical Itanium only An extract operation where the target was a single integer and the source was a double integer would not work properly Itanium only Set Oracle SpaceNull has been added to convert byte char and date fields when Null to spaces or leave them as null If SpaceNull is on then spaces will be placed in the fields If SpaceNull is off then the field will contain nulls Suprtool did not properly coerce data from Packed to Quad integer when using S
10. Suprtool 5 3 for AMXW Change Notice by Robelle Solutions Technology Inc Program and manual copyright 1981 2010 Robelle Solutions Technology Inc Permission is granted to reprint this document but not for profit provided that copyright notice is given Qedit and Suprtool are trademarks of Robelle Solutions Technology Inc Oracle is a trademark of Oracle Corporation Redwood City California USA Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners Si robelle solutions technology Robelle Solutions Technology Inc Suite 372 7360 137 Street Surrey BC Canada V3W 1A3 Phone 604 501 2001 Fax 604 501 2003 E mail sales robelle com E mail support robelle com Web www robelle com Contents Introducing Suprtool Version 5 3 4 COV ELVIS W feces bo cic bs cee See o REBAR 4 Highlights Sirprtool tt iris 4 Hisblightsan S prtool O Zaira eiii 5 Known Problems IA a Iii 6 CAMI APA RIC acre 6 Compatible ii e nds 8 taiim Compatible is 9 CPU Serial Number UM iii cintia 10 DOCUMENTATION es ss 10 Installation 11 COV EL VIEW dt tddi 11 Installation Imstructions ccccccccecececesesesececececececececececececececesesecececececececececeeececesesesesececececeeecs 11 Installation A SSiS tani Ge ii tdt tii dadas 11 Enhancements in Version 5 3 12 TO UCM ii A AAA a 12 Add EA ita 12 SpaceN lluna td a 12 PASS St A e o ahaha deed 12 Enhancements in Version 5 2 13 Introduc
11. all if you are going to require the KSAM option Dynamic Image loading or Omnidex support or intend to run on Itanium http www robelle com downloads install amxwbuildprod html Installation Assistance If you have any questions or run into any problems please call us Technical support is available on weekdays from 8 a m to 4 p m Pacific time at 1 800 453 8970 Technical support can also be obtained via e mail at support robelle com If your new version of software will not run you can page someone from technical support by calling the 1 800 number or you can typically easily run extend with the disaster option to tide you over until business hours Instructions for this are available at http www robelle com disaster Suprtool 5 3 for AMXW Change Notice Installation e 11 Enhancements in Version 5 3 Introduction Add Command SpaceNull PassShift Suprtool is constantly being updated with new features The following section describes the new enhancements to Suprtool since Suprtool 5 2 10 The Add command which allows for adding data to an Oracle table now allows for the syntax of Ownername Tablename The single syntax of just giving the table name will work as it always has Suprtool has a new setting called Set Oracle SpaceNull which when on puts spaces in any byte Char or Date Oracle Date fields instead of the nulls The default behaviour is off Suprtool now has the command Set Oracle PassShift Off whic
12. et Ifouroutput on and Set Oracle Integer on Itanium only Set Oracle Passshift Off now turns off password upshift for the oneline syntax method when you are including the service name The Dup None Keys Count command didn t write out an extended name if Set SDExtname On This was an issue in the Itanium version only and was fixed in Build 2 STExport did not properly handle the Delimiter Tab option Fixed in STExport Build 2 The verify command could potentially corrupt the internals of STExport and cause a core abort Build 3 Suprtool Itanium Build 4 did not have some areas enabled for Large Files Fixed in Build 5 Suprtool did not coerce properly from Packed to Quad integer when using Set Oracle Integer on and Set Ifouroutput on It would improperly round a number up by one This was for some numbers greater than 16 digits Itanium Only Fixed in Build Six Suprtools Table command would not find a field in the Table file when using Set SDExtname On Itanium Only Fixed in Build Six The Numrecs with a percentage would not calculate properly if the input source was an Oracle Table Itanium Only Fixed in Build Seven Suprtool would be round incorrectly if doing a divide operation and the target for the result was a packed or zoned decimal field if the data was a positive value Fixed in Build 8 Highlights in Suprtool 5 2 Suprtool 5 3 for AMXW Change Notice STExport now has Set ZonedFix On this setting can be used
13. h turns off the default behaviour of upshifting Oracle passwords This is to accomodate Oracle 11 which allows case sensitive passwords The first pass on this was to allow the syntax of open oracle suprtest suprpass We now honour Set Oracle PassShift for the syntax that includes the service name open oracle suprtest suprpass servname 12 e Enhancemenis in Version 5 3 Suprtool 5 3 for AMXW Change Notice Enhancements in Version 5 2 Introduction ZonedFix PassShift Itanium Suprtool is constantly being updated with new features The following section describes the new enhancements to Suprtool since Suprtool 5 0 STExport now has Set ZonedFix On this setting can be used to zero out any zoned fields that were unable to be converted from zoned to byte and typically have a in the result This is often caused by hidden characters or bad data Suprtool now has the command Set Oracle PassShift Off which turns off the default behaviour of upshifting Oracle passwords This is to accomodate Oracle 11 which allows case sensitive passwords Suprtool STExport and Suprlink are now available as Native Itanium This represents a complete conversion of all Suprtool code to the C language This version has many of the same components with the exception of Dbedit This conversion allows us to port to other platforms such as AIX and other big endian platforms If you are interested in a particular platform please contact neil robelle com
14. mulate the buggy behaviour for some of the bad calculations CPU Serial Number uname Documentation This program runs only on CPUs whose serial numbers have been encoded the uname on HP UX If it fails to run and you get an invalid HPSUSAN error message contact Robelle for assistance via support robelle com or the support number at 1 800 453 8970 The user manual contains the full description of all the Suprtool suite of products including Dbedit Suprlink STExport and Suprtool2 as well as usage tips and commands for each The manuals are up to date with all the latest changes To see only the changes in the latest version see the What s New section of the manual You can download our manuals and Change Notices in various formats and order printed hardcopy manuals from our web site at http www robelle com library manuals 10 e Introducing Suprtool Version 5 3 Suprtool 5 3 for AMXW Change Notice Installation Overview The following instructions describe the installation process of a new Suprtool release The new version overwrites an existing version of Suprtool on your HP UX system Installation Instructions There are typically two main types of installations You can find the Suprtool for AMXW regular install instructions here http www robelle com downloads install amxwprod html You can find the Suprtool for AMXW build on your system instructions on the link below You will need this inst
15. sable to use DLOPEN or the ROBELLE_DYN_LOAD option when using the Itanium version The PA_RISC version of Suprtool can use either type of loading the default or the dlopen method invoked with ROBELLE_DYN_LOAD Running the PA_RISC version on Itanium You can of course run the PA_RISC version of Suprtool however given that the PA_RISC version requires SHLIB_PATH to point to PA_RISC libraries may go against the configuration necessary for other programs that may need SHLIB_PATH to point to Native Itanium libraries The solution to this is fairly simple you can create a command file let s say opt robelle cmd suprtool that runs suprtool for you of course you need to insure your path variable has opt robelle cmd before opt robelle bin You can then have the following commands in the opt robelle cmd suprtool command file Suprtool 5 3 for AMXW Change Notice Introducing Suprtool Version 5 3 e 7 export SAVED_SHLIB_PATH SHLIB_PATH export SHLIB_PATH 0opt oracle pa_risc lib opt eloquence lib pal1_32 opt robelle bin suprtool e export SHLIB_PATH SAVED_SHLIB Essentially all it does save the current SHLIB_PATH setting sets it to point to PA_RISC libraries runs suprtool and then resets the library back Suprtool for Itanium Now that you know all about PA_RISC and Itanium you do need to be aware of what Suprtool for Itanium is in terms of new code and risk for potential issues Suprtool for Itanium is completely in C code This
16. tion vir dia td a ia atr s 13 Zoned PiX at it li dida title die 13 AA do dessecaccdtede ds E EA EE A dovcetlies E A E E EEE 13 FRAT UTM at EE A E AEAEE dt di 13 Bugs Fixed 14 Bugs Fixed In Suprtool Oia iii 14 B gs Fi ed In Suprtool iii ide 14 B gs FixedIn Suprtool S L Oli 15 Bugs Fixed In SuprtoolS lt 1 Ol iaa la baina 15 Bugs Fixed In Suprtoo lirio biie 15 Suprtool 5 3 for AMXW Change Notice Introducing Suprtool Version 5 3 e 3 Introducing Suprtool Version 5 3 Overview Use Suprtool AMXW to read select and sort data from Oracle Allbase and Eloquence databases and data files with fixed length records Suprtool AMXW is designed to be similar to Suprtool for MPE while providing necessary HP UX features Suprlink AMXW provides high speed data file linking based on a sort key Use STExport to convert fields in a self describing input file into an output file that can be imported into different applications Suprtool 5 1 03 and Suprtool 5 1 04 were internally released only as part of our Alpha version and Beta versions of the new Native Itanium versions of our products Highlights in Suprtool 5 3 4 e Introducing Suprtool Version 5 3 Suprtool for AMXW would not sort a file properly if the output file size was 32 bytes and a blocking factor of 16 the input file was larger and using Suprtool 5 2 12 and higher linked with AcuVision Fixed in Build 4 Suprtool for AMXW now supports output append access to vision file system
17. to zero out any zoned fields that were unable to be converted from zoned to byte and typically have a in the result This is often caused by hidden characters or bad data Introducing Suprtool Version 5 3 e 5 e Suprtool now has Set Oracle PassShift On default or Off to turn off the upshift of a password This is to accomodate Oracle 11 which will allow for case sensitive passwords e The Add command in Suprtool for HP UX would cause a subsequent task to fail in some cases e The Add command in Suprtool for HP UX would fail if the target was a small record e Suprtool STExport Suprlink and Suprcall are all available as a Native Itanium binaries e Suprtool now has the command set list formfeed on which will put a formfeed at the end of the file when using the list command with the file option This allows multiple reports to be written to one file and have them line up on a page break e Suprtools edit function now accepts the colon character as a delimiter character in order for edit masks for time fields e Suprtools if command would not allow a field name starting with SPECIAL if it was on the right side of the equation e The Base command would not pass the database name to be parsed if it was preceded by a command without any parameters Itanium Build 2 Known Problems If you have any questions or concerns or feedback on this or any other issue please feel free to e mail me at neil Orobelle com Itanium vs P
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