Suprtool for MPE Change Notice
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1. Suprtools prefetch default value has been changed from 2 to 0 Set Itemlock does not work in one particular case Compatibility Suprtool iX is compatible with MPE V MPE XL and MPE ix including MPE ix 6 5 7 0 and MPE ix 7 5 Suprtools default prefetch value has been changed from 2 to zero Ksam64 files were not assumed to be Self describing like CM KSAM and KSAMXL files when it was the input file and had labels A warning will print if a non regular SD file is loaded into a Table with the data option An error will print if an extract command attempts to reference data when loaded from table that in turn was loaded when using a non regular SD file such as KSAM XL KSAM64 and CM KSAM CPU Serial Number and CPU Name HPSUSAN amp HPCPUNAME Documentation Suprtool and its associated products run only on CPUs whose serial numbers have been encoded showvar hpsusan on MPE iX They also may be encoded with your HPCPUNAME values If it fails to run and you get an invalid HPCPUNAME or invalid HPSUSAN error message contact Robelle for assistance 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 or see the change notice You can download our manua2. 6 12 Suprtool 5 7 for HP e3000 Change Notice 11 Enhancements in Version 5 6 Introduction Suprtool is constantly being updated with new features The following section describes the new enhancements to Suprtool since Suprtool 5 5 Extract Command Suprtool s extract command now has three new keywords which can be used for extract range feature You can now say extract all extract first last on an SD file or Image Eloquence dataset The intention is to make your scripts more easily maintained If you had a script that you wanted to put a sequence number at the beginning and then extract the rest of the dataset you previously had to specify the starting field and the ending field For example if the first field in a dataset was order no and the last field was pst code you may have a script that looked like this base orddb get customers def seq no 1 4 double ext seq no Scounter ext order no pst code out newfile link xeq If you added any fields to the beginning or end of the dataset you would have to re write the script Now you can write the script as being base orddb get customers def seq no 1 4 double ext seq no counter ext all out newfile link xeq You can also write the script using first last as your preference but first and last are also useful if you need to add data into the middle of the fields you extract base orddb get customers def seq no 1 4 double ext first zip ext s
3. R PUB SYS Suprtool now has the proper function which will shift the first character in a string and any first character after a space or ampersand Suprtool now has the Translate command and a translate function to obfuscate test data or any byte field from being readable Highlights in Suprtool 5 6 Suprtools extract command now has three special keywords to help with extract using a range which is designed to make your Suprtool scripts more easily maintained Suprtool now has all first and last which respectively means all fields the first field or the last field Note that first and last may only be used in a range extract subcount has been added to keep a running count for a given sort break Highlights in SUEDO 5 5 Set XLTRIM On now tells Suprtool to close a file and release the disc space between EOF and the Flimit STExport s Escape command has been re engineered to fix some corner cases that didn t work previously Highlights in Sup Known Problems Due to an issue with Btrees Suprtool would incorrectly select records when doing an update or delete and if using chain with a btree index on a master dataset The edit function did not work properly with alpha based edit masks and if the target was greater than 32 characters Suprtool now treats KSAM64 files with labels as SD files in the same manner as KSAMXL files are A warning will print if a non regular SD file is loaded into a Table with the data
4. Suprtool 5 7 for HP e3000 Change Notice by Robelle Solutions Technology Inc Program and manual copyright 1981 2015 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 aie 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 Support 289 480 1060 E mail sales robelle com E mail support robelle com Web www robelle com Contents Table of Contents Introducing Suprtool Version 5 7 4 Introduction da oreo xs eran ss nea aed Ses IE ee a oe 4 Highlights in Suprtool S Torreira s eie E E A EEE E E E E EAT 4 Highlights in Suprtool S Giresun o a EE EEA E T aT 4 Highlights in SUPS Serner aaee E E E A EE C E EA 4 Highlights in Suprtool S Aerei o EE EEEE E EEA 5 Know Problems eisai A E EE E A E E E E E EE 5 Compatibilidad 6 CPU Serial Number and CPU Name HPSUSAN 8 HPCPUNAME oococccccococononnoonccnnonnninnonnnos 6 DOCU EM C0 10 ene a a E E EE EE E 6 Installation 7 OV ET VIC Wi aos ee O UA ARONA 7 Ecometry Users NS 7 Installation Instructions nei a a whee a a e 7 Installation Assistanc
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6. eq no Scounter ext tax code last out newfile link xeq Please note that if a self describing file has a fieldname that is a duplicate field and one of the duplicate fields is the last field in the file then first last and all will only extract up to the first occurrence of the duplicate fieldname This may seem as an issue but it is consistent with what Suprtool does currently with extract from a Suprtool 5 7 for HP e3000 Change Notice 12 Enhancements in Suprtool range Currently and prior to the first last enhancement Suprtool would have extracted only up to the first occurrence of the field if you had a file such as this gt form File newfile SD Version B 00 00 Has linefeeds Entry Offset CHAR FIELD INT FIELD DBL FIELD PACKED FIELD PACKED FIELD QUAD FIELD ID FIELD LOGICAL FIELD DBLLOG FIELD ZONED FIELD FILLER FILLER Entry Length 6 Blocking Notice that FILLER is a duplicate named field so if you entered extract char field filler Suprtool would only extract up to and including the first FILLER field For consistency extract first last behaves the same way SubCount SubCount has been added to provide a counter that only gets reset at a given sort break In filelsd Sort char field Def control count 1 4 double Ext first Slast Ext control count subcount char field Out newfile link xeq What Suprtool will do in this case is start incrementing a number star
7. list stan gt xeq May 01 2014 11 40 File MPROD PRODUCT DESC Skil 3 8 Variable Speed Drill B amp D Router Skil Var Sp Auto Scroll Saw Skil 8 1 2 Circular Saw B amp D Cordless Screwdriver Makita 8 1 4 Circular Saw B amp D Variable Speed Jig Saw Makita 1 2 Router Makita 3 8 Var Speed Drill Skil Router B amp D 7 1 4 Circular Saw B amp D 3 8 Variable Speed Drill Makita 1 Jig Saw cc Note that any character after a space or is upshifted for a proper name Suprtool will also downshift those characters that do not qualify as needing proper capitalization and it is a capital character the proper function will downshift those characters See an example below gt IN NAME gt LIST gt XEQ gt IN NAME NEIL GREEN 0 gt OUT NULL 0 NAME NEIL ARMSTRONG gt IN NAME gt EXT NAME PROPER NAME gt LIST gt XEQ gt IN NAME NEIL GREEN 0 gt OUT NULL 0 NAME Neil Armstrong The proper function only works on byte type fields 5 6 12 Translate Suprtool now has a translate function which in conjunction with the translate command allows you to build a translation table whereby you can translate from any byte character to any character We have also added a method to a supplied translate table which will allow you to obscure the data such that it can t be read gt in newprod gt list gt xeq gt IN NEWPROD NEIL GREEN 0 gt OUT NULL 0 PRODUCT DESC Skil 3 8 Va
8. ls and change notices in various formats and you can order printed hardcopy manuals from our web site at http www robelle com library manuals Installation Overview Ecometry Users We have two types of Installations Tape and Download We provide links to the Installation instructions on our web site for each type of Install Users of the Ecometry application need to use the installation instructions supplied by Ecometry Corporation Those instructions have extra steps for updating the Ecometry code accounts You will find the Ecometry version of these instructions at http www robelle com ecometry Types of installations tape download combined qedit and suprtool tape Installation Instructions If you received a production release tape from Robelle then you can install using the instructions on this web page http www robelle com support install tape stprod html If you downloaded the Suprtool production release from our web site then the instructions can be found here for the ftp download method http www robelle com downloads install stprod ftp html and here for the WRQ download method http www robelle com downloads install stprod wrq html Installation Assistance If you have any questions about the upgrade process 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 289 480 1060 or you can e mail your question to suppor
9. option The data is not loaded into the table An error will print if an extract command attempts to reference data when loaded from table that in turn was loaded when using a non regular SD file such as KSAM XL KSAM64 and CM KSAM Suprtool did not print out a warning message when attempting to combine sort with output else rtool 5 4 Bradmark s DBGeneral can produce Jumbo datasets that are a single chunk Suprtool did not handle these single chunk master jumbo datasets properly as the last block calculation was done only after opening the last chunk itself We have adjusted the logic in making sure the calculation is done for this case earlier Adager does not create these single chunk jumbo datasets There is an un documented control directive in dbschema called forcejumbo which will produce one of these single chunk jumbos so we are supporting it in Suprtool 5 3 11 The Output command has been enhanced to accept the new verb else which when invoked it will write out the records that do not qualify and write them to an external file Suprtool did not properly clear the data field information from a table at the end of a task Suprtool did not properly zero out a packed field target when an table entry was not found when extracting data from a table If lookup can now return the data portion loaded into a table to use in a comparison STExport HTML command did not calculate the maximum record size properly in some cases
10. riable Speed Drill gt IN NEWPROD NEIL GREEN 1 gt OUT NULL 1 PRODUCT DESC B amp D Router gt in newprod gt translate tounread gt ext product desc translate product desc gt out unread link gt xeq IN 13 OUT 13 CPU Sec 1 Wall Sec 1 gt in unread gt num 1 gt list gt xeq gt IN UNREAD NEIL GREEN 0 gt OUT NULL 0 PRODUCT DESC Hzxo 2 Epexpqot Hatts Rexoo Warning NUMRECS exceeded some records not processed IN 2 OUT 1 CPU Sec 1 Wall Sec 1 gt in unread gt translate toread gt ext product desc translate product desc gt list gt xeq gt IN UNREAD NEIL GREEN 0 gt OUT NULL 0 PRODUCT DESC_ Skil 3 8 Variable Speed Drill gt IN UNREAD NEIL GREEN 1 gt OUT NULL 1 PRODUCT DESC B amp D Router You can make your own Translate table using the Translate command where you can specify the character you want to translate and what you want to translate to using Decimal Notation So if you want to translate A to Z you would type the command Translate 65 90 So you specify the from character on the left in decimal which is the capital A and the to character is also in decimal format which is capital Z which is decimal 90 If you want to reverse the translation you can simply do the following command and translate the field back with Translate 90 65 This is not meant to be an encryption solution but it will help obfuscate test date really quickly 5
11. t robelle com You can also write the script using first last as your preference but first and last are also useful if you need to add data into the middle of the fields you extract Enhancements in Version 5 7 Introduction Linkmgr Stexpmgr Proper Suprtool is constantly being updated with new features The following section describes the new enhancements to Suprtool since Suprtool 5 6 Suprlink now has a suprmgr file similar to Suprtool Suprlink will process all the commands found in LINKMGR PUB SYS STExport now has a suprmgr file similar to Suprtool STExport will process all the commands found in STEXPMGR PUB SYS Suprtool now has the proper function which will shift to upper case the first character of a byte type field and after any space or ampersand It will also shift to lower case any other characters in the byte field gt in mprod gt list stan gt xeq Apr 29 2014 13 00 File mprod PRODUCT DESC skil 3 8 variable speed drill b amp d router skil var sp auto scroll saw skil 8 1 2 circular saw b amp d cordless screwdriver makita 8 1 4 circular saw b amp d variable speed jigsaw makita 1 2 router makita 3 8 var speed drill skil router b amp d 7 1 4 circular saw b amp d 3 8 variable speed drill makita 1 jigsaw Considering the following data you can fix all of the product names with one simple task gt in mprod gt ext product desc proper product desc gt
12. ting with 1 and increase by 1 for any given char field value This way you can add a counter based on a sort break for a given field Suprtool 5 7 for HP e3000 Change Notice 13 Enhancements in Version 5 5 Introduction Suprtool is constantly being updated with new features The following section describes the new enhancements to Suprtool since Suprtool 5 4 Set XLTRIM Suprtool now has the command Set xltrim on which tells Suprtool to close the output file in a manner in which it releases the disc space between EOF and the Flimit but the Flimit remains the same This trim will only occur of set squeeze is not set or if set squeeze is off Escape Command STExports Escape command has been revised to be faster and a couple of corner cases 14 Enhancements in Suprtool Suprtool 5 7 for HP e3000 Change Notice Bugs Fixed Bugs Fixed In Suprtool 5 5 Ksam 64 files Ksam64 files were not assumed to be Self describing like CM KSAM and KSAMXL files when it was the input file and had labels Sedit function The edit function did not work well with alpha based edit masks and if the target was greater than 32 characters Table File Data Load A warning will print if a non regular SD file is loaded into a Table with the data option The data is not loaded into the table Table File Data Lookup An error will print if an extract command attempts to reference data when loaded from table that in turn was loaded when using a non reg
13. ular SD file such as KSAM XL KSAM64 and CM KSAM BTrees and Chain Due to an issue with Btrees Suprtool would incorrectly select records when doing an update or delete and if using chain with a btree index on a master dataset Bugs Fixed In Suprtool 5 4 01 Output Else Suprtool would not print a warning when output else was specified during a sort operation Bugs Fixed In Suprtool 5 3 11 GET Command The Get command would get too many records if the dataset was a single chunk jumbo dataset Only Dbgeneral and dbschemas forcejumbo can make these single chunk datasets Suprtool 5 7 for HP e3000 Change Notice 15 Table Command Suprtool did not properly clear the data field information from a table at the end of a task Extract from Table Suprtool did not properly zero out a packed field target when an table entry was not found when extracting data from a table and the Packed field was P12 or higher 16 Enhancements in Suprtool Suprtool 5 7 for HP e3000 Change Notice
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