Suprtool 5.4.01 for HP-UX: Change Notice
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1. options Suprtool will throw an error when using output else with either the duplicate command or a duplicate option on the output command The else file will be in the same format as the output file Suprtool 5 4 01 for HP UX Change Notice Enhancements in Version 5 4 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 which turns off the default behaviour of up shifting Oracle passwords This is to accommodate 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 Enhancements in Version 5 3 Suprtool 5 4 01 for HP UX Change Notice Bugs Fixed Bugs Fixed In Suprtool 5 3 12 Packed Data Suprtool for HP UX on Itanium would incorr2. 009 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 pall_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 libelntsh 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 by setting the environment variable export ROBELLE_DYN_LOAD Y It is generally advisable 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 The Itanium version will make one more attempt at loading the Eloquence libraries from hpux32 libimage3k sl and hpux32 libeqdb sl as most users are setting SHLIB_PATH and LD_LIBRARY_NAME pointing to the lib directory Running the PA_RISC version on Itanium You can of course run the PA_RISC version of Suprtool however given that th
3. 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 TA64 which is also 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 6 e Introducing Suprtool Version 5 4 01 Suprtool 5 4 01 for HP UX Change Notice file suprtool suprtool 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 2
4. Suprtool 5 4 01 for HP UX Change Notice by Robelle Solutions Technology Inc Program and manual copyright 1981 2011 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 AAA 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 4 01 4 OVINA tl 4 Highlights in Suprtool A Oltra letales indica 4 Elighlights in Supro Aci iii pevseyiss EEES E TEn OTENE INES SS 4 PPh Shts in Supro o dica eseo OTENE oae aae p S ERETTE E Speni 5 Itanium vs PA RIS E EEE A EE EE EEE E E EE EET 6 Compatiblllt y r e e ett iia illa ENES EEEn 8 itanium Compatibilidad iris nales t 8 CPU Serial Number uname ccccccccccsssececsecceceessececseaececseseecseaeeecsenaececseseeeesseeeeseqaeeesseneees 9 DOCUMEM AMIA A tt A 9 Installation 10 OV EL VIE Wa AE EG 10 Installation Instructions ccccccccccecccececececececececececececececececececscecececececseseseseseeceeseseeeeeeceeseeeecess 10
5. Tnstallation ASSISTANCE A devbevec taseucgetveevees 10 Enhancements in Version 5 4 11 IO Ad ales 11 EloqUEnce LGAGIN cti ir td ie init 11 Output Commenti 11 Enhancements in Version 5 3 12 AAA A o e e o 12 AO dad 12 SpaceN lecitina id 12 Pas SS Mt SA AAA A 12 Bugs Fixed 13 Bugs Fixed In SuprtOol 5 3 12 eera aae e a EEE CE EAE ES E EE EEE KEE 13 Bugs Fixed In Upon ect aeaa a a E 13 Suprtool 5 4 01 for HP UX Change Notice Introducing Suprtool Version 5 4 01 e 3 Introducing Suprtool Version 5 4 01 Overview Use Suprtool UX to read select and sort data from Oracle Allbase and Eloquence databases and data files with fixed length records Suprtool UX is designed to be similar to Suprtool for MPE while providing necessary HP UX features Suprlink UX 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 be imported into different applications Highlights in Suprtool 5 4 01 Suprtool for HP UX on Itanium would abort when sorting very large records Highlights in Suprtool 5 4 4 e Introducing Suprtool Version 5 4 01 Suprtool for HP UX on Itanium now properly supports atoe and etoa Itanium Version Only Suprtool would encounter problems when reading record sizes greater than 13700 bytes Itanium Version Only Suprtool for HP UX on Itanium would incorrectly coerce the number negat
6. 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 Dynamic loading version of Suprtool the option is set to off 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 The layout for the Verify command is slightly different then the PA RISC versions of Suprtool 8 e Introducing Suprtool Version 5 4 01 Suprtool 5 4 01 for HP UX Change Notice CPU Serial Number uname 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 Documentation 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 No
7. e 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 export SAVED_SHLIB_PATH SHLIB_PATH export SHLIB_PATH opt oracle pa_risc lib opt eloquence lib pall1_32 opt robelle bin suprtool 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 Suprtool 5 4 01 for HP UX Change Notice Introducing Suprtool Version 5 4 01 e 7 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 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 i
8. ectly coerce the number negative 65536 from Binary to Decimal and Decimal to Binary 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 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 STexport Delimiter STExport did not properly write a tab between fields when using Delimiter Tab Fixed in Build 2 Itanium only STexport Verify STExport could potentialy abort if the verify command was specified after the input file and output files had been specified Fixed in Build 3 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 DUP and Out in Suprtool did not properly erase the file when using Out in with Dup None Keys 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 digit
9. get 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 Suprtool did not properly erase the output file when using out in dup none key on HP UX 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 Set 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 Introducing Suprtool Version 5 4 01 e 5 e Suprtool buffer allocat
10. ion has been changed slightly to allocate slightly more buffer space under certain conditions Build 4 e Suprtool Itanium Build 4 did not have some areas enabled for Large Files Fixed in Build 5 e 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 e The Table command would not find a field in the Table file when using Set SDExtname On Itanium Only Fixed in Build Six e The Numrecs with a percentage would not calculate properly if the input source was an Oracle Table Itanium Only Fixed in Build Seven e 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 Itanium vs PA_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_
11. ive 65536 from Binary to Decimal and Decimal to Binary Itanium Version Only Suprtool for HP UX on Itanium would fail with an HPPAC error if the field had spaces when reading a display field The Eloquence loading algorithm has been changed to make another attempt at loading the routines 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 5 4 01 for HP UX Change Notice 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 Highlights in Suprtool 5 3 Suprtool 5 4 01 for HP UX Change Notice 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 An extract with a arithmetic divide would not round properly if the tar
12. l is constantly being updated with new features The following section describes the new enhancements to Suprtool since Suprtool 5 3 Eloquence Loading The algorithm for Eloquence routine loading has changed slightly on Itanium Suprtool will attempt to load hpux32 libimage3k sl and hpux32 libeqdb s on the second attempt to load the libraries The algorithm is that Suprtool will first try to load the files individually then hpux32 libimage3k sl and then an attempt at the fully qualified filename Output Command 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 Consider the following task base mydb get customers if custno gt 50A out mycusts link else xeq Suprtool will create two files one called mycusts and mycusts else technically it creates four files as they are both self describing files and have the meta information file in the sd files however the data is put in the output files The else file gets named automatically by Suprtool In the example above the following files would be created This works for flat files Eloquence via get and chain and Oracle databases via Select and self describing files A else file will not be created when using output num and output key The task will still complete but a warning will be printed indicating that else cannot be used with the num or key
13. n 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 Compatibility 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 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 4 9 is now compatible with
14. s Itantum 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 in 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 Suprtool 5 4 01 for HP UX Change Notice Bugs Fixed e 13
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