Suprtool 5.2 for HP-UX:

Doc-To-Help Standard Manual

by Robelle Solutions Technology Inc.

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Table of Contents

Suprtool 5.2 for HP-UX: 1

Program and manual copyright © 1981-2009 Robelle Solutions Technology Inc. 2

Permission is granted to reprint this document (but not for profit), provided that copyright notice is given. 2

Phone: 604.501.2001 2

Table of Contents 3

Welcome to Suprtool 16

Introduction. 16

Suprtool Components. 16

STExport - Data Export Utility. 16

Suprlink - Multidataset Access. 17

Documentation. 17

Suprtool Version 5.2 19

Highlights in HP-UX version 5.2. 19

Highlights in HP-UX version 5.1.02. 19

Highlights in AMXW version 5.2. 20

Highlights in AMXW version 5.1.02. 20

Installing Suprtool 23

Who Needs To Use These Instructions. 23

Instructions for HP-UX.. 23

Instructions for AMXW... 23

Suprtool Roadmap for HP-UX 24

Road Map to Suprtool on HP-UX.. 24

Suprtool for HP-UX.. 24

Suprtool for HP-UX, with Dynamic Image loading. 24

Suprtool for AMXW... 24

Quick Start Guide for Suprtool 25

How to Run Suprtool 25

What is a Task?. 25

Copying Files. 26

Copying One File. 26

Appending to a File. 26

Fields in Data Files. 26

What is a Self-Describing File?. 26

Creating an SD File. 26

Define Fields in a Data File. 26

Create an SD File from a Data File. 27

Repeating Commands. 27

Repeating a Command. 27

Selecting Database Records. 28

Select All Records. 28

Look at the First Few Records. 28

Selecting by Criteria. 29

Simple Criteria. 29

Complex Criteria. 29

String of Digits. 29

Selecting by Date. 29

Select by Today's Date. 30

Select by Particular Date. 30

Select by Year 30

Select Prior Month. 30

Selecting by Lists of Values. 31

Finding Data Based on a List 31

Finding Data Based on a File. 31

Finding Data Based on Another Table’s Criteria. 32

Finding Data in a Data File. 32

Sorting Database Records. 32

Sort Records. 32

Sort Records in Descending Order 33

Sort by Multiple Keys. 33

Duplicate Records. 33

Report without Duplicate Records. 33

Report Only the Duplicate Records. 34

Report Only the Unique Records. 34

Report Only the Duplicates and Their Originals. 35

Deleting Duplicate Data File Records. 35

Decimal Places. 36

Converting Numbers. 36

Counts and Subtotals. 37

Count and Subtotal on Sort Keys. 37

Sort by Count or Subtotal 37

Total by Field. 38

Running Totals. 38

Running SubTotals. 38

Listing Records. 39

Changing the Output Record Format 39

Producing a Condensed Table Listing. 40

Simple Reports. 40

Your First Report 40

Column Headings. 41

Printing Mailing Labels. 41

Running Suprtool under HP-UX 43

Running Suprtool 43

Configuring Different Shells. 43

Bourne and Korn Shells. 43

Setting Up a PATH for Suprtool 44

Bourne and Korn Shells. 44

Dynamic Loading. 45

Control Characters and stty. 46

Suprmgr Configuration Files. 46

On-Line vs. Batch Access. 47

Command Line Options. 47

Initial Command Line: -ccmdstring. 47

Default Outcount File Name: -oc. 47

Exit with Verify: -v. 48

Combining -c and -v. 48

Loader Warnings. 48

HP-UX Notes. 48

Shell Commands. 48

Hardcoded File Names and ROBELLE Variable. 49

ROBELLE Variable. 49

opt/robelle/suprmgr 49

opt/robelle/help/suprtool 49

Outcount File. 49

Differences Between MPE and HP-UX.. 50

Record Length. 50

Duplicate Output Files. 50

Classic Reals. 50

Input from Stdlist 51

Missing Features. 51

Suprtool and AMXW 53

What is AMXW... 53

What is Suprtool for AMXW... 53

Running Suprtool 53

Symbolic Links and running Supramxw.. 53

Suprtool/AMXW... 54

Form Command. 54

Numrecs Command. 54

Output Command. 54

Temporary Files. 55

Appending Records. 55

Table operations. 55

Variable Substitution. 55

Set Commands. 55

Command Details for AMXW 56

Numrecs Command [N] 57

Set Commands. 58

AMXW Externalsd. 58

AMXW PerfWrite. 58

Suprtool Issues and Solutions 60

A Suprtool Task. 60

Input Choices. 60

Processing Selections. 60

Output Choices. 60

Large File Support 61

Suprtool and Allbase. 61

Date and Time Types. 62

Restrictions. 62

Suprtool and Oracle. 62

Number Data-Type. 63

Order By vs. Sort 63

Restrictions. 63

SDUnix Utility. 64

Installation. 64

SDUnix Parameters. 65

LF vs. NOLF. 65

Link vs. Query. 66

Suprtool and Self-Describing Files. 66

Create an SD File from a Table. 66

Create an SD File from a Data File. 66

SD Files as Input 67

Listing SD Files. 67

Decimal Places and Date Formats. 67

Extended Field Names. 67

Restrictions of SD Files. 68

Suprtool and Sorting Files. 68

Suprtool and Personal Computers. 68

Downloading to the PC.. 68

Decimal Places. 68

Spreadsheets. 69

Suprtool and PowerHouse Applications. 69

Suprtool with Quiz/QTP. 69

Step 1: Create a Subfile with Quiz. 69

Step 2: Output Erase in Suprtool 70

Step 3: Report with Quiz. 70

Using QTP to Create Subfiles. 70

Creating Subfile with Script File. 70

Quiz: Generating Suprtool Commands. 71

Year 2000 Solutions with Suprtool 71

What If I Have Four-Digit Years?. 71

What does Set Date Cutoff do?. 72

Stddate and Set Date Cutoff. 72

What does Set Date ForceCentury do?. 72

What If I Have Two-Digit Years?. 73

What Is Wrong with Two-Digit Years?. 73

How Do $Today and $Date Work?. 74

Will Suprtool Generate an Error for Two-Digit Year Dates?. 74

How Do I Use $Today and $Date with yymmdd Dates?. 74

aammdd Date Format 75

Invalid Dates. 75

Can Suprtool Convert Two-Digit Years to Four Digits?. 75

Case 1: Converting a J2 Date from yymmdd to ccyymmdd. 75

Case 2: X6 yymmdd Data to X8 ccyymmdd. 77

Case 3: Different Date Formats X6 MMDDYY Data to X6 YYMMDD.. 78

Year 2000 Testing. 80

Performance Issues. 80

Eloquence Performance. 81

Sort Performance. 81

Oracle Performance. 81

Analyzing Performance Data. 82

Variable Substitution. 82

Suprtool Commands 83

General Notes. 83

Abbreviating. 83

Uppercase or Lowercase. 83

Multiple Commands per Line. 83

Continuation. 84

Comments on Command Lines. 84

HP-UX Commands. 84

Control-Y Interrupt 85

Add Command [Add] 86

Base Command [BA] 87

Before Command [C] 89

Chain Command [C] 91

Clean Command [CL] 93

Removing Bad Characters. 93

Define Command [D] 95

Delete Command [DEL] 100

Do Command [DO] 102

Duplicate Command [DU] 103

Edit Command [ED] 108

Exit Command [E] 109

Export Command [EXP] 111

Extract Command [EXT] 112

Range of Fields. 116

Numeric Expressions. 117

$SubTotal Function. 119

$Total Function. 119

$Counter Function. 119

String Expressions. 120

Splitting Variable Length Strings. 121

Cleaning your Data. 122

Un-printables. 123

Clean Command Syntax. 123

Setting the Clean Character 123

Cleaning a Field. 123

Cleaning your data. 124

Extract from a Table. 124

Data Conversion. 125

$Number Function. 126

Numeric to Byte Conversion. 127

$Edit Function. 128

Placeholders and Format Characters. 128

Byte-Type Formatting. 128

Z-placeholder for byte-fields. 129

Overflow and limits. 129

Numeric field edit-masks. 130

Decimal Places. 131

Data and Edit mask: 131

Currency and Dollar signs. 131

Overflow and floating dollar 132

Set CurrencySymbol 132

Overflow and limits. 132

Restrictions. 132

Form Command [F] 135

Get Command [G] 138

Help Command [H] 140

If Command [IF] 141

Expressions. 141

Subscripts. 145

Numeric Expressions. 146

String Expressions. 148

Date Selection. 151

Long Expressions. 156

Input Command [I] 159

Item Command [IT] 161

Date Formats. 161

Decimal Places. 164

Key Command [K] 167

Link Command [LIN] 169

List Command [L] 170

LaserJet Listings. 171

Headings in Listings. 172

Simple Reports. 173

List Device. 174

Listredo Command [LISTREDO] 177

Numrecs Command [N] 178

Open Command [OP] 179

Remote Databases and Oracle Issues. 179

Output Command [O] 180

Put Command [P] 185

Q Command [Q] 186

Redo Command [REDO] 187

Reset Command [R] 190

Select Command [SEL] 191

Set Command [S] 192

Arithmetic. 194

CurrencySymbol 195

Date Cutoff. 195

Date ForceCentury. 196

Date IfYY2000Error 196

Date MapToPHDate8. 197

DecimalSymbol 197

DumpOnError 198

EditStopError 198

HPUXCmdErr “<string>”. 199

InitExtents. 200

ItemAbbreviateDate. 200

Interactive. 201

LabelledTapeRewind. 201

List FormFeed. 204

Oracle Rows. 206

Oracle Integer 206

Oracle OpenFix. 207

Oracle PassShift 207

Oracle ZeroNull 207

Statistics. 211

Subsystem... 211

ThousandSymbol 211

Userlabels. 211

VarsubCompat 212

VarsubDebug. 212

Sort Command [SO] 213

Table Command [TA] 215

Adding Individual Values to a Table. 215

Adding Values from a File. 216

Total Command [T] 219

Update Command [UP] 221

Use Command [U] 222

Userpause Command [USER] 224

Verify Command [V] 225

Xeq Command [X] 226

Calculator Command [=] 227

Suprtool Errors and Warnings 230

Two Types Of Messages. 230

Welcome to STExport 232

Welcome to STExport 232

Installing STExport 232

Accessing STExport 233

How To Run STExport 233

How to Xeq an STExport Task. 233

Hardcoded File Names and ROBELLE Variable. 233

ROBELLE Variable. 233

Using STExport in Batch. 234

Command Line Options. 234

Default Outcount File Name: -oc. 234

Variable Substitution -v. 234

Introduction to STExport 235

Importing Data. 235

Input File. 235

Data-Types. 235

Formatting Commands. 236

Performance Considerations. 236

STExport Commands 237

General Notes. 237

Abbreviating. 237

Uppercase or Lowercase. 237

Comments on Command Lines. 237

HP-UX Commands. 237

File Names. 238

Control-Y.. 238

Before Command [B] 239

Clean Command [CL] 241

Removing Bad Characters. 241

Columns Command [C] 242

Date Command [DA] 243

Decimal Command [DEC] 245

Delimiter Command [DE] 246

Do Command [DO] 247

Escape Command [ES] 248

Exit Command [E] 249

Exit Abort [EA] 249

Exit Suspend [ES] 249

Exit Xeq [EX] 249

Floating Command [FL] 251

Form Command [F] 252

Heading Command [HEA] 253

Help Command [H] 255

HTML Command [HT] 256

Dynamic Web Pages. 258

Shell Script 259

Perl Script 261

Input Command [I] 264

Listredo Command [LISTREDO] 265

Output Command [O] 266

Quote Command [Q] 267

Redo Command [REDO] 268

Reset Command [R] 269

Set Command [S] 270

Statistics. 271

VarsubCompat 272

VarsubDebug. 272

Sign Command [SI] 274

Spaces Command [SP] 275

Use Command [U] 276

Verify Command [V] 277

Xeq Command [X] 278

XML Command [XML] 279

Zero Command [Z] 282

Example of STExport Output 283

Limits Within STExport 287

Welcome to Dbedit 288

Introduction. 288

Restrictions. 288

Functions of Dbedit 288

Performance of Dbedit 289

Field Lists. 289

Database Locking. 290

Decimal Points. 290

Critical-Item Update. 291

Dbedit Commands 292

General Notes. 292

Abbreviating. 292

Uppercase or Lowercase. 292

Continuation. 292

Control-Y.. 293

Comments on Command Lines. 293

OS Commands. 293

Example Database. 294

Prompting for Search Criteria. 294

Command Parameters. 294

File Parameter 294

Option Parameter 295

Numeric-Value Option. 295

All Option. 295

Key Option. 296

Limit Option. 296

Related Option. 296

Under Option. 297

Updatekey Option. 297

Subcommands. 297

Add Command [A] 299

Before Command [B] 300

Change Command [C] 302

Delete Command [D] 303

Do Command [DO] 304

Exit Command [E] 305

File Command [F] 306

Form Command [FO] 307

Help Command [H] 308

List Command [L] 309

Listredo Command [LISTREDO] 310

Modify Command [M] 311

Q Command [Q] 312

Redo Command [REDO] 313

Set Command [S] 314

Use Command [U] 316

Verify Command [V] 317

Welcome to Suprlink 318

Welcome to Suprlink. 318

Terminology and HP-UX.. 318

Installing Suprlink. 319

Hardcoded File Names and ROBELLE Variable. 319

ROBELLE Variable. 319

Accessing Suprlink 321

How To Run Suprlink. 321

How to Xeq a Suprlink Task. 321

Suprtool Link Command. 321

Exit with Verify. 321

Using Suprlink in Batch. 322

Command Line Options. 322

Default Outcount File Name: -oc. 322

Variable Substitution -v. 322

Introduction to Suprlink 323

How Report Programs Work. 323

Input Files. 323

Link Files. 323

Output Files. 324

Selection Logic. 324

A Link Example. 324

A Join Example. 325

Performance Considerations. 326

Another Example. 327

Illegal Digits. 327

Selecting Non-Matches. 328

Suprlink with Quiz/QTP. 328

Suprlink Commands 331

General Notes. 331

Abbreviating. 331

Uppercase or Lowercase. 331

Continuation. 331

Comments on Command Lines. 332

HP-UX Commands. 332

File Names. 332

Control-Y.. 332

Before Command [B] 334

Do Command [DO] 336

Exit Command [E] 337

Exit Abort [EA] 337

Exit Suspend [ES] 337

Exit Xeq [EX] 337

Form Command [F] 338

Help Command [H] 340

Input Command [I] 341

Join Command [J] 342

Link Command [L] 344

Listredo Command [LISTREDO] 346

Output Command [O] 347

Redo Command [REDO] 348

Reset Command [R] 349

Set Command [S] 350

Statistics. 351

VarsubCompat 351

VarsubDebug. 352

Use Command [U] 353

Verify Command [V] 354

Xeq Command [X] 355

Example Suprlink Output 357

Limits Within Suprlink 359