Suprtool 6.2 for HP-UX:

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by Robelle Solutions Technology Inc.

 

 


 

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Contents

Introducing Suprtool Version 6.2  5

Overview. 5

Highlights in Suprtool 6.2. 5

Highlights in Suprtool 6.1. 6

Highlights in Suprtool 6.0. 6

Itanium vs PA_RISC. 6

Compatibility. 8

Itanium Compatibility. 8

CPU Serial Number (uname) 8

Documentation. 8

Installation   9

Overview. 9

Installation Instructions 9

Installation Assistance. 9

Enhancements in Version 6.2  10

Introduction. 10

Rport Set Maxlen. 10

Rport Comma 10

Rport Hide. 10

System Commands 11

$Month($stddate()) 11

Rport 11

$BOM and $EOM.. 13

String Function Checks 13

Sdlinux for Linux. 13

Set Limits Override On | Off 14

Enhancements in Version 6.1  16

$Length. 16

$LENGTH (Works on Byte-type and numeric fields) 16

If Usage: 16

Extract Usage: 16

$ROBELLE variable. 16

Set EditSignNeutral 16

STEXPORT. 17

SUPRLINK. 17

Enhancements in Version 6.0  18

$List NOSAMETO.. 18

BackwardChain. 18

$INRECNUM.. 18

$LEADZEROZ. 18

$LEADZEROB. 19

You can clean it up with the following: 19

$JUSTIFYL. 20

$JUSTIFYR. 20

$RESPACE. 21

SDLINUX UTILITY. 22

Bugs Fixed  25

Bugs Fixed In Suprtool 5.8.11. 25

Bugs Fixed In Suprtool 5.8.10. 25

Bugs Fixed In Suprtool 5.7.11. 25

Bugs Fixed In Suprtool 5.7. 25

Bugs Fixed In Suprtool 5.6.11. 25

 

 

 


 

Introducing Suprtool Version 6.2

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.

Highlights in Suprtool 6.2

·             Rport has a new command called Hide which is intended to not report on a field in an SD file.

·             Rport has a new command called Comma, which will place appropriate commas in an ascii field that was converted from a numeric field.

·             There is a new setting in RPORT that is called set maxlen on, which calculates the maximum size that a field can be, including commas and dollar signs.

·             Suprtool/Open now defaults to /bin/bash when a users shell is not found in the user information.

·             The $eom/$bom function wouldn’t work properly when $stddate was nested in a $month function and the to month had 31 days.

·             Sdlinux version is available for Linux to convert the .sd file for use on Linux is now available on Linux. You can now directly copy a data file and sdfile from HP-UX and convert it for use on Linux.

·             Two new sub-functions of $BOM and $ EOM are now available in the $stddate and $month functions. The $BOM function returns the starting day of the month and the $EOM returns the last date of the month for a given month.

·             String functions in Suprtool now have better length and bounds checking of the 4095 string limit.

·             Rport a new simple report writer has been added to the Suprtool suite of products.

·             Set Limits Override has been added to the Suprtool for MPE version. (6.1.01)

·             The Itanium version of Suprtool would lose track of Table data information even if the table was held between two tasks.

Highlights in Suprtool 6.1

·             Suprtool has a new function called $length that will return a double integer value of the length of a byte and/or numeric field.

·             The $ROBELLE variable has been expanded to 58 characters.

·             Suprtool has a new option called Set EditSignNeutral which tells the $edit function to treat Neutral zoned and packed fields to be positive and treated as such by the $edit function.

·             Suprlink now supports 8192 bytes on both the input file and the link file.

·             Suprlink now supports 16384 bytes on the output file in Suprlink

·             Stexport now supports 8192 bytes on both the input file and output files.

Highlights in Suprtool 6.0

·             The List command now has a NOSAMETO option to turn off the SAMETO feature.

·             Set Backwardchain On, will cause the Chain command to do a backward chained read.

·             STExport has a new set command called Set Excel Leadzero On which tells the Excel command to add leading zeroes to the fields specified in the Excel Preserve command.

·             Suprtool has a new function available to the if/extract commands called $inrecnum, which expects a double integer result.

·             Suprtool has a new function called $leadzeroz, which will add leading zeroes to a display field and will optionally justify the field.

·             Suprtool has a four new string handling functions, specifically, $justifyl, $justifyr, $leadzerob and $respace.

·             The Add command to add data to an Oracle table would fail on some tables with an abort if there were a large number of tables in the database.

 

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_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 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:       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/pa11_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/pa11_32.

The Oracle interface will first try to load libclntsh.so and then attempt to load libclntsh.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.

Compatibility

Fastread option is now set to Off for Suprtool for HP-UX. The Dynamic loading version of Suprtool the option is set to off.

Suprtool production versions 5.1 thru 5.4.01 would incorrectly double the record size for an output,data file when either Set Ifouroutput or Set Oracle Integer were on. This has been fixed but if your script accounted for a doubled record size this may cause and issue as we no longer incorrectly write out double the bytes. If you want to have the old bug behaviour to be re-instated you can Set Oracle DataBug On. The default for this setting is off.

 

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.

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 1.289.480.1060.

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.


 

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

All Robelle software is available via a download link which you can get to by filling out this form:

http://www.robelle.com/forms/request-prod-release.php

If you don’t know your Account number please provide enough information for us to find you in our database.

You can find the HP-UX download install instructions here:

http://www.robelle.com/downloads/install-sxprod.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 1.289.480.1060. Technical support can also be obtained via e-mail at: support@robelle.com  If your new version of software will not run, you can call technical support by calling the support 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/

You can download our manuals and Change Notices in various formats from:

 http://www.robelle.com/library/manuals/.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enhancements in Version 6.2

 

Introduction

Suprtool is constantly being updated with new features. The following section describes the new enhancements to Suprtool since Suprtool 6.1.10.

Rport Set Maxlen

Rport will by default calculate the maximum size of a field, including, commas, decimals and dollar signs. The previous version just took into account, decimals. This is on by default, you can just use the old calculation by adding set maxlen off to your rportmgr file.

Rport Comma

Rport has a new command called comma, where you can specify a fieldname or list of fieldnames to tell Rport to add commas to a given numeric field, when it is reported on and converted to ascii. The same rules will apply for a given fields subtotal and total field. This command can only be entered after the input command.

Rport Hide

Rport has a new command called Hide which when given a fieldname will remove that field from the report. The report will be adjusted accordingly and also the Hide command must be entered after the input command.

System Commands

If the user id isn’t found or a shell name isn’t returned the Open version of Suprtool suite of products will assume a shell of /bin/bash.

 

$Month($stddate())

The combination of nested $stddate within $month would handle months with 31 days incorrectly if the from date was a month with less that 31 days and the to month was a month with 31 days.

 

Rport

All versions of Suprtool, MPE, HP-UX (PA-Risc and Itanium), and Suprtool / Open have a new component called Rport, which is a simple report writer.

 

The code below represents one of the more complicated reports, and shows some of the attributes that you can control. Rport works off of self-describing files and is available on MPE, HP-UX (PA-Risc and Itanium) and on all Linux platforms that Suprtool/Open runs on.

 

The Title command divides the lines into quadrants, primarily, left, center and right and two lines are supported. The heading column option prints the Heading information specified in each column. You can also specify Heading Fieldnames, where Rport will divide the field name into each column, and you can do your own layout for each Heading Line:

 

head 1 Add " CharIntege     Double      Packed     Packed*                Quad"

head 1 Add "    IdLogica      DblLog Zoned"

head 2 add "Field Field      Field       Field       Field               Field"

head 2 add " Field Field       Field Field"

 

The Size command tells Rport the maximum size of the column for the data. By default Rport picks the maximum size that a field will be when converted to Ascii, as shown in the following table:

Field Format

Output Size

I1, J1

6 bytes

I2, J2

11 bytes

I3, J3

16 bytes

I4, J4

20 bytes

K1

5 bytes

K2

10 bytes

E2

12 bytes

E4

23 bytes

R2

12 bytes

Zn

n+1 bytes

Pn

n bytes

 

The integer specified beside the fieldname is the length for the field to use for the report. If the data overflows the field will be filled with asterisks. The Subtotal and Total commands are pretty self-explanatory.

in file1.rporttst

title line 1 left RPNAME "SampReport"

title line 1 center RPCOMPANY "Robelle Solutions"

title line 1 right rppageno tag "Page No : "

title line 2 left rpdate tag "Date : "

title line 2 right rpruntime tag "Run Time : "

head 1 col "Char"

head 2 col "Field"

head 1 col "Integer"

head 2 col "Field"

head 1 col "Double"

head 2 col "Field"

head 1 col "Packed"

head 2 col "Field"

head 1 col "Packed*"

head 2 col "Field"

head 1 col "Quad"

head 2 col "Field"

head 1 col "Id"

head 2 col "Field"

head 1 col "Logical"

head 2 col "Field"

head 1 col "DblLog"

head 2 col "Field"

head 1 col "Zoned"

head 2 col "Field"

size int-field 8

size dbl-field 8

size packed-field 7

size packed*-field 7

size quad-field 7

size logical-field 7

size dbllog-field 7

size zoned-field 8

subtotal int-field dbl-field packed-field packed*-field quad-field id-field

subtotal logical-field dbllog-field zoned-field

total int-field dbl-field packed-field packed*-field quad-field id-field

total logical-field dbllog-field zoned-field

out REPORT01

xeq

 

The above code creates the following report. The report shows that it can handle most data types (the field names are the data types)  and provides a simple layout and automatically aligns the subtotals and the total lines. The subtotaling works off the sorted field, (in this case char-field) and prints a subtotal line each time the char-field changes.

 

SampReport                          Robelle Solutions                         Page No : 1

Date : 20191024                                                          Run Time : 12:45

 Char   Integer    Double   Packed  Packed*     Quad    Id   Logical     DblLog     Zoned

Field     Field     Field    Field    Field    Field Field     Field      Field     Field

11111     11.11    111.11  +111.11  +111.11   111.11     1     11.11     111.11    111.11

          11.11    111.11  +111.11  +111.11   111.11     1     11.11     111.11    111.11

22222     22.22    222.22  +222.22  +222.22   222.22     1     22.22     222.22    222.22

22222     22.22    222.22  +222.22  +222.22   222.22     2     22.22     222.22    222.22

          44.44    444.44  +444.44  +444.44   444.44     3     44.44     444.44    444.44

33333     33.33    333.33  +333.33  +333.33   333.33     1     33.33     333.33    333.33

33333     33.33    333.33  +333.33  +333.33   333.33     2     33.33     333.33    333.33

33333     33.33    333.33  +333.33  +333.33   333.33     3     33.33     333.33    333.33

          99.99    999.99  +999.99  +999.99   999.99     6     99.99     999.99    999.99

44444     44.44    444.44  +444.44  +444.44   444.44     1     44.44     444.44    444.44

44444     44.44    444.44  +444.44  +444.44   444.44     2     44.44     444.44    444.44

44444     44.44    444.44  +444.44  +444.44   444.44     3     44.44     444.44    444.44

44444     44.44    444.44  +444.44  +444.44   444.44     4     44.44     444.44    444.44

         177.76   1777.76 +1777.76 +1777.76  1777.76    10    177.76    1777.76   1777.76

55555     55.55    555.55  +555.55  +555.55   555.55     1     55.55     555.55    555.55

55555     55.55    555.55  +555.55  +555.55   555.55     2     55.55     555.55    555.55

55555     55.55    555.55  +555.55  +555.55   555.55     3     55.55     555.55    555.55

55555     55.55    555.55  +555.55  +555.55   555.55     4     55.55     555.55    555.55

55555     55.55    555.55  +555.55  +555.55   555.55     5     55.55     555.55    555.55

         277.75   2777.75 +2777.75 +2777.75  2777.75    15    277.75    2777.75   2777.75

         611.05   6111.05 +6111.05 +6111.05  6111.05    35    611.05    6111.05   6111.05

$BOM and $EOM

Suprtool has two new subfunctions called $BOM and $EOM which are now available in the $stddate and $month functions. The $bom returns the beginning of the month date, “01” and the $eom, returns the end of the month for the given date.

For Example, the $stddate function will return the converted curdate, with either the beginning of the month for the day or the end of the month for the given curdate.

in file131

item curdate,date,ddmmyyyy

ext curdate

ext curbom=$stddate(curdate,$bom)

ext cureom=$stddate(curdate,$eom)

You can also use $stddate to convert a date that is already in ccyymmdd format to the beginning of the month or the end of the month respectively.

You can also use $bom and $eom as part of the $month function even if the date is not in ccyymmdd format.

Item curdate,date,ddmmyyyy

ext curdate

ext curbom=$month($stddate(curdate),+6,$bom)

ext cureom=$month($stddate(curdate),+6,$eom)

String Function Checks

Some of the String functions in Suprtool did not have proper length checks in place to insure that the an overflow wouldn’t occur for specific functions. The length for most string fields to be checked is 4095 bytes. Suprtool will now throw a more generalized error of:

Error: Field in function is greater than 4095 bytes

 

If a function is longer than the 4095, the field is potentially corrupted and/or truncated.

Sdlinux for Linux

SDLinux is a utility that will convert the Self-Describing information, such that Suprtool/Open can read the file. Specifically it is meant to convert the .sd file from an HP-UX system to be read on Linux natively.

Sdlinux, will change the sd version field which tells Suprtool/Open the endianness of the sd file.

 

SD Version

Endianness

Extended Names

B.00.00

BIG (HP-UX) LITTLE(LINUX)

NO

B.00.01

BIG (HP-UX) LITTLE(LINUX)

YES

B.00.02

BIG

NO

B.00.03

BIG

YES

 

The sdlinux utility has four options, -f, -r, -h and –d. Only one option can be specified at any given time:

 

Option

SD Version

Integer Field

-f

B.00.00 becomes B.00.02 and

B.00.01 becomes B.00.03

Any integer/logical field gets flagged as BE.

-r

B.00.02 becomes B.00.00 and

B.00.03 becomes B.00.01

Any integer/ logical field gets the Endianness flag turned off.

-h

B.00.02 becomes B.00.00 and

B.00.03 becomes B.00.01

No effect.

-d

No effect.

Any integer/logical field gets the Endianness flag turned off.

The sdlinux utility gets run with the above options and a filename for an argument as in:

./sdlinux ‘-ffilename’

./sdlinux ‘-rfilename’

./sdlinux ‘-hfilename’

./sdlinux ‘-dfilename’

 

The filename specified just needs to be the data file name not the sd filename. Regardless, sdlinux will figure out what to do if the .sd extension is in the filename argument.

Set Limits Override On | Off

Set Limits OverRide tells Suprtool for MPE to ignore any subsequent Set Limits TableSize command. This was added since the new MPE table size is now 2 GB and works well without any limit. It was also added as Suprtool 4.4 and lower did not calculate the Set Limits Tablesize limit properly. So if a user had Set Limits Tablesize 25, Suprtool would allow for a table greater than that old limit, while the new version of the table would stop with "Table Full" as prescribed by the command.

 

Overriding the TableSize, allows for customers to set in a global suprmgr file and not have to search thru code to remove the specific command.


 

Enhancements in Version 6.1

 

$Length

Suprtool has a new function called $length which returns a double integer number that is the length of a given byte or numeric field. For byte type fields Suprtool starts at the right most byte position to look for any non-space character and calculates the length of the data. For numeric fields Suprtool will convert the number to display and starting on the left will search for any non-zero character to establish the length.

Below is an excerpt from the manual, that describes how it can be used:

$LENGTH (Works on Byte-type and numeric fields)

Purpose of the $length frunction is to return the length of the specified byte field as if the field has had the $rtrim function applied or the position of the rightmost non-space character.

If Usage:

if $length(NAME) >= 15

Extract Usage:

Define LenField,1,4,double

extract LenField=$length(byte-field)

 

$ROBELLE variable

The $ROBELLE variable on HP-UX and Open platforms has been expanded to 55 characters for the $ROBELLE directory name when you are installing outside of /opt/robelle. You use the $robelle variable to tell suprtool and all of the programs that come with suprtool where to find where it is installed.

Set EditSignNeutral

The $edit function converts data from numeric to byte and applies an edit mask to format the data. Neutral data is not considered to be signed so if you have neutral data, a positive sign will not be applied to the edit mask. With Set EditSignNeutral turned on, Suprtool will consider the Neutral data to be positive and therefore print out the “+” or “DR”, depending on the edit-mask used.

Set EditSignNeutral On

 

STEXPORT

STExport now supports 8196 bytes on the input, and the output file.

SUPRLINK

Suprlink now supports 8196 bytes on the input file, link file and 16384 bytes on the output file.


 

Enhancements in Version 6.0

 

$List NOSAMETO

The List command now has a NOSAMETO option to turn off the SAMETO feature.

BackwardChain

The Set command, Backwardchain when turned on will tell the Chain command to do a Backward Chained read.

$INRECNUM

The if / extract commands can now utilize a new function called $INRECNUM, which allows you to use the input record number in certain tasks. For example, the task below would find record number 11.

    In somefile

    If $inrecnum=11  

You can also, utilize the $inrecnum function in the extract command:

    In somefile

    Def recnum,1,4,double

    Ext recnum=$inrecnum 

The $inrecnum function was designed to find records especially in the instance where duplicate records are in a particular data source and cannot be isolated by any other means.

 

$LEADZEROZ

The if / extract commands can now utilize a new function called $LEADZEROZ, which allows you to add leading zeroes to a specific display field. This was designed specifically for the extract command and fixing up data but can be used in the if command as well.

$NUMBER is capable of fixing up numbers, but the new $LEADZEROZ function is more lightweight and simply adds leading zeroes, and has an option to justify right as shown below. The source data looks like this:

/PRINT LEADZERO

1

 2

  3

   4

    5

     6

      7

       8

      9

10

12

12345

220

You can format with the following:

 

>IN LEADZERO.SUPRTEST

>DEF A,1,12,DISPLAY

>EXT A=$LEADZEROZ(A,J)

>out *

>xeq

000000000001

000000000002

000000000003

000000000004

000000000005

000000000006

000000000007

000000000008

000000000009

000000000010

000000000012

000000012345

000000000220

IN=13, OUT=13. CPU-Sec=1. Wall-Sec=1.

The $LEADZEROZ function cannot fix issues like commas and decimal places in a display field, this can be handled by the $number function.

$LEADZEROB

The if / extract commands can now utilize a new function called $LEADZEROB, which allows you to add leading zeroes to a specific byte field. This was designed specifically for the extract command and fixing up data but can be used in the if command as well. The data looks like this:

/PRINT LEADZERO

1

 2

  3

   4

    5

     6

      7

       8

      9

10

12

12345

220

You can clean it up with the following:

>IN LEADZERO.SUPRTEST

>DEF A,1,12,byte

>EXT A=$LEADZEROB(A,J)

>out *

>xeq

000000000001

000000000002

000000000003

000000000004

000000000005

000000000006

000000000007

000000000008

000000000009

000000000010

000000000012

000000012345

000000000220

IN=13, OUT=13. CPU-Sec=1. Wall-Sec=1.

 

$JUSTIFYL

The if / extract commands can now utilize a new function called $JUSTIFYL, which allows you to left justify text to the left side of a field.

 

>in leadzero

>def b,1,12,byte

>ext b=$justifyl(b)

>out *

>xeq

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

12

12345

220

IN=13, OUT=13. CPU-Sec=1. Wall-Sec=1.

 

$JUSTIFYR

The if / extract commands can now utilize a new function called $JUSTIFYR, which allows you to right justify text to the right side of a field.

>in leadzero.suprtest

>def a,1,12,byte

>ext a=$justifyr(a)

>out *

>xeq

           1

           2

           3

           4

           5

           6

           7

           8

           9

          10

          12

       12345

         220

IN=13, OUT=13. CPU-Sec=1. Wall-Sec=1.

 

 

 

$RESPACE

The if / extract commands can now utilize a new function called $RESPACE, which allows you to fixup byte data that has multiple spaces in between text. For example your data looks like this:

>in respace.suprtest

>def text,1,40

>ext text

>out *

>xeq

this  is  a  test

 this is a        test

this  is  a   test

this         is a test

this   is   a   test

this is a test

 please note this   is   a     test

this  is   a   test

this    is      a      test

this is a test

       this   is   a   test

 this is a test

this    is    a    test

this is a test

dummy   record

this is a  not   test

silly   record

IN=30, OUT=30. CPU-Sec=1. Wall-Sec=1.

It can easily be fixed up and converted to what is shown below:

 

>in respace.suprtest

>ext text=$respace(text,J)

>out *

>xeq

this is a test

this is a test

this is a test

this is a test

this is a test

this is a test

please note this is a test

this is a test

this is a test

this is a test

this is a test

this is a test

this is a test

this is a test

dummy record

this is a not test

silly record

IN=30, OUT=30. CPU-Sec=1. Wall-Sec=1.

 

 

SDLINUX UTILITY

Suprtool now has a utility called sdlinux, which will help convert an HP-UX self-describing file which will have Big Endian numbers, in the Self-Describing information and in the integers in the data file.

Sdlinux, is a small utility that will change the sd version field which tells Suprtool/Open the endianness of the sd file.

SD Version

Endianness

Extended Names

B.00.00

BIG (HP-UX) LITTLE(LINUX)

NO

B.00.01

BIG (HP-UX) LITTLE(LINUX)

YES

B.00.02

BIG

NO

B.00.03

BIG

YES

The sdlinux utility has four options, -f, -r, -h and –d. Only one option can be specified at any given time:

Option

SD Version

Integer Field

-f

B.00.00 becomes B.00.02 and

B.00.01 becomes B.00.03

Any integer/logical field gets flagged as BE.

-r

B.00.02 becomes B.00.00 and

B.00.03 becomes B.00.01

Any integer/ logical field gets the Endianness flag turned off.

-h

B.00.02 becomes B.00.00 and

B.00.03 becomes B.00.01

No effect.

-d

No effect.

Any integer/logical field gets the Endianness flag turned off.

The sdlinux utility gets run with the above options and a filename for an argument as in:

./sdlinux ‘-ffilename’

./sdlinux ‘-rfilename’

./sdlinux ‘-hfilename’

./sdlinux ‘-dfilename’

 

The filename specified just needs to be the data file name not the sd filename. Regardless, sdlinux will figure out what to do if the .sd extension is in the filename argument.

Please see the following example how you can move data from HP-UX, to Linux natively without having to export to ascii. On HP-UX, you simply create a self-describing file as you normally would:

Base mydb

Get mydataset

Out outfile,link

Xeq

 

Then you can use sdlinux to make some quick changes to the Self-describing information, specifically the version in the header and the integers and logicals get updated with the big endian flag being turned on:

sdlinux ‘foutfile’

 

You can then ftp the data file and the sd file over to your Linux box:

ftp linuxbox.robelle.com

user

password

put outfile outfile

put outfile.sd outfile.sd

quit

 

You can then reverse the effects of the –f option with the –r option:

sdlinux -routfile

Then on Linux you can read the sd file natively even though the sd information has big endian information and the data file can be read with bigendian integers and logicals.

 

>in outfile

>form

    File: outfile     (SD Version B.00.02)  Has linefeeds

       Entry:                     Offset

          CHAR-FIELD           X5      1

          INT-FIELD            I1      6                             BE

          DBL-FIELD            I2      8                             BE

          PACKED-FIELD         P12    12

          PACKED*-FIELD        P12    18

          QUAD-FIELD           I4     24                             BE

          ID-FIELD             I1     32                             BE

          LOGICAL-FIELD        K1     34                             BE

          DBLLOG-FIELD         K2     36                             BE

          ZONED-FIELD          Z5     40

          FILLER               X36    45

    Entry Length: 80  Blocking: 1

>num 3

>list

>xeq

>IN outfile (0) >OUT $NULL (0)

CHAR-FIELD      = 11111          INT-FIELD       = 1111

DBL-FIELD       = 11111          PACKED-FIELD    = +11111

PACKED*-FIELD   = +11111         QUAD-FIELD      = 11111

ID-FIELD        = 1              LOGICAL-FIELD   = 1111

DBLLOG-FIELD    = 11111          ZONED-FIELD     = 11111

FILLER          =

 

 


 

Bugs Fixed

Bugs Fixed In Suprtool 5.8.11

Add Command.  The Add command would fail if a Table in an Oracle database accessible by a given username had more than 2.1 billion entries on Oracle 11 and higher.

Bugs Fixed In Suprtool 5.8.10

Banner.  The opening banner at runtime would display the wrong day and day of month. This was only an issue in Suprtool 5.8.

 

Bugs Fixed In Suprtool 5.7.11

Set CleanChar.  Set CleanChar to a single character, after a Set CleanChar “<null>” would not come into effect due to the special null flag not being reset. This was in both Suprtool and STExport.

 

Bugs Fixed In Suprtool 5.7

STExport/Suprlink.  PA_RISC versions of Suprlink and STExport would fail when attempting to report an error on an OUTPUT file if the user specified a directory that didn’t exist or the user didn’t have write permission to.

 

Bugs Fixed In Suprtool 5.6.11

Output , Display Command.  Suprtool for Itanium and Suprtool/Open would not properly convert negative, single and double integers when output/,display is invoked

 

Quad Integer Input Parsing. Suprtool/Open would not parse a negative number into a quad integer container.