IBM is pleased to announce that IBM U2 Web Development Environment for UniData and UniVerse version 4.4 (previously named IBM RedBack) will be generally available on May 31, 2007. This release increases performance, reduces costs, delivers a more usable design environment and enhances SB+ conversions.

Read the full product announcement at:
http: //www.ibm.com/software/data/u2/webde/wde44.html

With the recent release of mvBase v2.1, Raining Data is pleased to offer special pricing to encourage mvBase v1.x customers that are currently under a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA) to move to this latest platform. Upgrading to mvBase v2.1 ensures that your applications are running on the most current operating technologies. The latest mvBase v2.1 release supports the new Microsoft Vista Operating System and offers significant new features, enhancements and fixes.

Contact Raining Data for more information about pricing on this upgrade.

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"We are Committed to the MultiValue Market"

This is the message, delivered and received, in Miami during the 5^th jBASE User Conference. Pete Loveless, jBASE International CEO and Mpower1 Partner in his welcoming keynote, thanked everyone for their participation without which jBASE's future would not look so bright and secure. The partnership between jBASE International and Temenos (owner/developer of the jBASE database) is stronger than ever and "strengthening year on year". Temenos' revenues have grown from $25million to almost $300 million since 1999.  jBASE's revenues have grown 11% fueled by jBASE licenses and support as well as the suite of add-on products (MV.net , jRCS, RSDC, DREM, OSMOSIS). The current release of jBASE, 4.1.5 (which will be supported at least through 2012) and the already-in-the-field release 5 (which will be supported at least through 2012), in conjunction with these add-ons comprise the go-forward strategy for jBASE International.

Temenos and jBASE have been working very closely and feverishly to get release 4.1.5 stable and distributable to the entire jBASE community. Both organizations have numerous sites running this release in production. Loveless stated that they realize that the move to this release is more than just an upgrade and they appreciate the user base "sticking with us". This release is the flagship product, is the foundation for all future releases, and will be supported thru 2012. The 3.4 release had scalability and maintainability issues. Future upgrades will be far less painful than the migration from 3.4 to 4.1.5. jBASE has a project plan to help users with this move.

Temenos is already shipping release 5 with jBASE to follow in about one year. jBASE's strategy is to stay 1 year behind Temenos in jBASE releases. Loveless is waiting for release 5 to settle down in the Temenos user base before releasing it to the rest of the jBASE community.

As further evidence of the commitment between Temenos and jBASE to their, and the users, futures, Clive Ketteridge - Temenos Database Strategy Director and Co-Founder of jBASE and Martin Bailey - Product Development Manager for jBASE, where present at the conference and available for discussions throughout.

Bailey spoke about the development process, how it works within Temenos, how jBASE International participates and how releases are tested and released to the field. He also discussed features of release 5: true 64 bit, recovery modeled after Oracle, resilient file support (no resize no corruption), transaction journal checkpointing (for warmstarting and on-line backups), and startup check. This new release series is being called jBASE  Dataguard.

Users from all over the world attended the conference. The people I spoke to are encouraged by the stated commitment from jBASE International and Temenos.

Winnix Integrator is a thin client that brings advanced emulation functions to allow Windows-type graphical interfaces and traditional applications to operate together. The Winnix bi-directional data transfer features easily allow quick definition of parameters for MultiValue database extraction and loading into the workstation.

ONware ™ provides a MultiValue development and run-time environment for Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, and other relational database management systems. ONware allows applications written for the common MultiValue platforms such as UniVerse , UniData , D3 , Power95, Reality , and more, to run natively in standard SQL compliant format on mainstream RDBMS.

Easy Soft France is a provider of ERP systems along with a catalog of additional solutions including:

• Automation of the Restaurant industry with mobile hand-held terminals (PDAs) running on Pocket Winnix in Wi-Fi mode and connected in real time to the database,
• Calculation of  Royalties in the Music industry,
• Automation in the Hotel and Casino industries,
• Automation in the Telephone industry,
• Automation of Town Hall Budgeting,
• Visitor taxation,
• Graphics software design including order processing, and more.

With support for Winnix , ONware ™ give Easy Soft the choice to provide their solutions to their clients on a database that is the best solution for their client, be it a MultiValue platform, Oracle, DB2 or Microsoft SQL Server.

Question:

On UniVerse/unix I can use the SH command to execute operating system commands, but  I'm not able to find anything about performing OS commands from the UniVerse/Windows platform. There must be a way to do this. Specifically, I'm trying to call blat.exe from a UniBasic program to send an email.

Answer:

There are actually two ways to do this.

The first, you can call out using a DOS command thus:

DOS /C your_command

If the command is also an executable you can set a direct verb pointer,

CT VOC BLAT
>CT VOC BLAT

BLAT
0001 V
0002 blat.exe
0003 U

Here's a snippet on how I use it:

* first write the text of the message onto the current directory as a .txt file ..
Write Text On UFD,Id:".txt"

* then call BLAT as a verb

ExLine = "BLAT ":Id:".txt"
ExLine := " -to ":Email
ExLine := ' -s "':Subject:'"'
ExLine := ' -p my_profile'
Execute ExLine CAPTURING OUT

NOTE that I'm using a named profile to store the configuration details. You need to do that (or provide them all on the command line which is a nice security hole) since each UV session runs under the credentials of the login user, and BLAT stores its profiles on a per-user basis.

Answer supplied on www.u2ug.org Technical Posting forum:

http://212.241.202.162/cms/cmsforum.wsp?action=topic&forum=6&topic=171 .