Category Archives: Bugs

Bugs in products

How to time travel with @DATE

Posted on February 28, 2011 by davidjmurray

Way back in Feb. 2008, I started to write this article about an interesting @DATE pass-by-reference issue. Then I got sidetracked. So, this bug existed in whatever version was trialware at that time. Guess what? It still exists in 10.3.7.0 … Continue reading →

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UniVerse 11.1 Non-Feature Alert

Posted on February 24, 2011 by davidjmurray

Within the New Features documentation of UniVerse 11.1 is a section call Miscellaneous New Features which explains how to use a subroutine within a indexed field for auditing – index-based subroutines! This method of calling a subroutine during file access … Continue reading →

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y2k is now m4c

Posted on May 13, 2008 by davidjmurray

Remember all the excitement about the year 2000? Yes, it did affect multi-value environments; well it did where I was… It is back, but in a new form and this time it has absolutely nothing to do with computer systems!

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WordPress, categories, record keys and more

Posted on May 7, 2008 by davidjmurray

Well, I have had fun over the last couple of days; upgrading this web site blog to the new version of WordPress. It all started with the need to upgrade the underlying operating system on the virtual host that I … Continue reading →

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Semicolon strangeness

Posted on October 3, 2007 by davidjmurray

I wanted to replace a semicolon (“;”) within a string with a value mark using the paragraph process within SB+ Server. It is not actually possible to use a “;” within a paragraph. It returns with an ‘error in expression’ … Continue reading →

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Licence Strangeness

Posted on July 6, 2006 by davidjmurray

I have been using CURL to access web pages. I have found that CALLhttp does not do cookies, and it is really not designed to do anything remotely clever or advanced. While I was experimenting with the GCI interface (instead … Continue reading →

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Preliminary SB+ 5.4 auto-login unfeature

Posted on June 14, 2006 by davidjmurray

Another of the new features is the ability to auto-login to SB+. This will be a nice thing – as at the moment, a user has to login to UniVerse as a OS user then login to SB+ (application). But … Continue reading →

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First SB+ 5.4 Bug

Posted on June 14, 2006 by davidjmurray

Well, it did not take long to find the first SB+ bug. I found it yesterday actually. One of the high-lighted bug fixes in this release is that /LISTU shows the 4 digit port number correctly. Which it now does. … Continue reading →

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Timing TRANS and READ

Posted on January 25, 2006 by davidjmurray

What is the difference between a TRANS() statement and a READ statement time wise? Why bother to find out? I use a lot of small subroutines to calculate business rules. These routines can be used in derived fields and in … Continue reading →

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SB+ Intro Articles

Posted on December 1, 2005 by davidjmurray

There was a series of SB+ introduction articles in the International Spectrum magazine starting with the Jan/Feb 2004 issue. Worth a read.

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