Recent content by Saran

Thanks everyone for sharing your thoughts on this! Ideally they can have one such for atleast Sales Team which will help in capturing new projects in market. I see people who doesn't have clue on OE but searching for a such comparison studies, so that they could start Progress Practise...

Hi Team, I am aware that OE (Progress) suits for all kinds of Business Applications. Do we have some materials that contains comparison study of why should I use Progress 4GL when I have other languages/DB's out there? Having said Progress 4GL is 30+ years old itself explains how stable it is...

I am bit confused here, when you say you have .p files in your library why do you need to decompile? If it's .r files then I agree with Cringer.

Hi Cecil, I agree with your solution but seems like he may be loosing the actual character that he need during this conversion (UTF-8 to ISO8859-1). Please correct me if am wrong. Rather than coding it this way, I would recommend you to dig and see, When you know your DB is in ISO8859-1 code...

Hi Team, We are planning to replace SONIC MQ with IBM MQ. I haven't heard of any other adapter that is similar to SONIC adapter which would push message from Progress 4GL to IBM MQ on a seamless mode. We should be able to resolve this issue with JMS solution but i see it more kind of introducing...

Using "PROUTIL [dbname] -C dbanalys > [filename]" is a good idea than calculating field-wise, saved a lot of time. I agree Rob there are multiple other parameters like record/block overhead that needs to be taken into consideration. The requirement here is to calculate at a high level for now. I...

Hi Team, I have a quick question on data types and its sizes. I would like to know the sizes of each data type (few of them may need calculations, but would like to have them documented for my calculation). Let me give a quick background on why i need this data - I have a requirement from...

Ohh, interesting! Thanks Cringer... If in case i get more details, will drop a post on this thread.

Hi Team, I came across with issue on PAUSE statement today. I know its not a major concern, but am bit suprized to see Progress working this way. In the below example i expect my ETIME to be always greater than 5000 which promises me PAUSE 5 statement really pauses for 5 seconds; (Or is it...

Awesome, Thanks Tom - it would be of great help if you could let me know when you get the sub-variety. Regards, Saravanakumar B

Hi RealHeavyDude, This popped out as a question when i was having a discussion with my friend who is from Oracle background and i didn't have an answer. Having 7 years of Progress experience am just curious to know behind the scenes. :) Regards, Saravanakumar B

Hi Team, What is the Data Structure used in Progress 4GL Indexing? Is it Prefix B+ Tree? I couldn't find a conclusive answer to this question. Thanks..! Regards, Saravanakumar B

I'm trying to set up prolint in linux machine. I have the 32 bit version of the proparselib.so but when I set it up on the linux 64 bit machine .. I get the following error. Could not open Dynamic Library: /myproject/bin/proparse.dll (8013) DLL Error : /myproject/bin/proparse.dll: wrong ELF...

Thanks Guys..!

Hi Team, I am using Progress version 10.1C and 10.2B. I have a requirement to do some Image Processing works like segregating the pixels and work on the pixels. I am not familiar on the Image Processing Functions in Progress 4GL - can someone guide me to get a lead? - might be a dumb question -...