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@TomBascom @Rob Fitzpatrick - Thanks for the details! Sorry Tom if I haven't conveyed it properly. I meant that kind of statement (find _user of {&buffer}.) has 29 occurrences but there are roughly 600+ references to _userid on the code base (which involves so much coding and testing). As you...

I am sure many would have come across this scenario but I would like to know the reason for the same. Let's consider sports db; I tried creating a field on customer table (could be on any) with a field name starting with '_' (underscore) and progress throws an error saying 'A valid PROGRESS...

@TomBascom @RealHeavyDude - I agree with you. We are in the process of exploring the options that are available and consider what all can be taken up as part of this migration project. On a lighter note DBA's who have handled different db's throw their ideas to see if the same would fit into...

@TomBascom - sorry for not providing the scenario. Let me give the scenario, there was a scenario that came up in our last meeting saying let's have one prod DB on a server which will be active and one more db on another server which will be acting as a backup (we will be replicating the data...

This is the comment I got from our progress group - 'PCT is king, no other tool available right now. Instead of Jenkins you could use Hudson but Jenkins has better community support in case of issues'.

@GillesQ - that's nice. I did basic test integrating PCT with my app; its easy to use and an awesome utility. Great work! We have a Progress group of close to 100 folks on Whatsapp and I heard the same from them as well; so its definitely not a biased answer. :)

Is it possible to pass value across sessions in Progress without using DB/File? Say we have a scenario (not the actual scenario, sorry about that) where once we switch a server (may be a messaging server) from one to another and in turn system now has to use couple of different configuration...

@Rob Fitzpatrick - Perfect... This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks Rob!

@Rob Fitzpatrick - that's nice to hear. Appreciate your help! :)

@Rob Fitzpatrick - I had the same question as we are migrating from v9.1E to v11.6. We have lot of small tables clubbed into a single area and not all tables would require a -B2. How do I map -B2 with specific tables? (an example would be really helpful) I am not able to download the...

I would like to take a moment and thank you. You replies to all my threads (not just this one) are very detailed and easy to understand. If you get to write a book on Progress DB, I will be the first one to purchase. Thanks again @Rob Fitzpatrick!

Got it, Rob.

If this is the case with 400 user licenses this approach will double up the cost, right? I understand this approach provides us with the real time replication and we can generate reports which will be helpful; but if the cost is going to be doubled we will need to rethink (i mean management's...

We are currently using v9.1E (Sun Machine) and migrating to v11.6 (Linux). As part of our current approach we are using hot-swap (i.e., every 15 mins cron job will apply the AI to the backup db). We are in a dilemma if we should stick with the same approach or use OE Replication and get the...

We are migrating our application from 9.1E to 11.6 (LINUX Env). In our current application we have a program that gets all .p's from various folder (15 folders) and generates respective .r files to target location and it's all manual. As part of our migration we wanted to automate the build...

@ForEachInvoiceDelete - this was one option we had in our list as well. I think as we have the leverage to restructure the code during the migration process it's better we go OO.

@TomBascom - Thanks, it was very useful. I would like to use this approach to get rid of global shared constants. One quick question looking at couple of slides on your ppt w.r.t environmental variables. When we had a discussion today this point came up. Why don't we put all those global static...

@Cringer - True, I agree. But looking for the best option; as I said we don't want to hit the db table everytime or look for the config file. (It will all be a key value pair)

We wanted to have it loaded once at startup (on a static temp-table). If I am using a class I will have to hit the data from DB table every time. right? We wanted the data to persist for the whole session. I am a newbie to OO, can you please give me an example for the same? (All I would require...

We are in the process of migrating from 9.1E to 11.6. We wanted to get rid of all the hard coded values (in forms of email constants, unix commands, order types and so on), classify them and move them either into a shared temp table or a static class. Which one would you prefer? I assume STATIC...