Inside COBOL — Learn how to retrieve the actual message from the system catalog for the error that is returned from various commands
Inside VEsoft — Here's how to implement background jobs from the VEsoft products
TestDrive: Autobahn puts Web development in high gear — The Dynamic Page Wizard leads this Speedware application suite to new level
New FTP transfers enable 3000 shadowing — Included software in MPE/iX and a tested job offers some disaster recovery
TestDrive: A New Window on Your World — The latest Qedit for Windows delivers scripting, host command interface for editor
Ploticus: an HP 3000 data display engine — This free solution can paint graphic pictures of MPE data
net.digest — Advice on a new attitude for development at CSY, when to enable checksum, and how to get batch telnet working on your 3000
HiddenValue — How to run the Posix shell from a batch job stream, advice on how well partial backup stores work, turning Predictive Support off, the secrets of the enable database for dumping flag, re-enabling terminals connected to a DTC, and how to see how many TCP connections are running
August 2000 Tech Features
Inside COBOL — Many people don’t realize that there are some built-in facilities for debugging a COBOL program.
Inside VEsoft — One of the more overlooked aspects of VEAUDIT is its ability to work with UDC files.
TestDrive: byRequest puts report delivery into overdrive — Electronic distribution is easy, flexible and accommodates many file formats
Two-Factor Token Authentication on e3000 — Get a hands on guide to make state-of-the-art security possible using tokens, agents and RSA secure servers with MPE/iX
net.digest — See if there is any way to use a non-HP (and therefore most likely non-PCL) impact printer as a network printer.
HiddenValue — A better way to recover from a down gateway, how to view current software loaded on a system, making RESLVCNF and Samba get along better, and create a “startup” file with commands to be executed whenever the system starts
July 2000 Tech Features
Inside COBOL — See how to call MPEX from inside a COBOL program
Inside VEsoft — Take a tour of the many looping constructs in the product line
TestDrive: Discover/3000 uses fuzzy logic to sharpen MPE programmers’ results — A new tool uses pretty slick fuzzy logic to sharpen MPE programmers’ search results of code and files for maintenance and development
net.digest — Networked printing secrets lead off our monthly Internet summary
HiddenValue — Making default routers active without rebooting, resetting VOLID, tricks to defining detail datasets prior to masters, and IMAGE/SQL environment tips
June 2000 Tech Features
Inside COBOL — Learn how to strip leading spaces, and do a bubble sort
How to Handle HP-IB's Demise in 6.5 — The newest version of MPE/iX doesn't support HP-IB tape or disk systems. Here's what you should do if you're using any HP-IB befor you upgrade
Inside VEsoft — MPEX has implemented all sorts of nifty commands and file objects to manage spool files a number of years ago, but many people are still unaware of the bulk of them.
net.digest — John Burke's summary of 3000 Internet discussions includes tips on using the new jumbo datasets, tracking the last time a user logged on, and the art of DTC configuation on 3000 networks
HiddenValue — building HFS files from within a script are among our many tips, formatting DLT tapes for use on the 3000, advice on restricting access to subnets, and how to modify SYSSTART are among the many HP 3000 management tips this month
May 2000 Tech Features
Inside COBOL — Loading up function keys is easier with these tips
TestDrive: Gauge your application success with DBGauge — Look inside applications with this new database tool
Inside VEsoft — There may be officially three bazillion commands and possibilities in the VESOFT suite of products, so it can be easy to miss some feature that you would find useful. This month’s column sharse some of the more esoteric commands.
net.digest — Your Mileage May Vary on the new AutoRAID storage devices, and the impact and potential of new larger file sizes gets discussed online on the Internet
HiddenValue — Restricting VT-MGR access, finding CPU connect and diskspace usage, checking if a previous command ended correctly in a shell script and printing from a 3000 to a non-JetDirect printer are among our many tips
April 2000 Tech Features
Inside COBOL — Learn some simple tricks that escape sequences can do for you
TestDrive: Latest Adager Masters MDX, cranks up speed — Its latest version tames the complexities of using master dataset expansion, and provides blistering speed increases
Inside VEsoft — Some of the more fascinating aspects of the VESOFT products are the expression programs that implement almost all of the functionality.
net.digest — How much memory will 6.5 really need; Practical Apache/iX; and is choosing a blocking factor an exercise in futility?
HiddenValue — Understanding password displays on consoles, using the MGET command in FTP/iX, making DISKUSE help in seeing things clearly, and getting definitions of all HP 3000 file codes
March 2000 Tech Features
Inside COBOL — In collaboration with Inside VEsoft, see how you can run a report through a translation step into HTML, and then send the results through the Sendmail/iX program.
Inside VEsoft — Create a unified solution that lets a report e-mail its results via Sendmail/iX at completion.
TestDrive: Intact D/R — Lund’s Dynamic Rollback utility protects 3000 databases by lays down a safety net for transactions with some pretty nifty traps
net.digest — Our Internet discussion summary covers how RESTORE really works in purging files, what the new DDS-4 will mean for backups and media recognition, and how to make CI variables behave more Unix-like
HiddenValue — Tips on the erasing the 3000's REDO stack, adding security based on IP addresses for Apache, fixing setcatalog full errors, using OPTION LOGON UDCs, printing a PC's bit-mapped image to a LaserJet using the HP 3000 spooler, and more
February 2000 Tech Features
Inside COBOL — See examples of how you can programmatically deal with file transfers through terminal emulators such as MiniSoft/92 and Reflection
TestDrive: Command Center 2000 — Bradmark’s suite combines a GUI that interfaces to MPE commands with a facility to track alerts and warnings from 3000s
Inside VEsoft — MPEX comes with a rich collection of database access features
net.digest — Our Internet discussion summary covers how to move a large system from one machine to a completely new system, including disk drives, in the quickest way possible and minimize downtime, and tracks bugs in the 3000’s FTP service
HiddenValue — Tips on the 3000's echo, resetting spool file numbers, running grep on a fileset without going into the Posix shell, assigning more than one class name to an LDEV, getting a spool file ID for a job number whether it's executing or not, CI and string variables, and more
January 2000 Tech Features
Inside COBOL: putting your COPYLIB on the Web — All the source code you need to create a hypertext table of the contents of a COPYLIB at the front of the file
TestDrive: OpenPDF — This new tool gives 3000 sites a way to turn those printed reports into Acrobat documents that can be hosted on Web sites, or e-mailed
Inside VEsoft: Searching
for strings — There are three distinct PRINT commands within
MPEX that support searching for strings (among other things), and
several functions that will work within the context of other
commands. Most people know how to use %PRINT@.SOURCE;SEARCH=
”VARIABLE”, but we
can get much more sophisticated than that.
net.digest — Three ways to read records from a file into a variable, and a map on how your HP 3000 searches network addresses, fill our Internet summary column
HiddenValue — SORT/XL scratch files, understanding IDs in IOMAP, screening out irrelevant output of STDLIST, resetting UDCs prior to purging, and more
December 99 Tech Features
Inside COBOL — See how HP's compiler plans impact Object Oriented COBOL, and how to manipulate tables
TestDrive: e-reporter deploys 3000 reports to the Web — A new utility gives HP 3000 managers an easy to use package that puts your application reports onto your Web sites automatically
Demystifying Regular Expressions — Go ahead, think of them as pattern matching on steroids. You can use regular expressions with Robelle’s Qedit. Here’s how
Dynamic Dataset Expansion — Fred White gives guidelines for the use of both master and detail dynamic dataset expansion for effective use of database resources
net.digest: Patch management and array performance — A new tool helps manage patching for HP 3000s, and tips on how to deploy the new 12H arrays for use as LDEV 1 for maximum performance
HiddenValue — DDS-2 and DS-3 tape swapping tips, using the new job queue feature of 6.0, mixing disk drive sizes on arrays, and more
November 99 Tech Features
Inside COBOL — Find out the fundamentals behind object oriented COBOL with our Frequently Asked Questions
Inside VESOFT — Use MPEX to get a quick file count from a group or an account
TestDrive: EnterView — TestDrive: WRQ's view of 3000 apps in browsers looks sexier, but docs feel less in tune with HP 3000
net.digest: Find out what goes into your SLT, and what HP says should be in there
HiddenValue — Learn about the !HPYEAR variable, suppressing those pesky express results messages, using CONTINUE in command files and tricks for configuring DTCs while users are still online
October 99 Tech Features
Inside COBOL — Here's what you can expect from COBOL 2000, the standard that's been long on the horizon
Sharing Instant Information via Samba/iX — Step by step instructions show how to use the networking tool to share the HP 3000’s CD docs across your workgroups
Inside VESOFT — Our new column offers insight on using VESOFT utilities
TestDrive: Javelin — Minisoft’s Java-based emulator brings secure access for HP 3000 programs through a thin applet, and opens up user connectivity options
net.digest: Here a patch, there a patch — Our summary of Internet chat shows serious attempts to discover or explain the mysteries of patching.
HiddenValue — Learn about supporting jumbo master sets, changes in the way lockwords work since 5.5, recovering databases which have missing root files, and more
September 99 Tech Features
Inside COBOL — See how Java looks from a COBOL programmer's perspective
TestDrive: The Difference Between Success and Failure — Omnidex's powerful indexing produces jaw-dropping performance
How to Deal with Mirrored Disks — HP’s add-on product provides vital disaster recovery, but you’ll need advice on set-up, disk errors and split-volumes
net.digest: We don't need no stinkin' certification test, say some veteran 3000 managers on the 3000-L Internet newsgroup. Others see some merits in the idea, if not the initial execution.
HiddenValue — Learn about how to view too wide spoolfiles, putting DDS drives back online without ejecting a tape, a cookbook recipe for enabling telnet on 5.5, migrating data from system volume sets to a user volume, and more
August 99 Tech Features
Inside COBOL — Tricks of perception can reduce complaints from your end users
TestDrive: Driving Info Across the DataBridge— Moving data between databases is easy with this tool
Freedom to mail from the 3000, for free — Shareware solutions and included software in MPE/iX let you send and receive Internet e-mail. See how to get the mail
net.digest: Why Do I Always End Up in the Longest Queue? — Our summary of Internet chat shows how you can keep the right jobs in the right priority on your 3000.
HiddenValue — Learn about controlling printers attached to DTCs, converting text to uppercase in a command file, how to manage the heartbeat of the HP 3000, and more
July 99 Tech Features
Inside COBOL — Check out the latest list of Web-based resources for COBOL users
TestDrive: Programmer Studio — Programmer Studio is extensible, powerful and the law at this reviewer's shop
Serving 3000 Web pages with Apache/iX— Your HP 3000 can now do as much as other systems on intranets. Learn how to set up your system for Web services
net.digest: It's a fair price, really — Our summary of Internet chat includes HP's explanation of why it has raised a few prices in the 3000 product line
HiddenValue — Learn about compressing IMAGE databases, clearing out old log files, PING on HP 3000s, updates to the RENAME and LISTF commands and more
June 99 Tech Features
Inside COBOL — Learn to manipulate strings in COBOL with tested macros
TestDrive: TelaConsole tracks consoles, devices in 3000 shops — Eliminate the need to constantly scan all consoles and devices in your computer center
Get more performance: multiply costs times knowledge — Graduate to better performance with Mike Hornsby’s set of tips for HP 3000 system managers
net.digest: Locking up users, and account management — Our summary of Internet chat includes tips on keeping users secure and resource accounting
HiddenValue — Learn about disabling outbound telnet, copying Web pages using FTP, getting a file list off a STORE tape, discovering LANIC MAC addresses and more
May 99 Tech Features
Inside COBOL How to stay safe when COBOL initializes fields, and a Y2K tip
TestDrive: Probe/iX for Performance Analysis It takes overhead through its MI use, but this tool delivers great English-like analysis and ample 3000 details
net.digest: The return of John Burke Our founding columnist kicks off a new stretch of tips from the 3000 Internet chat: transfer tools, DTC savvy, and more
HiddenValue Our collection of techniques for 3000 managers includes advice on LDEV1 loads, random passwords, Apache ports, and using PAUSE on batch jobs
April 99 Tech Features
The Full Report: Report Tools for HP 3000s Make your data work harder by improving your reports: choose a tool from analyst Cortlandt Wilson’s roundup
TestDrive: FlexForm serves up custom forms MiniSoft’s program overlays data onto high-quality forms that can be printed from a 3000 onto any laser printer
HiddenValue DDS tape tips,
confining users to run only a few commands, communicating with IBM
mainframes, mounting CDs, and the mysteries of lex and yacc on the
3000
March 99 Tech Features
HiddenValue Resetting TYPEAHEAD, running MPE commands from the Posix shell, understanding capabilities in changing permanent files to temporary, undeferring jobs in SPSAVE state, using mv in Posix, and configuring LaserJets to be 3000 network printers
February 99 Tech Features
TestDrive: Interact for Managing Text This novel application for HP 3000s gives your users a way to search free-form text files. Uses for it should be easy to find
HiddenValue Enabling new LISTFILE features, searching on a 3000 using Posix, limiting a user's number of sessions and restoring a private volume set's files to new system volumes
Introducing User Job Queues The newest MPE/iX 6.0 feature gives you granular control of jobs. Here ?s how to start using this free feature in the latest release
January 99 Tech Features
Inside COBOL: B-tree Gotchas A year of experience using the new power of indexed IMAGE with COBOL yields tips in our column
HiddenValue Resetting network gateways without stopping the network, LISTFILE to select specific file types, printing paths and devices from SYSGEN and configuring session queues on a global level
net.digest: Emulation across the Internet, plugging telnet security holes, and how to get hundreds of users on and off a 3000 quickly
Plug and Play Posix on 5.5 Use this complete guide to open up the bounty of the Posix tools and programs on your 3000
December 98 Tech Features
Test Drive: A Golden Performance Picture Box Performance Gallery Gold proves that a picture is worth 10,000 words, and sometimes as many dollars saved
Inside COBOL: Trivia and COBOL Gotchas Find out what the 66-level can be best used for and learn a function that will sum an entire table in our HP 3000 COBOL column
HiddenValue Keeping menu based terminals under control for user limits, controlling CIERROR displays, listings with the Posix ls command and managing PIB utilization in MPE/iX 5.5
net.digest: Avoiding user license upgrades, understanding MPE version numbering, 9000 coexistence, and graceful shutdown help though a free command file
November 98 Tech Features
- TestDrive: DataAid/3000, a Data Analyzer Extraordinaire
- Inside COBOL: Entry Points
- ODBC Gotchas
- Samba, Past, Present and Future
- Hidden Value: Tips for MPE/iX managers
- net.digest: A
summary of HP 3000 Internet discussion
- How to: Logical multi-database transactions
- Great links to 3000 history
- What day is the last of the month?
- How to check your patches
- DTCs: from ThinLAN to UTP
October 98 Tech Features
- TestDrive: Retrieve Information Sooner with DataNOW!
- Inside COBOL: Sharing Open Files
- Anatomy of an IMAGE Dataset, Part 2
- Hidden Value: Tips for MPE/iX managers
- net.digest: A
summary of HP 3000 Internet discussion
- Plunging into PowerPatch 5
- Old intrinsics never die
- A 3000 performance speedometer
September 98 Tech Features
- TestDrive: TimeShift 2000 -- Shifting the 3000's sands of time, date by date
- Inside COBOL: Using COBOL Macros
- Anatomy of an IMAGE Dataset, Part 1
- Hidden Value: Tips for MPE/iX managers
- net.digest: A
summary of HP 3000 Internet discussion
- To NT or not to NT
- Reply to: Operators' replies
- DLT's evil, or DDS?
- Paging? Link to Telamon
August 98 Tech Features
- TestDrive: ODBC/32
- Inside COBOL: Fujitsu PowerCobol, an aid for HP 3000s
- Hidden Value: Tips for MPE/iX managers
- net.digest: A
summary of HP 3000 Internet discussion
- Tracking down users
- Encrypting to satisfy auditors
- Interactive ABORTJOB development
July 98 Tech Features
- TestDrive: A Prescription to Quick Y2K Compliance
- Inside COBOL: Using Control-Y traps in COBOL II
- Hidden Value: Tips for MPE/iX managers
- net.digest: A
summary of HP 3000 Internet discussion
- Making DNS work for FTP/iX
- Seeing simple benefits of 3000s as Web servers
- First clear space, and then CONDENSE
June 98 Tech Features
- TestDrive: Netbase/Shadowing -- Who knows? The Shadow
- Inside COBOL: Using IMAGE B-trees in COBOL II
- Hidden Value: Tips for MPE/iX managers
- net.digest: A
summary of HP 3000 Internet discussion
- A peek at 64-bit promise on 3000s
- Losing CPU? Quiet those heartbeats
- A tip on restoring datasets: don't
May 98 Tech Features
- TestDrive: Tracking down bugs in COBOL with Trax
- Inside COBOL: Pause ideas and date performance
- Hidden Value: Tips for MPE/iX managers
- net.digest: A
summary of HP 3000 Internet discussion
- 918 systems do a heartbeat of a different drummer
- Extending the long arm of IMAGE
- Java primer: not just for breakfast anymore
April 98 Tech Features
- TestDrive: Year 2000 help in threes -- Do the TimeWarp, again
- Don't make a date with A0 for the Year 2000
- Inside COBOL: Using New Date Intrinsics in COBOL II
- Hidden Value: Tips for MPE/iX managers
- net.digest: A
summary of HP 3000 Internet discussion
- HP looks into new SSA disk technology
- Moving database bits across platforms
- More XL power with a patch
- Going recursive in COBOL II
March 98 Tech Features
- TestDrive: DataExpress II -- Taking the ODBCLink to Data Mining and Extraction
- Inside COBOL: Clocks, TRIM and debugging tips
- Hidden Value: Tips for MPE/iX managers
- net.digest: A
summary of HP 3000 Internet discussion
- Ah ha! a gotcha in detail deleting
- An IMAGE version that's a gotcha
- The sorry state of the ESC, and some hope
February 98 Tech Features
- TestDrive: DataExpress -- The Express Train to Data Mining and Extraction
- Inside COBOL: Express 4's New Features for COBOL II
- Hidden Value: Tips for MPE/iX managers
- net.digest: A
summary of HP 3000 Internet discussion
- Does Patch/iX need patching?
- The Tale of the Tape
- Two ounces of prevention worth a pound of cure
January 98 Tech Features
- TestDrive: Opening Windows onto Qedit
- Inside COBOL: The future of COBOL on the HP 3000
- Hidden Value: Tips for MPE/iX managers
- net.digest: A
summary of HP 3000 Internet discussion
- Don't throw caution to the wind
December 97 Tech Features
- TestDrive: Linkway ODBC driver
- Hidden Value: Tips for MPE/iX managers
- A Practical Guide to Making Use of B-trees
- net.digest: A
summary of HP 3000 Internet discussion
- To array or not to array, that is the question
- But is it just the difference of one letter?
- Need to be up-to-date on CIUPDATE?
November 97 Tech Features
- TestDrive: HourGlass 2000
- Hidden Value: Tips for MPE/iX managers
- net.digest: A
summary of HP 3000 Internet discussion
- The Disk Drive Shuffle (Part 1)
- The Disk Drive Shuffle (Part 2)
October 97 Tech Features
- TestDrive: Tools You Don't Have to Whisper About
- Hidden Value: Tips for MPE/iX managers
- net.digest: A
summary of HP 3000 Internet discussion
- Time Waits For No One
- A Case Of Over Reaction To An Error Message
- Slick,
Low Cost Document Storage
And Retrieval Need Not Be An Oxymoron
September 97 Tech Features
- TestDrive: More than Just Another Year 2000 Tool
- Hidden Value: Tips for MPE/iX managers
- net.digest: A
summary of HP 3000 Internet discussion
- New Technology Yields New Ways To Shoot Yourself In The Foot
- A Rose by any Other Name...
- A Little Knowledge Can Be A Dangerous Thing
August 97 Tech Features
- TestDrive: Get Smart -- Get SmartDate
- Hidden Value: Tips for MPE/iX managers
- net.digest: A
summary of HP 3000 Internet discussion
- TurboSTORE/iX, MPE/iX 5.5 and July 15: Closure
- Host-based inbound Telnet: a reality, but how well does it work?
- LISTF and LISTFILE, the mini-series
July 97 Tech Features
- TestDrive: Disk Space Manager and De-Frag/X
- Hidden Value: Tips for MPE/iX managers
- net.digest: A summary of HP 3000 Internet discussion
June 97 Tech Features
- A Guide to Networking Samba/iX on your HP 3000
- Hidden Value: Tips for MPE/iX managers
- net.digest: A summary of HP 3000 Internet discussion
May 97 Tech Features
- NewsWire TestDrive: Enhanced network printing for MPE
- Hidden Value: Tips for MPE/iX managers
- net.digest: A summary of HP 3000 Internet discussion
April 97 Tech Features
- Playing the Samba on your HP 3000 dance floor
- Hidden Value: Tips for MPE/iX managers
- net.digest: A summary of HP 3000 Internet discussion
- A Tale of Two Web Servers
March 97 Tech Features
- TestDrive: A Windows File Manager, and much more
- Hidden Value: Tips for MPE/iX managers
- net.digest: A summary of HP 3000 Internet discussion
- Connecting the Threads of Time: Date Lessons for HP 3000 Managers
February 97 Tech Features
- TestDrive: A super tool for your data extraction and sorting needs
- Hidden Value: Tips for MPE/iX managers
- net.digest: A summary of HP 3000 Internet discussion
- Front Line HP 3000 Performance Analysis, Part 3
January 97 Tech Features
- TestDrive: A Tool for Nearly Every Task
- Hidden Value: Tips for MPE/iX managers
- net.digest: A summary of HP 3000 Internet discussion
- Front Line HP 3000 Performance Analysis, Part 2
December 96 Tech Features
- TestDrive:MPE/iX 5.5: Too Good To Wait Any Longer
- Hidden Value: Tips for MPE/iX managers
- net.digest: A summary of HP 3000 Internet discussion
- Front Line HP 3000 Performance Analysis, Part 1
November 96 Tech Features
- TestDrive:InfoWin/iX -- Pop Up Windows on Your World
- Clarification: Adager Dates Test Drive
- Hidden Value: Tips for MPE/iX managers
- Hidden Value:How to Find the Day of the Week
- net.digest: A summary of Internet discussion
- The Year 2000 with the HP 3000 and MPE/iX
October 96 Tech Features
- TestDrive: Adager -- Rx for the Year 2000 Problem
- Hidden Value: Tips for MPE/iX managers
- net.digest: A summary of Internet discussion
- HP details operations and management of B-trees
September 96 Tech Features
- NewsWire Test Drive: MPE/iX 5.5 At First Glance
- Hidden Value: Tips for MPE/iX managers
- net.digest: A summary of Internet discussion
August 96 Tech Features
- How to Set Up Modems for HP 3000s
- Hidden Value: Tips for MPE/iX managers
- net.digest: A summary of Internet discussion
- NewsWire Test Drive: FrontMan, More than a Pretty Face