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From: bacic@ncs.dnd.ca (Eugen Bacic)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Problem with UNIFY
Summary: UNIFY creates empty reports
Keywords: UNIFY, empty reports, loses screen
Message-ID: <669@ncs.dnd.ca>
Date: 19 Sep 89 03:07:06 GMT
Reply-To: bacic@ncs.dnd.ca (Eugen Bacic)
Distribution: comp.databases
Organization: DREO, Ottawa, Ontario
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My wife is having some problems with UNIFY and perhaps someone else out
there might have had the same problem and would be able to help.  The
version of UNIFY that she is using is UNIFY vsn 5.0 on an NCR Tower
running UNIX System V.3.

Problem 1)

The problem she is having is as follows:  When you are in a UNIFY screen
it will throw you back to a previous screen without warning.  The only
way to get back to what you were doing is to logout and restart UNIFY.

Problem 2)

When you are in a screen and are producing a report, the selection is
done but there is no transfer of data to the report program.  It in fact
creates empty reports.  In the past 4 months it has happened about 250
times.  This problem occurs even if only one user is on the system, even
if that user happens to be ROOT.


In the error log, error code 126 and 25 say: "Unable to open shell".
NCR's UNIX experts are pointing the finger at UNIFY; unfortunately UNIFY
is pointing the finger at NCR's port of UNIX, or the particular
application (which is written in UNIFY and C).  An interesting aside,
everything worked fine until she upgraded to the latest and greatest
version of UNIFY!!  The OS was updated before the UNIFY upgrade with no
ill effects.

UNIFY is also indicating that the problem is unique to my wife's site,
however she knows of at least one other such problem here in Ottawa.
They haven't solved that problem either.  The problem can't be reproduced
at will which results in no easy way of tracking down the problem.  It
also happens to *all* users, so it isn't one particular person.

Please e-mail responses directly to me.  I'll thank everyone in advance.

                                        Eugen Bacic
                                        INFOSEC Research Scientist
                                        arpa:   bacic@ncs.dnd.ca        or
                                        bitnet: EMBacic@Carleton.CA