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    64-bit treeview control

    Morning 'talkers OE 11.5 (64-bit) windows 7 front end read hat linux backend. having recently migrated from 10.2b to 11,5, thee's an issue with the treeview ocx on our web development enviornment (ps:eScript) that I've been told to resolve. It was using the mscomctrl treeview but that's not...
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    Question using Business intelligence dashboards

    Afternoon Guys, we're looking at getting some business intelligence dashboards to tie in with our progress web-based system. Our biggest concern is performance so just wondering if anyone has had recent experience with any dashboard suppliers and if so, care to share the details ? Regards, DG.
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    Question area truncate and orphan index records

    Version 10.2b on RHL. Afternoon, hoping for some advice. If I truncate an area, as a way of "fast-deleting" the records in that area, what happens to the index records for these tables which live in another area. I know they're marked as inactive as part of the area truncate process , and I...
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    Answered automatic internal watchdog ? (solved)

    Morning 'talkers, openedge 10.1on linux. was using promon on a database that I inherited and didn't see any watchdog processes appearing. Talking to the chap I inherited it from and he was saying that it won't be seen because it's using the internal watchdog that starts up with the enterprise...
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    Question webspeed logging

    progress v10.2B on redhat Linux the directory that our webspeed logfiles gets written to was deleted at some point after the broker was (re)started. The webspeed brokers still appear to be functioning properly, so either the brokers can continue to function in this situation or I'm simply...
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    excel problem

    OE 10.2b excel 2003. Afternoon 'talkers, I know there are plenty of posts on this forum about using excel and progress, but I can't find a solution to the problem I'm having. I feel sure it's relatively commonplace so either I've missed it, or it's so straight forward that no-one has had a...
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    How to use dumpspecified with a datetime field ?

    Afternoon, hoping someone might be able to help me by offering some advice on using the dumpspecified option of the proutil command against a datetime field. I've had no problems previously running it against a date field, but the particular table I'm trying to dump is a datetime field and so...
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    DB Backup Time

    Morning, Progress v10.2B on redhat. got a strange situation and hoping that I might get some suggestions from this forum. We use 3 production databases for each of our customers and do a full online backup every evening. Checking the logfiles shows that the smallest of the 3 databases is...
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    backup strategy

    Afternoon all, v10.2b on linux. we're looking to change our db backup routine and would appreciate some input as regards the new plan. Currently, we've got 3 live databases running 24/7 with AI (which is mananged by the AI archiver). We do a full online backup every evening, transferring the...
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    Reasons for backup size decreasing

    Afternoon 'talkers, OE 10.2A on Red Hat. We've got a database (8 kb blocksize), which we do a full backup of every evening. For information, the backup is done online, with the -com option. We've noticed that the most recent backup was about 17 blocks smaller than the previous backup. Given...
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    Disconnected User still has an entry in promon lock table

    Morning, OpenEdge 10.2A on redhat. we've got a user who was disconnected via promon, but who still has an entry appearing in the promon record locking screen, but the transaction doesn't appear in the active transactions screen. Trying to figure out how to go about freeing the record...
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    maximum filesize on linux

    Morning 'talkers, openedge 102A on Red Hat Linux 4.1 Database has largeFiles enabled, and a blocksize of 8k. ulimit shows "unlimited". We've currently got a variable extent of about 2.5Gb, so I'd like to know what size this file could reach ? TIA, Danish.
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    unknown (to me) startup parameter

    Afternoon 'talkers, Openedge 10.2A. We're currently reviewing some of our pf files, and came across one which defined a "-e" startup parameter. Had a look through the documentation and the kb without success. There is a -E parameter (European format) but we would not be using this, so...
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    CGI Error

    Afternoon 'Talkers, hoping someone might be able to help withthe error message below which has suddenly started appearing on our web development system: "CGI Error The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers." TIA, DanishGambit.
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    gaps in checkpoint vst mean anything?

    Afternoon 'talkers, while having a look at some vst's today, noticed that the checkpoint vst (_checkpoint) has a start time and length field - both of which contain date time stamps and I'm curious about the length of time between the end of one checkpoint and the start of the next. e.g...
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    preventing Large Webspeed Logfiles - what have I missed ?

    Morning 'talkers, OE 10.2A on redhat. we had an issue over the weekend whereby the database server ran out of disk space on the partition where we keep the webspeed log files. The webspeed server logfile had reached 52Gb and blew the partition. Given that I'd previously setup the...
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    BI Clusters

    Morning 'Talkers, hoping for some advice on BI Clusters. Did some checking recently, and found we had 2,017 BI clusters (each of 512kb) on one of our databases, and 42 BI clusters (each of 2,096kb) on another. Just wondering what sort of numbers you'd be hoping to see on your databases...
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    stopping writes to webspeed server logfile

    Afternoon 'talkers, OE10.2A on redhat. we've currently got a situation were the writes to a webspeed server logfile are continuing despite the fact we've shut the webspeed brokers. Just wondering if anyone has come across a similar situation ? If so, how did you deal with it. TIA, DG.
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    roll forward error

    afternoon 'talkers, oe 10.2a, RHL. we do a nightly backup of our database and ftp it across to a spare box and restore it there. I've now ftp'ed the ai files across to our spare box and I'm having problems trying to roll forward the ai files. We use the ai archiver to maintain our ai, ...
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    10.2a - 10.2b compatibility

    Afternoon, can anyone confirm whether code compiled under 10.2a will run under version 10.2b (assuming no other changes). TIA, DG.
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