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    Question How Share Temp-table Across Reports

    Platform: Linux Language: Progress ABL It's about night report batches. There is a dynamically generated price file. It will be used by all the reports generated that night. My question is, is it possible to store the prices in a temp-table (to something to that effect) and share it across all...
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    Question Delete Handle Of Buffer

    OpenEdge 11.5.1 Linux define variable hQuery as handle no-undo. hQuery:set-buffers(BUFFER custom:HANDLE). hQuery:query-open(). . . . delete object hQuery. My question here is, after the "delete hQuery" command, does the buffer itself remain in memory or cleared? I ask this question...
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    Question How Pass Stream As Parameter

    Progress Version: 11.x Progress Platform: Linux, character based Windows: Windows 8 I am using character based ABL. I have 2 branches of the company, I need to create 10 outputs for each branch for data in the past 10 years with 1 file for 1 year's data. I thus need to output files to 20...
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    Question line-count of a stream

    Platform: Linux Version: 11.3 Text-based ABL I have a question. Does LINE-COUNT() only work for paged streams? Is there a built-in function keeping track of non-paged streams?
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    Error ** Decimal number is too large. (536)

    Platform: Linux Version: 10.1B I have a report summation which the decimal data type doesn't seem to be able to accomodate. Does Progress have a data type larger than "Decimal" ?
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    DO FOR <record> TRANSACTION

    Progress: 10.2B Backend: Linux Frontend: Windows client A table lock is reported in the Appserver. I wonder if this is the cause of the problem, DO FOR order-control TRANSACTION: END. where order-control is a control table having only a single record for parameters used in order...
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    How to read Stack Trace

    Progress: 10.2B Backend: Linux Frontend: Windows client Appserver reported table lock, with stack trace similar to the following, ** ABL Stack Trace ** --> ORDLCal5.P (/abase/clientx/order/ORDLCal5.r) at line 1121 ORDHCAL1.P (/abase/clientx/order/ORDHCAL1.r) at line 2054 ORDCAL00.P...
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    Not familiar with Form, how to make change

    Version: 10.2B Platform: Linux (character based) The original logic is that when "Confirm Date" is to be updated, it allows only a date greater or equal to the "Order Date". This is to be changed to TODAY instead of the "Order Date", that is, only a "Confirm Date" greater than or equal to...
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    How to address dated records

    version: 10.2B platform: Linux The scenario is that I need to retrieve the first most recently confirmed records with the earliest order date. I need 1 record only to be displayed as default on some screens. define temp-table tTrack field account like customer.account field orderdate like...
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    ABL syntax question

    Don't understand the following for loop syntax, for first customer fields(Name prodcat prodtype) no-lock where customer.custno = icust : end. Is there any equivalent way to code the above?
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    Large report transactions - multi-threading

    version 10.2B Linux/4GL In dealing with a very large report with bulky transactions, what will be the best approach to generate this report? My thought is, 1) run program-0 to calculate the number of transactions and evenly distribute them into 10 threads 2) run program-1 ~ 10 simultaneously...
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    Read-XML() question

    Is possible to use Read-XML() just to read part of an XML file instead of the whole file? Say, from an XML file of transactions from all accounts, is it possible just to read in those from a certain account?
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    Unix grep command

    I am trying to grep "create order-line" from /home/base/source/order*.* then output the grep result to a file "grepr.txt" in the current directory. Is it possible to do so? I know how to use the grep command but I have no idea how to direct the output to a file. Could anyone help. Thanks.
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    Progress in Netterm - Copy text

    I am still using the old style 4GL environment with Netterm. Is it possible to copy the whole program sytax in the procedure editor to Notepad under Windows?
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