beveland@IASTATE.EDU (Eveland Bruce R) (02/23/91)
Greetings! I'm in need of talking to someone that has a fair size
application up on Ingres running under ULTRIX to find out what its
capabilities are. I also would like to talk with someone that is using
the Ingres Windows 4GL product. Last but not least I need to find out
what software one might use to print out Barcodes from a DECstation
running ULTRIX and could this be done from Ingres since we will be using
Barcodes to input some of the data.
Thanx for your time and any help that you can provide!!
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Bruce Eveland
College of Vet. Med.
Iowa State University
pavlov@canisius.UUCP (Greg Pavlov) (02/25/91)
In article <1991Feb22.102605@IASTATE.EDU>, beveland@IASTATE.EDU (Eveland Bruce R) writes: > > Greetings! I'm in need of talking to someone that has a fair size > application up on Ingres running under ULTRIX to find out what its > capabilities are. .... > ... what software one might use to print out Barcodes from a DECstation > running ULTRIX and could this be done from Ingres ... > Our fair size application: apx. 400 tables, consuming apx. 1.2 GB disk, on DEC RISC ULTRIX (DECSystem 5000 as server, DECSystem 5000s, 3100s, and a 5400 as clients). INGRES's "capabilities": after a solid year of patches, upgrades, and a huge amount of wasted work we are STILL experiencing daily server "hangs", "crashes", and lost communication to clients. Some retrievals simply don't work. The "management tools" are inadequate. INGRES tech support is working hard. They have seen the problems first hand, have dialed to examine problems when they have occurred, and taken information from us to replicate them internally. Bugs have been iden- tified and (hopefully) someone is working on them. So eventually, Real Soon Now, we will have a functional "production-quality" DBMS. But: ASK management's "capabilities": when our financial sponsors finally lost patience and addressed their concerns to the upper layers of ASK corpor- ate, the initial response was that a) INGRES was fine, b) inferred that the problems may be/probably are of our own doing and c), complained about my "behavior" towards some ASK VP (or whatever the title..). Fortunately for me personally, this disinformation gambit didn't work, our sponsors insisted on additional action, and the effort to clean this port up seems to have picked up quite a bit. The "message" here is that if you do go ahead and run into trouble, you may find yourself in a rather precarious situation career-wise... greg pavlov pavlov@stewart.fstrf.org
us267384@mmm.serc.3m.com (Steven M. Anastasi) (02/26/91)
From article <1991Feb22.102605@IASTATE.EDU>, by beveland@IASTATE.EDU (Eveland Bruce R): > Greetings! I'm in need of talking to someone that has a fair size > application up on Ingres running under ULTRIX to find out what its > capabilities are. Can't help here. > I also would like to talk with someone that is using > the Ingres Windows 4GL product. We are using w4gl from ingres on an HP 9000 series. We started development on VAX/VMS 5.3 but moved to HP-UX when w4gl came available. Respond via e-mail if you want to talk further. (smanastasi@mmm.serc.3m.com) > Last but not least I need to find out > what software one might use to print out Barcodes from a DECstation > running ULTRIX and could this be done from Ingres since we will be using > We are using JetForm. It is a software package that allows you to design forms and labels on a 386 graphics PC. JetForm then provides an executable merge program that runs on your host machine (HP 9000 in our case). The merge program takes data in flat files and merges it with the form you designed on the PC. JetForm can designate different trays for the form on your laser printer. Since JetForm needs a flat-file of data, you can write a C procedure to do the extraction from your database and then call JetForm - piece of cake.
us267384@mmm.serc.3m.com (Steven M. Anastasi) (02/28/91)
From article <53978@sequent.UUCP>, by dafuller@sequent.UUCP (David Fuller): >>> what software one might use to print out Barcodes from a DECstation >>> running ULTRIX and could this be done from Ingres since we will be using >>> >>We are using JetForm. It is a software package that allows you to >>design forms and labels on a 386 graphics PC. JetForm then provides an >>executable merge program that runs on your host machine (HP 9000 in our >>case). The merge program takes data in flat files and merges it with >>the form you designed on the PC. JetForm can designate different trays >>for the form on your laser printer. >> >>Since JetForm needs a flat-file of data, you can write a C procedure to >>do the extraction from your database and then call JetForm - piece of >>cake. > > If you are doing industrial barcode label printing then the suggested > solution may not work. I would strongly suggest that the original writer > poke their HP reps for recommendations regarding how HP does barcoding on > their assembly line. There are some nice, high speed, industrial barcode > printers that understand the standard and can spit out labels with a > single *clunk*. I've interfaced these to the AUX port of various terminals > with good result. > This sounds interesting. What type of labels? - postcript, color, using various label stocks? In my original posting, I failed to mention is that the bar-code is only a small part of the label or form that is printed and that labels are printed rather infrequently, as items are passing by at high speeds. Steve Anastasi