Rocket MultiValue

Rocket UniData is a best-in-class part of the Rocket MultiValue Application Platform for scalable business apps that can evolve as needs change. As a stable, secure, fast data server engine, Rocket UniData is ideal for rapid development using modern tools. Watch the "What's New in Rocket UniData 8.2" video (~3 minutes) to learn about new enhancements and improvements, such as Python support, new audit logging, faster replication, and better report management. Visit the Rocket UniData product page to learn more about UniData and other supporting products.------------------------------Chris RizzaRocket Software------------------------------

Emergency responders face daunting challenges with each day, especially in light of recent events. While EMTs, fire fighters, police officers and even utility workers present the public face of first responders, all are assisted by support and dispatch teams utilizing a complex infrastructure to manage assets, resources and information.Pulsiam is a leader in the development of emergency response systems. Technology has advanced from hand-held radios to mobile phones, whiteboards to real time GPS tracking, and more. With Rocket UniVerse at the core of their portfolio, Pulsiam has had the foresight and agility to integrate technology into their products often long before industry competitors have.To learn more about Pulsiam and their use of Rocket UniVerse, read the Legendary Help: Saving the Lives of Emergency Responders blog.------------------------------Charles Dane Rocket Software------------------------------

Rocket D3 10.x is a powerful tool for database managers, offering improved reliability, security, performance, and modern functionality than previous versions. The end result is more streamlined management and increased productivity. The "What's New in Rocket D3" video (~4 minutes) will introduce you to the latest features and enhancements included in D3 10.x. Older version users may upgrade at no cost to receive these and many other benefits. Click here to learn more about Rocket D3 and other products in the D3 family. What feature or enhancement has proven itself most valuable to you? ------------------------------Tim RudeRocket Software------------------------------

Our new Rocket MultiValue Integration Server is the vehicle to expose MultiValue data and logic as RESTful services and enable integration with modern web applications and services. Watch this short video demonstrating how to easily leverage MultiValue data using MVIS REST services and a native Android/iOS mobile solution written with the Flutter framework and the Dart programming language, an open source solution from Google, for building mobile applications. The demo shows how you can build on your existing investment while benefiting from augmenting your environment with the latest technology, which can live side-by-side with your existing MultiValue applications – even for apps that still use green screen. ------------------------------Safwat BoulosRocket Software Inc.------------------------------

I've been looking into Docker with a view to using it with MVIS. The manual is very short on examples, only covering using Azure for storage.I did see the deployment scripts, but these also lack any documentation.Does anyone have examples of MVIS working with docker local storage?------------------------------Jonathan EvansMBS------------------------------

In the previous article “Dealing with the Python time module from Rocket MV BASIC” I showed how it is possible to access the python internal time module and convert the python date to string display format, then convert it back into the number of seconds since Epoch.    Python RESULT: python time= 1418146291 Python RESULT: python local time= Tue Dec  9 09:31:31 2014 Python RESULT: python time= 1418146291   While it is possible to write a subroutine to handle the interaction between MV BASIC and Python, you can get more from you subroutine if you write it as a User Defined User Exit.   User exits are the codes used in the ICONV and OCONV functions.  In the first article of this series we showed how we can call the u2py.DynArray.iconv and u2py.DynArray.oconv functions to convert display dates into internal format, and then convert back into display format:   python> test = u2py.DynArray("04 Dec 2014") python> itest =  test.iconv("D") python&g

  I the previous post “Dealing with Internal and Display format data in your MV database with Python” I showed how it is possible to convert the python date to the MV internal format.  We will not show how we can get the python time date representation.  In the time.time() function returns the number of seconds since the Epoch.  The Epoch is a system defined date.   python> time.asctime(time.gmtime(0)) 'Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970'   By having the number of seconds from a specified point in time, we are able to generate a display value that has both the time and the date.  This is different then what MV provides, which is q date value and a separate time value.   What we now need to show is how to get the python time values into a MV BASIC program.    The first thing we need is a module that contains the functions we want to expose to the MV BASIC programmer.    python_time.py # Example module used in article that describ

Rocketeer Kirsten Petersen, Information Developer for MultiValue products, recently penned a blog post on the merits of upgrading older versions of Rocket D3 to the latest version, 10.3. Data security, improved performance, wider compatibility, and terminal device integration are just a few of the benefits offered by the newest release.Rocket mvBase customers may also benefit from a migration to D3.To learn more, visit Kirsten's blog post!Have you updated to the latest version of D3, and if so, what benefits have you discovered?

Managing product marketing for the MultiValue business unit means that I have an opportunity to interact with customers, and hearing how Rocket products have improved services and offerings for their customers.Using a combination of UniData and U2 RESTful services, Fudtrak has created a mobile app allowing users to locate, view the menu of, call, and socially engage with their favorite food trucks. Fudtrak's sister app, Fudtraker, handles "back of house" and social management for truck owners.To learn more about Fudtrak, Fudtraker and UniData, visit my blog post. You can also read the more recent Alcomtec case study.#UniData

Earlier in the year, Cheng Jiang, one of Rocket's software engineers on the MultiValue team, shared some insight into OpenSSL and this new Transport Layer Security protocol inclusion in UniVerse 11.3.2.To learn more about the new Open SSL library, improved SSL protocol support, support for new cryptographic algorithms, and more, visit his "Things You Need to Know about OpenSSL 1.1.1" blog post.Have you made the upgrade to UniVerse 11.3.2 (or UniData 8.2.2, which also received the OpenSSL update)? How has the newest version enhanced your security?#UniVerse#Security

With close to 250 thousand projects on https://pypi.org/, it is not likely any of us will have a chance to try them all. Please reply to this discussion with a short comment on any python module/package you feel would be of interest to the group. For example: Recently, Louis Tur and I published blog posts on using Twilio to send SMS Text Messages. How to Send SMS Text Messages from U2 with Python WHY SEND SMS TEXT MESSAGES FROM U2 WITH PYTHON------------------------------Michael RajkowskiRocket Software------------------------------

Hi all I wonder if anyone knows how to automate the data input in Universe Basic? thanks

Mark Sapp is a Senior Software Engineer focusing on the developpment of the Rocket Business Connect system. While working on the RBC upgrade project, Mark had the opportunity to learn and work with MVIS, the MultiValue Integration Server. In this blog post, Mark shares his experience using MVIS, its short learning curve, the feaures it offers, underlying technologies, and tips and tricks to maximize the platform's value. To learn more about MVIS, read Mark's blog post.------------------------------Zain MasterRocket Software------------------------------

Comprised of over 90 independent franchises and intermediary offices, Coversure generates more than £100 million in annual sales, and supports each of the branch offices with a variety of services. Over time, Coversure needed to provide an IT solution to support the offices, and their individual customer databases, while maintaining independent operations and scalability. Read the Coversure Insurance Services case study and discover how the Rocket D3 DBMS has reduced data management overhead, and helped support a five-fold business expansion.------------------------------Tim RudeRocket Software------------------------------

When I joined Rocket Software in 2017 as the MultiValue Tools Senior Product Manager, I had no idea that I would have the chance to collaborate with some our most innovative customers, software developers and the marketing team within Rocket Software, to bring to market a truly new and revolutionary gateway to the MV Application Platform (UniVerse, UniData) – the MultiValue Integration Server (MVIS).  MVIS easily extends core business logic currently hidden within your application, enabling you to build and interface with modern software paradigms. The journey to develop the MultiValue Integration Server was initiated from a desire to modernize our product offerings and to attract new talent into MV. We acted by building a team of software engineers with a natural drive to stay current with constantly evolving software paradigms and tools. We also recruited some of our most forward-thinking and committed customers who wanted to move to the cloud, participate in the API economy, and ma

INTRODUCTION I wanted to share some important insight on the recent UniData 8.2.1 release. They say a picture is worth a thousand words so let me start with these pictures and follow with more technical detail. As you can see, we focused a lot of effort on our ‘technical debt’ with the UniData 8.2.1 release, with about 85% of the resolved issues addressing bugs for over 200 of our UniData customers and with the included enhancements, the release satisfied the requests of 300+ UniData customers. On the enhancements side of the house, we focused our efforts on listening to what customers in the field requested through our Lab Services and Customer Experience teams, and brought over enhanced technology from our UniVerse platform to share with our UniData customers. UniData 8.2.1 offers brand new Audit Logging capabilities to support compliance requirements, enhancements to Replication to meet the continued High Availability and Disaster Recovery needs of our UniData customers and finally

This is a guest blog post from Ross Reichardt and was previously shared on the Rocket Blog. Well, the wait is over. Not Games of Thrones, as that has come and gone, but I haven't seen the final season yet, so no spoilers please! No, the wait I'm talking about is the wait for the next release of D3 – release 10.3.1. At the recent Business Forum events held in Australia in May, I had the opportunity to present the new release of D3 and show some of the new features. There is quite a lot to talk about too. Here is a broad brush look at what is coming: Better performance mvBase upgrade mvWorkstation Python (yeah!!) In this post, I just want to cover these areas briefly but if you'd like to know more detail about any of these, please send me a message or leave a comment on this post and tell me what you'd like more details about. Now, let's talk about these areas one at a time. PERFORMANCE For those customers running mvBase, this release of D3 provides an upgrade path to the various featu

Rooms to Go is an independent furniture retailer, and the largest in the United States. Starting with just three showrooms in 1991, they have grown into an industry powerhouse with more than $2B in annual revenue. As the company matured, so did their business model, and they needed a solution to improve point-of-sale kiosk systems. In 2005, RTG deployed a Windows-based system, moved to a tablet-based retail application in 2012, and UniVerse has been the backbone for their regional distribution system throughout. To learn more about how UniVerse has contributed to Rooms to Go’s success, read the case study.------------------------------Chris RizzaRocket Software------------------------------

It often seems like food trucks are everywhere when you've just finished lunch, but are nowhere to be found if you're ready for a meal. Alcomtec, a company based in Peru, developed two mobile apps. FudTraker help hungry people find their favorite food trucks, while FudTrak assists with inventory management and point of sale. Both apps are built with UniData, and hosted in public cloud services, allowing for cost effective scaling and application development. To learn more about how UniData assists with tools transforming the mobile food industry, read the Alcomtec case study.------------------------------Chris RizzaRocket Software------------------------------

Recently, the Rocket MultiValue team announced general availability of UniVerse 11.3.2. This release includes important updates, new features and some customer-requested fixes and is available on all platforms, including Solaris and HP/UX. To view the full release notes, visit the Rocket UniVerse blog post. ------------------------------Chris RizzaRocket Software------------------------------

Hi, Several years ago I was Project manager at a software house running Universe over AIX. I now have need to refresh my memory and so have downloaded the Personal Edition of Universe for Windows. As a non techie I’m struggling to set it up. Does anybody know of a YouTube video or crib-sheet that might help me with this Thank you in anticipation Steve

I’m new to System Builder, and getting familiar with how it works. Does anyone have a cheat sheet for System Builder and how to get started like setting up screen?

Does anyone have any documentation on System Builder, and how to get started in building some screens?

We are using Unitrends to backup Universe. We are not the largest Universe client, but we do have 200 users. I am not comfortable with Unitrends and feel we are unfortunately exposed. I am looking for suggestions or maybe even recommendations for a good consultant to work with to be sure our data is properly protected.

Greetings, I’m looking for a place to find info regarding Avante, which is built on SBclient / SB server (6.5.0), which in turn is built on something called Unidata 8.1 , which is running on a RHEL 7.6 VM that we just recently migrated from an HPUX machine… I really have no idea if this is the appropriate place to be asking questions about this… but I figured I’d throw it out here. We have a user base of ~250-300 simultaneous users daily. Since migrating the stack to the RHEL box, we have noticed that anywhere between 3 to 10 or so users are locked out of their Avanté sessions. They may or may not actively log out; doesn’t seem to be any pattern. We have to ps -el processes every morning, find the orphaned processes, and kill -9 them. They are all running the process called UDT. After that, they can connect in fine. Our troubleshooting efforts have us upgrading SBclient this weekend during maintenance; but we’re also looking into upgrading Unidata as well (one dot version up). While