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Creating indexes on the evaluation copy of universe

  • February 4, 2026
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Richard Fallaw

I have an evaluation copy of universe.   I had created a separate account, created a file with a dictionary, and then attempted to create an index.   What I got is below.   Just wondering if there is something else to be set up, or a permissions issue, or if the evaluation copy doesn’t allow it.   Thank you.

>CREATE.INDEX MASTER.TABLE FIELD1 NO.NULLS

Attempt to create index directory "C:/U2/UV/RICKDEV/I_MASTER.TABLE" failed.
>.L RELLEVEL

     RELLEVEL
001 X
002 11.4.1
003 PICK
004 PICK.FORMAT
005 11.4.1

 

This is a windows version.

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John Jenkins
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  • February 7, 2026

Richard,

This looks like a permissions failure. I’d start by checking the directory does not already exist and then running the same command as root (UNI|X) or a local machine administrator - i.e. from a DOS command shell ‘run as administrator’, ‘CD’ to the directory concerned and run ‘uv’ (you may need to supply the whole path to the UniVerse ‘bin’ directory).

If it’s UNIX I’d check ACLs as well as base permissions. If it’s Windows I;d compare bahaviour from DOS (as above) and then  from telnet as a local machine administrator and from telnet as a standard user. Compare the results.

Regards

JJ

JJ

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