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Update notice for UD6 Driver for Uniface.A limited number of customers have been testing UD6 for Uniface 9.7.05 and Uniface 10 for about a year now.  We were waiting to release this with a major update that includes more features and Uniface 10 fixes, however the next update requires further testing so we are releasing this stable update to all customers now.  Due to the extended period of beta testing we are confident this is a very stable build for customer.  This upgrade is recommended for all Uniface versions, and is required for Uniface 9.7.05.UD6 2.1.05.1209 download available now to all customers, and a trial is available to downloadtrialhttps://www.march-hare.com/downloads/customershttps://www.march-hare.com/webtools/customer/We are aware of three problems with this update:- Windows insta

The 'old' Uniface Community Forums had a space for asking about and advertising addons.I think it was labelled "Additions for Uniface, both software, and services, free or commercial, this is the place"Obviously March Hare Software and the Uniface Professional Users web site http://theu.info is already fairly well known.But what is the etiquette for advertising major updates and releases of community tools in this new Q&A system?TIA

Uniface supports only MySql Enterprise. Can I use Odbc to connect without problem with MySql Community version ?Many thanks

If you type for example "$replace(" there is no hint for the Parameters in Patch 10.3.02.016.

Found this line in the UnifAce library"When the Debugger tracing setting is set to value 16 (trace all activate information), the $procerrorcontext information for the some errors appears in the message frame."Where to set this value?$ioprint does have 16, but this is a another story$proc_tracing is a bool flagMaybe a undocumented function like $traceprint? grinning  🙂Ingo

Uniface 10.3.02 patch 10.3.02.017 available for AS3, AS4, LID, LIF, LU6, RSG, SOB, W32 and W64Uniface 10.3.02 patch 10.3.02.017 has been released and is available for AS3, AS4, LID, LIF, LU6, RSG, SOB, W32 and W64 on Uniface Downloads: https://download.uniface.com/downloads/Uniface/patches/10302/The information about the bug fixes included in 10.3.02.017 can be found on the page with the Patch Listing for release 10.3.02. For documentation updates see the topic “What's New in the Documentation for this Patch (10.3.02.017)” under 

Uniface 9.7.05 patch 9.7.05.030 available for AS3, AS4, HPK, HPM, LID, LIF, LU6, RSG, SOB, W32 and W64Uniface 9.7.05 patch 9.7.05.030 has been released and is available for AS3, AS4, HPK, HPM, LID, LIF, LU6, RSG, SOB, W32 and W64 on Uniface Downloads: https://download.uniface.com/downloads/Uniface/patches/9705/The information about the bug fixes included in 9.7.05.030 can be found on the page with the Patch Listing for release 9.7.05. Please note that as of Service Pack MG03 (release 9.7.04) the bug fix information will no longer be available in the ReadMe's, but only online. For documentation updates see the topic 

Hello together,we would like to integrate RabbitMQ into our Uniface programs in order to send/receive messages to/from non-uniface applications. Does anybody of you guys has any experience with that and wants to share it with me?Thank you in advance,Michael.

I am looking at having our remote sites feed back statistics on client licence usage over the preceding month, so we can track usage and suggest increased licences where appropriate. To that end, I've been looking at the umfilter option to output a licence usage log. However, it does not appear that the command line help (or the online help) gives me the correct usage for the date filters. I am trying umfilter -d 7188@localhost -o c:/tmp/dlm2.csv -feat UCLIENT -usage -sdate09/01/2019 -edate09/30/2019 With and without spaces after the sdate/edate, but the output appears to start in february (possibly the start of the log file?). Any clues anyone? Iain

Hello, We have a service that creates one container form A and a contained form B, then activate an operation of A to put the instance of B in the container field.There is a lot more around (calling other services, which create other forms, displayed in various containers).And sometime (not always, not reproductible every time) the contained form B closes itself at the end of the process.I tried comparing trace when form B stay opened and when it close, but except the fact that it closes, I can't find any relevant difference.And when it closes, the instance's reference still exists in the A container.My question is : What can cause the stop in the contained form. If you have any hint, thanks for your helpThanks in advanceYves

Dear fellas,This is my first week get in touch with Uniface9. I'm trying to go through the exercise materials in u9FoundationExercise.I don't know for some reason, I followed Excercise 16 Part 1 - Sequence, I can't retrieve any data into my form.Can anybody help me?Cheers 

HelloHas anyone got some experience for thisDominique

Hi all,Short of writing a 3gl function to do this.....I'm processing a number of txt files - and every now and then I come across a control characterwhich causes good ol' Uniface to have a hissy fit.The control character in question is HEX 0x1a - Ascii 26. I've tried a $replace in combination with $tometa (result in a $2) - no joy..Any other ideas out there?Knut

Uniface 9.7.05 patch 9.7.05.029 available for AS3, AS4, HPK, HPM, LID, LIF, LU6, RSG, SOB, W32 and W64Uniface 9.7.05 patch 9.7.05.029 has been released and is available for AS3, AS4, HPK, HPM, LID, LIF, LU6, RSG, SOB, W32 and W64 on Uniface Downloads: https://download.uniface.com/downloads/Uniface/patches/9705/The information about the bug fixes included in 9.7.05.029 can be found on the page with the Patch Listing for release 9.7.05. Please note that as of Service Pack MG03 (release 9.7.04) the bug fix information will no longer be available in the ReadMe's, but only online. For documentation updates see the topic 

Uniface 10.3.02 patch 10.3.02.016 available for AS3, AS4, LID, LIF, LU6, RSG, SOB, W32 and W64Uniface 10.3.02 patch 10.3.02.016 has been released and is available for AS3, AS4, LID, LIF, LU6, RSG, SOB, W32 and W64 on Uniface Downloads: https://download.uniface.com/downloads/Uniface/patches/10302/The information about the bug fixes included in 10.3.02.016 can be found on the page with the Patch Listing for release 10.3.02. For documentation updates see the topic “What's New in the Documentation for this Patch (10.3.02.016)” under 

$password now returns encrypted stringThe $password function has been enhanced to return an encrypted password. Prior to these releases, the $password function returned the value of password as plain text.  The encryption provided for $password thus adds an extra encryption layer.Uniface transparently handles encryption and decryption of $password. The open statement still accepts $user,  $password and plain text as parameters.This change in the behavior $password can cause compatibility issues if you have Proc code that is expecting unencrypted passwords. Therefore, before releasing the patch to your users, check and correct the application logic.

On the questions, the object related menu has no hyperlinks for comment/edit/delete/...which doesn't allow any maintenence.Is this only for my profile or do others experience the same?

Hi freaksJust found an awful bug or a great feature, I don't know ...Say, there are 500 rows in database under a given profileRow 200 may be locked by an update on databaseNow retrieve all rows in UnifAce with the profile.UnifAce will read up to 199 rows and then return.$status is positiv 199 and not -11 for a locked row.Okay, if the hitlist is shown to a customer, the is maybe a nice thing.But under the hood as a service programm is very dangerous to go on without notification.Is this a bug or a feature?How to check, if there are more rows to come?And no, I don't want to lock all rows that I read just to check if the hitlist is completed or notIngoPS: UnifAce 9.704 on MS SQL

Hi FreaksWe have to use ERiC (Requirement by german tax authority)A customer could have several ERiC-dll's on its computer. (Different environments like test and production)Not the problem, as I add the correct path the the DOS-path before loading of the DLL.This way, a customer can set the path without using the ASN-File / user_3glAll is implemented and works well, but ...Now a costomer do have a sep

Hi FreaksI need a good idea 🙂Having a "simple" READ-trigger like thiscall SO_READ("")IF($status<0) RETURN($status)..do some code ..Where in SO_READ is the "read" statement and "a little bit more"After the read, there is a security check, if our if not the clerk should see the row.If not, a simple DISCARD kick the row awayA simple was to handle this kind of requirement.BUT   (Yes Ingo again with BUT)The DISCARD triggers the READ-trigger again without leaving SO_READ before.After around 100 DISCARDs : "Runtime error: Proc stack overflow"One solution would be to return a DoDiscard-Flag and do the DISCARD directly in READ-triggerBut then I have to do so in hundreds of programms, sometime with code after SO_READ.A simple search and replace is not appropriate.My fi

Hello all,Is anyone here working in an organisation with a reasonable size development team and following processes on the more agile side of things?If so, how are you tackling things like continuous integration and continuous deployment? My (limited) experience of Uniface to date is only one person can work in the same area at anyone time, let alone automated build and deployment.If anyone has any advice/experience on setting up continuous integration and deployment?Thanks!

Logon to TCP path that includes space after colon fails since patch 012 for Uniface 9.7.05/10.3.01When a TCP path includes a space after the colon of the driver (i.e. TCP:) then the logon will fail when using the patch 9.7.05.012/10.3.01.012 (and higher).For example: [PATHS] $wally1 TCP: host+13097|user|pass|asvWhen Uniface tries to open the path $wally1 the following error is returned: Logon (TCP: host+13097|******|******|asv) failed with status -18, Failed to connect to URouterIn case the space is removed then everything is working as expected.Using a space after a colon in a TCP path is the workaround recommended for Issue 31860 (Scrambled path descrambled as garbage when double parentheses follow a colon). The mentioned issue has been fixed in the meantime with the patch

Uniface 10.3.02 patch 10.3.02.015 available for AS3, AS4, LID, LIF, LU6, RSG, SOB, W32 and W64Uniface 10.3.02 patch 10.3.02.015 has been released and is available for AS3, AS4, LID, LIF, LU6, RSG, SOB, W32 and W64 on Uniface Downloads: https://download.uniface.com/downloads/Uniface/patches/10302/The information about the bug fixes included in 10.3.02.015 can be found on the page with the Patch Listing for release 10.3.02. For documentation updates see the topic “What's New in the Documentation for this Patch (10.3.02.015)” under 

Uniface 9.7.05 patch 9.7.05.028 available for AS3, AS4, HPK, HPM, LID, LIF, LU6, RSG, SOB, W32 and W64Uniface 9.7.05 patch 9.7.05.028 has been released and is available for AS3, AS4, HPK, HPM, LID, LIF, LU6, RSG, SOB, W32 and W64 on Uniface Downloads: https://download.uniface.com/downloads/Uniface/patches/9705/The information about the bug fixes included in 9.7.05.028 can be found on the page with the Patch Listing for release 9.7.05. Please note that as of Service Pack MG03 (release 9.7.04) the bug fix information will no longer be available in the ReadMe's, but only online. For documentation updates see the topic 

Blog by Peter LammersmaFor today’s businesses, they say, data is more important than ever. I don’t agree with the ‘today’ part: data always has been businesses’ most important asset, and always will be. There is a difference between now and back then, though. The IT landscape is now extremely dynamic and reliant on innovative IT. Dependence on technology leads to enormous growth of data and, at the same time, of the number of attacks on the data. Can a potential risk be turned into a business opportunity? During our second workshop / ‘pizza session’ of 2019 we answered that question. Before I explain how, we need to look at the cause of the growth of security problems. Although we all think security problems will never happen to us, investments in security were never higher than they are today.  Return on security investment is one of the key figures that management uses to steer the business.