deleting blank records & error capture

[scooter6 at gmail.com]

    Sorry - my version is actually  5.0.09R4



On 10/10/07, John Esak <john at valar.com> wrote:
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>  Woah! When did filePro go up 3 release numbers without me knowing about
> it. You mena 5.06.06, right????
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> I guess I have to check... J
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> Removing records from a file is very easy if you want to remove **all** of
> them. You would use the command:
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> .../ddir filename –k [-m qual]
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> .../ddir filename –ka   (to remove all records in all qualifiers)
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> If you want to delete just certain records, you use the DELETE command on
> a rprocessing table.  Make sure the then command will only be encountered by
> records you **want** deleted..
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> As to cron. I believe cron should send mail to whoever is running the cron
> job regarding errors.  You could also add
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>     2>/tmp/errorfile
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> To the end of any filePro command line. Change the errfile  to something
> different for each command that runs.
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> John
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> *From:* filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com [mailto:
> filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com] *On Behalf Of *
> scooter6 at gmail.com
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 10, 2007 5:19 PM
> *To:* Filepro List
> *Subject:* deleting blank records & error capture
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> Running 5.06.09 on Unix --
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> Two questions I have --
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> 1) first - We have a temporary file where new input gets put in - and a
> night process that copies that
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>     data into the 'big' master file -- how do I delete the 'blank' records
> that get created in this temp file?
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> 2) I have a big night time process that runs -- that has been getting
> stuck on certain parts
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>     I have a script that runs all these processes - and I have a log that
> tells me when each individual
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>     process starts - so I have an idea where it's getting stuck - but it's
> getting stuck on different processes
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>     randomly -- how can I set the cron job on a Unix box where it
> will capture the error messages that filePro
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>    is encountering?
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>  Thanks for any input
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>   Scott Ullmann
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>    Newtown, PA
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