Introduction toUniverse Documentation

Ken R. Hall, Ph.D.

Ken R. Hall Consultants

Portland, Oregon

Speaker’s Qualifications

• Ken Hall is a PICK/SHIMS consultant and owner of Ken R. Hall Consultants.

• Ken has over 25 years experience developing applications in PICK, UniVerse, and Unidata.

• Ken is a reseller of IBM U2 (UniVerse) and Raining Data database products.

• Ken has developed business applications for distributors, retailers, mail order houses, manufacturers, and leasing companies.

Learning Objectives

• As a result of this presentation, you will become familiar with several sources of UniVerse information.

• By the end, you should have a better idea where to go for additional information about UniVerse.

Presentation Agenda

I will introduce you to:

• IBM’s UniVerse Documentation. • A free UniVerse training class on the web.• A web source for PICK & U2 publications• U2UG - International U2 User Group and its

knowledge base

IBM UniVerse Documentation

• To view or get copy of UniVerse documentation, follow the link below:

Found on the web at: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/u2/pubs/library/

Click on UniVerse version that you want.Choose “install doc set” to download the entire UV documentation set with installer.

IBM UniVerse Documentation

• Manuals are available for each UniVerse release.

• A CD with Windows client installer was included in your UniVerse installation media.

• Documentation is a set of manuals in hyper-linked pdfs that are displayed with Adobe Reader.

• The following slides with give you an overview of the available material.

IBM UniVerse Manuals

• UniVerse System Description– Overview of UniVerse components and

terminology

• UniVerse User Reference– TCL command reference document– Good if you have an idea what you want to do– Organizes list of commands by function

IBM UniVerse Manuals

• Administering UniVerse– Shows how to do important functions like

uvbackup and uvrestore

• Guide to UniVerse for PICK users– Good place to get your bearings about UniVerse– Uses terms you are used to– Easy to read

IBM UniVerse Manuals

• Guide to ProVerb– Discussion of scripting languages, PROC and

Paragraphs

• Guide to Retrieve– Discussion of LIST and SORT and other features

of the report generating commands

• UniVerse Editor– How to use ED, the command line editor

IBM UniVerse Manuals

• UniVerse BASIC– An overview of the BASIC programming language

in UniVerse

• UniVerse BASIC Commands– A Programmer’s reference manual by command– Good to refer to, hard to learn from

IBM UniVerse Manuals

• UniVerse Install Guide– Good reference if you need to do an upgrade– Also see upgrade notes that come with a release– For the more technical user

• Additional manuals on advanced features– Advanced features not used on most SHIMS

systems

UniVerse Trainingavailable on the Web

• Web based UniVerse Training Class– http://www.mannyneira

.com/universe/index.html?black– Good over view of system structure– Written for non-PICK computer staff training

UniVerse Documentationavailable on the Web

• JES – Jon Sisk’s PICK resource and training site– http://www.jes.com/

• Jonathan E. Sisk'sPick/BASIC: A Programmer's Guide– http://jes.com/pb/index.html

Other UniVerse resources

• U2UG - International U2 User Group– http://u2ug.org/index.php– Has email lists for user support– Requires free signup

• U2UG Knowledge Base– http://212.241.202.162/kb/kbhome.wsp– On their new web site (a work in process)

Q&A

Thank You!Ken R. Hall

Ken R. Hall Consultants kenrhall@old-scholls.com

503-702-7841