What does the Reality Windows Demo give me? Once the Windows Demo has been loaded you will have access to the following menu options: From Windows Start> All Programs> Reality… Reality Demo Realweb Demo Other Options & Information Uninstall or Modify This menu option provides access to the automatically installed complete set of Reality Manuals and the typical … Continue reading “Details of Demo”
Reality News Archive… Click for ► Latest News … Sep 13, 2016 – Reality V15.2 Service Pack #245… … … refer to the Latest Product Updates page. Nov 16, 2015 – Reality V15.1 Service Pack #154… … refer to the Latest Product Updates page. Oct 30, 2015 – Reality V15.2, New Feature Release Planned for Q1'2016. Aug 21, 2015 – Reality Documentation Revision Update 7, refer to the Documentation … Continue reading “NEWS”
Removing Reality from my System (uninstall & repair) This FAQ includes information for Windows and UNIX platforms and Client components… Updated Dec 7th, 2014 For Windows System Platforms If you just want to update to the latest Reality Release of the Demo refer to the FAQ… … Updating the Windows Reality Demo from release to release Warning! … Continue reading “Removing Reality from my System (uninstall & repair)”
CentOS 5.11 Reality Install Fails CentOS 5.11 Reality Install Fails with 'No history file tool available for a unknown' – Updated Dec 10, 2015 Note: Due to library incompatibility changes CentOS 5 can no longer be supported by Reality… … although CentOS 5 is supported until Mar 31, 2017 Version 6 has been released since 2011, with … Continue reading “CentOS 5.11 Reality Install Fails”
How can I see what compiler and emulation was used for DataBasic Programs PRINT-CATALOG should be used, rather than trying to access data from POINTER-FILE catalogues Items. Refer to the example given below. PRINT-CATALOG SSM, as an example. Program : SYSMAN %TEMPQ $SSM Compiled on : 12 Nov 14 at 09:11 Source : SYSBP SSM … Continue reading “How can I see what compiler and emulation was used for DataBasic Programs”
Issues with running DBUPDATE on Reality databases created on Windows Server After installing Reality updates on a Windows Server, running the DBUPDATE command on Reality databases gives error "[B42] Failed to write dbversion into file IF.DBPATH". This issue has been reported on Windows Server 2012, and is assumed this may also occur under 2003 and 2008. Apparently, DBUPDATE completes the update … Continue reading “Issues with running DBUPDATE on Reality databases created on Windows Server”
Windows user login gives Permissions Problem When you login to Windows this fails due to permission errors – Partition Access Problem Telneting into reality database fails due to inability to access a database partition. When Telneting into Windows the Reality process is started as Windows user 'Reality User' in group 'Reality Users'. This user/group can … Continue reading “Windows user login gives Permissions Problem”
Antivirus Software affecting Reality on Windows Typically, loading Reality on Windows and subsequent operation is not affected by Antivirus Software. There are, however, a few items that are worth checking if this is causing issues There are now many Antivirus Software products from simple freeware to highly configurable corporate versions which have varying default setups or configured by single … Continue reading “Antivirus Software affecting Reality on Windows”
MD's no longer have POINTER-FILE entries Part of the upgrade process to V14.1 onwards removes the MD entry of POINTER-FILE as, by default, the SYSFILES POINTER-FILE is automatically used for lists and cataloged programs. Hence there is no need for accounts to have a Q/Pointer in the MD. Updated – Aug 2014 Since V14.1 it … Continue reading “MD’s no longer have POINTER-FILE entries”
How to access current program call stack in DataBasic Using the new exception handler you can do this using the following code example. Running the following code you can access the current program's call stack. ECATCH Dummy ETHROW 999,”Dummy” Dummy: CRT EXCEPT.STK() Calling the above code in subroutine SUB1 displays: T … Continue reading “How to access current program call stack in DataBasic”