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CentOS 5 Is No longer Supported 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 Version 7 released in 2014. Back to articles

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”

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”

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”

Windows Server, Database is marked as dirty after Windows is shutdown Windows Server 2008 needs a hotfix in order for a registry timeout to be set so that Reality can cleanly shutdown gracefully when Windows is. It has been identified that Windows Server 2008 R2 (and Windows 7) will by default shutdown without waiting for … Continue reading “Windows Server, Database is marked as dirty after Windows is shutdown”

Issues with OEM & Appliance Editions of Windows – Updated When non-standard versions of Windows are used you may be affected by OEM and Appliance(embedded end-user application specific) versions when trying to install and use Reality. This is typically end-user Windows versions, like Home or “light” versions that have OEM deliveries not designed to load … Continue reading “Issues with OEM & Appliance Editions of Windows – Updated”

T-READ giving Unexpected tape i/o status – check block size Having mismatching block sizes can result in this issue. If you try and T-READ data from blocks that are not the same size as the device assigned to you can get the following error: :T-READ Unexpected tape i/o status: Command =20; Status=00 00 00 0A. … Continue reading “T-READ giving Unexpected tape i/o status – check block size”

Can I Automate FTP From Within DataBasic Refer to the PDF link below for details and examples of how to implement the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) within DataBasic in order to automate remote file transfers. FTP from DataBasic   Back to articles