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Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

Title:	OLD ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference
Notice:	Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1
Moderator:	IOSG::PYE

Created:	Thu Jan 30 1992
Last Modified:	Tue Jan 23 1996
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	4343
Total number of notes:	18308

296.0. "Using the Subscriber DSAB to access DDS entry" by ZPOVC::SEOWHURN () Mon Mar 23 1992 09:30

    Hi,
    
    I'm encountering some problems trying to access the local DDS database
    using the SUBSCRIBER DSAB (as used in the SMD option of DIR).
    
    Firstly, for some reason (probably on purpose), it's not possible to
    search by the field USERIDI. ie 
    
    	for first subscriber with .useridi = "xxx" do ...
    
    fails.
    
    But "for first subscriber with .surname1 = "xxx" do get .useridi"
    works.
    
    Is this normal ??
    
    Also, as I have the EMS software installed on the same system. DDS
    entries that are registered via the EMS's registrar will have a "Title"
    field that doesn't seem to correspond to the same title as using DIR
    SMD search results. 
    
    I know that the DIR SMD gets the value of title from the field
    .POSNROLE but where does the EMS registrar store the title ??
    Incidentally, if I use MC MBMAN to select the entry the title field
    shown there is the same as the EMS registrar's resulting search.
    
    HELP !!! What is the name of the field that stores the title ?
    (according to SUBSCRIBER DSAB there is no such field name called
    title). I'm trying to set up for a demo tomorrow and found that I still
    cannot retrieve the value stored by the EMS Registrar !
    
    
    Thanks for any replies
    
    Seow-Hurn

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
296.1	One answer	IOSG::SHOVE	Dave Shove -- REO-D/3C	`Mon Mar 23 1992 13:14`	9
	The SUBSCRIBER dataset is a little unusual, as you've discovered. You can't search on any field which isn't one of what DDS calls an "action attribute". As to your other question, I can't help as I don't know what the "EMS Registrar" is. Sorry. Dave.
296.2	And in MBMAN it's called?	AIMTEC::WICKS_A	Vote Bill'n'Opus for a weirder USA	`Mon Mar 23 1992 15:06`	12
	Well if Dave doesn't know what an EMS registrar is then i'm sure I don't. If you told us what the field is called in MBMAN we should be able to work out what the ALL-IN-1 equivalent is. As always Dave was right about the action attributes... REgards, Andrew.D.Wicks
296.3	It's called TITLE in MBMAN	ZPOVC::SEOWHURN		`Tue Mar 24 1992 00:45`	10
	RE:-1 The field name in MBMAN is called "TITLE". ALL-IN-1 seems to save the value of the user's title (from profil) to the field called "POSNROLE" instead. Does the DSAB Subscriber reference "TITLE" at all ? (I've tried title, title1 etc to no avail...) SH
296.4	That was one of the three left out	AIMTEC::WICKS_A	Vote Bill'n'Opus for a weirder USA	`Tue Mar 24 1992 02:12`	16
	Nope that one is not in the DSAB. There was a lot of confusion between TITLE and POSNROLE and also between INTLOCATION and MAILSTOP and the ALL-IN-1 Architect told us just to put one of each in. So you got POSNROLE and MAILSTOP LANGUAGE is the only other field I remember not implementing and that because we had to originally ship on MR v3.0 which didn't know the field. Sorry, Andrew.D.Wicks
296.5	thanks	ZPOVC::SEOWHURN		`Thu Mar 26 1992 10:25`	3
	RE: all replies Thanks.
296.6	Adding MHS address other than 1?	BREAKR::MIKKELSON	Kill me. I need the money.	`Thu Jul 23 1992 19:56`	14
	Is it possible to set the MHS (address part/mailbox/user ident) fields in DDS via the SUBSCRIBER DSAB for an MHS/VMS address number other than 1? I don't see anything in the SUBSCRIBER_ADD.SCP that sets the values for address number 1, so I assume that's done automagically somehow. People here at the customer site have made stabs at modifying the script to set address number 2 to contain a VMS (MRGATE) address, but I'm not sure that it's even possible. Is it possible, and what would the syntax be. Thanks, - David
296.7	Unfinished business	AIMTEC::WICKS_A	DEC Mail Works for ME sometimes	`Thu Jul 23 1992 20:23`	13
	David, No it's not possible even in v3.0 - the work necessary to support multi-occurrence fields (such as MHS/VMS ORaddress) was never completed when ALL-IN-1 v2.3 shipped. The DSAB itself has the code in it to navigate such fields but they were never made visible at the API level. Regards, Andrew.D.Wicks
296.8	Length of MAILBOX field?	BREAKR::MIKKELSON	Kill me. I need the money.	`Tue Jul 28 1992 23:14`	8
	I'm having some trouble trying to update users' DDS entries via the SUBSCRIBER DSAB. It appears that even though the DDS database itself will accommodate more characters, the MAILBOX field in the SUBSCRIBER DSAB has a limit of 24 characters. Is this correct? - David
296.9	Vid and I are innocent (On this)	AIMTEC::WICKS_A	DEC Mail Works for ME sometimes	`Tue Jul 28 1992 23:18`	8
	David, MAILBOX is defined as 24 characters by the DDS Callable Interface see page 70 of the Implementors Guide. Regards, Andrew.D.Wicks
296.10	Local records from master node?	BREAKR::MIKKELSON	Kill me. I need the money.	`Tue Aug 04 1992 18:34`	19
	Our node is the master node as well as the world search node for our network. There are times when I want to go through all the DDS entries owned by our node to check various things. Is there a way to bind to the SUBSCRIBER DSAB such that I can process only the records from our node? It appears that because we're the master/world search node, OA$DDS_SEARCH_SCOPE isn't going to make any difference -- I'm going to get all the records in the DDS database no matter what. It also doesn't appear that MTANODE1 is an actionable field, so I can't bind to all the records with .MTANODE1 = our_node_name. Are there any possibilities? Also, where is there currently a list of the actionable fields for SUBSCRIBER? I couldn't seem to find one by following up old notes, nor could I locate a copy of David Hare's guide (I have an old copy, but some co-workers would like a copy as well). - David