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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

1027.0. "WPCOPY under v3?" by GIDDAY::BURT (Chele Burt - CSC Sydney, DTN 7355693) Mon Jul 13 1992 06:50

Hello and greetings,

(I know this topic has been discussed before, but it only discussed v2.3 & v2.4)
A customer has enquired as whether the WPCOPY function (or something similar 
for transferring folders & documents from one account to another) is available 
under v3.
Unfortunately, we are currently v3-less, so I am unable to look.

If it DOES exist, has the behaviour been modified so that the document order 
is correct? Under previous versions, the first record processed is that last 
one out. Hence for the user RECEIVING the transferred documents, the document 
which is actually the oldest of the original user's documents, appears to be 
the most recent. 

The customer is currently running v2.3, and has just had to use WPCOPY to 
transfer about 5000 documents in 50 folders. As he plenty of space, and was 
loathe to make ANY customizations, the "wimp-around" was to create a temporary 
user, transfer to there, then transfer from the temp. area to the "real" area.

Can someone tell me what the situation is with v3 please?

Thanks & regards,

Chele
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1027.1Open Heart Surgery performed (Thanks Jon!)IOSG::PYEGraham - ALL-IN-1 Sorcerer's ApprenticeMon Jul 13 1992 13:1516
    You'll be pleased to hear that WPCOPY recevied "some" attention in
    V3.0, here's an extract from the internal chnage information:
    
      Overhaul WPCOPY so that it works on V3.0, and the fix the reported
      bugs. It now handles DICTIONARY files as a special case - a report is
      produced listing any dictionaries on the WPS-PLUS/VMS system, and
      advising the user to GOLD GET any that they require into DICTIONARY
      files on the ALL-IN-1 system.
    
    Additionally a couple of Boilerplates, er, sorry templates, have been
    added to make it produce a report of what it's doing.
    
    Since this is intended for migrations from WPS-PLUS/VMS, it's described
    in the Installation Guide.
    
    Graham
1027.2Purpose of WPCOPYIOSG::NEWLANDRichard Newland, IOSG, REO1-D/4AMon Jul 13 1992 14:2115
The purpose of WPCOPY is to transfer documents from a WPS-PLUS/VMS file
cabinet to an ALL-IN-1 file cabinet.  It was not intended to provide a
document transfer service between ALL-IN-1 file cabinets, but probably
could be used to perform this.  However because ALL-IN-1 V3.0 has drawers 
it is now less useful for perorming ALL-IN-1 to ALL-IN-1 transfers.  WPCOPY
assumes that it is transferring from a WPS-PLUS/VMS systems, which do not
have drawers, and therefore will only access documents from the current
drawer. 

In ALL-IN-1 V3.0 it may not be necessary to transfer documents because you 
can make the documents shareable instead.


Richard

1027.3Order has been restored!IOSG::BUTTONMon Jul 13 1992 14:517
    
    Chele,
    
    The fixes to WPCOPY did include the document order problem.  They are
    now copied in the correct order.
    
    Jon
1027.4thanks & more questionsGIDDAY::BURTChele Burt - CSC Sydney, DTN 7355693Tue Jul 14 1992 04:5417
Hello all,

Thankyou very much for your responses.

The customer was using WPCOPY due to the lack of any other tool for 
transferring documents from a nuked ALL-IN-1 user to a new ALL-IN-1 user.

re .2 (?)
>> In ALL-IN-1 V3.0 it may not be necessary to transfer documents because you 
>> can make the documents shareable instead.

I seem to recall that there were some problems mentioned earlier with shared 
documents when the original owner gets zotted? Is that the case?

Thanks and regards,

Chele
1027.5Zotted!IOSG::NEWLANDRichard Newland, IOSG, REO1-D/4ATue Jul 14 1992 18:3716
>re .2 (?)
>>> In ALL-IN-1 V3.0 it may not be necessary to transfer documents because you 
>>> can make the documents shareable instead.
>
>I seem to recall that there were some problems mentioned earlier with shared 
>documents when the original owner gets zotted? Is that the case?

What does 'zotted' mean?


I was thinking that document sharing could be used in the case of USERA
taking over responsibility for USERB's documents.  USERB's account would 
be left intact, but could have logins disabled.


Richard