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Faster way to find duplicates conditioned by time

In a machine with AIX without PERL I need to filter records that will be considered duplicated if they have the same id and if they were registered between a period of four hours. I implemented this filter using AWK and work pretty well but I need a solution much faster: # Generar lista de Duplicados awk 'BEGIN { FS="," } /OK/ { ...

How to overcome an incompatibility between the ksh on Linux vs. that installed on AIX/Solaris/HPUX?

I am involved in the process of porting a system containing several hundreds of ksh scripts from AIX, Solaris and HPUX to Linux. I have come across the following difference in the way ksh behaves on the two systems: #!/bin/ksh flag=false echo "a\nb" | while read x do flag=true done echo "flag = ${flag}" exit 0 On AIX, Solaris and ...

How to autocomplete at the Korn shell command line with the vi editor

In the Korn shell on AIX UNIX Version 5.3 with the editor mode set to vi using: set -o vi What are the key-strokes at the shell command line to autocomplete a file or directory name ? ...

Remote debugging with Eclipse CDT

We're using the Eclipse CDT 5 C++ IDE on Windows to develop a C++ application on a remote AIX host. Eclipse CDT has the ability to perform remote debugging using gdbserver. Unfortunately, gdbserver is not supported on AIX. Is anyone familiar with a way to debug remotely using Eclipse CDT without gdbserver? Perhaps using an SSH shell ...

Free or open source IBM 3151 or aixterm emulators?

Does anyone know of any free or open source terminal emulators that will emulate an IBM 3151 terminal or an HFT terminal (aixterm)? We have some offshore contractors that need access to some of our systems that need a 3151 or hft emulation, but are having issues transferring licenses of Hummingbird HostExplorer to India. For that mat...

REDUX: How to overcome an incompatibility between the ksh on Linux vs. that installed on AIX/Solaris/HPUX?

I have uncovered another problem in the effort that we are making to port several hundreds of ksh scripts from AIX, Solaris and HPUX to Linux. See here for the previous problem. This code: #!/bin/ksh if [ -a k* ]; then echo "Oh yeah!" else echo "No way!" fi exit 0 (when run in a directory with several files whose name starts ...

MalformedInputException while using Shrinksafe with IBM JRE

While trying to use Shrinksafe custom_rhino.jar to build Dojo I get MalformedInputException. The problem occurs when build reaches custom widgets/templates which contain french letters stored in UTF-8. The AIX machine has LANG=en_US which should be correct, judging by other documented problems regarding MalformedInputException with IBM J...

Windows Performance Counter Port to Linux, HP-UX and AIX

We implemented a server application available on Windows only. Now we like to port it to Linux, HP-UX and AIX, too. This application provides internal statistics through performance counters into the Windows Performance Monitor. To be more precise: The application is a data base, and we like to provide information like number of connect...

AIX 5.3: How to backup full machine to single bootable tape?

Is it possible to use AIX's mksysb and savevg to create a bootable tape with the rootvg and then append all the other VGs? ...

Static and dynamic library linking

In C++, static library A is linked into dynamic libraries B and C. If a class, Foo, is used in A which is defined in B, will C link if it doesn't use Foo? I thought the answer was yes, but I am now running into a problem with xlc_r7 where library C says Foo is an undefined symbol, which it is as far as C is concerned. My problem with th...

Crash when calling into C++ library from Perl using SWIG (AIX 5.1)

I'm trying to call into a C++ library from Perl on an AIX 5.1 machine. I've created a very simple test project to try to exercise this. My C++ shared library (test.cpp): #include <stdio.h> #include <iostream> void myfunc() { printf("in myfunc()\n"); std::cout << "in myfunc() also" << std::endl; } My SWIG interface file (tes...

AIX: IBM Java: java.net.SocketException: Connection timed out:could be due to invalid address

We have seen the following exceptions very frequently on IBM AIX when attempting to make an SSL connection to our server: java.net.SocketException: Socket closed at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.a(DashoA6275(Compiled Code)) at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.AppOutputStream.write(DashoA6275(Compiled Code)) at java.io.BufferedO...

What is the unix command to see how much disk space there is and how much is remaining?

I'm looking for the equivalent of right clicking on the drive in windows and seeing the disk space used and remaining info. ...

Java Not Converting String to Long Object Properly

We're using Spring/Hibernate on a Websphere Application Server for AIX. On my Windows machine, the problem doesn't occur--only when running off AIX. When a user logs in with an account number, if they prefix the '0' to their login ID, the application rejects the login. In the DB2 table, the column is of numeric type, and there shouldn...

How to resolve AIX tar command sockets errors?

Working in an AIX environment, I'm issuing the following tar command and receive errors on sockets. Question 1. How can I avoid the socket errors? Question 2. Can I rely on the tar file to contain all files excluding the ones in error? $ tar -cvf /post_patches.tar /xyz tar: /xyz/runtime/splSock6511 could not be archived tar...

AIX: Why does throwing an exception abort multithreaded code?

We get an abort when a C++ exception is thrown when running code compiled with -pthread. Platform: AIX 5.3 technical level 8 Compiler: gcc 3.4.6 Linker: AIX linker 1.65.2.4 Test Code: // exception.cpp #include <iostream> class MyException { public: MyException(){} virtual ~MyException(){}; }; void gTest() { t...

static linking on AIX with pthread

I've been reading and researching this for a couple of days now, and decided I need some outside assistance! (and this site seemed like a nice place, so I thought I'd post my question here and see how it goes) our little company hasn't built our applications on AIX for several years, and I've been assigned this task (good thing I like ...

Availability of #include <map> with xlC on AIX 4.3

Is there a version of xlC/VACPP available for AIX 4.3, which does not choke when given following source: #include <map> int main(void) { return 0; } If yes, is it still available anywhere? ...

LD_PRELOAD on AIX

Can someone here tell me if there is something similar to LD_PRELOAD on recent versions of AIX? More specifically I need to intercept calls from my binary to time(), returning a constant time, for testing purposes. ...

Help on Compiling on AIX

Hi All, Is there a site where I can find the symbols used in a particular library and its version. For e.g. I m trying to compile some code on AIX using gcc, and it throws me a lot of undefined symbol errors For example, here is an output: ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .__fixdfdi ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .__divdi3 ...