Article Danny Wijnschenk · Nov 24, 2017 11m read

Advent of Code 2016 Day24: Air Duct Spelunking

This is a series of programming challenges for beginners and experienced Caché programmers.

For an introduction : go to article https://community.intersystems.com/post/advent-code-2016-day1-no-time-t…


Today, you need to find your way through a maze (again). There are 8 points of interest in the maze, and you have to visit them all, starting with point 0.
You may visit some points more than once, in random order. The challenge is to find the shortest path through the maze while visiting all points.

The maze looks a bit like this : 

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Question Alexandr Ladoshkin · Nov 23, 2017

Indexing null value

Dear community!

I have problem with index NULL value.  Unique index doesn't work for this case.  If I use insert and one of parameter is "NULL". Message of constraint doesn't appear and row is inserted into table successfully.  How Can I use index with NULL?

Class TestClassIndx Extends %Persistent
{
Property name As %String [ Private ];
Property age As %String [ Private ];
Property country As %String [ Private ];
Index IndextestUniq On (name, age, country) [ Unique ];
}

INSERT INTO TestClassIndx (name,age,country) VALUES ('1','2',NULL)

Best Regards 

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Question Julian Matthews · Nov 23, 2017

Checking status of running task

I have been working on a project in our Dev environment which resulted in processing a few (million) HL7 messages, and I thought it would be a good idea to purge the namespace in a controlled way. My concern was when it hit the day where the scheduled task would purge 'the day of a million messages', it would fill the Journal Drive quite dramatically and would happen overnight resulting in triggering a response from the poor person on out of hours support.

My idea of a controlled way was to:

  • Run a backup
  • Disable Journalling
  • Run Purge
  • Compact and Truncate DB
  • Re-enable Journalling

Now, I got as far as

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Question Vivek Ranjan · Nov 22, 2017

DATEPART(hour, columnName) function takes logical mode (in memory stored data) as input to column while executing the script in 'Display' and 'ODBC' mode

I ran the below query in three different modes.  Coordinated Universal Time is 5 hours ahead of Eastern Time so there is difference in value from column 1 and column 2 in ODBC, Display mode, but not in Logical Mode. By default the query executes in ODBC mode when we query the data from outside world(via ODBC connection). 

I don't know  why query 2 and query 3 outputs different from query 1.

Query 1. Ran in Logical mode, DATEPART() took in memory stored timestamp data(stored in UTC)

'Hour ' returned are same for both the columns

Query 2. Ran in ODBC mode, DATEPART() took in memory stored timestamp

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Article Danny Wijnschenk · Nov 23, 2017 4m read

Advent of Code 2016 Day23: Safe Cracking

This is a series of programming challenges for beginners and experienced Caché programmers.

For an introduction : go to article https://community.intersystems.com/post/advent-code-2016-day1-no-time-t…
 

Remember the assembunny language we had to code on day 12 (https://community.intersystems.com/post/advent-code-2016-day12-leonardo…)?

There is a new instruction we have to implement which toggles an instruction x lines away (further or back).

  • For one-argument instructions, inc becomes dec, and all other one-argument instructions become inc.
  • For two-argument instructions, jnz becomes cpy
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Question Tom Philippi · Nov 23, 2017

Configuring %CSP.REST for SSL connections

I have an Ensemble installation and just build my first RestService (using %CSP.Rest that forwards them to my Business Service). This works nice and fine when I use postman to make REST calls over http (port 57772). However when I attempt to make a request using https over port 443 I receive the following error:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html>
    <head>
        <title>404 Not Found</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <h1>Not Found</h1>
        <p>The requested URL /csp/healthshare/fcoffice/rest/ping was not found on this server.</p>
        <hr>
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Question Maks Atygaev · Nov 23, 2017

Webinar "Declarative programming on COS"

Dear community!

What do you think about webinar "Declarative programming on COS"? I want to do such one.

I am going to tell about main points of declarative programming and how you can implement it in your real projects.

Please feel free to write your opinion here.

Please if you wish to become a member of such webinar write me a message to atygaev.mi@gmail.com with subject "webinar".

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Article Danny Wijnschenk · Nov 22, 2017 5m read

Advent of Code 2016 Day22: Grid Computing

This is a series of programming challenges for beginners and experienced Caché programmers.

For an introduction : go to article https://community.intersystems.com/post/advent-code-2016-day1-no-time-t…


The goal of today's challenge is to copy data from one disk to another, problem is that the disks are not directly connected. Luckily they are in a huge grid, and you have to find a way to copy the data through adjacents disks, while honoring the disk usage (you cannot copy to a disk where data is already stored).


The input is a df-like disk usage listing.

The first challenge is to calculate a

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Question Mike Kadow · Nov 15, 2017

What are all the ways an Object Property can be expressed?

Hello, this is going to be a stupid question, yea I know, there are no stupid questions.

Say, I have an Object Property, Name or Count or Title, or whatever.

How can I get a list, or find out all the different ways it can be expressed?

Example:

-Property Name As %Name;

-Property Name As %String="me"

-Property Name As %String [ Required];

But what other parameters, keywords, restrictions, lists, etc. that I can apply to this Property?

I have been search the I/S documentation and so far at least, I cannot find that sort of information, or in one place.

I could search all the I/S classes, but that takes

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Article Danny Wijnschenk · Nov 21, 2017 5m read

Advent of Code 2016 Day21: Scrambled Letters and Hash

This is a series of programming challenges for beginners and experienced Caché programmers.

For an introduction : go to article https://community.intersystems.com/post/advent-code-2016-day1-no-time-t…
 

The challenge of day 21 is about scrambling passwords.

There are a few functions you need to implement that will do operations on a string :

- swap position X with position Y : means that the letters at indexes X and Y (counting from 0) should be swapped.
- swap letter X with letter Y  : means that the letters X and Y should be swapped (regardless of where they appear in the string).
- rotate
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Question Rodrigo Flores · Nov 20, 2017

dataCombo parameters value

Hi there,

The problem is, that I need use the property value of datacombo in other  datacombo with parameter.

The follow a example code: 


<dataCombo id="Grupo_Producto" name="Grupo_Producto" dataBinding="bdGrupo" size="40" 
label="(*) Grupo" dropdownWidth="400" dropdownHeight="100" loadingMessage="Cargando..."
columnHeaders="Codigo, Nombre"
queryClass="Innova.CL.Core.BD.Configuracion.Operacional.Grupo" queryName="obtieneGrupoProd"
 sqlLookup="SELECT Nombre FROM Innova_CL_Core_BD_Configuracion_Operacional.Grupo Where ID = ?"
 >
</dataCombo>
<dataCombo id="Linea_Producto" name="Linea_Producto" dataBindin

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Question Marco Blom · Nov 21, 2017

how to write 'set ' for a property

Hello Community,

I have a simple question but somehow hard to find the solution:

this is a property in my class:

Property RelationAID As ZenCrm.Relationtypes;

this is my method to save:

ClassMethod PopulateMatrix(tvar1, tvar2) As %Status
{
set RelationMatrix=##class(ZenCrm.RelationMatrix).%New()
set RelationMatrix.RelationAID= tvar1
set RelationMatrix.RelationAType= tvar2
do RelationMatrix.%Save()
quit $$$OK
}

However the 'set' line does not work for the 'related properties.

I have tried: set RelationMatrix.Relationtypes.RelationAID but this failed.

Any suggestion? thanks!

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Article David Loveluck · Nov 8, 2017 2m read

APM - Performance Monitoring Tools in InterSystems Products

Application Performance Monitoring

Tools in InterSystems technology

Back in August in preparation for Global Summit I published a brief explanation of Application Performance Management (APM). To follow up on that I have written and will be publishing over the coming weeks a series of articles on APM.

One major element of APM is the construction of a historic record of application activity, performance and resource usage.Crucially for APM the measurement starts with the application and what users are doing with the application.

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Question Wendy Griffiths · Nov 21, 2017

CSP sessions with frames and https

We have an web application accessed using https, that uses CSP technology with frames.

The initial 'login' is via a single CSP page, which then redirects to another CSP page which creates the frames (4 in all) and loads a CSP page in each of those.  For the most part the frames load without error, but sometimes when logging in and sometimes while using the system ' 5916 Illegal CSP Request ' errors occur.

I say 'login' in inverted commas as a Cache login is not performed just an application login, I don't know if that's relevant so thought I'd mention it.

I presume the errors are connected to

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Question wx fg · Nov 20, 2017

how to release row lock?

I have restored one database from backup, but when I query from some of tables,   prompt error :

this error remain after restart Caché service

I can skip this error with %nolock in select query.

My question is: 

1. why there were locks after restart service?

2. Can I release/rollback these locks by sql so I can query without %nolock?

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Question P Patz · Nov 19, 2017

Force inner select to be executed

I have a query that I am attempting to run, but inner query is being rolled up into the overall query - per the optimizer (and jobexam observation).  While I know that if the inner query runs first, I will eliminate a number of records (making the result set smaller, and return quicker).

Just an example of what I am attempting to do:

select Account.Name, Account.State, Transaction.Amt, Transaction.Date, Transaction.Service
from Transaction 
left join Account 
    on Account.Id = Transaction.Account  
where Account.Id in (
    Select Account.Name
     from Account
     where Account.Type is not null
  

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Question Joe Schra · Oct 24, 2017

Use EnsLib.EMail.OutboundAdapter based on patient email in PID 13-4

Hello All,

I am looking to send out an email based on a patient's discharge where PID13-4 contains their email. We are currently using something similar with an Email.OutboundAdapter. However, in our current scenario we have a hard coded email in place as the recipient (as this is for order notification to a pager).  In the scenario in question, I would need PID13-4 to populate as the recipient of the email.  Does anyone have an example of something similar, or a suggestion on where to start?

Thanks!

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Article Danny Wijnschenk · Nov 20, 2017 3m read

Advent of Code 2016 Day 20: Firewall Rules

This is a series of programming challenges for beginners and experienced Caché programmers.

For an introduction : go to article https://community.intersystems.com/post/advent-code-2016-day1-no-time-t…

We are almost there : after this challenge, only 5 days left till the end of this advent of code (I cannot wait to get my life back !) .

The challenge of day 20 is about a list of integer ranges. Some ranges overlap,  but there are also values that are outside any range.

You have to find out what is the lowest integer that is outside any range.
 

More explanation (there is not much more to say)

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Article Danny Wijnschenk · Nov 19, 2017 3m read

Advent of Code 2016 Day19: An Elephant Named Joseph

This is a series of programming challenges for beginners and experienced Caché programmers.

For an introduction : go to article https://community.intersystems.com/post/advent-code-2016-day1-no-time-t…

Today's challenge is a variation on the White Elephant gift exchange (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_elephant_gift_exchange), in this case, by a bunch of Elves where only one can have all gifts.


Each Elf brings a present.They all sit in a circle, numbered starting with position 1.Then, starting with the first Elf, they take turns stealing all the presents from the Elf to their left.

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Article Danny Wijnschenk · Nov 18, 2017 4m read

Advent of Code 2016 Day18: Like a Rogue

This is a series of programming challenges for beginners and experienced Caché programmers.

For an introduction : go to article https://community.intersystems.com/post/advent-code-2016-day1-no-time-t…

You walk into a room, step on a tile and hear a loud click...

Traps !

The challenge is about avoiding traps.

You can recognise if a tile is a trap by following scheme :

The first row is a given : a safe tile is shown as . and a trap is shown as ^
For the next rows, the state of a tile is calculated related to the tiles in the previous row (same position, tile left and tile right).
If the tile is

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Article Danny Wijnschenk · Nov 17, 2017 4m read

Advent of Code 2016 Day17: Two Steps Forward

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This is a series of programming challenges for beginners and experienced Caché programmers.

For an introduction : go to article https://community.intersystems.com/post/advent-code-2016-day1-no-time-t…


The challenge today is again a-maze-ing (as a wellknown president would say).


The maze has a bunch of doors ( | and - on the drawing), but they can be locked depending on a hash that you need to calculate every step.

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Question Mike Northrop · Nov 16, 2017

SQL Privileges Export Script by User or Role

I'm trying to write a method to Export SQL Privileges from an instance by namespace, user, or roles. I've found two classes that might work:

  • ##class(Security.Users).Export
  • ##class(Security.SQLPrivileges).Export

One (Security.Users) exports an XML file and the other (Security.SQLPrivileges) exports an SQL file.

Neither of these options allows me to specify specific users or roles to export so I'll have to use them in tandem with something else. Is there something else that I should be using or do I need to find a way to filter on the backend with regular expressions or the like?

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