#Terminal

This post is originally posted on GitHub.

This discussion is open to anyone who use or know about WebTerminal project. It is a result of a long story of the project development, testing and maintaining.

While WebTerminal greatly improves user experience by enhancing standard terminal with additional features, there are numerous issues (#77, #92, #81, #87 and others) showing that it performs not as expected in some cases, and does not support some very basic things (like $ZA/$ZB variables).

Hi,

I have a problem with the recent update 4.9.4 of the WebTerminal.

This message appeared after the loading of the page :

New update is available. Click here to install it now. Changelist:
4.9.4: No longer require /terminal to be at the root of the URL

So I installed the new version. Unfortunatly, after refreshing the page, I have this message again and again :

WebTerminal lost connection with server (code 1006).
Attempting to restore session in 10 seconds...
Please, refresh the web page to start a new session.

WebTerminal lost connection with server (code 1006

Hi Community!

How can I know the port of management portal e.g. from terminal?

The one which looks like

localhost:port/csp/sys/exp/%25CSP.Portal.Home.zen 

in browser?

I need to perform additional checks before Cache user logins (let's say in a terminal for simplicity) and allow access only to those, who passed them. How do I do it?

Hi, folks!

Do you know the option/mode when I can feed multiline code into a terminal?

E.g. 

for i=1:1:100 {

/// do one line

///do something else}

I am new to using containers. I am working on trying to specify some of the SAM settings and wondered how to access the terminal while IRIS is running in a Container. Can someone help me out?

If I open a terminal and type the following commands, sc is an error:

set validator = "sc = ##class(%Library.Numeric).IsValid(""BLAH"")"
set @validator
write sc

At the end, when I write sc I get:

0 L'BLAH9
             DOCXT010,#e^zIsValid+1^%Library.Numeric.1^1e^^^1

However, if I call the following class method using the arguments "%Library.Numeric" and "BLAH", sc is undefined

 ClassMethod testvalidator(class As %String, value As %String) As %Status
{
set validator = "sc = ##class("_class_").IsValid("""_value_""")"
write validator,!
set @validator
write sc,!

version cache for windows, 2017.2.1 build 801_3 - windows 10

I had this system set up for 3+ years now, and background tasks such as converting emails,  have always worked, suddenly it's stopped working and I've tracked it down to any network references.

reading the emails, I look for any attachment files, and save them to a network drive before processing them within a class method,

I've been testing it by sending exactly the same email repeatedly and checking the saving of the attached file in both the background and in the terminal.

Hello!

I am taking the 'Creating an InterSystems Class Definition' course, and the Exercices asks to open a Terminal from the Management Portal to create and interact with a new object. I didn't found how to acces tot the Terminal from the Management Portal, and the documentation I have seen doesn't help me... 

In some moment I saw a video wich explains how to acces to the terminal, but I can't find it. ¿Can someone explains me how to find the Terminal acces?

Thank you!

HI,

I am a newbie so excuse my basic questions.

I have installed Caché on Mac Os High Sierra 10.13.6 and have started the ObjectScript tutorial but I cannot open Terminal in Caché.

The instructions provided on the tutorial don't appear to be for Mac OS as there is no cube icon:

n order to begin practicing using ObjectScript, you need to start the Terminal. Click the Caché cube iconin the task bar and select Terminal from the menu. This brings up the terminal window, and you can see from the prompt that we are in the USER namespace.

 hi, everybody!

i wanna connect to a remote server  through Terminal.  

after i add a server in [Preferred Server] and click the  server name(  [Remote System Access]->[Terminal] -> server name) 

i got an Error dialog telling me that:

Failed to establish security context.

Reason:(-2146893042, 0x8009030e)No credentials are available in the security package

so do i miss some configuration?  

Grateful for your help!

I am trying to add Web Terminal as a feature for my team to use. 

I installed webterminal via zpm "install webterminal" ran on %SYS on our Development box.

%SYS>zpm "install webterminal"

[%SYS|webterminal]      Reload START (/ensemble/DEV/mgr/.modules/%SYS/webterminal/4.9.6/)
[%SYS|webterminal]      Reload SUCCESS
[webterminal]   Module object refreshed.
[%SYS|webterminal]      Validate START
[%SYS|webterminal]      Validate SUCCESS
[%SYS|webterminal]      Compile START
Recompiling WebTerminal, skipping the deletion...
Installing WebTerminal application to %SYS

When deploying IRIS in a container, what are recommendations for permitting users terminal access? There is docker exec -it, but that does not work from a user's workstation where - in the old deployment model - they would connect to the server over ssh using Putty and open a terminal session from there.

HI,

I have been using evaluation version of Cache 2017.2, it was working fine and I was using Cache studio, SMP  & Cache Terminal/console till yesterday.

Today, cache was in shutdown status, then I restarted.  But, Cache terminal is not working and showing as Access Denied while otherthings like studio and SMP is working as expected. I checked all security level services on SMP, all are fine and enabled.

Can anyone help me to diagnose the problem and make it working.

Thanks.

Hi folks!

When I launch IRIS as a docker container instance, e.g. like this one:

docker run --name iris-sql -d --publish 9091:1972 --publish 9092:52773 intersystemsdc/iris-community

And then try to connect to it e.g. via irissqlcli it says I need to change the password:

irissqlcli iris://_SYSTEM:SYS@localhost:9091/USER

Password change required

I know that I can open Management portal http://localhost:9092/csp/sys/UtilHome.csp and change password manually, but is there a programmatic way?

Say if I have a password in a file and I can just provide it to docker instance for the change?

Let's say I have this simple script  file try.script

write 1
write 0

I can execute it in a terminal (csession) by calling:

csession cache < try.script

And I get the following output:

%SYS>
1
%SYS>
0

However I want to use a try catch block in my script:

try {
write 1/0
catch {}
halt

But as script is executed line by line, it's interpreted like this:

%SYS>
TRY {
      ^
<SYNTAX>
%SYS>

WRITE 1/0
^
<DIVIDE>
%SYS>

CATCH {}
^
<SYNTAX>
%SYS>

I know that I can write it all in 1 line, but I'd rather not do that. Is there a way to feed multiline statement into Cache?

Hi, Community!

Is there an option to get an archived file of globals in one command. Say for:

Do $System.OBJ.Export("Class1*D.GBL,Class2*D.GBL","data_gbl.xml")

get something like:

Do $System.OBJ.Export("Data*D.GBL","data_gbl.gz","gzip")

And also to have the convenient one click way to  import it to the namespace via terminal or Control Panel?

If anyone already has this module, share please?

It would be very convenient for import/export/continuous integration purposes cause globals can be really heavy.

How to run cache programs(studio) from the command prompt?

I used Cache 2016.

I used the following statement to sort after paging, but suggested an error:

SELECT *
FROM
  (SELECT sslog.userRowid,
          sslog.CreateDate,
          sslog.CreateTime,
          Sslog.SSUSR,
          sslog.Terminal,
          ssuser.Initials,
          ssuser.USName
   FROM SUser_Log sslog
   LEFT JOIN DHC_SSuser ssuser ON (Sslog.SSUSR = ssuser.userRowid
                                   OR sslog.ssusr = ssuser.Initials
                                   OR sslog.ssusr = ssuser.USName)
   WHERE ssuser.USName ['admin'
   ORDER BY sslog.

Hello everyone, I'm trying to run a cache terminal script from cmd/ batch.
I run it like this C:\MyCache\bin#cterm.exe C:\Users\Me\Desktop\cache_scrip.scr
The command opens a terminal, but nothing happens, no title present, no log file written, no output, it's just stucked.
Here is my script:

case match: off
title MyTitle
; wait for the terminal to initialize and ask for our identification
echo: on
wait for:Username
send: MeUser<CR>
wait for:Password
send: mepass<CR>
logfile: C:\Users\Me\Desktop\cache_script.

New to IRIS. Installed docker container as per instructions. From my system I run:

# docker exec -it iris bash

and then try to start a terminal session, which fails

irisowner@2f54ebfbc52f:~$ irissession IRIS

How do I successfully start a terminal session?

Hello,

I have been involved with using terminal scripts lately (I use GE Centricity Business), that usually do not go beyond 'send:' and 'wait for:' commands.  Notwithstanding, I have been stuck with the message boxes since the script recorder does not record over this whenever I need to click 'Yes' in a given message box prompt which aggressively stops my scripts/macros from continuing.  I know that this commands are labeled 'Extended Escape Sequences', but I have been looking all over at the Intersystems document repository with no luck in finding anything of the sort.

For my Embedded Python ONLY demo package I need some user input.
Similar to ObjectScript

read "say somthing",reply

I use the Python equivalent

reply = input("say something")

And this works excellent without problems  from Terminal or Doker console

BAD SURPRISE: 
withWebTermnial ObjectSscript works fine, but embedded Python fails badly.

I do not care about line terminators without <CR>
but it is just impossible to receive any input.

This is no improvement. The content is missing !!!!

QUESTION to the experts.

I want to determine what service (eg. %Service_Console) is used for current process.

I can probably use some workarounds, i.e.

• Is %request object present
• Does $Device  contain |TRM|
• etc

But is there any centralised way to get current service?

I am trying to capture the write of a method to test the response in an unit test. I know everything works because one of my colleagues ran the code and did not froze on his machine.

I don't what is the cause of the freeze. I know that at line Use $io::("^"_$ZNAME) it stopes because i have put some write functions after every line in WriteCapture method and i only saw the first write function in terminal

I also used debug and in this case it didn't froze

PS: forgot to put the status in the XECUTE (vstrCommand , .

Hello Community
I was running code in the terminal and attempted to interrupt its execution. During that process, I encountered an application error with a log entry dated 01/06/1841, the date seems unusual.

Error <INTERRUPT>ErrST+6^%ETN occurred within %ETN itself. Detailed information cannot be logged.

Hi Developers 

Is there any way that we can pass the values to the read prompts via cache routine.

For example, we have a couple of reports/routine in our system which accepts some inputs and after taking the inputs it generates some data. Right now it has proper UI and where User enters the value and in routines we have Read statements which accepts those inputs for further processing.

How could I log out from Cache terminal (connected through csession) and back to the system shell?

Thanks.

Hi,

is anyone using Powershell to access Caché terminal in non-english systems?

I'm trying to access using: csession INSTANCE

But from the beginning it fails to represent spanish characters like ñ,...

It doesn't recognize  up-down cursor keys to see previous commands...

Any idea?

Hey ISC Community!

For a small automation feature I would like to login to the IRIS shell non-interactively, skipping the whole username and password prompts, providing the credentials through other means. Something in the fashion of "iris session <instance-name> --user myuser --pass mypass" would be great, but the session tool itself doesn't seem to be capable of doing this.

Does anyone know a way to accomplish this? It need not be through "iris session", any way that can be automated would be fine. Disabling authentication for the terminal is not an option, though.