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| <var class="product">UL/SPF</var> — ''User Language System Productivity Facilities'' — is a family of products developed and owned by Sirius Software, and implemented as <var class="product">User Language</var> application subsystems, designed to function together in a <var class="product">Model 204</var> Online.
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| Each product in the family can be installed and run independently, or each can be installed and run as a component of
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| the integrated <var class="product">UL/SPF</var> framework. All <var class="product">UL/SPF</var> products share a common "look and feel" that is modeled on IBM's ISPF facilities. <var class="product">UL/SPF</var> supplants the sometimes arcane command language of <var class="product">Model 204</var>, providing a highly productive full screen interface to a variety of common <var class="product">Model 204</var>
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| functions.
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| <var class="product">UL/SPF</var> enhances the capabilities of <var class="product">Model 204</var> and bypasses many of its restrictions, enabling the performance of routine tasks that were previously impossible or prohibitively time-consuming.
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| <var class="product">UL/SPF</var> comprises the following products:
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| ==UL/SPF components==
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| <dl>
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| <dt>[[SirDBA]] <dd>A system that analyzes <var class="product">Model 204</var> databases to determine their logical
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| structure, populating an internal catalog. <var class="product">SirDBA</var> is distributed as a
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| component of the Sir2000 Database Analysis Tools.
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| <dt>[[SirFile]] <dd>A comprehensive facility both for monitoring the physical storage utilization
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| of <var class="product">Model 204</var> database files and for warning users of the need for file
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| reorganizations. <var class="product">SirFile</var> maintains historical information that allows it to
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| predict when file sizing problems will occur, allowing a DBA to take
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| preventative action before an application outage results.
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| <dt>[[SirLib]] <dd>A powerful and flexible system that provides change management and
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| configuration control for <var class="product">Model 204</var> <var class="product">User Language</var> applications. <var class="product">SirLib</var> is
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| fully integrated within the <var class="product">Model 204</var> programming environment, supporting
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| unique <var class="product">Model 204</var> constructs such as file groups, while remaining nearly
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| transparent to programmers.
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| <dt>[[SirMon]] <dd>A comprehensive facility for monitoring the performance and availability of
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| <var class="product">Model 204</var> online systems. <var class="product">SirMon</var> combines the real time monitoring of
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| <var class="product">Model 204</var> performance with intelligent full screen displays that facilitate
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| System Manager duties.
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| <dt>[[SirPro]] <dd>A collection of powerful and easy to use tools for programmers, database
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| administrators, and application managers. <var class="product">SirPro</var> provides programmers
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| with powerful facilities for managing large libraries of <var class="product">User Language</var>
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| procedures, and it provides system managers with intuitive ISPF-like front
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| ends to many <var class="product">Model 204</var> system management commands.
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| <dt>[[SirScan]] <dd>A high performance utility that allows users in a <var class="product">Model 204</var> Online to
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| browse the contents of its journal in real time. <var class="product">SirScan</var> permits ordinary
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| users to view journal entries generated by their own online session, and it
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| allows users in ADMIN SCLASSes to browse journal entries for any set of
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| users. The data is displayed in a full-screen browser with powerful
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| searching commands and filtering options.
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| </dl>
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| In addition, a number of subsystems that are not linked into the <var class="product">UL/SPF</var> menuing
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| structure may be accessed via APSY-transfer from the <var class="product">UL/SPF</var> applications. One such
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| subsystem is FACT, a utility for browsing <var class="product">[http://m204wiki.rocketsoftware.com/images/f/fb/FactrNew.pdf SirFact]</var> dumps.
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| There are also many sample web and client-server applications developed for the Janus
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| product family that are distributed and installed along with the <var class="product">UL/SPF</var> products. These
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| include JANCAT, an application that builds normalized views of <var class="product">Model 204</var> data for use
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| by <var class="product">Janus Specialty Data Store</var> applications, and JANSSL, a system for creating and
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| managing SSL certificate requests.
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| ==UL/SPF packaging and installation requirements==
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| All of the <var class="product">UL/SPF</var> products are <var class="product">Model 204</var> application subsystems
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| written in <var class="product">User Language</var>.
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| <var class="product">UL/SPF</var> is distributed as a set of <var class="product">Model 204</var> files in a backup
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| format produced by the <var class="product">Model 204</var> <var>DUMP</var> command.
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| All <var class="product">User Language</var> based products are
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| distributed in a single <var class="product">Model 204</var> procedure file called <b>SIRIUS</b>.
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| <var class="product">UL/SPF</var> makes extensive use of specialized <var class="product">User Language</var> $functions
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| provided by Sirius Software.
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| These $functions enable the creation of powerful <var class="product">User Language</var>
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| application systems that can support complex environments with minimal
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| server size requirements.
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| The $functions are part of the <var class="product">Sirius Mods</var>, which must be
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| installed according to the instructions contained in the
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| <var class="book">[http://m204wiki.rocketsoftware.com/images/c/c9/SiriNew.pdf Sirius Mods Installation Guide]</var>
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| before any <var class="product">UL/SPF</var> product will work.
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| The use of the [[List of $functions|Sirius $functions]]
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| is controlled by a product authorization mechanism.
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| Many functions require that a specific <var class="product">UL/SPF</var> product be authorized.
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| Some functions may only be invoked from an authorized procedure that
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| has been "signed" by Sirius.
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| The <var>SIRIUS</var> command may be used to examine the
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| status of all Sirius products installed in a <var class="product">Model 204</var> Online.
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| ==Integrating <var class="product">UL/SPF</var> with other subsystems==
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| <var class="product">UL/SPF</var> and any of its constituent products can be easily integrated
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| with other <var class="product">User Language</var> subsystems.
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| Whenever a <var class="product">UL/SPF</var> component product is exiting, it first checks to see if
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| the global variable <var>SIRIUS.COMM</var> exists and has a
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| non-null value.
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| If so, the <var class="product">UL/SPF</var> product performs a subsystem transfer using the value
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| in <var>SIRIUS.COMM</var> as the name of the target subsystem.
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| For example, the following code fragment lets you transfer into <code>SIRMON</code>.
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| When <code>SIRMON</code> exits, control is transferred
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| to the application subsystem <code>MENUSYS</code>, provided that <code>NEXTPROC</code>
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| is the current subsystem's communication global variable:
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| <p class="code">%rc = $Setg('SIRIUS.COMM','MENUSYS')
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| %rc = $Setg('NEXTPROC','XFER')
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| %rc = $Setg('XFER','SIRMON')
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| STOP
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| </p>
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| In addition to the individual <var class="product">User Language</var> subsystems that implement
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| the <var class="product">UL/SPF</var> products,
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| Sirius distributes an umbrella <var class="product">UL/SPF</var> subsystem:
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| The <b>ULSPF</b> subsystem provides a menu that contains entries for
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| all <var class="product">UL/SPF</var> components installed at a site.
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| The <var class="product">UL/SPF</var> subsystems support fast-path navigation.
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| For example, a <var class="product">SirMon</var> user can transfer into <var class="product">SirPro</var>
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| Option 1 by typing:
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| <p class="code">=M.1.1</p>
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| ==UL/SPF installation==
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| Installing <var class="product">UL/SPF</var> requires downloading the SIRIUS file and restoring it to your environment, setting up some subsidiary <var class="product">Model 204</var> files, and verifying that the environment has the appropriate parameter settings. For details, see [[UL/SPF installation guide]].
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| Upgrades to <var class="product">UL/SPF</var> can almost always be handled by restoring a fresh copy of the SIRIUS file.
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| [[Category: Sirius Software products]]
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