$P is how I do it as well and due to a quirk of $P you don't even have to set the variable first although if it is possible a value might already exist it is reccommended.

That's a good point and the code base example is useful but the question was specifically for leading zero's and the code base version might be overkill for this.

This is a good idea, hopefully everyone will do this but I did have a problem.

Perhaps I have done this incorrectly but I could not see a way to submit screenshots in the challenge and when you click the "lets review" button,  or whatever the actual text was,  it closes it as completed and there seems no way to submit a screenshot.  Also, the link to the challenge is for the same challenge number as it appears in and it takes you to the Global Masters front page.

Also, you don't seem able to review both as suggested, if you use the link again or search for the platform you haven't reviewed yet it will simply state you have already submitted a review.  I suspect this is because using the link you have to choose between Iris or Cache and so the offer is for one or the other but not both.

Yes, when Cache was up we had a class that would run in Cache Task Manager which would alert on issues and also log metrics.

In Windows we had a script that ran in Scheduled Tasks which would alert if the Cache status was invalid (i.e. not "running" or "down") using "ccontrol list nodisplay > outputfile" or if alerts.log existed.

Hello Evgeny,

Slightly off-topic but it is interesting you are using VSCode.

I have asked at various times, including the last symposium, what the plans are for development tools given that both Studio and Atelier have essentially been end of life for quite a while now, well over a year, but the response is always the same, there is a plan but we cannot announce it yet. 

Is VSCode the way Intersystems is going?  Does this mean we are now relient on 3rd party development tools?  Are there plans to create some way to replicate functionality such as the SOAP wizard in VSCode?

I was hoping there might be some details out of the summit but I haven't seen anything yet.

Regards

David

Hello Evgeny,

Thanks for the response, of course I am aware of the various plugins hence my question of relying on 3rd party tools.

That old post does not really answer the question on what Intersystems future plans for development tools are, it just confirms effective end of life for the current ones.   Also, only fixing critical issues means reported problems will generally not be fixed anymore as they are pretty stable, something I have already experienced.

I don't have a particular problem with moving to VSCode supported by 3rd parties but some confirmation of this from Intersystems so developers can plan to move in that direction would be appreciated but noone seeems to want to commit to any answers.  It also starts the question of how will Intersystems provide the ability for these 3rd party tools to replicate and extend the functionality available already, again there are no answers.

Regards

David

Hello Dmitry,

I have used the extension and am very impressed but obviously any change in toolset has to be agreed accross the business and will require changes to the development and version control process, hence a reluctance until we know what Intersystems have planned.

Apologies if I have missed a feature post but does the extension replicate the Studio Add-Ins such as the SOAP Wizard as these are very useful to us.

Regards

David

Thanks for the clarification.

The fact that the current download is slightly different from the norm due to a Global Summit launch does highlight the need for a brief explanation of the version you are downloading though.

Thanks for adding that, in the case of a preview it might be worth adding this to the "Notes" section to save cross referencing with release notifications or the usual downloads page.

I am in the same position as you, only selectively using full commands or function names, being too much in the habit of MUMPs abbrevations.  Like you though I tend to extend when iterating or using something less usual in the code, I have also found curly braces to be much better for readability than the old block structure.

I also agree that I find it faster to read and write abbrevated code for things like sets and do's and especially for functions such as $p and $g.  Hopefully I can get into the habit of less abreviation as I do notice the new programmers finding this harder.

Probably the biggest habit I have broken is also shown in the bad examples given and shows how long I have been using MUMPS, yes it's entering everything in UPPERCASE.  I finally use camel case and also more meaningful/longer routine and variable names.

That looks better than the WRC supplied code when I fist noticed the binary rather than hex values returned.

set text = "message digest"
  set md5hash = $system.Encryption.MD5Hash(text)
  set md5HashHex = ""
  for i=1:1:$Length(md5hash) {
   set md5HashHex = md5HashHex _ $Zhex($Ascii($Extract(md5hash,i)))
  }
  write md5HashHex, !

I know Jeff and Raj are busy people but there never was a response.

Intersystems simply need to commit to an answer as at this point the actual answer isn't really important anymore, just getting an answer so commitments to any change can be made.

Could you tell us the OS and open command you are using, it might help with suggestions.

As this is a printer I assume X is "|PRN|printername_or_UNC" ?

If you can't see it open already then a failure to open can also indicate a problem with the printer.

We commonly get sites log an issue and it turns out they have changed UNC path/permissions, or the printer is offline/showing an error, and it is this which is the issue.

Does the instance on the test server run with the same credentials as the production server, it could be permissions, also is the test server the same OS as some server versions are more strict if this is a shared printer on another machine.