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Letter from Susie

June finally brought summer weather to Colorado, as well as a summer intern for U2 Support. We have two other new employees, one in Development and one in Product Management. So between the sunny days and the increase in energy brought by new people, things have been sizzlin' in our Denver office: We released two major product updates, SB/XA 6.1 and U2 DataVu 2.0, delivering new features and functionality requested by our customers. See below for further details or, better yet, order an evaluation copy of either product. I hope the summer weather is invigorating for you as well. Who needs those "lazy, hazy days..."?

In addition to US 4th of July holiday, the U2 team WW celebrated the end of a very successful quarter and first half of the year. Thanks to all U2 customers, as well as to the WW U2 sales team!

Susie Siegesmund
Vice President and General Manager, Rocket U2


Rocket U2 Professional Services

Would you like to know what your application is really writing to disk?

Both UniData's Recoverable File System (RFS) and UniVerse's Transaction Logging (TL) build transaction logs that can be analyzed to determine what is really being written to your disk drives. Rocket U2 Professional Services is developing a technique to analyze the RFS & TL logs to determine what is actually happening on your data server. As always, if you can't see something happening, you can't fix it. During a recent Proof Of Concept (POC), Rocket found a significant application error for a customer that saved over 1 million writes during a monthly/quarterly process. Please email u2services@rs.com for more information.

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Product Information

Product Availability

The following products are scheduled for release:

  • System Builder SB/XA 6.1.0 for Windows and UNIX
  • U2 DataVu 2.0
  • UniVerse 11.1.3 for HP/UX Itanium and Solaris SPARC

For information on the latest releases of U2 products, go to rocketsoftware.com/u2/support and click on "Product availability".

Standby Licenses: More Affordable and More Flexible

Standby licenses are available for high availability configurations to speed recovery in case of system or site failure. Effective July 15th we are now offering new, tiered pricing and more flexible usage rules. Standby licenses may now be used for the following read-only purposes: reporting, dashboards, replication and extraction. For more information, contact your U2 Business Partner or u2sales@rs.com.

Product Availability Matrix (PAM) changes

With the new release of the PAM, you will need to sign into an authorized U2 TechConnect account to see detailed information, such as alerts and notices. The new "Notice" link, if available in the notes column of PAM, will take you to an entitled technote about key known issues in product releases. If you have any questions, please email us at u2askus@rs.com.

Early Programs

Are you interested in trying out the latest technology and giving feedback on design and implementation of upcoming features? Email us at u2askus@rs.com.


Resources

ZoneLink: Now Freely Viewable and Shareable

We are pleased to announce that we have opened up the content of U2 DeveloperZone so that you can freely view any videos or articles without first logging in. We hope this will make the site even easier to use and even easier to share. Feel free to link to articles, tutorials and videos by email or at your website. We will be adding handy buttons on the site later to do this, but in the meantime you can use ShareThis, a free service with browser plug-ins for all the popular browsers. Start sharing at www.sharethis.com and spread the word about U2 DeveloperZone.

Zone in at www.u2devzone.com and give us your feedback at u2askus@rs.com.

Webinars

Visit our Webinar page to access our library of recorded webinars.

SB/XA V6.1 - Getting caught in the .NET
SB/XA introduces new capabilities to extend your application with state-of-the-art UI Controls.

This webinar will show you how to take advantage of the thousands of commercial and free controls available to extend your SB/XA application. Register for a session now by clicking a date and time below:

Podcasts

Click here to visit our library of podcasts. Subscribe on iTunes!.

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Education and Training

Upcoming Classes

The following classes are scheduled in the U.S. for July and August 2011:

Class Duration Location Date
SB600: Using SystemBuilder Extensible Architecture 4 days
Denver
19 Jul
U2100: Java Application Development Using UniObjects 4 days
Online
26 Jul
U2800: UniVerse Fundamentals 4 days
Denver/
Online
2 Aug
U2200: UniData Fundamentals 4 days
Denver/
Online
9 Aug
U2151: UniObjects.NET Development for U2 2 days
Online
16 Aug
UD200: UniData Administration 4 days
Online
23 Aug
UD225: UniData Recoverable File System 2 days
Denver
29 Aug
UD230: UniData Data Replication Administration 3 days
Denver
31 Aug

For more information about the class, click on the class name. For any questions or to register, email u2training@rs.com.

New Hybrid Course Offering

We are pleased to announce the upcoming availability of a hybrid course offering in the U.S. Starting with our upcoming Fundamentals courses, we will offer you the choice of traditional instructor-led training in our Denver offices or online training at the same time. Some people learn better by having an instructor available in person, others do better in an on-line environment or simply wish to save on travel & living expenses by doing training via the web. You decide what works for you and your budget! For more information, or to register, email u2training@rs.com or call +1-303-720-475-8000, option 8.

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Support Corner

Public Tech Notes

How do I use the udtdiag utility?
What is this command used for? How do you run the udtdiag command? Where can I get the newest version of the script? -> 1296473.

U2 Support "Entitled" Tech Notes

Access to this knowledge base is available to Rocket Software Business Partners with a valid maintenance agreement, Tiered Partners of Distributors, and customers with a valid U2 maintenance agreement directly through Rocket Software. To access these tech notes, visit u2tc.rocketsoftware.com - you need to register and sign in to U2 TechConnect in order to access entitled documents. For more information, select the link "Discover how to access U2 Entitled Documents in the Knowledgebase" found near the top center of the page located at u2tc.rocketsoftware.com. After you "Sign in", select "U2 knowledge base" in the left sidebar.

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Community

Partner News

CfBT Education Trust
CACI OfficeBase, powered by Rocket U2, helps CfBT Education Trust manage more than 60% of school inspections across the North of England.

User Group News

Colorado MultiValue User Group (CMUG)
At the July 12th meeting of CMUG, Doug Averch of U2Logic presented part two of the Eclipse programming training. He covered Eclipse basics for those that missed part one and then built on that with compiling options, linked projects and version control.


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Letter from Susie
Letter from Susie

Professional Services
Would you like to know what your application is really writing to disk?

Product Information
Product Availability
Standby Licenses: More Affordable and More Flexible
Product Availability Matrix (PAM) changes
Early Programs

Resources
ZoneLink
Webinars
Podcasts

Education and Training
Upcoming Classes
New Hybrid Course Offering

Support
Support Corner

Community
Partner News
User Group News
About this Newsletter

U2 News Flash is a monthly newsletter that provides current product release announcements and other news on U2 information management software designed to help you overcome your key business challenges. U2 University events, solutions and strategies from the Support Corner, as well as important product tips are highlighted in each issue.

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