sunflash-Distributed to mailing list sunflash@suntri sunflash-Send requests and problem reports to owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Third Party Product Announcements SunFLASH Vol 53 #38 May 1993 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary 53.38.A ixVIEW/SQL - Point-and-click access to Oracle/Informix iXVIEW/SQL provides an easy-to-use point-and-click method for extracting information from existing databases. 53.38.B FrameMerger: Links Oracle/Informix with FrameMaker For custom Docs Users can create sophisticated, mail-merged documents using iXVIEW/SQL - a powerful graphical query generator - and FrameMaker 53.38.C Aurora 16-Port Sbus Termial/Comms SBus card All 16 high-speed ports have full modem support. All lines can run at upto 115.2Kbps simultaneously. 53.38.D GUI-based EMail and communications configuration package UUCPADM allows users to set up UUCP and modems such as telebit's trailblazers, from an easy to use GUI. 53.38.E New Automatic Debugger Released - Insight Insight is a powerful, new environment for the development of "Total Quality Software(tm)." Insight automatically detects large classes of programming and runtime errors. 53.38.F DU PONT PIXEL SHIPS PX/IRIS EXPLORER PX/IRIS Explorer is a full-function, high performance implementation of Silicon Graphics' Explorer. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Details -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: ixVIEW/SQL - Point-and-click access to Oracle/Informix From: shirleyk@qualix.com (Shirley Kumamoto) Org: Qualix Group voice: (415) 572-0200 1-800-245-UNIX fax: (415) 572-1300 e-mail: info@qualix.com iXVIEW/SQL provides an easy-to-use point-and-click method for extracting information from existing databases. iXVIEW/SQL is useful for everyone from non-programmers to the database expert. Users can become productive within an hour, with no programming background. With FrameMerger, you can easily create mail-merged FrameMaker letters using your relational database. Features: Comprehensive Picture of All Database Tables o iXVIEW/SQL displays the names of all the tables. The original tables, as set up by the administrator, are shown in bold type, as well as new VIEWs constructed by the user. Standard Queries are Fast and Easy o Standard queries can be made simply by clicking the mouse. An X Window display of the selected records is presented as seen in the graphic above. o An advanced built-in parser dynamically checks the user's input allowing only legal commands to be entered. Helpful Prompts and Join Suggestions o When the contents of two or more tables is required, iXVIEW/SQL automatically suggests joins which can be accepted or changed at will. Full Listing of Column Names o iXVIEW/SQL displays all the column names of the selected tables. You can then choose the required columns wit the mouse. Simplifies Complex Calculations o iXVIEW/SQL lets the user select from a palette of many different legal functions and operations to simplify calculations. Advanced Features for Expert Queries o For more complicated database queries, iXVIEW/SQL offers the "expert query", which allows the user to point-and-click to build up intricate selections. Many Ways to View the Data o Once the required information has been selected, iXVIEW/SQL offers simple but varied means to organize and present the results in the desired format. Just click the mouse to re-format the data. Reusable Views for Maximum Productivity o Once you have selected data and formatted your results, this VIEW can be saved for reuse or editing or merging with other VIEWs. Built-in Graphics o In addition to the standard tabular form of results presentation, iXVIEW/SQL can also generate colorful pie charts. Power Printing o Whichever output style you choose, tabular or pie chart, iXVIEW/SQL can print your selected information in PostScript or in standard Ascii. Easy Import/Export Capability o iXVIEW/SQL offers an open external interface enabling easy connection from and to other software programs. The results of your query can be transferred to a spreadsheet, word processing system, graphics package or to your own programs. Pricing ------ Single user license $995 Quantity discounts available Platform Support ---------------- Hardware/Operating System Database ------------------------- -------- SunSPARCStation/Server/SunOS 4.1.x INFORMIX 2.1 and 4.0 ORACLE 6.0 IBM RS/6000/AIX 3.1 or higher INFORMIX 4.0 ORACLE 6.0 Intel 80386/486-PC/SCO Open Desktop 1.x INFORMIX 2.1 Intel 80386/486-PC/ SVR4 INFORMIX 2.1 and 4.0 ORACLE 6.0 Windows Requirements ------------------- X11 R 3 and above OSF/Motif 1.x -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: FrameMerger: Links Oracle/Informix with FrameMaker For custom Docs From: shirleyk@qualix.com (Shirley Kumamoto) Org: Qualix Group voice: (415) 572-0200 1-800-245-UNIX fax: (415) 572-1300 e-mail: info@qualix.com FrameMerger - Links Industry-leading Desktop Publishing Application (FrameMaker) with Popular Relational Databases FrameMerger lets users create sophisticated, mail-merged documents using their corporate relational databases and Frame Technologies' FrameMaker desktop publishing software. FrameMerger uses iXVIEW/SQL, (see iXVIEW/SQL information) a powerful graphical query generator that lets nonprogrammers make ad-hoc queries of Oracle and Informix relational databases without knowledge of SQL. o Simplifies creation of sophisticated business correspondence. Users easily select customer names and addresses from their database, import the information directly into a FrameMaker document, and print letters on a PostScript printer. o Point-and-click selection of information from the database. No knowledge of SQL is required. o Powerful editing tools let users easily create customized communications, internationalize their mailings, and automate document production. o Provides flexible printing options. The user can choose to print the entire list or only segments. Users can specify how many letters are sent in batch to the printer, for optimizing printer speed. Pricing ------- Single user license (includes iXVIEW/SQL) $2,995 Quantity discounts available Platform Support ---------------- Hardware/Operating System Database ------------------------- -------- SunSPARCStation/Server/SunOS 4.1.x INFORMIX 2.1, 4.0, 5.0 ORACLE 6.0 Intel 80386/486-PC/SCO Open Desktop 1.x INFORMIX 2.1,4.0,5.0 Intel 80386/486-PC/ SVR4 INFORMIX 2.1,4.0,5.0 Windows Requirements ------------------- X11 R 3 and above OSF/Motif 1.x -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Aurora 16-Port Sbus Termial/Comms SBus card From: balasco@auratek.com (Alfred P. Balasco) Org: Aurora Technologies Phone: (617) 290-4800 Fax: (617) 290-4844 email: sales@auratek.com AURORA TECHNOLOGIES INTRODUCES HIGH SPEED 16-PORT TERMINAL/COMMUNICATIONS SERVER WITH FULL MODEM SUPPORT 1600SE ideal foundation for midsize SPARC system-based client-server environments Waltham, MA, May 26, 1993 -- Aurora Technologies introduced the Multiport Model 1600SE, a high-speed, 16 port SBus serial terminal and communications server. The 1600SE supports terminals, plotters, and other RS-232 devices, including 16-line modem support for communications-intensive applications. Optional RS422/485 peripheral support is also available. The 1600SE provides a powerful, low-cost solution for SPARC workstation information systems in office automation, finance and insurance, and telecommunications settings. In applications requiring multi-line data feeds, messaging, and remote data access, the 1600SE is the ideal solution. On-board intelligence using the latest revision Cirrus Logic RISC processors and buffered I/O ensures data integrity and optimum throughput under the most demanding SPARC system configurations. System CPU workloads are offloaded to the board, improving system efficiency and allowing applications to run faster with all lines running simultaneously up to 115.2Kbps. Because the 1600SE is SBus, rather than ethernet-based, system expansion adds no network traffic, preserving valuable network bandwidth. The 1600SE device driver is Solaris 1.X and 2.X compatible, and runs on the SS1, SS1+, SS2, IPC, IPX, MP600, SS10, SPARCserver2000, SPARCclassic, SPARCstation LX, SPARC Engine 1E/2E, and most compatibles. The 1600SE is now shipping and is available for $1199.00. Aurora Technologies, Inc., engineers, manufactures, and markets a complete range of workstation performance enhancement and expansion products that provide the foundation for business-wide open systems solutions based on the SPARC architecture. From SBus terminal and peripheral servers, and system expansion products, to networking communications products, and imaging and OCR software, Aurora products are designed to offer users, resellers, and OEMs broad functionality and easy systems integration. Founded in 1988 by members of Sun Microsystems' marketing and engineering teams, Aurora is a member of SPARC International and a strategy level member of Sun's third-party developer Catalyst program. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: GUI-based EMail and communications configuration package Newsgroups: comp.newprod Contact: John Mainini Org: Intelligent Computer Solutions Worldwide, Inc. Voice: 602-998-8623 Fax: 602-991-1437 Address: 14433 North 73rd Street Scottsdale, AZ 85260 USA E-mail: uucpadm@icsw.Com ICSW ANNOUNCES UUCPADM(tm) FOR SUN SYSTEMS THE FIRST GUI-BASED E-MAIL AND COMMUNICATIONS CONFIGURATION AND MONITORING PACKAGE SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, April 12, 1993 -- Intelligent Computer Solutions Worldwide (ICSW) Inc. today announced the introduction of UUCPADM, the first comprehensive GUI-based package for configuring, testing and maintaining local and remote E-MAIL, asynchronous communications ports, modems, and the Uucp network data communications package. UUCPADM greatly simplifies the task of configuring a Unix system to exchange E-mail and other data over dialup connections. Currently, the average user must read hundreds of pages of instructions and manually editing a multitude of interrelated cryptic files. With UUCPADM, an unsophisticated user can accomplish in minutes what a skilled system administrator or a $150/hour consultant may take days to do. The Uucp network data communications software, an optional package bundled with the Solaris operating environment, provides a widely supported method for point to point (dialup) data exchange. It is the foundation for E-mail between sites that do not share a common local area network such as ethernet or token ring. This vital link with the outside world has proven to be a nightmare to properly configure and maintain, until now. UUCPADM is a powerful yet easy to use package that is useful to both novices and experts. While the beginning user may elect to use automatically determined intelligent defaults, the more sophisticated user is provided access to all aspects of the system configuration, such as specific register values in modem configurations. Context-sensitive help is available throughout the program to provide instant answers to any questions. FUTURE FEATURES: Additional modems, FAX, and third party serial communications device support will be available later this year as an inexpensive upgrade. REQUIREMENTS: Hardware: All Sun 4 / SPARCstation Operating System: Solaris 1.x (SunOS 4.1+) Solaris 2.x available 93Q3 Windowing System: OpenWindows 3.0+ Disk Space: 4Mb Modems: Telebit, Motorola/UDS, MultiTech, Practical Peripherals / Hayes Media: 3.5" floppy disks Other media available on special request -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: New Automatic Debugger Released - Insight Newsgroups: comp.newprod From: ahicken@parasoft.com (Arthur Hicken) Prg: ParaSoft Corporation voice: (818) 792-9941 fax: (818) 792-0819 Address: 2500 E. Foothill Blvd. #205 Pasadena, CA. 91107-3464 email: insight@parasoft.com Insight is a powerful, new environment for the development of "Total Quality Software(tm)." Insight automatically detects large classes of programming and runtime errors. It quickly pinpoints algorithmic anomalies, bugs, and deficiencies. Insight also visualizes the execution of a program and the concurrent data manipulation, helping you to understand how the code actually operates. Insight improves software reliability by verifying memory references and program implementation. Insight pinpoints bugs quickly, then provides all the information necessary to repair the bug immediately. Once the software is functioning, Insight provides tools for optimizing software performance. Insight finds a wide variety of programming errors, memory access errors, and library interface errors including: o Memory corruption due to reading or writing beyond the valid areas of global, local, shared, and dynamically allocated objects. o Operations on uninitialized, NULL, or "wild" pointers. o Memory leaks. o Errors allocating and freeing dynamic memory. o String manipulation errors. o Operations on pointers to unrelated data blocks. o Invalid pointer operations. o Incompatible variable declarations. o Mismatched variable types in printf and scanf argument lists. o Mismatched argument types or function declarations. o Out of range, or otherwise invalid arguments in library calls. o Errors returned by library calls. Insight checks all types of memory references, including those to static(global), stack, and shared memory, as well as dynamically allocated memory. When Insight finds a problem, it provides a complete diagnosis, including the name of related variables, the line of source code containing the error, a description of the error, and a stack trace. By adding a simple switch during compilation, Insight finds algorithmic anomalies, bugs, and deficiencies by creating a DataTrack file which contains a "video recording" of your program's execution. You play this back using Invision, which shows you how your program manipulates its data. Invision displays multiple images of your data and updates them while showing the lines of source code as they are executed. Insight requires NO MODIFICATION of the source code. You use Insight by processing your program with the special "Insight" program in place of your normal compiler. This creates a version of your code which includes calls to the Insight library. Then you run the resulting program in the normal fashion. Insight works with all popular compilers. - cc, gcc, acc, etc. Insight will check modules written in languages other than C, such as Fortran, Ada, Pascal, etc. Insight can check third party libraries and functions thoroughly, at the interface level. It verifies parameter types and ranges. It also checks return error codes. Insight includes built-in interface tests for hundreds of libraries. You can construct additional interface checks easily, with the interface definition features of Insight. Insight is available for HP 9000 series, IBM RS/6000, Sun/Sparc, DEC Alpha, DEC Ultrix, SGI machines and Cray. Other ports are planned for the next few months - call us for details or with your suggestions. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: DU PONT PIXEL SHIPS PX/IRIS EXPLORER Contact: Mike King 70672,474@compuserve.com Org: Du Pont Pixel Phone: 703-264-8750 Revolutionizes Application Development On The SPARC Platform SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- Du Pont Pixel announced at Sun World '93 that it is shipping PX/IRIS Explorer, its revolutionary application builder and user-definable software environment for SPARC. The company will demonstrate the product for the first time at the show. Already widely used in the Silicon Graphics community, Du Pont Pixel's release of PX/IRIS Explorer for the SPARC is a significant milestone in graphics development for the SPARC platform. A full-function, high performance implementation of Silicon Graphics' Explorer, PX/IRIS Explorer blurs the sharp line between using and writing an application, enabling users to deliver a solution without incurring the high costs associated with conventional programming. IRIS Explorer allows users to create or tailor an application without programming and allows developers to create, prototype and deliver custom solutions much faster than using conventional methods. Interoperability across multi-platform networks enables users to exploit PX/IRIS Explorer's full potential without any need for data transfer or conversion. Users manipulate pre-written functional modules to build the application required. Each of these modules performs a self-contained function such as data input, format conversion, rendering, image processing or computation. More advanced users and developers are able to create new modules using PX/IRIS Explorer's software engineering environment, Module Builder. These modules can then be incorporated into existing applications or made available to other Explorer users. "PX/IRIS Explorer is a new paradigm for delivering powerful and portable visualization solutions," commented Mike King, Du Pont Pixel's marketing manager. "Its release is the first real step towards true, multi-platform graphics computing for both programmers and nonprogrammers." Based on Du Pont Pixel's PX/IRIS GL, an implementation of Silicon Graphic's IRIS GL 4.0 which provides five times the performance of Sun's XGL, PX/IRIS Explorer is able to deliver a high performance implementation on most SPARCstations without additional acceleration. Users are able to realize even greater levels of performance and 24-bit display capabilities by upgrading with a Du Pont Pixel accelerator. PX/IRIS Explorer is available now through Du Pont Pixel and its network of distributors. Du Pont Pixel is a subsidiary of Du Pont, a $40 billion chemicals, fibers and electronics company. Du Pont Pixel products enhance the SUN platform in applications such as visualization, medical imaging, earth sciences and electronic publishing. The company is a charter member of Sun's Open Graphics Initiative, and develops hardware and software for accelerating 3D graphics, image processing and numerical processing on SUN SPARCstations. Du Pont Pixel is a member of SPARC International, the Catalyst Program and is an IRIS Geometry Partner. ### Du Pont Pixel is the worldwide trading name of Du Pont Pixel Systems Limited. PX/15 PowerGL and PX/IRIS GL are trademarks of Du Pont Pixel Systems Limited. Silicon Graphics, IRIS and IRIS Explorer is are trademarks of Silicon Graphics, Inc. SPARCstation, and XGL are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. SPARC is the trademark of Sparc International, inc.