can some one help me in giving some webfocus interview FAQ's
September 20, 2007, 04:13 AM
Tony A
For you to ask?
- or -
For you to answer?
Either way, I would be cautious about posting any on this board as any applicant could get though an interview without the requisite, underlying, knowledge - thus defeating the whole purpose of an interview!!
If they were for you to ask an interviewee then you could end up with someone who has to continually ask questions on this (or other) forum(s) because of a basic lack of knowledge, thus ending up getting the good folks here to do their work for them!!!
Not that this happens of course - lolThis message has been edited. Last edited by: Tony A,
September 20, 2007, 11:04 AM
Francis Mariani
Q: How many WebFOCUS programmers does it take to change a light bulb? A: Depends on the version of the light bulb.
Francis
Give me code, or give me retirement. In FOCUS since 1991
Production: WF 7.7.05M, Dev Studio, BID, MRE, WebSphere, DB2 / Test: WF 8.1.05M, App Studio, BI Portal, Report Caster, jQuery, HighCharts, Apache Tomcat, MS SQL Server
September 20, 2007, 11:28 AM
ET
Q: How many WebFOCUS programmers does it take to change a light bulb? Please illustrate the solution in an example using the CAR file.
et
FOCUS 7.6 MVS PDF,HTML,EXCEL
September 20, 2007, 11:37 AM
Glenda
I love you guys!!!
Glenda
In FOCUS Since 1990 Production 8.2 Windows
September 20, 2007, 12:21 PM
Darin Lee
I think about the only questions you can ask that would provide avluable responses would be about experience - platforms (MVS, Linux, Windows) development environments/tools (IDEs, Web tools) products (iWay, WF, ReportCaster, DevStudio) features (Active Reports, self-service, MRE) and last but not least, time using the products
Other than that, as Tony mentions, someone could just "cram for the test" without having the valuable tools
Regards,
Darin
In FOCUS since 1991 WF Server: 7.7.04 on Linux and Z/OS, ReportCaster, Self-Service, MRE, Java, Flex Data: DB2/UDB, Adabas, SQL Server Output: HTML,PDF,EXL2K/07, PS, AHTML, Flex WF Client: 77 on Linux w/Tomcat
September 20, 2007, 12:29 PM
Francis Mariani
Did you know that this is valid syntax:
TABLE FILE CAR PRINT THE SALES AND THE DCOST BY THE COUNTRY
END
The THE is for "readability".
Francis
Give me code, or give me retirement. In FOCUS since 1991
Production: WF 7.7.05M, Dev Studio, BID, MRE, WebSphere, DB2 / Test: WF 8.1.05M, App Studio, BI Portal, Report Caster, jQuery, HighCharts, Apache Tomcat, MS SQL Server
September 20, 2007, 01:04 PM
ET
Check out the join syntax in CAR file example. This works and gives no errors on MVS focus 7.11.
TABLE FILE CAR BY COUNTRY AS KOUNTRY ON TABLE HOLD AS HOLD1 AND SET ASNAMES ON END TABLE FILE CAR PRINT CAR BY COUNTRY ON TABLE HOLD AS HOLD2 END JOIN COUNTRY HOLD2 KOUNTRY HOLD1 J1 TABLEF FILE HOLD2 PRINT CAR BY KOUNTRY END
KOUNTRY CAR ------- --- ENGLAND JAGUAR JENSEN TRIUMPH ---------------------------- FRANCE PEUGEOT ---------------------------- ITALY ALFA ROMEO MASERATI ---------------------------- JAPAN DATSUN TOYOTA ---------------------------- W GERMANY AUDI BMW ----------------------------
> ? join JOINS CURRENTLY ACTIVE
HOST CROSSREFERENCE FIELD FILE TAG FIELD FILE TAG AS ALL ----- ---- --- ----- ---- --- -- --- COUNTRY HOLD2 KOUNTRY HOLD1 J1 > >
FOCUS 7.6 MVS PDF,HTML,EXCEL
September 20, 2007, 01:25 PM
Tony A
E.T.
The answer to your earlier question is -
One,
MODIFY FILE CAR NEXT COUNTRY ON NEXT CONTINUE NEXT CAR ON NEXT CONTINUE NEXT MODEL ON NEXT COMPUTE HEADLIGHT_DIP/A8 = IF D.COUNTRY EQ 'ENGLAND' THEN 'LEFT' ELSE 'RIGHT'; ON NEXT UPDATE HEADLIGHT_DIP DATA ON FIDEL END
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Do I get the job
T
September 20, 2007, 01:54 PM
Prarie
We're still waiting for you in Texas Tony.
In Focus since 1993. WebFOCUS 7.7.03 Win 2003
September 20, 2007, 03:12 PM
susannah
ROFL ROFL ROFL
In Focus since 1979///7706m/5 ;wintel 2008/64;OAM security; Oracle db, ///MRE/BID
September 20, 2007, 03:58 PM
Francis Mariani
She's baaaaack!
Francis
Give me code, or give me retirement. In FOCUS since 1991
Production: WF 7.7.05M, Dev Studio, BID, MRE, WebSphere, DB2 / Test: WF 8.1.05M, App Studio, BI Portal, Report Caster, jQuery, HighCharts, Apache Tomcat, MS SQL Server
September 20, 2007, 04:27 PM
Prarie
Yes Susannah we miss you on here.
In Focus since 1993. WebFOCUS 7.7.03 Win 2003
September 21, 2007, 08:22 AM
RickW
A train leaves Chicago at 9:32AM going 47 MPH. Another train leaves NYC at 6:37AM going 28 MPH.
A WebFOCUS programmer is trying to get his/her Page X of Page Y working in a compound PDF report composed of 6 different reports using version 5.2.x.
Question. Which will occur first - the programmer correctly completing his/her PDF, or the two trains meeting?
WebFOCUS 7.6.6/TomCat/Win2003,SQL Server 2005,Oracle
September 21, 2007, 08:32 AM
Tony A
Rick,
What continent does the programmer come from? and how many days experience does that person have?
T
September 21, 2007, 10:33 AM
Glenda
Mind telling us in what direction the two trains are going?
Glenda
In FOCUS Since 1990 Production 8.2 Windows
September 21, 2007, 10:46 AM
Prarie
I think they are going to colide if the programmers are on the train trying to put the page numbers on the PDF compound report.
In Focus since 1993. WebFOCUS 7.7.03 Win 2003
September 21, 2007, 01:46 PM
cmallain
WOW!! Tough crowd..though a very funny bunch...thanks for the lunchtime laughs.
Kummy, are you experienced at all in any of the FOCUS products? If not experienced, then I'd also have to agree with the Tony that it's just not fair to anyone, though when someone is in an interview, rarely would they have access to the forum on the spot like that, if they even know it exists(I only found out about it recently and I've been using this language since 1988!!!...yes, I've lived quite a sheltered career...).
My only advice is that if you look through the forum you'll see questions that folks are asking (i.e. difference between compute and define, etc.) and determine questions and expected answers.
I do have to add my two cents though...my favorite that rarely gets answered properly when I do interviews is: What does FOCUS stand for?
Also, if anyone states that they know FOCUS on their resume, but it's in lower-case, toss the resume because they don't know that's it's an acronym and has NOTHING to do with micro-focus COBOL(you have no idea how many recruiters think that it does).
Good luck, Carol
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September 21, 2007, 02:11 PM
Commando Dave
Q: How many Tech Reps does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: They Can't. The product was installed properly.
September 21, 2007, 02:26 PM
Tony A
... and the most important question of all?
Where is the manual?
Although now-a-days it could quite possibly be "Where is the manual CD?" or "Where are the manuals?". For, as Carol will no doubt confirm, things have moved on since the early days of FOCUS and the manual has now become a small library
T
September 21, 2007, 02:29 PM
Tony A
Rick,
I am curious as to why the train out of Chicago is travelling at almost twice the speed of the one out of NYC?
Is it something about the neighbourhood? Or has the one out of NYC only half the wheels it arrived with?
T
September 21, 2007, 02:36 PM
Tony A
Whilst the thoughts are coming, how about getting a car sticker to hand out at the next Summit -
"Old FOCUS coders never die, they just become functionally stable."
T
September 21, 2007, 02:41 PM
cmallain
Hmmm...I think using the word "stable", at least for me, would be a stretch...at least that's what I'm told.
As for manuals, my End User-Written subroutine manual(now termed FUNCTIONS) still is quite handy...though I'm sure outdated.
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September 21, 2007, 03:07 PM
susannah
wow.. what does FOCUS stand for? that's a great Summit Trivia Contest question, along with What does WORP stand for?.
Kummy, we do apologize for hijacking your thread. But we're all tired and punchy and your topic was just irresistible.
In Focus since 1979///7706m/5 ;wintel 2008/64;OAM security; Oracle db, ///MRE/BID
September 21, 2007, 03:12 PM
Gizmo
ET,
You just love showing the join without IN and TO don't you
FOCUS an acronym I GOT IT!!! Falling On Crusty Used Socks
No?
OK - how about Forget Other Custom Utilization Software
Windows: WF 7.6.2: SQL Server 2008 R2
September 21, 2007, 04:13 PM
cmallain
For On-line Computer UserS I think it's stated in one of those old manuals that Tony mentioned me having.
As for WORP...it's some type of router protocol but I don't remember what WO is?
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September 21, 2007, 04:30 PM
Carol Dobson
kummy - a couple of good questions are; What are your WebFOCUS strenghts? What ar your WebFOCUS weaknesses?
Rick - very funny! Take the page numbers off, leave them on the train and you'll be beat both trains!
Hey, I was doing some Disaster Recovery testing last week and got a WORP error. It was because Java wasn't installed on the DR box.
WebFOCUS 7.6.6/TomCat/Win2k3
September 21, 2007, 04:31 PM
susannah
ok, Wiggly Orthogonal Router Protocol
In Focus since 1979///7706m/5 ;wintel 2008/64;OAM security; Oracle db, ///MRE/BID
September 21, 2007, 04:34 PM
RickW
the answer is - "never the twain shall meet"
WebFOCUS 7.6.6/TomCat/Win2003,SQL Server 2005,Oracle
