Unibase Feature Summary

Data Entry

• Key from paper or key from images.

• Individual fields may be encrypted when stored and automatically decrypted when retrieved.

• 78 character per individual field user controlled on screen help.

• Unlimited help from user ASCII file accessed with <INFO> key.

• Field by field Character Wrap allows delete/addition over multiple fields to support "text mode" keying.

• Historically correct with older key-to-disk systems, including Nixdorf, REI, EZC, Textware, etc.

• Total color and screen attribute control of various operating systems.

• Fully mappable keyboard in three groups, each with three overlays.

• "Hot Key" to call field edit program at any time during keying.

• "Double Key" capability during entry for critical items.

• Aux dup functions supported.

 Image Entry

• Reject re-entry supported.

• Display complete or snippets of image contained in TIFF, multi page TIFF, JPEG, PDF, multi page PDF format.

• Color, grayscale, and black and white images allowed.

• Manipulate displayed image ( zoom, rotate, pan, etc.) under operator or edit control.

• Supports images up to 7500 x 7500 pixels with four screen pixel modes: 640 x 480, 800 x 600, 1024 x 768 and 1280 x 1024 - others upon request.

• Split and dual screen image entry.

• Image entry display may be zoned or unzoned.

• Operator controllable panning, zooming and rotation of images.

• Images may be displayed at top, bottom, left or right of screen display.

• Operator control of ruler line on an image.

• Support for multi-page TIFF images.

• Support for multi page PDF images.

Input/Output

• Import comma delimited (or any other deliminator) flat ASCII files, standard job files or unformatted files or extract data directly from flat ASCII files.

• Input and Output packed decimals fields.

• Edit, modify or export any data in Unibase as a flat ASCII file.

• Code Set Converter allows EBCDIC, ASCII, BCD, etc. user definable code sets.

• Supports comma delimited OCR/ICR input files.

• DMAC language supports multiple file output or index builds, with dynamically generated file or index names.

• Easy generation of double-quote, comma delimited output programs.

Administration

• Object Oriented Record Format Generator allows painting, check box edits and field or validate edits concurrently.

• Workflow queuing allows supervisor to assign jobs to individual operator by job name or function - entry, verify or correct.

• Up to 31 character multifolder name space for easier file management.

• Each operator has own password and belongs to a group.

• Operator can be forced to change password at prescribed interval.

• Set security levels by group.

• Complete login user statistics allow computation of performance, efficiency and productivity.

• Statistics and statistical reports available for customization by user.

• Current "Hands On Unibase by DMAC" training manual is available on line.

• Printed and on-line manuals available.

• No environment space setup required with Unibase.INI setup function.

• Downloadable or on a CD-ROM training for using Unibase by DMAC.

Programming/Set Up

• Over 100 verbs and 60 control functions in 4GL DMAC language.

• 99 characters or 14 digits available per field.

• 999 fields per record; 99 record formats per job; unlimited number of jobs.

• Over 64 check-box edits available for each field.

• Output & field edit program generator minimizes programming.

• Sequential and indexed table look ups, displays or inserts.

• Indexes and sorts can be built over up to 65,000 files.

• 32 pre-defined accumulators; DMAC language supports over 256 more.

• Unibase Macro procedures and keystroke macros supported.

• All menu items callable from command line Supports industry standard TIFF(tagged image file format), JPEG, and PDF image files.

• User changeable help file system.

• DMAC language allows 99 channels or output to be explicitly, concurrently chosen.

• Update global variables from edits or command line.

• C call verb runs user C programs as part of DMAC load.

• User selectable keying order.

• German, English and Spanish user changeable menu capability.

• Set verbs can control upper/lower case input and output user options.

• High-speed index builds on local drives with UBIDX environment variable.

• Perform character string searches from DMAC programs.

• Extremely high-speed creation of Unibase file from one format text file.

• Extremely high speed index build on single data file with contiguous sort parameter.

• Merge capability for indexes.

• Programmer control of percentage of screen devoted to image.

• Variables may be defined to be arrays. Arrays may be filled with literals, fields, variables or other arrays using the "build" verb in a single statement. (Similar to the "output" verb.)

• Read/Write access to text files in text sub-directory with "open, get, put, append and close" verbs.

• String concatenation function.

• Pre-field as well as post-field edits.

• Programmer control for interruption of operator batch keying.

Technical

• Unibase is written in C/C++ running on all versions of the Windows operating system (Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, and Windows 7).

• Standard procedure for conversion of meta data to flat ASCII files.

• All Unibase upgrades are transparent for the meta data -- or a wizard is provided.

• DMAC dynamically uses additional memory for faster response when available.