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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, 1280 x 1024, 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 delimiter) 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, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10).
- 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.