PHD

[Robert J.M. Edis]

G'day good people

I have just experienced a very good reason for having PHDmaint around.
My morning has been spent rebuilding a Y2K compliant version of a 80,000
line dictionary using PDL.  Due to the size and the inability of
Power2000 to handle large files, the PDL extract had been split into 11
files, 1 for system & usages, 1 for security, 4 for elements and 5 for
file/record definitions.  I was on the 4th and largest file definition
PDL went I got an error.  Two numeric items had mistakenly been declared
with a date usage in the 2nd element PDL file.  I had spent about 4
hours getting to this point in the PDL compile process.

Now what do I do?  In the 'new' order of things I would have to delete
the dictionary so far created and start all over again!  Four hours
wasted.  Instead I used PHDmaint to quickly go into the new PHD, find
the offending element definitions and change the datatype back to
numeric, zoned size 6.  In all less than five minutes work.

Now let's see, 5 minutes vs 240 minutes.  I think I know which both I
and the people who pay my billing rate believe is better.

Please Cognos, put PHDmaint or something as good or better in version
8.2n of PowerHouse.  Please, please.

Blue
PowerHouse consultant
Rhode Island, USA

Disclaimer:
The opinions and ideas expressed in this message are my own and have no
relationship to my current employer, Initial Technical Staffing, its
client CCI, or any of CCI's clients.


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