FW: Looking for Axiant for MPEix Manuals

[Whittall, Conrad]

> Abraham,
> 
> You ask what Axiant 4GL is? Think of it as a visual development
> environment for PowerHouse applications.
> 
> Here are the facts...
> 
> Axiant provides you with an integrated 32-bit Windows development
> environment for data definitions, screen programs, production reports and
> volume batch processing. It is based on a shared repository, typically
> stored somewhere on your LAN or an NFS mount on some server machine. In
> this environment, as of Axiant 2.03, you can develop and maintain both
> Windows GUI forms and terminal layouts for your PowerHouse screen
> programs. You can then deploy those programs in a variety of server-only,
> thin-client, fat-client and mobile or standalone configurations. This
> means that you can compile PowerHouse applications from the Axiant
> developer workbench against any PowerHouse Series 8 server in your
> network, but do your development from a Windows 95 or Windows NT
> Workstation PC. If you are not changing your runtime environment, but wish
> to use Axiant for development, your existing PDL, QDESIGN, QUIZ and QTP
> code can simply be imported into Axiant. Axiant 2.03 is due to be released
> towards the end of this month, although the current Axiant 2.02 is already
> capable of maintaining and deploying client/server programs against your
> MPE/iX server, TurboIMAGE and ALLBASE/SQL databases, and KSAM and MPE
> files.
> 
> Axiant also provides powerful migration facilities to assist you in moving
> your existing PowerHouse applications into new environments. This includes
> moving from TurboIMAGE databases and/or indexed files to relational
> databases, moving from server-based development and processing to a
> client/server environment, and moving from platforms such as MPE/iX and
> OpenVMS to UNIX or Windows NT Server. Axiant can analyze your existing PDL
> data definitions, QDESIGN, QUIZ and QTP source code and advise you of the
> potential issues you might face in moving to a new target environment.
> When an issue is found Axiant can suggest possible ways of dealing with
> it. Some of these issues it can provide a default action for, such as
> replacing dashes with underscores in element, item, file and index names
> if you are moving to a relational database. Others you can specify the
> action to take, or deal with the issue in the existing PowerHouse
> application before migrating into Axiant. The built-in Change Manager
> remembers things such as the changes to object names and automatically
> applies these changes to all of your programs as they are migrated. You
> can also use the Change Manager to specify your own changes to be applied
> as your data definitions and program source code is imported into Axiant.
> Customers have even used this to completely rename all of their existing,
> often cryptic, data names with much more meaningful names as they move to
> a relational database -- making it much easier to deploy end-user query
> and reporting tools, such as Impromptu, by minimizing the work needed to
> make those databases understandable to the end-users.
> 
> Since Axiant is a Windows-based tool the majority of the documentation is
> on-line, in the form of Windows Help files.
> 
> If you haven't visited our web site there are many more details available
> there, together with some white papers which you can download. The ADT
> home page is at http://www.cognos.com/appdev.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Conrad
> 
> Conrad Whittall
> Marketing & Services Manager, 4GL Products
> Cognos Incorporated, 3755 Riverside Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1G 4K9,
> Canada
> 
> E-mail: conrad.whittall@cognos.com
> Tel: +1 (613) 738-1338 Ext.4804
> Fax: +1 (613) 228-3149
> 
> ----------
> From: 	Abraham Zwygart[SMTP:azwygart@anodizing.com]
> Sent: 	Thursday 17 September 1998 11:35 AM
> To: 	Phower House E-Mail User Group
> Subject: 	Looking for Axiant for MPEix Manuals
> 
> Hi
> I am working on a HP3000 939 just got PH 8.19c1 and am trying to make a
> argument for purchasing Axiant.  I need some information to ask questions
> (not just sales talk, but what it provides and how it works).  I am
> looking
> for a copy of the manuals to look over before I request a demo copy.
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated
> 
> Abraham Zwygart
> Senior Programmer Analysts     Email: azwygart@anodizing.com
> 
> The thoughts, comments, and opinions expressed herein are mine
> and do not reflect those of my employer(s), or anyone else.
> 
> 
> 
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