PDKC2M.QKC (POW)

[Deskin, Bob]

Just for the record, PDL started on OpenVMS because our customers wanted it
as an alternative to entering large amounts of information into PhD via
screens. Syntax is great when you know what you want. Screen entry is great
for spot changes.

Bob Deskin              
Senior Product Advisor  bob.deskin@cognos.com
Cognos Inc.             (613) 738-1338 ext 4205 FAX: (613) 228-3149
3755 Riverside Drive P.O. Box 9707 Stn. T, Ottawa ON K1G 4K9 CANADA


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> From: 	Chris Sharman[SMTP:Chris.Sharman@ccagroup.co.uk]
> Sent: 	March 5, 1999 3:31 AM
> To: 	STEWARTM@dteenergy.com
> Cc: 	Chris.Sharman@ccagroup.co.uk; powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
> Subject: 	RE: PDKC2M.QKC (POW)
> 
> >I'm just curious when Cognos is going to release PDKC2M.QKC (POW) in the
> 8 
> >series?  It is an extremely powerful tool developed for VMS.  Many people
> have 
> >probably found the dictionary application management menu a huge
> timesaver.  
> 
> >Who in their right mind wouldn't think to move this into series 8?
> Surely, it 
> >can't be that non-portable.  I just sat down and wrote some bare bones
> PDL 
> >code.  That seems like a ridiculous chore in version 8 when in version 6
> you 
> >didn't have to write a single line of PDL.  Thankfully I've got the old
> Vax 
> >here and version 6.10 to fall back on.  I can just generate the code and
> move 
> >it to the UNIX box like a co-worked suggested in a fraction of the time.
> If 
> >COGNOS isn't going to market this ever again can they send us die-hard
> POW 
> >users the source code?  I know that would never happen but it doesn't
> hurt to 
> >ask. 
> 
> Well, yes: seconded. No one here even knows PDL (having looked at PHD &
> PDL
> when we started using Powerhouse, the only interesting thing we could see
> about
> PDL was why would anyone want it, when they had PHD).
>  
> >Unfortunately this ol' VAX isn't going to be around forever. 
>  
> We've got at least a year on 7.10.Gn: by then hopefully Cognos will
> have relented.
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Chris Sharman			Chris.Sharman@CCAgroup.co.uk
> CCA Stationery Ltd, Eastway, Fulwood, Preston, Lancashire, PR2 9WS.
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