PDKC2M.QKC (POW)

[Hamilton, Allison]

On VMS, where POW was created, the dictionary is a set of indexed files,
allowing for easy access and update through a set of QUICK screens. (VMS
originally had no other dictionary interface.)
In PH 8 (and previous PH versions on UNIX, HP/IX and MPE/V platforms) the
dictionary is a single direct (or relative?) file.  It's format does not
allow for updating and expansion through POW in the straight-forward manner
that it does on pre-PH 8 VMS with indexed files.  It was not designed to be
dynamically updateable and expandable.

BUT - keep asking for POW on PH 8, and if enough people want it, there will
be a business case for finding a way to get it into PH 8.

Where there is a will --- there is always a way...
Allison Hamilton  
As always - my opinions are not always that of my employers, but are mine
alone.

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> From: 	STEWARTM@dteenergy.com[SMTP:STEWARTM@dteenergy.com]
> Sent: 	Friday, March 05, 1999 12:36 PM
> To: 	powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
> Subject: 	RE: PDKC2M.QKC (POW)
> 
>  
> I've got no problem writing PDL but it plain and simple just takes longer.
> 
> Architect licenses would probably fall off dramatically if Cognos bundled
> POW 
> into series 8.  There was never really a great need for Architect in VMS 
> because POW was there.  I guess it just comes to down to money.  Thats the
> 
> only thing I can tell because POW is a great timesaver and indicative of a
> 4GL 
> feature. 
>  
> Mark Stewart 
> Consultants Club Corp. 
> Windsor, Ontario
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