POW Retention

[Neil Harvey]

Ask, and ye shall receive :)

Architect is a product that makes managing a large and complicated
dictionary a snap.

It generates a wonderfully formatted PDL source file.

Not only that, but it's own database and dictionary allow us to generate
a Cobol Copy Library using an "interesting" QTP program.

Of course, it's possible that a new version of QCOBLIB will ship with
the Architect, but this elusive program (like ITOQ) comes and goes - I
think there was one with PH729C5 - but it sure makes it easy for Cobol
to co-exist with PowerHouse :)

Thanks Bob.

Regards

Neil



-----Original Message-----
From: Deskin, Bob [mailto:Bob.Deskin@Cognos.COM]
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 1999 1:59 PM
To: POWERHOUSE (new) List Group
Subject: RE: POW Retention


Architect 8.19 is released and should be shipping shortly. Architect
7.10
and 6.07 are on their way soon thereafter.

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: 	Neil Harvey[SMTP:neil@nha.co.za]
> Sent: 	March 11, 1999 4:11 AM
> To: 	POWERHOUSE (new) List Group
> Subject: 	RE: POW Retention
> 
> A vote from me as well. Architect on 8.19 would be very nice.
> 
> Neil Harvey
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Murray Scholz [mailto:murray.scholz@abri.une.edu.au]
> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 1999 1:16 AM
> To: POWERHOUSE (new) List Group
> Subject: Re: POW Retention
> 
> 
> Here's another vote for the retention of POW in the v8 code-stream.
> 
> We've been using Powerhouse on VMS since 1987 (was it v4 back then?). 
> Now that most of our various systems are 'mature' the use of PDL has
> almost disappeared at our site.  We're maintaining dictionaries with
> 350+ files/tables and many thousands of elements & items and have not
> had a problem over the years.  We're also keeping synchronized various
> remote sites with their own dictionaries etc. etc.  The only time we
> resort to using PDL is to 'move' a file/table from one dictionary to
> another.
> 
> It seems a very backward step to forgo the usefullness of 'POW' and
> return to the days of script-based dictionary maintenance using PDL.
> 
> Let's hope Cognos listens to some of the voices out there, calling for
> the reintroduction of POW into v8.
> 
> Murray Scholz
> Agricultural Business Research Institute
> University of New England
> Armidale NSW 2351 Australia
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