Powerhouse 8.20 D - Open VMS

[Whittall, Conrad]

Well Allison did say that we're working on adding the screen-based
maintenance to 8.30 ;-)

In the meantime, if Odette would like another way to maintain her data
dictionary definitions it is possible to import the PDL generated from her
current data dictionary into Axiant (www.cognos.com/axiant), maintain all of
the data definitions within this Windows-based PowerHouse developer's
workbench, then simply generate new PDL whenever changes have been made and
recompile on the OpenVMS machine. (There is no need to move all of your
PowerHouse development into Axiant if all you want to do is easily maintain
data definitions.)

Best regards,
Conrad

Conrad Whittall
Marketing Manager, Application Development Tools, Cognos Incorporated
3755 Riverside Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1G 4K9, Canada

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-----Original Message-----
From: Pickering, John (NORBORD) [mailto:PICKERIJ@norbord.com]
Sent: Tuesday 9 January 2001 15:15
To: 'Hamilton, Allison'; 'Odette McMillan'; Powerhouse Newgroup
Subject: RE: Powerhouse 8.20 D - Open VMS

I'll bet Odette isn't too impressed with this answer :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Hamilton, Allison [SMTP:Allison.Hamilton@Cognos.COM]
> Sent:	Tuesday, January 09, 2001 3:09 PM
> To:	'Odette McMillan'; Powerhouse Newgroup
> Subject:	RE: Powerhouse 8.20 D - Open VMS
> 
> Odette - 
> Use PDL, the dictionary compiler.  You have it in 710 as well, but
> probably
> have never used it.  That screen system will be in 8.30... but we're still
> working on it. 
>  
> Go into QSHOW in 7.10 - 
> set lang pdl
> generate all
> (If you use security then SET SECURITY first!)
> exit
> This will create a qshogen.pdl file which is your dictionary syntax that
> will go into the PDL compiler.  Add a create dictionary command as the
> first
> line (or type it in manually in PDL) and a LOAD as the last line and feed
> it
> through PDL in 8.20.
>  
> One note - there are a couple of things you will have to change for 8.20
> (we've tried to resolve most of these for 8.30).  If you aren't using the
> Metacharacter section of the system options - just remove it from the
> generated list as there are a few things in there that are different in
> 8.20
> and won't parse.  Remove Dictionary Owner and Dictionary Security from the
> System Options.  Change any RDB/VMS file types to just RDB.
>  
> There may be other things that won't parse, but those are the most obvious
> that I can think of.   You may get a number of warnings on the Elements.
> They are just warnings, and shouldn't pose any problems.
>  
> Hope this helps.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Odette McMillan [mailto:omcmilla@milk.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 3:00 PM
> To: Powerhouse Newgroup
> Subject: Powerhouse 8.20 D - Open VMS
> 
> 
> Sounds like a dumb question but anyways:  In PH7.10F2 we were able to
> maintain the dictionary via a screen.  How do you maintain the dictionary
> in
> version 8.20D now that the screen is no longer available?  I'd like to
> unload a record definition from the dictionary and reload it with the
> enhancements.  Can someone please tell me how this is possible with the
> version on an Alpha system?
> Thanks!
> 
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