Second meeting of user group

[Edis, Bob]

> G'day all
> 
> We had a great second meeting of the Northern Illinois Cognos ADT User
> Group last night.  I realise that only a few people on this list can
> attend, however I would like to encourage all of you to either start or
> attend user group meetings in your area.
> 
> We first had a presentation by RDI of one of their commercial PowerHouse
> Web applications.  Dick Dale of RDI gave us an exciting demonstration of
> how powerhouse and useful PowerHouse Web really is in a real world
> situation with his Customer Gateway product
> (http://216.141.147.3/demoarea).  He said that the bulk of the work was
> done in PH Web and only 2% to 3% of the code was done using JavaScript and
> the balance in raw HTML.  The attendees from 6 separate companies were
> quite impressed with what ol' PowerHouse could do in a new skin!
> 
> After Dick's presentation there was a discussion addressing issues around
> moving a PowerHouse 4GL application from one environment to another.  In
> particular moving from VAX/VMS to HP/UX, Oracle Rdb to Oracle 8i.  The
> primary issues involved in such a move were:
> 
> Politics vs rational decision making
> DCL script conversion to UNIX scripts
> VMS logical and symbols converting to UNIX environment variables
> Custom database transactions
> Performance - introduction of embedded SQL and use of database stored
> procedures and triggers to replace complex screen syntax.
> VAXisms
> Culture shock - moving from a VMS world to a UNIX world.
> 
> The next meeting will be held around the end of July at Deerfield, IL,
> USA.  The presentation topic will be Impromptu vs Quiz, when to use what.
> I am still looking for a discussion theme and am open to suggestions.
> 
> The meeting after that will be a half day PowerHouse Web workshop at RDI's
> facility in Itasca, IL.  Date TBA.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Blue
>