PH to Axiant migration

[Witkopp, Richard]

Screen conversion can get especially sticky if you
have a very complex screen design. GUI screens
should be event-driven (i.e. clicking the mouse).
I worked in a shop where there were very complex
sets of screens that led the user down a path
depending on the values they input into various
fields. That sort of app may need a substantial
redesign.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edis, Bob [mailto:BEdis@usbnc.org]
> Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 3:23 PM
> To: PowerHouse List (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: PH to Axiant migration
> 
> 
> Dear Audrey
> 
> The two hardest parts of your project will be converting the 
> C-ISAM data
> structure to a RDBMS structure and redesigning your Quick 
> screens for a GUI.
> Both a time consuming and can fall victim to the clash of personal
> viewpoints.
> 
> I suggest you spend the time analysing and designing a robust 
> and extensible
> RDBMS schema before anything else.
> 
> If you have good existing PowerHouse expertise and little 
> Axiant experience
> you may be able to delay the screen conversion (QTP will be largely
> unaffected) by getting the beta version of PowerHouse 8.4 for 
> Windows NT.  
> 
> Quiz is a dog on Windows NT against a SQL Server database.  I 
> suggest either
> re-writing the reports using Impromptu or redesign the Quiz 
> programs to use
> as much embedded SQL statements as possible.
> 
> Regards,
> Blue
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Audrey Yates [mailto:audrey.yates@cdhb.govt.nz]
> Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 5:03 PM
> To: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
> Subject: RE:PH to Axiant migration
> 
> 
> Hello again
> 
> Thanks for all your replies.
> 
> Robert Mills (and others) said:
> "It would help if you gave some details of your current environment.
> 
> What version of PowerHouse and which platform and version of OS is it
> running on?"
> 
> We are running on a Data General box currently and running PH 
> version 8 on a
> C-ISAM file structure. Our migration is actually forced on us 
> by the vendor
> of our third party payroll . 
> We are going to MS-SQL server on a Win2000 box.
> 
> Audrey
> Analyst/Programmer
> Canterbury District Health Board
> Christchurch, New Zealand
> 
> 
> 
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