Windows development, HP-UX deployment

[Whittall, Conrad]

Hi Victor,

Yes, Axiant is the Windows-based PowerHouse IDE that will let you develop
offline. You can also run and test your applications standalone on your
notebook, assuming you have local data storage that is compatible with your
server-based storage and you are developing a Windows GUI for your users to
access via Axiant Client...or an HTML interface to be deployed with
PowerHouse Web (in which case you will also need a copy of PHWeb on your
notebook so that you can run these apps standalone).

While connected to your LAN (where your Axiant repository will probably be
located, for multi-developer access) you can download into a local Axiant
workspace on your notebook copies of the objects that you need for your
offline development work (data definitions, program fragments, complete
programs, etc.). You then disconnect your workspace from the repository and
you are able to work offline with those copies of the objects downloaded,
change them, or add new ones. You can compile programs locally and run
them...assuming you have local data storage compatible with that found on
your target server system. When you have completed your work you log-on to
your LAN again, reconnect your Axiant workspace to the repository, and
commit your work to the repository so that it is now visible to other
developers.

When I say "compatible" this does not necessarily mean "identical". If you
are using C-ISAM on HP-UX then, as of Axiant 3.4, you will be able to use
the "compatible" DISAM-96 file system on your Windows PC. If you are using
Oracle on your server, then you can use Personal Oracle on your PC...or you
can use the copy of Sybase SQL Anywhere that comes with Axiant, as both
PowerHouse and Axiant use the default single-transaction model against both
of these databases -- as well as against ALLBASE/SQL.

Since ALLBASE/SQL is not available for the PC you could use either Sybase
SQL Anywhere or Personal Oracle as both are treated very similarly by the
Axiant and PowerHouse data access layers.

If your target on HP-UX were Sybase ASE, for which PowerHouse/Axiant use a
dual-transaction model, then that too is available for Windows

Support for IBM's DB2 will be in Axiant 3.4, PowerHouse 4GL 8.43 and
PowerHouse Web 2.43.

If you don't already have the latest Axiant documentation you can download
it from the web site:

http://powerhouse.cognos.com/products/powerhouse/download.html

Its probably also worth downloading the PowerHouse Books 3rd Edition
documentation from this page, as all of the discussions about PowerHouse and
relational databases has been consolidated into a single manual.

Best regards,
Conrad

Conrad Whittall
e-Learning Architect, Global Education Services
Cognos Incorporated, 3755 Riverside Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1G 4K9, Canada


-----Original Message-----
From: Victor Geere [mailto:victor@nha.co.za]
Sent: Tuesday 30 July 2002 08:42
To: Powerhouse List (E-mail)
Subject: Windows development, HP-UX deployment


I found the following paragraph on the Cognos web site:

============================================
>From within the Axiant IDE developers can build and deploy their 
applications to MPE/iX, HP-UX or Windows 2000/NT servers running 
either PowerHouse 4GL or PowerHouse Web-providing Web browser, 
Windows client or terminal access to those applications with 
efficient native access to HP IMAGE, ALLBASE/SQL, KSAM, MPE, 
C-ISAM, Oracle, Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server data.
============================================
I would like to have a Powerhouse IDE that I can use on 
my laptop at night and deploy on HP-UX PH 4GL/Web in the morning.  
Is this it or am I missing something?  

What advantages does Axiant have over Powerhouse for Windows in this
scenario?  
Do I have to be connected to HP-UX to use C-ISAM as a database, 
or do I have to use, say, MS-SQL to develop in Windows and point 
the application to the C-ISAM dictionary when deploying on HP-UX?

Better yet, can I develop Allbase/SQL and C-ISAM applications on 
Axiant and deploy this on HP-UX?
see: http://cube.swau.edu/pipermail/powerh-l/2002-July/007082.html

Regards
Victor

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