Re "Newbies" & multi-platform coding

[Guy Werry]

Reading the comments that have been directed to Marvin, the one below perked
up my "DANGER" reactions.  Allison's comments about the order of PUTs for
IMAGE is good, but I think it bears saying that default procedures in
general and especially the UPDATE procedures should not be manually coded
unless it's completely unavoidable.  I've always felt that that's one of
Powerhouse's great features is that I can add a new file to a screen,
butcher the data in it like crazy and then have the updating done for me.
Thanks,
	Guy.
	> 2. Is the Cognos program designed differently based on different
O/S? 
	[BE>] AFAIK yes. Cognos tried to optimise the use of the good
features of each O/S. However since version 8.2n Cognos has moved towards a
common source for PowerHouse on all O/S's it's available on.
	[Hamilton, Allison] I think that your question is more about whether
the code that you would write would be designed differently on different
O/S's and I'd say in general no. There are a few issues with the order of
PUT's that IMAGE requires that is different, but PowerHouse itself deals
with that if you are using default code generation for update procedures.
Excluding the few machine specific features on each platform, the general
PowerHouse code is platform independent.