To generate cobol definitions from powerhouse dictionary

[Jon (Jarod) Hawks]

Dear Bob,
Good to hear that! There are still shops out there
running Cobol as a core development platform. I just
ran into one. 

On another note, I found that they were also thinking
about MetaMatrix, to produce a "virtual" view. I think
one time Cognos referred to this as a logical view of
data. They were amazed and excited that a product
could link tables and files and produce a virtual XML
table. I dont' believe they have experience with
cartesian products produced my multiple linkages,
serial or parallel, but I'm sure the vendor will
assure them 'there are ways' to work it out. I bring
this up because Phd, Qshow and Qk/Qz/Qtp are so many
years ahead of this product. However, MetaMatrix is
satisfying the new 'web-minded' folks, who seem to
think objects are far more intelligent than compiled
subroutines, and data classes are new. Here again is
another market where Cognos has been Master, but loses
revenue to newcomers, who get the customer to pay the
way. 

I am somewhat frustrated that there isn't a strong
launch of "new products" by Cognos, by "repackaging"
the simple components of Powerhouse. Your honesty, is
under assault by the "repackaging" vendors, who thirst
for licensing, by dressing up a dying product or even
a corpse, to look good to newbie's. 

Once, Gerber baby foods hired a president who made
good by setting up day care centers. This was big for
a while. But, he outpriced the market, and it was not
a mainstream revenue, yet his thinking was centered
around his baby. Zambonini is like this man who is no
longer head of Gerber. Others may or may not share in
this frustration of Ron's limited view of the IT
world. Since I still exist in a free democracy, my
simple opinion, is permitted, however welcome it may
or may not be.

I would love to see the greatest product, now being
mimicked in ETL, Meta Repositories, Cross-Platform
Query and XA architecture updates, be given a new
chance on the global stage and simply provided to any
and all. What's the difference now? Market the crap
out of it again. Give it away with every HP,
Compaq/DEC, SUN and IBM Server for a small $1000
license. Better, give it away with Oracle, UDB and
whatever HP is offering now. Just get it out there
again. The new kids will discover a whole new world!
They can be first on the block to be smart. 

Perhaps it's hard to appreciate the very products you
live with everyday. Not you, personally, but Cognos as
a business entity has failed to believe in itself. As
a person who grew up on this product, and was forced
to learn others, I find it difficult to deal with
architects and developers who do not know this level
of sophistication. It is so slow to get good products
and the rework is constant, with every Tom, Dick and
Harry (3rd Rock?) adding how they can save the day
with release 2.1 of
super-designer-programmer-stuff-thing on the market.
My goodness, it's like trying to convince 1000
children set free in Toys'r'us that the world doesn't
really look like this kids. 

LOL. Take Care Bob. Please accept my apology for using
your email to rant. It is not a reflection on your
good work and fine talents and tenacity. 

Frustrated-in-New-England





--- "Deskin, Bob" <Bob.Deskin@cognos.com> wrote:
> QCOBLIB is again available in PowerHouse Series 8.
> Take a look at the PDL
> manual 3rd Edition (available for download as part
> of the PowerHouse book
> set from powerhouse.cognos.com). You use QSHOW as
> before.
> 
> Bob Deskin              
> Product Manager, Application Development Tools
> Cognos Inc. 3755 Riverside Drive, Ottawa ON K1G 4K9
> CANADA
> bob.deskin@cognos.com (613) 738-1338 ext 7268
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: humaira@mara.gov.my
> [mailto:humaira@mara.gov.my]
> Sent: October 7, 2003 10:07 PM
> To: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
> Subject: To generate cobol definitions from
> powerhouse dictionary
> 
> 
> 
> 
> The function of GENERATE statement in QSHOW version
> 5 is as below :
> 
> > HELP GENERATE
> GENERATE
> 
> To generate Cobol copy library definitions.
> 
>     GENERATE FILE ALL/namelist/PATTERN
> string/SOUNDEX (string[,n])
> 
> The GENERATE statement builds a file named QCOBTEXT
> that contains Cobol
> definitions for all the specified files.
> 
> Only one of ALL, namelist, PATTERN, and SOUNDEX can
> be used with each
> GENERATE statement.
> 
>
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> -----------------------------------------------
> 
>  However GENERATE statement in QSHOW version 8 is  :
>  To generate source
> statements definition from a compiled dictionary.
> 
> 
> Is there a command  to generate Cobol definitions
> from Powerhouse version 8
> dictionary as in Qshow v. 5?
> 
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