Migrating to Windows

Sun, 21 Nov 2004 14:40:17 -0400

If you were to recompile the PowerHouse 7.39 compilers and interpreters
( i.e. PDL, QDESIGN, QTP, QUIZ, QUICK etc ) on the Window Server I would see 
that MPUX
would be a great advantage because you could bring over the file system. 
Then an FCOPY
or an MPE SORT would make sense. Within the confines of 8.41 or 8.43 not 
much from
MPE is useful. You do not want to maintain a file by doing DO EXTERNAL calls
i.e. DO EXTERNAL "HPFOPEN", DO EXTERNAL "FREAD", DO EXTERNAL "FUPDATE" etc.
If you can call a command from DOS you can call it from QUICK 8.41.
i.e. you can say RUN COMMAND "LISTF A@,2 > AFILE" what does that mean on the 
WINDOWS box
I would rather say RUN COMMAND "DIR A*.*> AFILE"
Regards,
Peter Bateman

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>MessageCan you pass the commands to MPUX as if it was an external 
>procedure?
>   -----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com]On Behalf Of Roger B. Glayzer
>   Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 6:55 PM
>   To: powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
>   Subject: Migrating to Windows
>
>
>   Here is another migration question concerning HP3000 (928 / Rel C.60.00)
>running PowerHouse Rel 8.39.C to a Windows server (XP) running PC 
>Powerhouse
>8.43D.
>
>   We started to investigate MPUX - a service that runs on the Windows 
>Server
>that can emulate the HP in regards to job scheduling,
>   spooler functionality, SORT and FCOPY utilities. This was primarily due 
>to
>not wanting to rewrite our HP jobs to some other scripting language. Also 
>it
>would be nice to train our crew gradually to a new OS by carrying over some
>of the functionality that the HP has in regards to 'debugging' jobs via
>stdlists.
>
>   Does anyone know how to make MPUX communicate with Powerhouse. We had
>hoped that since MPUX has been around for a few years and with the
>announcement about the 3000 disappearing, that there would be some 
>'linkage'
>between Powerhouse and MPUX. We were hoping that MPUX would be able to
>'intercept'  a command coming out of Powerhouse -- if the command was
>something that MPUX could emulate (ie. STREAM, LISTF, SORT.......) then 
>MPUX
>would do its thing else it would just ignore it and leave it for the OS to
>take care of.
>
>   Does Cognos have any plans to 'link' with MPUX somehow to make the
>migration from the HP to a Windows platform a little easier?
>
>   Does anyone know how to one could 'link' these two programs so they can
>communicate?
>
>   This is not a long term permanent solution but it would ease the pain
>slightly if we do not get hit all at once by having to rewrite all our HP
>scripts. The HP has some great features and it would be nice to keep some 
>of
>its ease of use.
>
>   Thanks for your response in advance.
>
>   Roger

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