Anyone have Moved from VMS to WINDOWS?

[Linda Symonds]

We have just recently done a conversion from OpenVMS to Windows.  We converted from an Interbase database to Oracle at the same time.  

The most difficult and time consuming part of the job is not the differences in powerhouse code between versions 7.x and 8.41D but rather the fact that job scripts which are executed by the operating system have to be rewritten to work in the windows environment (DOS jobs using the 'at' command to launch them) - we don't run any qtp or quiz jobs interactively.  

We also had a lot of PCL (Printer Command Language) embedded in our quiz reports.  All this had to be stripped out because windows printers don't recognize PCL when executed from the windows environment.  To handle this problem, we used a Word Macro that will search for code in the text report produced by quiz and handle the required changes to the report format (example - bold for titles, underlines for financial reports, printing landscape reports, etc).

All in all, it's not that difficult once you figure out how you're going to accomplish the things like running the jobs and format reports (ie:  how to use the windows scheduler and "at" command to run your jobs and the use of a Word Macro to handle the report formatting).  

Linda Symonds
Elections Ontario




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Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 8:38 AM
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Subject: Anyone have Moved from VMS to WINDOWS?

Hi,

We have a application running on OpenVms with RMS files and some COBOL programs also. We have a customer that would like to have this application running on a Windows server.  We never worked with Powerhouse on Windows so we do not know where the difficulties will be...

Anyone ported a complete system from VMS to Windows?  If yes, where were the difficulties...

Thanks!

Powerhouse 8.40
OpenVMS 7.3


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Etienne Rompré

Koala Technologies
Québec Canada

courriel/email: erompre(at)koala-tech.com
www:  http://www.koala-tech.com/


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