Anyone have Moved from VMS to WINDOWS?

[Deskin, Bob]

This is the first time I've heard about problems running compiled QUIZ
on Windows. We've had no problems in QC testing.

You can run things in the equivalent of background and you can certainly
run from a BAT file.

Printing may be an issue because OpenVMS had so many options. The best
thing to do is look at the QUIZ Reference for UNIX and also the
PowerHouse 8.4 New Features which has a section on PowerHouse on
Windows. Note that we're not saying NT any more because Microsoft
support ended.

Bob Deskin              
Senior Product Manager, Application Development Tools, Cognos Inc.
bob.deskin@cognos.com (613) 738-1338 ext 7268 FAX: (613) 727-1178
3755 Riverside Drive P.O. Box 9707 Stn. T, Ottawa ON K1G 4K9 CANADA

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From: powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com
[mailto:powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com] On Behalf Of Ken Langendock
Sent: March 9, 2005 8:51 AM
To: powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
Subject: Re: Anyone have Moved from VMS to WINDOWS?


I have converted an application from many machines to
other lines.

I started out on the VAX (in my opinion the best
machine still to this day), then to HP3000, then UNIX
(HP, SUN, IBM, DG, etc) then to Powerhouse NT.

I created a system management module that takes all of
the O/S level code away from your application. This
allows me to convert from one platform to another
transparently to the User/Application.

The problems you are going to encounter are:
1) Quiz does not run in compiled form (at least it
didn't work correctly at the time of implementation).
Not a big problem since every user has their own CPU,
they do not notice.
2) There is no real Batch Queue. Everything is run interactively. I
didn't have time to create one and the client didn't care as the
performance was 10 times faster.
3) Printing is a little more difficult to set up. The
printers have to be set up on the network server. My
system management module took care of this, but the
testing was a bitch.
4) I used strictly Powerhouse, no COBOL, etc. That may
be a problem for you, depends on what you are doing in
there.

Hope this helps.
Ken@langendock.com

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