Anyone have Moved from VMS to WINDOWS?

[Deskin, Bob]

There are COBOL compilers available on Windows and they should be
supported for DO EXTERNAL calls assuming they use a compatible calling
mechanism. QUICK supports C and PASCAL passing mechanisms. The
PowerHouse 8.4 New Features book has details.

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

-----Original Message-----
From: powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com
[mailto:powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com] On Behalf Of Joe Boyle
Sent: March 9, 2005 9:12 AM
To: Ken@Langendock.com; powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
Subject: RE: Anyone have Moved from VMS to WINDOWS?


I beg to differ :)

Quiz runs fine in compiled form and you can use the AT ( or schedule )
command for the batch processor.

Not sure about 'do external' calls to Cobol; you might have to look into
using 'run command' as with VB scripts.

Regards, Joe.

-----Original Message-----
From: powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com
[mailto:powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com] On Behalf Of Ken Langendock
Sent: 09 March 2005 13:51
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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