Anyone have Moved from VMS to WINDOWS?

[Ken Langendock]

I have to agree with this one too. By using the DOS
print command, I was able to keep the ctrl-codes that
were used on a UNIX machine within the quiz code.

I had some minor adjustments to make but that part
worked relatively easily. Of course I am talking about
normal escape sequences...I never tried anything as
complex as Crystal reports or Microsoft Word would
allow you to do.

Ken

 --- Joe Boyle <atla38@dsl.pipex.com> wrote: 
> More begging to differ :)
> 
> You don't need to strip out control characters, the
> solution is to create
> the reports out to disc files and then use the print
> command from the DOS
> shell. This bypasses windows attempt to remove
> control characters.
> 
> Regards, Joe.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com
> [mailto:powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com] On Behalf
> Of Linda Symonds
> Sent: 09 March 2005 14:02
> To: Etienne Rompré; powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
> Subject: RE: Anyone have Moved from VMS to WINDOWS?
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com
> [mailto:powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com] On Behalf
> Of Etienne Rompré
> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 8:38 AM
> To: powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
> 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
> 
> 
> --
> Etienne Rompré
> 
> Koala Technologies
> Québec Canada
> 
> courriel/email: erompre(at)koala-tech.com
> www:  http://www.koala-tech.com/
> 
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