Anyone have Moved from VMS to WINDOWS?

[Deskin, Bob]

Thanks Stephen. This should help anyone migrating to Windows, regardless
of the source platform. And I'll bet it can be modified for UNIX.

Bob

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Sent: March 9, 2005 9:43 AM
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Subject: RE: Anyone have Moved from VMS to WINDOWS?


ken,
you can run quiz from inside qtp, but the temporary folders used by each
will be different, so you can't by default use the subiles from one in
the other. we solved this problem by using a batch file to copy the
subfile definitions from the temporary folder from qtp into the one for
quiz. if you run quiz from inside qtp the folder structure looks like
this:

<current>
-> tmp<number1>  (qtp temp folder)
---> tmp<number2>  (quiz temp folder)

so you have to copy all the files from tmp<number1> to
tmp<number1>\tmp<number2>. in dos terms this becomes (win2k):

	if not "%phtemp%"=="" copy %phtemp%\..\*.sfd %phtemp%

you'll get an error on exiting quiz if you don't then delete these, so
use:

	del /q /f %PHTEMP%\*.sfd

put these in batch files and call them inside quiz.
a generic compile script is included (.txt to get round daemons). hope
this helps. regards, stephen.

   



 -----Original Message-----
From: 	ken.langendock@rogers.com [mailto:ken.langendock@rogers.com]
Sent:	Wednesday, March 09, 2005 2:23 PM
To:	powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
Subject:	RE: Anyone have Moved from VMS to WINDOWS?

Ok guys, it's been almost a year since I tried to
resolve the issue I had. How did you guys solve the
problem of compiling all your code in batch (bat
file)?

On and HP3000 the subfile definitions stay in memory
(temp). On a Vax you can call $QUIZ from within QTP to
retain the subfile definitions. Neither of these
tricks/options work on "Powerhouse for Windows"

BTW, I worked with Steve B at Cognos for a week on
this problem back when I was converting and we both
agreed at the time that it would be easier to run
interactive quiz until a solution could be found. Now
I guess I should go back to see if I can work through
it since everything else is done.

Ken



 --- Joe Boyle <atla38@dsl.pipex.com> wrote: > 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.
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