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Date: | Thu, 21 May 1998 16:04:03 -0700 |
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Has anyone considered a fourth generation language called DataNow from
Idaho Computer Services, Inc.? We have been using it for several years
and couldn't do without it. Development time is minimal (one programmer
wrote 7 extract, sort, and print programs in one day). There is no
compiling, linking, etc. Up to six databases and 16 datasets may be
accessed at a time. KSAM and MPE files are also accessable. MPE
security controls all data access (you need read access to the data).
The resulting program can be texted into a text editor (Editor, Q-Edit,
etc.) to alter or create a seperate program. Output can be to a
dataset, a KSAM or MPE file, or to a common delimited file for down-
loading to a spreadsheet, or of course, to a printer or a terminal
screen. With 29 batch jobs and 121 sessions running, our HP300/997-300
extracted 1,304,668 206 character records into a KSAM file in
approximately 4 minutes.
Just putting another apple in the pot. Thanks for your time.
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