We here at the college are currently using dataexpress.  One big gotcha
is that dataexpress will grab as much CPU as possible when it starts.  If
the CPU is not busy then it will grab up to 70-80 percent and that locks
up my users right and left.  I have a job that runs about every ten
minutes to put all dataexpress users into a lower que, but if the user in
dataexpress takes the cpu long enough then the scheduled job can never
log on.  This is a hassle, I am forced to keep checking on the CPU to
ensure that no one person has locked up all the other users.  This has
been our frustration for some time and if anyone out there has some ideas
I would love to here them.
 
I hope this helps, and please remember dataexpress does work for my
users, but it cannot be controlled very well and often runs away with the
CPU, or least that is my experience with dataexpress.  I hope this has
been helpful.
 
Joe Elliott
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On Mon, 20 Nov 1995, Dan Hollis wrote:
 
> We are looking at products to allow us to write C/S apps using PCs to talk
> to our HP3000. One product we have come across that looks promising (on
> paper anyway :) is "DataExpress" from M.B. Foster Associates (Ontario, Canada).
>
> Does anyone have experiences to share regarding this product (good or bad),
> success stories, hidden gotchas, etc.?
>
> -Dan
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