Thanks Joseph Geiser
for more detail on the Infomation Access...

and sorry for the bandwidth..

In my spare time, I wrote an Access/VBA module to simulate
the Infomation Access(old), one side is connect to a HP3000
by the ODBC/32 and the other side is transport into an Excel or a Mail.

Simply, a user open this form to select Dataset or Query
and Select a Item from Dataset, Select a Criteria form the Item,
Select a Sort from item the It automatically open Excel and writing
New Sheet with selected information.

I attached demo version on ZIP File, any one Interest???

Sorry again for the Bandwidth
Peter C.
   
>>> Joseph Geiser <[log in to unmask]> 02/24/00 05:06AM >>>
Peter Chong writes,

> 1. How many people remember the HP Information Access?

Hand raised on high...

> 2. How Many People who want to see same function like from
> HP3000 IMAGE Dataset to Excel or mail?

Already out there with MS Office, Crystal Reports, Speedware Esperant/Media,
and a host of other products.  IA hasn't been updated in years and is on the
obsolete list.

> 5. What is worth for this kind of package cost?

No more than US$159/seat for a simple report writer component - such as
being charged for the smaller products.  For more power and control, no more
than $300-350/seat.  Of course, discounts for volume seat counts.

> For people who is not familiar on the Information Access
>
> The GUI Package running on a PC.
> 1. Select an IMAGE Dataset on the HP3000.
> 2. Select an Items from the Dataset.
> 3. Select a Data criteria
> 4. Select a Sort.
> 5. Extract to Results to an Excel or Mail.

And one forgets - it's STILL 16-bit and written for legacy Windows.

Yes, it was a great product - in it's day.  I was a proponent to keep IA
around several years ago.  If people still use it, that's great because
there is a level of pain to migrate to other products... but today however,
there are far superior products on the market which can do much more - and
if one is not using IA, they would be well advised to look at these other
products on the market.

Regards,
Joe Geiser