Thanks Denys for the survey:
 
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>OK, question 1.  How many of you out there are actively using IMAGE/SQL WITH
>SQL access?  Not just to say "We have updated to IMAGE/SQL," but rather, "we
>have attached production databases and we are accessing the data in IMAGE
>through the SQL interface".  It doesn t have to be totally SQL, but a least
>some portion of it, perhaps ad-hoc reporting, should be in SQL.
 
3M now has several users of IMAGE/SQL. The most popular usage is ad hoc queries
using MS Access. We have several PowerBuilder applications that are in
development and a few in production that make queries to legacy data. We have
one manufacturing application that uses Cognos products on HP-UX while
accessing legacy data from IMAGE/SQL on MPE/iX via Allbase/NET.
 
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>Question 2.  How many of you are actively accessing attached IMAGE/SQL data
>via ODBC or other middleware in a client/server fashion to PCs?  How are you
>doing it?  Which end-user tools (shrink-wrapped or otherwise) are you using?
> Are you developing with VB or perhaps something else?
 
We primarily use the ODBC software supplied by HP (HPPCAPI.PUB.SYS). It has
been reported that some of our users purchase ODBC from a third party
supplier, such as, Intersolv. As per above, we use MS Access plus the other
MS tools (Excel, Query, etc.) and Cognos Impromtu. Most of our development
is done with PowerBuilder.
 
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