Did the *exact* same thing in 1996 with a Powerhouse application called 
"Visibility".  It was a fairly seamless conversion also because it ran 
on both platforms.  After that it was only a matter of taking care of 
"operations".

Although I never heard of "Visibility" after I left.  Wonder what 
happened to them...

Donna Hofmeister wrote:
> just as an fyi....  the *only* mpe application that we have that was moved to unix (the rest have all be abandoned (move the data only)) was/is predominately written in cognos.  because (newer releases of) powerhouse will run on both platforms, it made the move (somewhat) easier.  (they hit isses with powerhouse on unix...).  i'm not sure of the status of powerhouse on unix -- that's probably worth checking (seems kinda silly to me to put all that effort in only to find that cognos is abandoning powerhouse on unix).  the standard warnings about licensing costs apply!  also, this particular application had done a good job of staying up-to-date with powerhouse.  in particular they had converted to the new-style dictionary (well before the move to unix).  the fact that they had done this made the move possible.  powerhouse on unix won't support (afaik) old-style dictionaries.      - d
> 
> ----- 
> Donna Hofmeister, HP-CSA Sr. System Programmer
> dgarverick -at- longs -dot- com
> 925-210-6631 Longs Drug Stores
>  
>>>> MY opinions, not Longs Drug Stores'<<
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Michael Caplin <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 10:44:26 AM
> Subject: [HP3000-L] powerhouse migration to hpux
> 
> 
> I posted a message earlier today and have gotten several replies thus far.  
> Thanks to all of you who responded.  This posting is specific to migrating 
> Powerhouse Quick with Cobol calls to HPUX.  I'm not talking about 
> converting it to another language.  I thought I heard a year or 2 ago that 
> it was impossible without some type of change to the way that Quick works 
> (this would have to be done by the vendor) and that the vendor had, at that 
> time, been unwilling to do it.  Can anyone shed some light on this. Has 
> anyone done it or do you know of someone who's done it.
> Mike
> 


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