Keypoint and Linux?

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On 11/16/06, Jeremy Fowler <JFowler at westrope.com> wrote:
> Cobol is a programming language but it stores its data in binary flat
> files. So in a sense it is its own database. There are applications that
> can extract data out of cobal files, but it's a messy task. There is no
> such beast as an ODBC cobal driver...

I knew Cobol was/is a programming language. Someone pointed the
obvious out for me. Thanks. True, there is no ODBC cobol driver. Could
make things interesting in data conversion. We'll see.

> We had a Cobal based Agency Management system here four years ago. We
> ended up moving to a SQL based solution from another vendor. We did have
> to extract some data from the cobal app, but luckily the new vendor had
> experience with our old system and was able to do that for us. The data
> wasn't very pretty.

Did your vendor have to write a data conversion app? I would assume so.

> I would recommend your client shop around for a more technologically
> advanced trucking system. Or have one designed.

My client is happy with the current software so shopping is probably
not an option.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kclug-bounces at kclug.org [mailto:kclug-bounces at kclug.org] On Behalf
> Of Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO
> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 11:18 AM
> To: KC Linux Users Group
> Subject: RE: Keypoint and Linux?
>
>  Run?
> How would it use a Cobol database?  Cobol is a programming language.
> There are GNU Cobol components for compiling (gcc, may have to add an
> extension), but I've never heard of a Cobol database.   I'm working with
> a Sybase database modeling tool on Windows right now (Power Builder 11)
> and it can work with basically any database and supposedly reverse
> engineer obscure ones, so they tell me.  I'm going to make a broad
> statement and say that any ODBC-enabled database will work with Winders
> and you should be able to get it to work with Linux too.  Any input from
> DBAs?
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