Ron Johnson wrote:

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On 01/22/07 14:01, Paul Lambert wrote:

Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/22/07 07:09, Paul Lambert wrote:

Alban Hertroys wrote:

Paul Lambert wrote:

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We've got pretty new hardware - DS15's, DS25's, Itaniums and so
forth. But we don't run any DB app on it, most of our data sits
in RMS files or flat binary files - even text files in a few
instances, thus making standard DB queries nigh on impossible
with the exception of a report generator we've built into the
app, but that has nowhere near the capabilities of something like
crystal reports or M$ Access, thus the need for a 'replica'
standard db model. We looked at Mimer on VMS for a while but


CONNX & Easysoft appear to offer ODBC drivers for (probably only
indexed) RMS files, if that helps you.

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Probably wouldn't - as I said we use a mix of binary, rms (some indexed, some not) and text files - so an
odbc driver into RMS files would only give us a portion of the database. A lot of what I replicate to SQL
server at the moment comes from flat binary files and a couple of the tables from text files, the rest from
RMS files. Having this mix of types would mean we need to manage things ourselves, thus having our main
in-house faux-database engine forward messages directly to the Weendoze box which then uses ODBC to
pump the data into the database of my choice. It would make things a lot easier to manage if I could forward
it to an ODBC database on the VMS machine - oracle is just way out of our reach though.

Thanks for the suggestion though, that may come in handy down the track for another project I'm looking at.

P.

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