Keypoint and Linux?

[Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO]

 I'll admit I was wrong about Cobol being a database.  I guess it is in
the sense that an encrypted text file or a spreadsheet could be
considered the same.
But you should at least admit that you are dealing with an old piece of
crap.  And I mean that in the nicest possible way.  ;-)


>-----Original Message-----
>From: On Behalf Of RtX
>Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 1:19 PM

>
>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 cobol files, but it's a messy 
>task. There 
>> is no such beast as an ODBC Cobol 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 Cobol 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 Cobol 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.
>