________________________________ From: Itschak Mugzach <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, February 16, 2010 11:24:36 AM Subject: Re: CA Easytrieve replacement
IBM resell (under OEM) PengiEzt the foundation Software. The product has two modes of operation: One time conversion, and a translate, compile link-edit. Both modes drops EasyTrieve. Cobol shoudl run faster even if EasyTrieve running compiled. That's because IO is handled better with Cobol. From other hand, developing easyTrieve is much faster then Cobol. ITschak ----------------SNIP----------------------- At one time we were an early adapter of EASYTREV. It was an "OK" product but it had its draw backs, documenting how it worked was not easy as statement placement had a lot to do with how it did certain things. I loved it for fast & dirty SMF reports. It never really caught on in the applications area. I cannot talk to later versions as for it speed but the early versions were quite fast. A few times I witnessed it run the tape drive read as fast as it could. One of the issues with it you could by accident do double processing. AIt was also not obvious that you did do it. There were issues about handling SMF fields especially with the variable portions of SMF records (it did not play well). Overall I liked the versions we had (but did not love it). Was it worth the money ? It depends. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
