James Troup wrote:
Hi BJ,
Original data can be spooled out as fixed width plain text as it
currently prints to tractor feed paper.
Otherwise, I am told there is an ODBC interface (but no one has figured
out how to use it).
Obviously the ODBC interface would be nice to plugin to, but I don't
know if it is more hassle than what it is worth.
Any chance your unix system is filePro based?
Regardless, daunting is a putting it mildly.
The fact that you said you can only control the data via fixed reports that you
intercept as text files is only going to make this harder.
We've spent months on importing data. There is no magic import pill.
What's your time frame for conversion?
Are you or is are the people on your team Java programmers?
Do you really need to bring in all your historical information, or could you get
by with just product information, and customer list? And keep the old system up
for years?
--
Walter
