The unix system is Acucobol.
So are you suggesting that getting all historical data is a very tall order?
I would have thought that once you have mapped the chart of accounts,
creditors and debtors, you could then dump the transaction journal?
Or am I missing the point here?
Walter Vaughan wrote:
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?
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Walter
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