From: Peter Palmer <ppalmer@...>
Date: 2006-06-15T18:55:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Cobol

Hi,

Unfortunately that won't work :(

Whilst we can extract the data and import it into say Oracle or Postgres,
the problem is that the live system uses the cobol files. The acuCOBOL SQL
interface is far too slow to switch to Oracle directly and so Oracle is
only used for data mining.

One of the programs I want to write is a kiosk type application for use in
the stores where customers can take stock, see what's available and what
sizes etc and see if they can either get it in this store or another.

Unfortunately the Oracle data is a day old and thus won't be accurate
enough for the task - which was why I was asking about accessing the cobol
files directly...


Cheers,


Pete




> Maybe use something like this?
>
>   http://www.siber.com/sct/datafile/data-viewer.html
>
> T.
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