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On 10/7/2014 10:58 AM, Rick Mason wrote:information
We are evaluating replacing one of our AS400 applications with adifferent
platform....not sure which one yet.
If you aren't sure which one yet, then why not replace the AS/400 with
a new POWER 8? It'll run all that old AS/400 stuff as well as all the
new web stuff you can think of!
This particular application has one library but many files thatthe
drives
different application modules. Other than the dspfile command...is
there a better way to provide the vendor our files with field
theand what data the file holds?
Having done many conversions TO the midrange platform, the things I
find most useful are some sort of data dictionary, a list of the main
tables in the application along with their relationships (primary and
foreign
keys) and an 80-80 list of the first 50 records like CPYF
OUTPUT(*PRINT)
OUTFMT(*HEX) might produce.
Also, if this vendor is selected.......when they request our data
for conversion.....should the entire library be sent to them or should
tape.files be sent individually? FTP I presume??
Generally speaking, a conversion won't be using every one of your files.
That is, they won't be taking your database and writing a new Windows
(for example) front end to it. They'll be taking your data and
converting it and importing that to their database. And when I say
'data' I don't mean the entire library, I mean your customer file,
your product master file, your sales history file and so on. The
important ones, probably fewer than 50 all told.
Only your chosen vendor can tell you what they need and how to get it
to them. In my vanity, I will say that I believe the better vendors
will take any format you can provide. I got a lot of raw tables -
packed decimal and all but I also got a lot of CSV files where the
data is viewable in a spreadsheet program like Excel. Sometimes those
files are small enough to email around, sometimes FTP is better.
Unless they are a midrange vendor they won't be able to use a SAVLIB on a
--bucklist
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