Re: Unibol

Al Barsa, Jr. wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a client that is proposing to port their system to Unibol.
<snip>
> If anyone has any experience with the product, or knows where the
> restrictions are documented, please respond.
> 
I had only one experience with this product.  At the time (1988) we had
just completed a prototype of our accounting applications for the
AS/400, but our development was done on a S/36.  We were working out
file structures, etc.

Well to keep a story short, we wrote our interactive programs as SRT's
but compiled them as single user NEP-MRT's with some OCL tricks to run
multiple copies..(this gave us a RETRN like function keeping files open
and programs in memory)

This technique did NOT work in UNIBOL.  For some reason it did not like
single user NEP-MRT's...or, like the AS/400...there is no native  IF
ACTIVE support...whatever......but other than that, it was just like
running the applications on a 436 under SSP.

It's big selling point was that it would run S/36 programs without a
need to recompile (sound familiar?)...which was great if you lost the
source, or lacked confidence that the source you had actually matched
the compiled programs being run.

It did not have the #GSORT 'H' spec limitation that baby/36 had (I say
had, don't know if it still does) where you had to enter the record
length in the first 4 positions of the comment area.

Just curious....are they currently running a S/36? If so, why UNIBOL
instead of a 436?

James W. Kilgore
QAPPDSN@ibm.net
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