Anyone familiar with Excalibur?
Google turns up the occasional reference to Excalibur here, so hopefully someone can give me a clue. I got called in to try and salvage the raw data from an accounting system supposedly running Excalibur on a dying HP9000. It's all historical info and reports are used infrequently. The accountants telnet in to run canned reports. The system was acquired as a result of a merger and the resident techs have no clue beyond knowing how to boot it up. I spent a little time on it and found apparent data in files with suffix .30, but hit a wall past that shred of info. There was some legible data in the .30 files, but most was unreadable, so I can't just parse it out. Now you know as much as anyone. If anyone is familiar with this beast, can you give me a basic rundown on how these things are configured or point me towards the location of some documentation? Even better, if you could give me a clue on how to go about exporting/migrating, I will think warm thoughts about you all week. Thankee.
Grubber wrote: > Google turns up the occasional reference to Excalibur here, so hopefully > someone can give me a clue. > > I got called in to try and salvage the raw data from an accounting system > supposedly running Excalibur on a dying HP9000. It's all historical info > and reports are used infrequently. The accountants telnet in to run canned > reports. The system was acquired as a result of a merger and the resident > techs have no clue beyond knowing how to boot it up. I spent a little time > on it and found apparent data in files with suffix .30, but hit a wall past > that shred of info. There was some legible data in the .30 files, but most > was unreadable, so I can't just parse it out. > > Now you know as much as anyone. > > If anyone is familiar with this beast, can you give me a basic rundown on > how these things are configured or point me towards the location of some > documentation? Even better, if you could give me a clue on how to go about > exporting/migrating, I will think warm thoughts about you all week. The Excalibur text search datablade that is occasionally mentioned in comp.databases.informix is unrelated to any accounting system using the same name. The Excalibur datablade does not use external files with the ".30" suffix, AFAIK - indeed, I can't think of any Informix product that uses that extension. So, unless someone happens to have used an Excalibur accounting package as well as Informix databases, I regret to say that it is unlikely you'll get much help from this news group. It was worth a try - but don't raise your hopes too far. -- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2003.04 -- http://dbi.perl.org/
"Jonathan Leffler" <jleffler@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:DYBmd.1056$Tq6.61@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net... > Grubber wrote: > > > Google turns up the occasional reference to Excalibur here, so hopefully > > someone can give me a clue. > > > > I got called in to try and salvage the raw data from an accounting system > > supposedly running Excalibur on a dying HP9000. It's all historical info > > and reports are used infrequently. The accountants telnet in to run canned > > reports. The system was acquired as a result of a merger and the resident > > techs have no clue beyond knowing how to boot it up. I spent a little time > > on it and found apparent data in files with suffix .30, but hit a wall past > > that shred of info. There was some legible data in the .30 files, but most > > was unreadable, so I can't just parse it out. > > > > Now you know as much as anyone. > > > > If anyone is familiar with this beast, can you give me a basic rundown on > > how these things are configured or point me towards the location of some > > documentation? Even better, if you could give me a clue on how to go about > > exporting/migrating, I will think warm thoughts about you all week. > > > The Excalibur text search datablade that is occasionally mentioned in > comp.databases.informix is unrelated to any accounting system using > the same name. The Excalibur datablade does not use external files > with the ".30" suffix, AFAIK - indeed, I can't think of any Informix > product that uses that extension. So, unless someone happens to have > used an Excalibur accounting package as well as Informix databases, I > regret to say that it is unlikely you'll get much help from this news > group. It was worth a try - but don't raise your hopes too far. > > > -- > Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> > Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com > Guardian of DBD::Informix v2003.04 -- http://dbi.perl.org/ Thanks for the response. Eliminating a dead end is helpful at this point. To clarify one thing, I don't know that it was being used as an accounting package so much as a report writer ala Focus or Crystal Reports. This still seems like a poor fit, but I don't have much else to work with.