Re: Advice on dropping New Era for Batch Work

Michael Silver wrote: > > We are interested in moving our batch work over from New Era (for Motif) > to a more stable programming language. Amazingly, an application made > with New Era can crash the database. What does everyone use to run > batch work? We have a copy of ESQL, and were wondering if 4GL might be > better. Any advice? > Syntax wise and for maintainability, I think 4GL will work for you. If you have a lot of batch to convert, you'll find only a few syntax differences (DEFINE vs VARIABLE, a couple other things). > ...Michael... -- //////////////// ======================================================= ////////// // Dennis J. Pimple Informix Software, Inc. ////// / /// Principal Consultant 5299 DTC Blvd Suite 740 ///// // //// dennisp@informix.com Englewood CO 80111 //// // ///// /// // ////// recept: 303-850-0210 // // /////// direct: 303-740-5611 Opinions expressed are mine, / /////////// fax: 303-843-6408 and do not necessarily //////////////// http://www.informix.com reflect those of my employer