Querix Lycia - "Transform Informix 4GL"
John Dargan asked about experience with Querix Lycia for modernizing Informix 4GL applications. Art Kagel, Paul Watson and Eric Vercelletto all spoke well of it: apps usually compile with little change, with a graphical form designer and report writer, extra language features and APIs, and performance near compiled 4GL. Eric called it a superset of 4GL. No drawbacks were raised.
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Has anyone had experience with Querix for transforming an older 4GL application into a more modern-looking one? https://querix.com/ I scrolled to the bottom of this home page and saw a picture of Art Kagel with a positive comment about the product. They also show icons for various customers, including AT&T and Thomson Reuters. #Informix
Querix is a great product with a reasonable pricing structure. Win win. Instantly modernize 4GL apps usually with no changes. Then you can take additional steps to take advantage of Lcia extensions to make the app pretty. Performance is on par with classic compiled 4GL but portable like the P-machine R4GL code. Graphical form designer, graphical report writer. Existing forms are imported. Most existing code just compiles as is. ------------------------------ Art S. Kagel, President and Principal Consultant ASK Database Management Corp. www.askdbmgt.com ------------------------------
Works well Cheers Paul Paul Watson Oninit LLC +1-913-387-7529 www.oninit.com Oninit® is a registered trademark of Oninit LLC
John I just fell in love with Lycia almost 10 years ago, and I don't regreat that. Adding to Art's response, Lycia is not just about revamping your 4GL code once and end of the game. It features a richer language superset on top of legacy 4GL, including "modern" languages features that will resolve requirements that Informix 4GL will not resolve, at least in a simple way. Lycia has a growing set of useful APIs that will connect your legacy 4GL app to the current technologies. So you can choose the loose way (just migrate to Lycia as is), or decide to continue or restart investing time on your 4GL apps with a guarantee they will be adapted to today's technology. I know I am bias, but I have tons of justified reasons to be Eric Eric Vercelletto Data Management Architect and Owner / Begooden IT Consulting KandooERP Founder and CTO IBM Champion 2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020 Tel: +33(0) 298 51 3210 Mob : +33(0)626 52 50 68 skype: begooden-it Google Hangout: eric.vercelletto@begooden-it.com Email: eric.vercelletto@begooden-it.com www : http://www.vercelletto.com www https://kandooerp.org