Re: Development tool recommendations sought

In article <41bka4$5ho@bud.tic.ab.ca>, hp <tic.ab.ca> wrote: > I work for a medium sized corporation in western Canada. My company is >currently looking to migrate its 'big' applications (warehousing >management, head office systems, etc.) from the proprietary Honeywell-Bull >mainframe database, TPS, and its COBOL 'development tool' ;) > The corporate direction is to migrate to a new tool set that is able to >access many databases on a broad range of platforms. > We currently have 6 BullDPS6000's running GCOS6 rev H, several high >performance (dual pentium) NT servers at each sight, 1 AS/400 running >version 3.1 and 2 SMP Escala running AIX. > The network glue that allows these systems to communicate with each >other and the 250 WFWG311/WIN95 clients is TCP/IP. The mainframes, servers >and hosts communicate predominately through custom socket applications. > We are looking at several development tools including VisualAge, >PowerBuilder, Progress and Acess/VB. The primary database may be >proprietary to the tool but it must also interface with our existing >databases; MSSQLServer, AS400/DB2, Access and, with luck, TPS. Also, the >tool must generate windows forms for clients to access multiple databases >across the WAN through socket services. > Application Factory from Cadre Technologies seems to fit into the type of tools you are looking at. You can reach them at (401) 351-5950. - Ted Kyriakakis