Re: Unibol -- MIDRANGE-L

For Unibol you DO NEED the sources, just like migrating to an AS/400.

There was an other product which allows objects to be used on an Unix
machine,
I don't recall the name.

Unibol worked fine with one (1) user, multi-user performance was just a
little over the power of the original 5360 D2K (On an HP9000).

My experiance is over 4 years old, so I don't know  the current status.

The rumors of an new system 36 (de AS/400 SSP machines) let us decide not
to look any depper into the possibillities.

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> Van: James W. Kilgore <qappdsn@ibm.net>
> Aan: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Onderwerp: Re: Unibol
> Datum: donderdag 16 oktober 1997 19:14
> 
> 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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