On 13/06/20 8:49 AM, Siddharth Joshi wrote:
I am new in Python world and would like to use it for one of the our
purpose . Before that, I would like to ask if Python has compatibility with
ENSCRIBE database .
Enscribe database (file structured) is the native database of HP NonStop
(Tandem) server, mainly used in applications running on nonStop Tandem .
Almost all the applications which runs on Tandem using enscribe are Tier 0
applications (often critical once).
Wow, a 'blast from the past'!
I worked on HP3000s (from which Tandem originally developed) forty years
ago. My first foray into 'non-stop' computing, supporting banking
systems and the like, involved jumping-ship to Stratus (or more
precisely, the re-badged IBM System/88). Others were also involved in
that project, so happily/sadly I ended-up consulting for a project that
no-one else wanted: figuring out how to network those new-fangled IBM
PC/XTs and integrate office systems with aforementioned DBs and similar.
After all that, please excuse me whilst I take a grandpa-snooze...
The question is broad. What do you want to do once an interface can be
found, eg do you merely want a one-off use to transcribe the old data to
a new system, do you want to build a front-end interface and
data-collection application, or is perhaps a back-end MIS analysis your
goal? The quality of the interface, its speed, its data-handling
capabilities, etc, etc, will all influence...
I haven't heard about Enscribe in recent years. My recollection is that
their direct interfaces were Java-based. Python offers a JDBC
"connector" which may be worth investigating. There are also other
new/improved/faster/super libraries, eg JayDeBeAPI - see PyPi. See also
Attunity (if still available, eg
http://whp-aus2.cold.extweb.hp.com/pub/nonstop/ccc/apr0110.pdf).
HP pursued various 'modernisation' proposals, which may be worth review,
eg using SOAP/micro-services and XML/interchange.
The comp.sys.tandem forum discussed ideas (five years ago):
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.sys.tandem/dG2t9faPzWg
The lingua-franca of DB inter-connection is probably ODBC, and thus the
Python ODBC connector.
Trusting these give some food-for-thought...
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