Re: [Hardhats-members] COBOL advise needed

2005-09-01 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
] [mailto:hardhats- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Toppenberg Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 4:27 PM To: Hardhats Sourceforge Subject: [Hardhats-members] COBOL advise needed OK, OK, I know this is a M list. But hear me out. The December our Mysis contract will expire, which is our old

Re: [Hardhats-members] COBOL advise needed

2005-08-31 Thread Jim Self
Kevin, Can you get the data into a file accessible to GT.M or Perl? Do you have access to the source code or documentation on the data layout? If you're up for a little programming challenge then it might be surprisingly easy to read the data directly out of the COBOL data files. At most, you

Re: [Hardhats-members] COBOL advise needed

2005-08-31 Thread Marianne Susaanti Follingstad
My recollection of COBOL is that the files are defined in a beginning section of the program and that things are fairly clearly defined, although some might have a generic description of the data file (saying for example that each record is 1100 characters) and then move each record into a

RE: [Hardhats-members] COBOL advise needed

2005-08-31 Thread Thurman Pedigo
Of Kevin Toppenberg Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 4:27 PM To: Hardhats Sourceforge Subject: [Hardhats-members] COBOL advise needed OK, OK, I know this is a M list. But hear me out. The December our Mysis contract will expire, which is our old EMR. The company says that it will be $5,000

[Hardhats-members] COBOL advise needed

2005-08-30 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
OK, OK, I know this is a M list. But hear me out. The December our Mysis contract will expire, which is our old EMR. The company says that it will be $5,000+ to get the old progress notes exported. Recently our group voted not to do that, and to just go forward with our paper printouts of that

Re: [Hardhats-members] COBOL advise needed

2005-08-30 Thread whitten
I'm not sure about MicroFocus Cobol (which is a PC Cobol, as I recall) but I recall that on the mainframes (IBM 360/370 range) Cobol did NOT provide its own database layer. It is probably something like VSAM or ISAM, or possibly SQL. A web search yielded:

Re: [Hardhats-members] COBOL advise needed

2005-08-30 Thread Chris Richardson
to extract the data to VistA. Best wishes; Chris - Original Message - From: Kevin Toppenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Hardhats Sourceforge hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 3:26 PM Subject: [Hardhats-members] COBOL advise needed OK, OK, I know