[comp.databases] Converting Wang PACE to anything else - help!

ken@kericks.chi.il.us (Ken Erickson) (06/20/91)

Hello net.landers.  Please try not to laugh too hard when you read what I
want to do.

Basically, I am interested in a way to easily convert applications written
in PACE (Wang Labs proprietary DBMS product) to any one of the various UNIX
based RDBMS platforms.  I have never seen any discussion of PACE (nor would
I expect to ;-)  ) but perhaps there is something out there that I am not
aware of.

Those who are familiar with PACE (anybody???) know that PACE applications
are a disgusting COBOL/PACE hybrid - obviously, translating the actual code
will be a tedious manual job.  It would be nice if there was something that
would convert the data dictionary, though.

Those with any great ideas, please e-mail.  I'm sure there's no one else
foolish enough to be interested in this sort of silliness.

Thanks.
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