[comp.databases] Need help extracting data from DG Infos II database

jem@mhinfo.UUCP (John McCormack) (01/05/91)

I need assistance extracting data from a Data General (AOS) Infos II,
dbam and isam file.  I would like to export the data to ascii files such
that I could import the data to an Ultrix/Ingres database.  My real problem
is extracting the data from the Data General.

I have looked through the DG manuals in hopes of finding a utility to do the
job.  However, I have been unsuccessful to date.  Can anyone give me assistance
with this task.  Is there a utility available?  Do I need to write code such as
Fortran or DG/L?


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John E. McCormack
Mile-High Information Services Inc.
9101 East Kenyon, Suite 3400, Denver Co 80237
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bishop@mhinfo.UUCP (Deborah Bishop) (01/18/91)

Thanks for the response.  We have no DG expertise here and we do not
know the layout of the data in the INFOs files.  Our customer also does
not have the sort/merge utility, so we are borrowing a machine.  We need
to find out if using sort/merge is straightforward - especially when
we do NOT know the data layout...  Can you help us answer this question
by giving me a feel for what sort/merge will require in 1. knowledge of 
data structure,  2. actual steps/syntax.

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		Deborah Bishop	(uunet!mhinfo!bishop)
		Mile High Information Services  Suite 3400
		9101 E. Kenyon   Denver  CO  	80237
		303) 721-0851