dlt@csuna.UUCP (Dave Thompson) (03/02/88)
We are in the market for a replacement for our Cyber mainframe
that is currently supporting our administrative workload. One of the
vendors who has expressed an interest in this procurement is DEC.
Our experience with DEC has been with PDP-11s and VAXen, but
predominately in either a student programming environment or as a
word processing machine. One of our primary concerns is that of
duplicating the transaction processing applications on a DEC machine.
The tasks written for these applications are written in COBOL and
there are about 1-1/2 million lines of code. Needless to say, we
would prefer not to rewrite this code. Does DEC (or any third party
vendor) have the capability of providing transaction processing in
this fashion with concurrent multi-user access and record locking
(etc.)?
We are currently supporting several different types of terminals for
these applications: 3270 synchronous clustered terminals and
various species of asynchronous terminals (including DEC VT100)
and are concerned whether DEC can support this existing terminal
base.
If anyone out there has any information or any leads to information,
please drop me a line via MAIL as I do not regularly read this
newsgroup.
Thanks,
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Dave Thompson uucp: {ihnp4|hplabs|psivax}!csun!dlt
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