In my mainframe career, I used DYLAKOR, Eztrieve, Earl and SAS. This one
looks even better. If I still had access to a z/OS system, I would get
the 30 day free trial just to see how good it really is.
I would have two requests for the vendor: Can you provide a z/VM
version? Can you provide a Linux version?
I would definately want to use a Linux version in my current work.
/Tom Kern
On 7/6/2021 6:15 PM, Bob Bridges wrote:
It's bigger on the west coast of the USA than on the east, but when I was at Volvo Truck
NA we used DYL-280II for years; they still do as far as I know. It was published at the
time by DYLAKOR, who I think had some relationship with Sterling Software. They touted
it as a 4GL; it isn't, in my opinion, but it's a very friendly 3GL. We offered a two-day
class to users so they could learn to write their own reports, and it was very popular.
Developers could learn the same content in half a day. (For the users I'd spend an hour
or two on sorting data, for example, going over variations, sorting on multiple field
ascending and descending. For the programmers I could pretty much just say "...and
this is what the SORT statement looks like", and give them 30 seconds to contemplate
it.)
I did a little googling and found one web page that says DYLAKOR is "no longer active".
Another one referred to "CA-DYL280".
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The site I support may soon be in the need for a load&go report writer
We would need an alternative to
Culprit
Eztrieve
Quickjob
Earl
Without any research - any other report writers come to mind?
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