Moving Data between SHIMS and Windows Course 417

Moving Data between SHIMS and Windows Ken R. Hall, Ph.D. Hyland Technology Group, Inc. Portland, Oregon

Speaker’s Qualifications Ken Hall has over 25 years experience developing applications in PICK, Universe, and Unidata. Ken developed applications for mail order, manufacturing, leasing, publishing, and distribution businesses. Ken was the I.T. Manager for a major wholesale distributor who used customized SHIMS.

Learning Objectives As a result of this presentation, you will learn how to: –Load data into a PICK file from the PC –Extract data from PICK to your PC –Create a spreadsheet from a PICK file We will discuss: –Other data extraction methods available –Terminal emulators that can assist in data transfer

Presentation Agenda Introduce the functionality of the smart terminal emulator Demonstrate moving PC data to PICK Demonstrate moving PICK data to the PC Creating a spreadsheet using the tools in a smart terminal emulator Discussion of other methods like using BASIC to extract data and create ed spreadsheet Discussion of other terminal emulators that assist in data transfer

Data Transfer with cut & paste Most terminal emulators have this functionality Demonstration of taking data off the screen and pasting into Excel Demonstration of cutting data from Excel and pasting into a record with ED

Tools to move data Use tools built into AccuTerm Demonstrate screen capture to a PC file Demonstrate AccuTerm Data Transfer Wizard

Smart Emulators Emulators with smart data transfer require installation of software on PICK host The emulators with this type of wizard are: wIntegrate, ViaDuct-FX, and AccuTerm

Other methods for extracting data Custom software using BASIC and PERL –Developed for Universe on Linux –BASIC extracts and formats data with parameters for PERL script –PERL script takes tab delimited data and creates formated spreadsheet which is ed to list of addresses –Great solution of generation of reports in nightly processing

Lets discuss how you do it What methods have you found that help extract and report in electronic formats? What has worked well? What methods should others avoid? What emulator do you like and why?

Q & A

Thank You! Ken R. Hall, Ph.D. Hyland Technology Group, Inc