Conference ulysse::rdb_vms_competition

182.0. "ALL-IN-1 SSM and Oracle Questions" by BRDWLK::FARLOW (Steve Farlow - St. Louis) Thu Aug 25 1988 20:10

   I have a customer that has an Oracle database.  They are interested in
   our ALL-IN-1 System for Sales and Marketing.  However, they would like
   to be able to extract information from their Oracle database to feed
   into the SSM screens.

   They are considering writing an application similar to SSM that may
   run on another platform. However, if there is a way to access the data
   in the Oracle database for the SSM system they may use it instead.

   Although I am working to keep Oracle out of any Digital accounts that I
   am involved with, this is a situation where it is there and we are
   trying to keep our presence up in the account, as well as help out the
   customer.

   I told the salesperson that I thought that some code could be written to
   spool some data from the Oracle database to a file.  The file could then
   be read and written into an RMS file that could be accessed by the SSM.

   Does anyone know for sure how this could work?

   Also, is there any way to do a more interactive way of retrieving data
   from the Oracle database for SSM based on an inquiry?  How difficult
   would it be to code the applications to do the work (whole files or
   queries)?

   Any ideas or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

   Steve Farlow

    Oracle is advertising that with their new ALL-IN-1 interface, the
    Oracle database can be queried directly from an ALL-IN-1 menu. You
    might check with Oracle to see what the reality really is.
    
    ---- Michael Booth

    If anyone knows what the ORACLE/A1 'reality really is' I would
    like to know.
    
    David Cameron
    VAX SQL