Gee, it's awfully quit here - I'd expect this to draw a few comments...
First, I have to say that it's an excellent move, and it'll be nice to
see and try the long awaited JDBC driver of GT.M. The tools look very
sharp (nice usage of GWT, Eclipse, and other OSS!), and it's nice to
get a first look at PSL - yet another M++ dialect.
Although I only took a short look, I already have a few questions:
1. Where's the source code? I can't find it anywhere.
2. Any do***entation on how to map existing globals to SQL access?
3. I can't seem to find the PSL to C/SQL compiler either. I see that
both the Eclipse plugin and the web tool can "test compile", but
where's the compiler itself?
4. PSL seems to be pretty much a superset of M, with a few exceptions
mentioned in the docs. Is it correct to say that PIP contains an M to
C/SQL compiler, or something very close to that?
5. Are there any live systems running at Fidelity customers on Oracle,
after automatic PIP compilation? How are they performing?
Again, kudos for release.
Uri
On Feb 1, 6:22 pm, "K.S. Bhaskar" <ksbhas...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> PIP is the database management infrastructure at the heart of our FIS
> Profile real-time banking application. For the first time, the
> infrastructure has been separated from the financial application code
> and made available as a separate software layer under the GNU General
> Public License (GPL). The web page is
athttp://www.fidelityinfoservices.com/FNFIS/Markets/NonFinancialIndustr...
> and the software is available at Source Forge (http://sourceforge.net/
> projects/pip) as a software appliance (QEMU virtual machine).
>
> Caveats:
>
> 1. Although the underlying engine is mature, the packaging is brand
> new. At this time, it is better characterized as expert friendly than
> user friendly. If you want to play with it, please start with the
> Readme.
>
> 2. For anyone interested in using it to access an existing application
> (e.g., VistA), PIP does not have a tool to map globals in an existing
> application. You can create tables and access them, but to access
> existing global variables, you will need to write code to map between
> them.
>
> Regards
> -- Bhaskar
> ks dot bhaskar at fnis dot com <-- send e-mail here
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