[Info-Ingres] ABF Debugger / NAIUA

[Paul White]

I think there is still room for ABF type server based installations.

simonl wrote
> ..why not get rid of ABF?


We had an overnight ABF job for many years which took input from an
automatically prepared keystrokes file.   It was converted to OpenROAD for
maintainability / marketability reasons - pretty much a cut/paste exercise.
We lost the ability for us to easily control and monitor the process from an
external point of view. It also lost out on performance and security because
of the large volume of data being processed over the network. It also turned
out to be much less reliable due to occasional environmental problems at
client end.


The script was something like this.

	#
	Build_keystrokes_based_on_date > keystrokes.txt

	cat keystrokes.txt |
	  slowdownfilter_writtenin_c |
	    my_ABF_app -dmydb startproc |
	      tee \tmp\savemylogplease.txt

	Check_for_errors  \tmp\savemylogplease.txt


ahhh the power of unix!!!

Paul
oh yes.. It cost a week's development and introduced a couple of new bugs.