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Migration Documentation

Porting Applications to jBASE

jBASE: jBASE overview
Installation: Installing jBASE
Configuration: jBASE Configuration issues
Environment Variables: Setting environment variables
Migration: Migration steps
Restoring Data: Restoring legacy data into a jBASE environment
Emulation: Emulation settings
PORTBAS: Migrating BASIC source code
Keywords: Compiler reserved words
Compilation: Compiling BASIC programs and subroutines
SYSTEM Functions: The jBASE SYSTEM function
Performance: Monitoring the performance of jBASE applications

PortBas
PortBas is a migration tool used to parse BASIC source code. PortBas scans each supplied BASIC program for the use of reserved keywords which are not allowed in the jBC program language. More

A Guide to Understanding jBASE
This document is intended to assist new users in configuring a jBASE installation on the Windows platform (NT, NT workstation, 2000 Professional/Server and XP Professional). Because of the openness of jBASE, this document is not a step by step guide; rather, it is an explanation of how jBASE works, which will give the user the necessary information to implement jBASE in a way that is compatible with their software.
Guide.doc

Advanced Programmer's Reference Manual
This manual contains additional information that programmers might need, such as the jEDI API and writing database drivers, makefiles, migration, C programming, user exits, and extending ICONV and OCONV, profiling and more. This document contains a great deal of information which advanced programmers might find useful, but is not required for most programmers.
apm_ltr.pdf
apm_a4.pdf

Downloadable Videos

Getting Ready to Migrate: Software
This Short Topic presentation discusses software migration considerations apart from your legacy application code. For example, setting up users, environment variables, and custom interface or add-on software. Legacy assembler code will need to be re-written. B-Tree use may need to be revised. Subroutines used in dictionaries may need attention. View the PowerPoint presentation here.

Getting Ready to Migrate: Hardware
Will you use your existing hardware or upgrade your server? Do you need new drivers for your printers? Will all of your existing printers be required in the same configuration as your legacy environment? Are there other peripheral devices that will need special attention? This is the subject of this Short Topic. View the PowerPoint presentation here.