Thanks for the suggestion however I have now managed to get the data out, parse it and pass it into a database which I am more familiar with.
Thanks for all the help on this.
I unfortunately cant cut and paste from the node so this is a digest of what I feel may be relevant
Name : OE Enterprise RDBMS
Name : OE Application Server Ent
I have a server which is redhat, I have a database on there which is part of an ERP product which is in version 11.6 of progress.
I want the data out of that database and into SQL or CSV
It seems that my original diagnosis was off and that this box was actually being upgraded / maintained along the way by the ERP provider.
The system is 100% redhat and the directory for the db executables are in is labeled 11.6.
I have made some progress parden the pun.
So I now have the original box up and running and I can see the directory and executables for progress and the db file. I am not at all familiar with this OS and was wondering quickest road to move the db from *nix to windows or to dump the db content...
Don't have it unfortunately, it probably came on floppy the machine is so old.
If theoretically I could get the machine to boot how would I extract the data to some sort of Dump I could manipulate in another tool, say as CSV or similar ? Theres a lot of conflicting advice on this
Not a chance, its probably just been ticking along for circa 5-10 years and never given a thought.
It had an old ERP software on it which was only ever used for reference.
Ok,
So in short then unless I can get a SCO box and an older copy of progress from somewhere its gone forever despite the files being there.
I tried looking at SCO openserver however I am noting that the school room version of progress is not compatible with any version of SCO what so ever...
First of all apologies for my first post being like this however I have had Progress thrust upon me and was blissfully unaware of its existence until yesterday.
To run the scenario then.
I have a client who had an old SCO box in the corner with an database on it, it was never used nor...
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