Python database compatibility

[Siddharth Joshi]

Thanks Neil for your input . I am looking for opportunities to connect to
the Tandem DB ( enscribe) via using Payton programs to analyse the data
/patterns of the txns.
I am very new in Python world so don,t know how these can be achieved ! In
our setup , Tandem DB is not connected via any other 3rd party system
therefore don’t know if JDBC/ODBC works here or not.

But will go through the link you have given and see if there are any!!

Thanks
Sid


On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 at 00:27, DL Neil via Python-list <
python-list at python.org> wrote:

> On 13/06/20 8:49 AM, Siddharth Joshi wrote:
> > I am new in Python world and would like to use it for one of the our
> > purpose . Before that, I would like to ask if Python has compatibility
> with
> > ENSCRIBE database .
> >
> > Enscribe database (file structured) is the native database of HP NonStop
> > (Tandem) server, mainly used in applications running on nonStop Tandem .
> > Almost all the applications which runs on Tandem using enscribe are Tier
> 0
> > applications (often critical once).
>
> Wow, a 'blast from the past'!
>
> I worked on HP3000s (from which Tandem originally developed) forty years
> ago. My first foray into 'non-stop' computing, supporting banking
> systems and the like, involved jumping-ship to Stratus (or more
> precisely, the re-badged IBM System/88). Others were also involved in
> that project, so happily/sadly I ended-up consulting for a project that
> no-one else wanted: figuring out how to network those new-fangled IBM
> PC/XTs and integrate office systems with aforementioned DBs and similar.
> After all that, please excuse me whilst I take a grandpa-snooze...
>
>
> The question is broad. What do you want to do once an interface can be
> found, eg do you merely want a one-off use to transcribe the old data to
> a new system, do you want to build a front-end interface and
> data-collection application, or is perhaps a back-end MIS analysis your
> goal? The quality of the interface, its speed, its data-handling
> capabilities, etc, etc, will all influence...
>
>
> I haven't heard about Enscribe in recent years. My recollection is that
> their direct interfaces were Java-based. Python offers a JDBC
> "connector" which may be worth investigating. There are also other
> new/improved/faster/super libraries, eg JayDeBeAPI - see PyPi. See also
> Attunity (if still available, eg
> http://whp-aus2.cold.extweb.hp.com/pub/nonstop/ccc/apr0110.pdf).
>
> HP pursued various 'modernisation' proposals, which may be worth review,
> eg using SOAP/micro-services and XML/interchange.
>
> The comp.sys.tandem forum discussed ideas (five years ago):
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.sys.tandem/dG2t9faPzWg
>
> The lingua-franca of DB inter-connection is probably ODBC, and thus the
> Python ODBC connector.
>
>
> Trusting these give some food-for-thought...
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