MUMPS to Cache

[meenu...@gmail.com]

How to migrate Mumps code to cache?

 

Any tools available?

 

Thanks in advance,

Meena

[David Whitten]

I think that It Just Works (tm)

Cache Object Script is a superset of Standard MUMPS.

If you have non-standard MUMPS, you probably can have it work by flipping the language switch , like MSM or DSM or DTM or ISM etc.

To my knowledge, there is no language switch for GT.M, or FreeM or MUMPS MV1, though.

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[Tom Fitzgibbon]

Meena -

Conversion issues depend on what version of MUMPS code you have and any special functions the old code might be using that don't have a direct replacement in Cache.  Also, the old MUMPS code might be calling outside MUMPS to OS functions that a modern platform might not have.

If the original programmers were careful they may have used non-exotic MUMPS and the conversion will be easier.

The basic concept for conversion is to save routines/globals on some media (hopefully that your old/new platforms have in common), then move the routines/globals into a namespace on the new platform.  Then start testing the code to see what might or might not work.  Typically a programmer would build their own conversion tools customized to the conversion issues that came up.

Conversion can be non-trivial, again depending on the old code, but is usually feasible.

Tom Fitzgibbon | Multidata | 212-967-6700 x537