Easytrieve

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Easytrieve
Original author(s) Ribek Corporation
Developer(s) Broadcom Inc
Website CA Easytrieve® Report Generator

Easytrieve is a report generator, sold by CA Technologies. [1] [2] Easytrieve Classic and Easytrieve Plus are two available versions of this programming language primarily designed to generate reports and are used by large corporations operating in mainframe (z/OS, z/VM, z/VSE), UNIX, Linux, and Microsoft Windows environments.

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Easytrieve was originally developed by Ribek Corporation (named for its owner Robert I. Beckler), with an initial release around 1971 or 1972. [3] Easytrieve was originally developed for IBM Systems 360/370 and RCA Series 70 mainframes. Pansophic became the exclusive reseller of Easytrieve in North America in 1973, and then purchased it from Ribek in 1979. [3] Pansophic was bought by Computer Associates in 1991, who in turn were acquired by Broadcom in 2018.

Easytrieve has been described as "[o]ne of the most successful software products of the 1970s". [4]

Example

FILEPERSNLFB(1501800)}LIBRARYDEFINITIONNAME178APERSNR95NABTL983NSUMME944P2JOBINPUTPERSNLNAMESUM-PERS}ACTIVITYDEFINITIONPRINTPAYRPTREPORTPAYRPTLINESIZE80TITLE01'PERSONALREPORT BEISPIEL1'LINE01ABTLNAMEPERSNRSUMME

References

An annotated Easytrieve run Programa-Easytrieve.png
An annotated Easytrieve run
  1. ↑ Skidmore, Lem (25 June 1979). "Nonapplications: Preparation Vital". Computerworld . 13 (26). IDG Enterprise: SR/2 and SR/28. ISSN   0010-4841 . Retrieved 28 February 2021.
  2. ↑ Mace, Scott (21 March 1988). "Pansophic Adds Plain English Query Language to Easytrieve". InfoWorld . 10 (12). InfoWorld Media Group, Inc.: 28. ISSN   0199-6649.
  3. 1 2 Piscopo, Joseph A. (2002-05-03). "Oral history interview with Joseph Piscopo": 16. hdl:11299/107601.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ↑ Bergin, Thomas J.; Haigh, Thomas (October 2009). "The Commercialization of Database Management Systems, 1969–1983". IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. 31 (4): 26–41. Bibcode:2009IAHC...31d..26B. doi:10.1109/MAHC.2009.107. ISSN   1058-6180. S2CID   12367040.
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