Hello All,
I have an issue with some software that is well before my time and
was hoping someone from the muug group would be of assistance. I
have been tasked with extracting data from the following program.
Assyst Practice Managment (GENIE) Software
V8.8.6 an Emergis Inc. Product(STX.EME)
This program itself is running on an old AIX 5.1 server and has been
written in BBx Pro5, a language I didn't even know existed. This
language appears to be an extension of Basic and is know as Business
Basic. Written by this company.
http://www.basis.com/.
Now the trouble is this program has no built in way of
dumping/extracting the data. It isn't using Pro/5's built in data
storage engine so I cannot simply use ODBC to pull the data out. We
have been informed it is storing all its data in a flat file. And
the best way to retrieve the data is by reading backups from the
tape drive, which we have done so. The data files retrieved mostly
end in the ".REC" and ".SUB" file extensions and appear to contain
some patient info. But the largest file that seems to contain most
data begins with the text "<<bbx>>" and is definetely
not stored as flatfile.
Does anyone have experience with this BBx language or does anybody
have any ideas for extracting the data ? I ask because the company
that has written this practice management software has no interest
in assisting with exporting the data. Any suggestions are
appreciated.