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. Easytrieve Classic and Easytrieve Plus are two available versions of this

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, and Microsoft Windows environments. Easytrieve was originally developed by Ribek Corporation (named for its owner Robert I. Beckler), with an initial release around 1971 or 1972. 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. Pansophic was bought by Computer Associates in 1991, who in turn were acquired by Broadcom in 2018. Easytrieve has been described as " e of the most successful software products of the 1970s".

Example

FILE PERSNL FB(150 1800) } LIBRARY DEFINITION NAME 17 8 A PERSNR 9 5 N ABTL 98 3 N SUMME 94 4 P 2 JOB INPUT PERSNL NAME SUM-PERS } ACTIVITY DEFINITION PRINT PAYRPT REPORT PAYRPT LINESIZE 80 TITLE 01 'PERSONALREPORT BEISPIEL1' LINE 01 ABTL NAME PERSNR SUMME

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CA Easytrieve® Report Generator

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Easytrieve code examples and snippets

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