Re: Domino/XML/DB2 question

At this point I do not see how a Domino based solution helps you.

Perhaps you'd be better off seeking an iSeries native solution.

Do you have any developers on staff that are familiar with developing 
applications on your iSeries?

If the concern is generating the email to the customer there are a number 
of native methods of doing that.  Ranging from the QtmmSendMail API to the 
JavaMail API, to purchased packages, to then using Domino API's, to IBM's 
Infoprint Server and/or Designer.

But the real work is taking the DB2 data and then generating the 
electronic invoices.  At this point, I think you'd be better off to stick 
with more Native methods.

I'm also thinking that your developers that work with this data might be 
more familiar with
- the ERP data that they are generating the invoices from, 
- any programs that can be copied and tweaked to generate these electronic 
invoices,
- etc.

If you want to pursue this farther I can suggest some areas to search for 
XML processing.

Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 




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I'm looking for some advice on generating invoices using Domino & XML
accessing data on the iSeries.  I've never used XML before, and am more of
a Java programmer than a LotusScript programmer but I can do LotusScript 
if
needed.

We have one customer who wants to receive electronic invoices.  We don't
want the expense of EDI and would prefer to use an existing development
environment such as Domino.  The invoices are generated on the iSeries and
the data resides in DB2 files.

Any advice on a direction to head on this is more than welcome.

Bob


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