Re: Best tool for Reports and Queries on the Web

At 11:04 07/21/1999 , Dan Thomas wrote:
>Any ideas on good tools for offering customers access to data (JBA) on our
>AS/400?   Primarily, these would be reports we have developed that various
>customers would run with the option of specifying some run-time parameters.
>We would prefer that the user requirements be nothing other than a standard
>browser, although some downloadable client software would be considered.
>For a variety of reasons, we'll be using Microsoft IIS running on Windows/NT
>for our webserver.  We'll be getting into E-Commerce transactions later and
>we're learning towards IBM Net.Commerce (on a separate Windows/NT) server
>for that.  We're open to some functions being performed on the AS/400 where
>it makes sense.  The ideal solution would offer dynamic queries that allowed
>user drill-downs to data and offered high quaility printed reports and also
>the ability to download data into popular PC formats.  Eventually, we'll be
>wanting to give customers access to some data on our MS SQLserver C/S
>applications also, so a tool with support for both platforms would be a
>plus.  Thanks for any input.

Check out Seagate Info (www.seagatesoftware.com). It has a java client that
allows drill down, record filtering, resequencing, and formatting is just
as good as the fat client. IIS is one of the supported servers. The Info
server also insulates the AS/400 from direct access.
Pete Hall
pbhall@execpc.com
http://www.execpc.com/~pbhall
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