Re: Reporting Tool

Especially now that Viewpoint can access non-iSeries databases, there's no
reason to use anything else. We're just getting into that here at one of my
clients.
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Paul Nelson
Arbor Solutions, Inc.
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pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx




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To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
From: "Lopez, Andrew" <alopez@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: 06/22/2005 12:53PM
Subject: Re: Reporting Tool

> message: 6
> date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:33:19 -0700
> from: Alan Campin <Alan.Campin@xxxxxxx>
> subject: Reporting Tool
>
>....
>
> Don't see any reason to generate reports on the AS/400 anymore.
> Reporting should just be through Crystal Enterprise.

I hate to disagree with someone who just sent some wonderful code for
triggers (many thanks, btw), but I guess I still will argue the point. If I
can get all the functions provided by Crystal in an AS/400 based-package,
why should I move off?

I can create one Sequel view and access it from a CL program, from a green
screen interface or from a PC client. All three will give me the same
results. All three approaches give me the ability to move the output to a
text report, an Excel spreadsheet, or a database file.

For what it's worth, I had Crystal Reports. I got tired of licensing issues
and moved everything onto Sequel. Now that it supports non-DB2 databases,
there's no way I'm going back.


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