RE: crystal reports 2008 and iSeries DB2

Thanks Steve. We really didn't pick BO and CR, it came bundled with a windows based Financial/HR package we recently purchased. Figure if we had it why not see if it could be used with DB2 also.

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Richter
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 9:37 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: crystal reports 2008 and iSeries DB2

Mike,

I had ok success calling sql procedures on the as400 from crystal
reports. I did not put much effort into using ODBC to access the DB2
tables directly because I was concerned about putting so much business
logic in the reports themselves. That said, I would not recommend
Crystal Reports and Business Objects. You pretty much need an
expensive tech support contract to use the product. Esp the BO web
access of the reports part. And the quality of that support was not
very good.

-Steve


On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Mike Cunningham
<mike.cunningham@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Which is the best option for getting to DB2 on iSeries from Crystal Reports 2008 (or similar PC products). ODBC, OLD DB or JDBC? Do any of these offer any benefits over the others or are they all really the same in function and performance.

Thanks
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