Re: When will the IBM i community adopt HTML for reporting?

Yes Alan.

Many moons ago when I still lived in England. I got tired of having to pay my operations folks overtime to produce the monthly detailed sales reports that I was convinced nobody actually read. So I had them printed but told the staff not to deliver them.

After 3 months someone from Sales came down to ask where they were - I explained what had happened and showed them the reports. They picked each one up, tore off the last page and started to walk out. I asked them if that was all they ever needed and they said yes. So we modified the programs to produce just the summaries. No more overtime!

I did however have a “friendly” discussion with the Sales Manager during which I pointed out that we weren’t psychic and that perhaps if they actually told us what they wanted/needed we could do a better job for them. As a result they subsequently asked for a whole bunch of statistical analysis which we were able to give them easily and still had operational time to spare. One happy customer - happy operators.


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Jan 21, 2015, at 5:25 PM, Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Anybody ever do the little exercise of just stopping printing a report and
see who yells?

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Kendall Kinnear <
Kendall.Kinnear@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Store it as PDF somewhere like Sharepoint or OneNote. We have automated
processes that move everything to Sharepoint instead of printing.

Respectfully,
Kendall Kinnear
System Analyst
Standard Motor Products, Inc.
Work: 972-316-8169
Mobile: 940-293-7541

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Justin Taylor
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Subject: RE: When will the IBM i community adopt HTML for reporting?

But what about batch output?


-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Campin [mailto:alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 3:40 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: When will the IBM i community adopt HTML for reporting?

My opinion only but I don't think we should be generating reports on the
iSeries at all. That should be done in a GUI tool calling iSeries Stored
Procedures to get the data.

When you generate you can print, or make a PDF or whatever.

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