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As an experiment a few years ago, I set up an Intranet on the i, with a couple of directories, and with a simple home page, featuring the company's logo. There was a menu of reports with an option on time-sensitive reports to refresh the data. Adding a .css file made the actual .html very straight forward and easy to do in RPG.

The users were happy to use it, especially in that the fonts and graphics gave them nicer output when they did hit the print button.

However the users response really was a resounding nothing. Which, with the benefit of hind sight makes perfect sense.


On 1/21/2015 3:20 PM, Nathan Andelin wrote:
With all the travails that developers seem to go through to implement
overlays and advanced function printing, it makes me wonder how long before
shops might move to HTML for reporting?

In other words, one might generate HTML stream files from RPG programs and
"spool" them to IFS directories rather than sending spool files to output
queues.

One might transform HTML stream files into PDFs for meeting precise
printing requirements.

There seems to be a preference for using traditional print and spool
functions instead, but why?


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