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Your scenario describes a stand-alone process, which I guess would be workable.

If the output is part of a larger IBMi process, then you have to have IBMi trigger the SQL Server process, hope the server is available, wait for the SQL Server process to complete, and then take appropriate action depending on whether SQL Server completed successfully, failed or did not complete at all. In that case, you'd be way ahead to keep the entire process local, using native capabilities or one of the various 3rd party offerings. If you do that, then I wouldn't see it worth the effort to do something different for stand-alone documents.



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From: Alan Campin [mailto:alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2019 12:27 PM
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Subject: Re: AFPU (was RE: Free form for a printer and o specs)

My first recommendation is unless it is something that must be produced on the IBM i is to use some form of GUI tool to write reports like SQL Server Report Writer. Get the data by calling a stored procedure.

If I don't have a GUI report writer and it is a simple report I use STRQM and then only if is something that I need to write an IBM print report do I produce something on the server.



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