Re: Office Vision

We are in process of installing a new 720 with domino/lotus notes.
We too use OV/400 with doc merge for all our letters.
We have purchased OV for the 720 and are planning on converting our docs one
at a time to Notes.
We do not have a network at all at this point (all green screen) so we are
biting off alot.
Which is why we are going the OV for now on new box and convert as we get to
it.
Hopefully by the time OV is all the way dead we will be off it.

We have been told by OV and Notes people alike that what we do (merge doc)
can be done very easily with Notes. I hope so because we have sold this to
mgmt.

A funny tidbit is that on the conf call with OV and Notes people they were
shocked when we told them all our letters were done in OV. Their question
was how did we convince them to use it.


-----Original Message-----
From: Cyndi Bradberry <CyndiB@IHFA.ORG>
To: Midrange-L (E-mail) <Midrange-L@midrange.com>
Date: Wednesday, March 10, 1999 10:50 AM
Subject: Office Vision


>Hi everyone,
>
>We use office vision extensively within one particular application group.
>The users love it because they simply put an x next to letters they wish to
>have printed for a particular client, and they appear on the printer all
>merged.  But Office Vision is no longer going to be supported after V4R4.
>Does anyone know if there is a particular release or time when the existing
>office vision will not work?
>
>Does anyone have any other ideas?  We have MS Office, but have not found a
>way to initiate the call of a MS Word document from the 400. Currently we
>initiate the call to PRTDOC from a RPG program. We would like to keep
things
>a simple as possible.
>
>We are thinking about Lotus notes, but one person in our department had a
>very bad experience with it at another installation.
>
>Please pass along any suggestions that you might have.
>
>TIA,
>
>Cyndi Bradberry
>Idaho Housing and Finance Association
>Boise, Idaho
>
>

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