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Re: Creating Reports?

Jim,

No question that RPG and COBOL offer a lot of flexibility pertaining to
database access and formatting output.  And some query tools are limited.
On the other hand, some PC based tools are quite robust.  Foxpro, for
example provides a WYSIWIG report designer, SQL view generator, and a robust
programming language.  If you combine them all together, Foxpro can produce
just about any format you might imagine.

Nathan.
www.relational-data.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Franz" <franz400@triad.rr.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 10:38 AM
Subject: Re: Creating Reports?


> I still find qry tools lack the logic to formulate most reports (unless
and
> rpg/cobol re-writes the data into a simplified form) and then some tool
> reads/sums/prints.
> jim

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