RE: Creating Reports?

["Dan Neal" <dneal@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We still use RPG, but have moved some reporting to Crystal Reports for
reports on the AS/400 and our SQL Servers.  We have several users who have
been trained in crystal reports and are now in a place to write their own
reports.  We do a nightly load of key data to the SQL server for their
reporting use during the day.  This has taken a lot of the reporting load
from the AS/400 to the SQL server.  We keep the tables on SQL to a minimum
and renamed the field names to more meaningful names.  This was the
low-budget data warehouse, but has paid off big time with satisfied
customers and time for the IT group to focus on valued added projects.

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
[mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Nathan M. Andelin
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 12:23 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Creating Reports?


Are people still using RPG and COBOL to create reports?  Or, have they moved
on to some other tool?  For example, Seagate Software claims that their PC
based report generator (Crystal Reports) is the most popular reporting tool
on the planet.  Actually, I'm familiar with several other PC products that
use an ODBC connection to access OS/400 data and generate reports.  But I'm
interested in hearing opinions about the best ways to produce reports,
invoices, account statement, etc.  What are people using, and why?

Thanks,

Nathan M. Andelin
www.relational-data.com



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