RE: crystal reports 2008 and iSeries DB2

Crystal, SEQUEL, SEQUEL ViewPoint and any other tool native or not that
uses SQL also uses QZDSAOINIT (ODBC) jobs for DB access, so ODBC isn't
really a bad thing :-)

I have used Crystal in the past and didn't find it very cumbersome.

There's also tools like SQL Reporting Services, Jasper Reports, BIRT and
other toolsets that are all good alternatives depending on what the
customer wants to do.

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message: 1
date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:38:25 -0600
from: "Paul Nelson" <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: crystal reports 2008 and iSeries DB2

Wait'll they see the price tag and the overhead involved for BO
development.
Also, don't forget that BO is coming in thru an ODBC connection.

Last week, I got a call from a client who was getting ready to reboot
his
machine because it was running slow. A quick look showed he had 10 BO
jobs
running under QZDASOINIT, and they were sucking up 99% of the resources.

Their BO designer had been working over the weekend, and had left these
things running amok.

Paul Nelson
Office 512-392-2577
Cell 708-670-6978
nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx