Re: crystal reports 2008 and iSeries DB2

[Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx>]

My recommendation has always been to write stored procedures to access the
data. Never access the data directly.

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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.
>
> Regards,
> Richard Schoen
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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
>
>
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