Re: When will the IBM i community adopt HTML for reporting?

Not so much a question of whether reports are output to paper, or stored
for viewing, but whether to continue use traditional spool files and
overlays, or to switch to HTML.

A generic open access handler might frame the question for some. I don't
remember if open access supports printer files. One could write a utility
that generates DDS and printer files from HTML, and a generic OA handler to
generate stream files in HTML or PDF formats.

h dftactgrp(*no) option(*nodebugio : *srcstmt)

freport o e printer handler('OA_REPORTS': parms)
f usropn
finventory if e k disk
d today s
/copy src,rptparms
/free
parms.fileName = '/inventory/status.pdf';
open report;
read inventoryr;
dow not %eof(inventory);
write reportr;
read inventoryr;
enddo;
*inlr = *on;
/end-free


On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 1/21/2015 5:25 PM, Alan Campin wrote:

Anybody ever do the little exercise of just stopping printing a report

and

see who yells?

Business rules change, and the reports that were vital in ye olde dayes
may well be irrelevant now. But that wasn't Nathan's question. He was
asking why any people in 2015 want relevant information in paper form
rather than electronic form.

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--buck