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

[Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes Alan.

Many moons ago when I still lived in England.  I got tired of having to pay my operations folks overtime to produce the monthly detailed sales reports that I was convinced nobody actually read. So I had them printed but told the staff not to deliver them. 

After 3 months someone from Sales came down to ask where they were - I explained what had happened and showed them the reports. They picked each one up, tore off the last page and started to walk out. I asked them if that was all they ever needed and they said yes. So we modified the programs to produce just the summaries. No more overtime!

I did however have a “friendly” discussion with the Sales Manager during which I pointed out that we weren’t psychic and that perhaps if they actually told us what they wanted/needed we could do a better job for them. As a result they subsequently asked for a whole bunch of statistical analysis which we were able to give them easily and still had operational time to spare. One happy customer - happy operators.


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Jan 21, 2015, at 5:25 PM, Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Anybody ever do the little exercise of just stopping printing a report and
> see who yells?
>
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Kendall Kinnear <
> Kendall.Kinnear@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Store it as PDF somewhere like Sharepoint or OneNote. We have automated
> > processes that move everything to Sharepoint instead of printing.
> >
> > Respectfully,
> > Kendall Kinnear
> > System Analyst
> > Standard Motor Products, Inc.
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> > Justin Taylor
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 4:12 PM
> > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> > Subject: RE: When will the IBM i community adopt HTML for reporting?
> >
> > But what about batch output?
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alan Campin [mailto:alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 3:40 PM
> > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> > Subject: Re: When will the IBM i community adopt HTML for reporting?
> >
> > My opinion only but I don't think we should be generating reports on the
> > iSeries at all. That should be done in a GUI tool calling iSeries Stored
> > Procedures to get the data.
> >
> > When you generate you can print, or make a PDF or whatever.
> >
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