Everyone's business is different and while we do have some on-demand reports the majority of our users don't want to remember to run reports or enter the same selection criteria all the time, especially for standard daily business tasks. They want to come to the office in the morning and have reports waiting for them (not all printed but ready and waiting) to look at. About 30% of this are letters to students and electronic copies of schedule changes that go to advisors. And some offices don't want their staff to even have the ability to alter the report, the manager wants to define what the report does and the staff use the reports.
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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Matt Olson
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 1:48 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: When will the IBM i community adopt HTML for reporting?
In this day and age I like to use actual reporting products that can convert to many different formats. Write the report once in a WYSIWYG interface and can export to any format you wish and comes with viewers in many different programming languages (RPG not one of them though). Report design with these types of products makes things easy. Just provide your SQL statement(s) and the world is your oyster.
The nice thing about this too is that you can start to parameterize your reports, and users can run them on-demand with their own criteria. Something I hardly ever see with RPG stuff. With these products it is all built in with very little to no programming effort.
Things like Grapecity Active Reports, SQL Reporting Services, DevExpress Xtrareports, and there is a ton of others out there.
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From: rob@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 11:58 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: When will the IBM i community adopt HTML for reporting?
It's hard to do WRKSPLF from your 5250 screen and see the 'spool file' in a readable format.
Easy to work around, but still a thing.
Rob Berendt
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