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

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting to see the discussion broaden to include document portals like
SharePoint and BI tools like Crystal Reports for ad-hoc reporting by power
users.

For users of say Crystal Reports, what is the rationale for generating
result sets from stored procedures vs. just pulling data from SQL Views?

Nathan.


On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Mike Cunningham <mike.cunningham@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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.