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

Everybody's forgetting about SEQUEL. Everything that's been discussed is
available, and there's no programming involved if you don't want to deal
with that.

Paul Nelson
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Office 409-267-4027
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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Nathan Andelin
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 3:28 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: When will the IBM i community adopt HTML for reporting?

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.