Re: Opinions and experiences with ReportBro

Ideally I would recommend using Jasper Reports Server. You can run reports via REST calls once templates are created in the desktop designer. Jasper Server runs on Windows or Linux.

https://community.jaspersoft.com/project/jasperreports-server

Regards,
Richard Schoen
Web: http://www.richardschoen.net
Email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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message: 3
date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 09:28:37 +0200
from: Maria Lucia Stoppa <mlstoppa@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Opinions and experiences with ReportBro

Hi Richard,

Your note is really interesting to me, as I am going to use Jasper Report
again in the next future.
I can't download the zip file from the posted link, maybe it's no more
available; so, how should the RPG wrapper work as per your knowledge?

My idea is to call our Jasper server via HTTP specifying the document name
and the key to retrieve data from IBMi then save the resulting PDF to the
IFS. Are there other ways to do this?

Thank you
Lucia

Il giorno mer 14 lug 2021 alle ore 20:39 Richard Schoen <
richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:

All the more reason to consider something like Jasper Reports.

You would let users/report developers design report templates at the
desktop.

Execute those Jasper Report templates using your back-end Java server code
and render to PDF with Jasper Reports and iText.

Pete Helgren even published an RPG wrapper around this several years back.

Looks like the code is still available here:
http://www.petesworkshop.com/downloads/rre.zip

Regards,
Richard Schoen
Web: http://www.richardschoen.net
Email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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