Re: Pull data from several reports into dashboard

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Do you have V6R0 installed?  If so, look at the portal wizard and see if 
that will give you a head start?.   ( http://your. i5:2001 )

lgoodbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Over the years we've developed many inhouse browser-based reports. Our
> supervisors run several of these reports daily to create a poor-man's
> scorecard / dashboard. I've been asked to automate this process - to
> create an electronic/web dashboard based on the existing manual process.
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> Most of the reports are hosted from i5/OS' web server, and a couple from
> ASP.NET web pages. First blush seems that HTTPAPI can retrieve the
> generated report, but I'm stuck with pulling specific data from the
> reports. What tools do you use to accomplish this?
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> The reports were created as stand-alone entities and weren't intended to
> be pulled together. All the business logic / calculations are internal
> to the report. Does it make sense to create custom HTML-like tags to
> surround the data? In the HTTPAPI vein, can Expat parse a HTML document?
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> Obviously I'm trying to keep the dashboard process on the i. All
> suggestions welcome.
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> Thanks,
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> Loyd
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> Loyd Goodbar
>
> Business Systems
>
> BorgWarner Shared Services
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> 662-473-5713
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