Re: Web Reporting Tools

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

And, if you want to run those Jasper reports from RPG then you could use 
the wrapper I wrote that will run those jasper reports from the i.

You can find it here:

http://www.opensource4i.com/Link?action=GetDownload&DownloadID=%272008-04-28%2011:52:41.0%27

Pete Helgren


James Rich wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Charlie Prothero wrote:
>
>   
> > Hello, everyone.  We have yet to venture into web-based reporting, and I 
> > have not seen any recent discussion on the topic here.  We have an 
> > academic ERP system (DB2/RPG) that does finances as well as student 
> > information recordkeeping.  Reporting is a sore point.  We do not want a 
> > data warehouse that copies the data on a scheduled basis and produces 
> > stale reports.  It's live, real time, or nothing. We anticipate that 
> > most queries would be developed in IT and published for the users to 
> > run, perhaps with some parm options.
> >
> > I have seen lots of press on IBM Web Query, as well as competing apps 
> > from independent software vendors.  I would be very interested to hear 
> > what you have chosen for your shop and what the deciding factor was.
> >     
>
> I've been using jasperreports for this sort of thing.  The deciding factor 
> was that it is all java and therefore portable across systems.  It 
> produces HTML, PDF, CSV, and Excel output.
>
> James Rich
>
> if you want to understand why that is, there are many good books on
> the design of operating systems. please pass them along to redmond
> when you're done reading them :)
>  	- Paul Davis on ardour-dev
>