Re: Business Objects with DB2 data

[Hoteltravelfundotcom <hoteltravelfun@xxxxxxxxx>]

The problem we have is that, alot of data is 'located' in the middle of
what I used to call filler fields. So someone has to know that sales rep
name is 1-20 of some field somewhere. All this will need to be mapped. But
I dont' think there is much choice. The company is using a limited I.T.
staff. No business can rely on one person who knows where all the fields
are.


On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I
>  helped with a BO universe implementation over our production DB...
>
> It wasn't too difficult, basically split the effort between myself and the
> i guru and the BO guru.  But your IBM i guy needs to be up to date with SQL
> skills.
>
> One nice thing from your perspective is that the BO universe hides the
> "bulkiness" of the original DB.  The universe concept also allows you to
> limit the data (tables) available.
>
> If you don't already have BO (and the expertise) in-house, consider playing
> with IBM's Web Query.  If you have a license to Query/400, you are entitled
> to Web Query.  Like BO, there's meta-data setup requirements, which makes
> it harder to get started but offers some of the same "hiding"
> functionality.
>
> Charles
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Hoteltravelfundotcom <
> hoteltravelfun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I am interested in hearing of any Iseries shops which use Business
> Objects.
> > We are interested
> > in that product to use for reports and allowing users to create their own
> > reports.
> > I am concerned in that that AS/400 ERP we have is rather old product,
> > basically
> > RPG from back in the 90's and data base is very bulky - any experiences
> > would be welcome.
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