Re: SQL statement to read previous records

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Bill Howie <blhowie66@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Our company is moving toward using
SSRS for the type of report request that this is, so I've been asked to
develop this as an SSRS report. Changing the format of the file is not an
option. This file is a main file in the current ERP setup and it would be
a huge deal.

I hear you about not changing the file format. So this might in fact
be that situation I described where you have to use SQL over an ODBC
connection to access the data.

But then again it might not be *that* limited. Sure, you can't change
that particular file. But can you do *any* development on the i? A
very, very common arrangement is that you set up views or stored
procedures on the i which then make the externally originated query
simpler.

John Y.