Re: Ad-hoc Report Writers

Herb Blacker wrote: > > We're currently using Crystal Reports for our pre-built reports. We > have users (*very* non-technical) in the field who need an easy-to-use > ad-hoc report writer for Informix (we use v5.x, v7.1 and 7.2 on IBM > RS/6000's running AIX). Does anyone out there have any recommendations? > If it can be used to build our standard reports, that would be fine also. > > TIA, > Herb > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Herb Blacker > Cimarron, Inc. > Database Administrator - DOL Job Corps San Marcos, Texas > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hi Herb, Trifox has a product, TRIMqmr. It's runs with VORTEXchannel which talks to mulitple RDBMS and supports all versions of Informix 5, 6 & 7 on AIX. TRIMqmr is an end-user facility for developing applications and reports. Both QBE (Query By Example) and SQL are supported as well as QBE to SQL translation (a useful SQL learning tool). A full function report-writer is also included as well as a simple scripting facility. On-screen prompts and help screens take the user through all the necessary steps. Upgrades for the following products are available: - TRIMqmr and IBM QMF - TRIMqmr and ORACLE SQL*QMX Please see http://www.trifox.com/j/trim/qmf.html for details. TRIMreport (GUI and character based) is an interactive screen painted report generator for simple and complex reports. The TRIMreport facility allows developers to lay out all reports on a screen. TRIMreport works with TRIMpl to allow predefined procedures to be used at many different stages of the report. The end-user also can develop user-defined procedures that are accessible to all other procedures in the report. TRIMapp is callable from TRIMreport. TRIMreport has interfaces to all output devices and supports color output. Please have a look at http://www.trifox.com/j/trim/index.html for details Regards, Bob Eisner 408 369-2392