Re: Report generator - guidance sought

The only product I know offhand that might be able to do all this is SQR from Sqribe Technologies (formerly MITI). Check out http://www.sqribe.com/parent.htm for further info. I haven't used it, so I don't know how well it works or whether it can actually fulfill all your requirements, but it looks like a good product. To mee it's a problem that they have their own language used to generate the reports. Eventually I expect to be able to do all these things via Java based products but it will probably last a year or more before that is commercially usefull. Your requirement that it should run on Unix as well as on Windows NT is probably the most restricting part. Of course this relates to your requirement to be able to start reports via stored procedures (trigger/system call). If you could run on Windows NT only there are several other report generators that may work well for you. Kenneth Garrett <keng@credo.ie> wrote: :Our company has a client server/system, which uses an Informix online7.1 :database on a Sun Solaris machine at the server. The process' which run :at the server are written in Esqlc. The client front-end is VB on :Windows . We need a report generating product which can : : :Be kicked off from a trigger, a system call in a stored procedure, a :button click on the VB front end : :Perform calculations with number fields, parse the contents of character :fields an possibly parse the contents of BLOB's : :Is available on Windows Nt and Unix platforms. : :We need to design the reports once here at the office, and be able to :distribute them with with the product on installation disks. : :If anyone has any suggestions, I'd be grateful. : :Kenneth :email : keng@credo.ie : Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org