Re: Help - Any suggestions for Report Writers/Tools?

I would bite the bullet and buy a PC with Windows (NT or 95) and use on of several available report writers (Crystal is one option, and version 5.0 isn't bad, but there are many others). Although you can get Unix based report writers, you would need X-terminals (or a Unix workstation) to run anything modern. It seems to me that there is more development going on under MS Windows when it comes to this type of tools. gibbs@atl.mindspring.com (gibbs) wrote: :Hi there, :Please excuse my newbie presense to this board. I've come here :looking for help. :We run Informix version 5.0 online, on a UNIX platform (specifically, :IBM's Operation System AIX version 3.2.5), on an IBM RS6000. And, :we program in Informix 4GL. It does well for us and has for many :years. We mostly have character based dumb terminals and several line :printers. :The situation is this...The reports our company needed us to write in :the past used to be very simple. As time has progressed they've :become more and more complex. Now they want sub totoals and more sub :totals, stuff that looks like spreadsheets and more. The only problem :is that these all get very complicated in 4GL and it's becoming very :time consuming. :My main goal is to save time. Secondary it might be nice if there :were some new features for the end users. And I'm not against a small :investment in hardware (laser printer, whatever). :Does anyone have experience with an easy-to-use Report Generator, or :Report Toolkit, or something like that, which could help us, and work :in our environment? I've looked at the Seagate web site for Crystal :Reports, but it appears that it only runs in Windows and I'm in UNIX. :I would appreciate any and all feedback. You can post back to this, :or if you prefer send a private recommendation or advise to me at my :email address. gibbs@mindspring.com :Thank you, in advance. :Tamar 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