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, TRIMreport. It's runs with VORTEXchannel which talks to mulitple RDBMS and supports all versions of Informix 5, 6 & 7 on AIX. 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