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

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 We are in the final stages of testing both IQ Reports from IQ Software (www.iqsc.com) and Actuate (www.actuate.com) for use with our NewERa development. THe advantage these 2 have is that they use a 3-tiered architecture. Both are relatively expensive but they are both very powerful also. Hope this helps -- Chris Williams (chriswil@ozemail.com.au) PC Power Phone: 61 3 9818 6027 Fax: 61 3 9818 8202