Ad-hoc Report Writers -Reply

MSAccess is what we use in house. It is pretty hard to beat as a report writer both for application reports (Allows menus and programming), and End-User reporting (Has macros and a query builder). We tend to use pass-through queries for the beefy stuff and let the users sort themselves out for the rest. We have looked at a number of other systems and have found nothing that does it better. We release the application reports using the runtime version of MSAccess so peope do not even have to have Access on their desktop. Database connection is via Openlink ODBC. Intersolve/I-Net, when we tried to use it, died a miserable death. I would never use it unless it has improved dramatically. The only fault is in distributing reports to users. We tend to take a structured approach which gets around these issues. It suits us. HTH rgds Peter Tashkoff <tashkop@zespri.co.nz> Zespri International Limited This posting may not be used by any party to vilify another. Standard disclaimers apply. >>> Herb Blacker <herbb@jcdcrs4.jobcorps.org> 19/June/1997 05:03am >>> Forgive me for re-posting this message, but surely there's more than one or two DBA's out there that have a recommendation on a user-friendly ad-hoc report writer (it would also be great if it was also powerful enough for pre-builts). >>>>>> Original message text 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------