Can anyone offer some advice on the best reporting tool for the Fujitsu environment. We are currently using the Crystal Reports Developer edition for integrated reporting within our application using their Active/x control. However, the Active/x control is no longer on Seagate's enhancement list, they suggest the RDC environment which is not very friendly to the Fuji environment. Are there any alternatives?
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Reporting tools with Fujitsu COBOL
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Hello Tomcat
What Fujitsu version are you using?
Fujitsu Cobol has a powerful reporting tool: Powerform.
It is depending from your version: Standard, Professional or Enterprise. Powerform is included in the professional and enterprise edition.
I'm currently developing a tools in Powercobol to build reports dynamically without recompile the projects and you can create them at runtime, connecting the fields to a template. Are you interested?
Let me know.
Gianni
What Fujitsu version are you using?
Fujitsu Cobol has a powerful reporting tool: Powerform.
It is depending from your version: Standard, Professional or Enterprise. Powerform is included in the professional and enterprise edition.
I'm currently developing a tools in Powercobol to build reports dynamically without recompile the projects and you can create them at runtime, connecting the fields to a template. Are you interested?
Let me know.
Gianni
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Tromba,
We do have PowerForm but one of our requirements is to always present the report to the screen before printing. In our environment, the User doesn't always want a printed copy of a report, they simply want to look at it on the monitor first. I could not see how PowerFrom could do this, looks like it always goes directly to the printer. We are currently using Crystal Reports which does a great job of sending the output to the monitor before printing but the new RDC interface to CR appears to be difficult with Fuji. If PowerForm could go to the monitor I would prefer using it. Any ideas on how to make PF send output to the monitor?
Thanks
TOMCAT
We do have PowerForm but one of our requirements is to always present the report to the screen before printing. In our environment, the User doesn't always want a printed copy of a report, they simply want to look at it on the monitor first. I could not see how PowerFrom could do this, looks like it always goes directly to the printer. We are currently using Crystal Reports which does a great job of sending the output to the monitor before printing but the new RDC interface to CR appears to be difficult with Fuji. If PowerForm could go to the monitor I would prefer using it. Any ideas on how to make PF send output to the monitor?
Thanks
TOMCAT
Hello Tomcat
Yes, you are right. Now i know your needs...and i have a solution for you.
You must to purchase a device driver called NED Imager.
It costs about $ 40. It works capturing the output from the printer port and automatically generates a Tif files.
To use it with Windows 98/ME you must redirect your print job making some change to the PRINTFILE configuration file, before to start printing, inserting the name of the "virtual printer" NED Imager.
One it produces the TIFF file, it runs automatically the Imaging preview application that is installed in all Windows O.S.
There is a little difference for Win2K. The Win98 drivers can not be used on Win2k. It has a separated driver for it.
This is only a little solution, but you can try to test other options, like to produce a PDF file. There are a lot of printer device drivers to capture the printer spool.
There is another solution, building it directly from Powercobol without using third party products. The solution is to build a Device Contest generating an EMF file and put it in an image controls as it is a normal image. It isn't nice to see, but it run.
I'm using the Imaging solution described above and my customers are satisfied...
Let me know if this helps you.
Gianni
Yes, you are right. Now i know your needs...and i have a solution for you.
You must to purchase a device driver called NED Imager.
It costs about $ 40. It works capturing the output from the printer port and automatically generates a Tif files.
To use it with Windows 98/ME you must redirect your print job making some change to the PRINTFILE configuration file, before to start printing, inserting the name of the "virtual printer" NED Imager.
One it produces the TIFF file, it runs automatically the Imaging preview application that is installed in all Windows O.S.
There is a little difference for Win2K. The Win98 drivers can not be used on Win2k. It has a separated driver for it.
This is only a little solution, but you can try to test other options, like to produce a PDF file. There are a lot of printer device drivers to capture the printer spool.
There is another solution, building it directly from Powercobol without using third party products. The solution is to build a Device Contest generating an EMF file and put it in an image controls as it is a normal image. It isn't nice to see, but it run.
I'm using the Imaging solution described above and my customers are satisfied...
Let me know if this helps you.
Gianni
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