When your end users insist on having a report writer, what do you use?

I have Googled this group on this subject but any info seemed to be
older posts.  I'm hoping for some newer information.

We use RM Cobol, Relativity, and SCO.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Shawn Belt wrote:
> I have Googled this group on this subject but any info seemed to be
> older posts.  I'm hoping for some newer information.
>
> We use RM Cobol, Relativity, and SCO.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.

We wrote our own. Not perfect, but users can:
Decide what goes on a "line," including calculations (i.e., on-hand x
retail)
Filter the input (i.e., on-hand < 0 and current sales > 0 and vendor =
"xyz"). Filter can include calculations.
Select the order of output (sort on any field), with three levels of
sorting, ascending or descending
Select field for sub-total breaks
Select destination: Screen, printer, or file
If file, text, tab, CSV, or other. Select name and destination.

Then, just to make it fair, let them assign a name to the report and use
it again in the future.

We haven't gussied-up the printed report - it's pretty vanilla. No sense
going overboard.

Some ideas anyway.

"Shawn Belt" <sbelt@dpcsystems.com> wrote in message
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>I have Googled this group on this subject but any info seemed to be
> older posts.  I'm hoping for some newer information.
>
> We use RM Cobol, Relativity, and SCO.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.

Crystal Reports. Brilliant for any relational DB and more besides... I
believe it runs on your platform but you'd need to check...

Pete.