[INUG-Users] Any good tool instead of reporter?

Fri Jan 25 10:33:05 EST 2008

I agree. BIRT has made lot of improvements over the past year or so. Also,
the upcoming "Tivoli Common Reporting" solution for Tivoli Monitoring and
other products uses BIRT as the report engine. So, we can expect a tighter
integration of BIRT with Tivoli products in near future.

-- 
with warm regards,
Venkat Saranathan
Gulf Breeze Software.

On 1/25/08, Lane Silas <Silas.Lane at uk.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>
> I've used IBM's BIRT (Business Intelligence Reporting Tool) here and
> have found it flexible and easy to use/deploy.
>
> Also, it's free!!
>
> Silas
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces at netcoolusers.org
> [mailto:users-bounces at netcoolusers.org] On Behalf Of
> brad.bueche at wachovia.com
> Sent: 24 January 2008 23:33
> To: users at netcoolusers.org
> Subject: Re: [INUG-Users] Any good tool instead of reporter?
>
> You can also roll your own in PHP.   If you are going to do canned
> reports
> this is very easy.  Creating a front by which to query takes a little
> longer.
>
> I have set up a front end that allows users to query any field (or set
> of
> fields) for any value (or set of values)  using any valid oracle
> operator
> (including regex, and IN, NULL, all case independent --- except regex)
> and
> this then generates a table in html that can be copied and pasted right
> into excel with no changes.  It also does counts (with drilldown),
> handles
> class conversions (for english names) , and displays and allows
> searching
> of the journal fields as well.  And I can put in the frigging partition
> (!) so my reports are a heck of a lot faster (I also can queue records
> so
> I'm not sending them to the brower 1 at a time).  Query time to the db
> is
> displayed. Render time is displayed. And you can hit either our
> production
> data or test data by choosing the target db from a drop down.  And you
> can
> sort your drill down top level reports by count (if you want)! (Reporter
>
> cant). It also has canned report options with sql that duplicates all
> the
> webtop entity filters.  So customer can get reports for the webtop
> buckets
> that they are working  (all the way back to 1/1/2007) and see who closed
>
> what and when, and who ack'd what and when.
>
> Its actually my fist web app/page/anything.   PHP and HTML have to be
> the
> most well documented technologies on the net. (doh!) So dont think you
> cant do it! (Admittedly, I'm currently on version 61of this app now!)
>
> The total code was up to about 15k lines but I've cut it back to about
> 3k
> now as I have learned more. In the begining, I had no concept of
> generating anything dynamically.  Eventually, I'm going to have the
> entire
> thing generated dynamically by just pointing to a db then letting the
> user
> create the query interface they want.  It will however be geared toward
> netcool archives.  (And of course that means I still have to create user
>
> logins, work with a db for user data, start using sessions, etc
> ...........as soon as I have time to learn all that stuff).
>
> Additionally, I've already started incorporating flex so that I can do
> charting as well.  And I'll probably eventually re-do the whole front
> end
> in flex/flash.  Flash is soooooooooo much better than java on the client
>
> side.   Nice, small, very fast, and adobe provides the code to check and
>
> see if the user has the correct version of flash and if not downloads it
>
> for them.   (For those of you sick and tired of troubleshooting java
> runtime configuration issues on the client side this is a dream come
> true!).  Did I say its fast? Flash actually incorporates a little web
> engine so your server is on the client. No need for ajax. Its RIA from
> the
> get go. Responsive! Drag and drop, stateful, lots of security built in,
> etc.  I'm setting up the engine to read xml so that, really, it can
> chart
> any data that meets the format. But it will be geared toward doing event
>
> reporting for command centers.  Yes, xml is larger than binary but this
> is
> internal on 100mb connections.  I'm watching the amf3 and blazeds stuff
> though. I dont think they will be as open for input though..........vs.
> just saying make your data look like this xml and the charts will work.
>
> $750 for Crystal reports may get you there faster though!!  ;)
>
> brad
>
>
>
>
> "Hubbard, Greg L" <greg.hubbard at eds.com>
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>
>
> You might Google "Oracle reporting" and see what you get.
>
> I have looked at the Oracle Business Intelligence product, which is a
> reporting system from Oracle.  You also might look at Crystal Reports
> from Business Objects.  There might even be a way to use Windows tools
> against a remote Oracle server via ODBC driver.
>
> I've found that Reporter stacks up fairly well against these other
> products if you just look at features, and these other products are not
> much different in price.
>
> If you have some flexibility, you MIGHT consider switch Reporter from
> Oracle to Microsoft SQL Server, and then you can use some of the
> Microsoft reporting tools.  But the last time I tried to use the MS SQL
> reporter gateway it did not work very well.
>
> GLH
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces at netcoolusers.org
> [mailto:users-bounces at netcoolusers.org] On Behalf Of olga NN
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 2:13 PM
> To: users at netcoolusers.org
> Subject: Re: [INUG-Users] Any good tool instead of reporter?
>
> Good ideaThank you .But I am looking for GUI interface against ORACLE
> -alarms are stored in ORACLE database,i need to build graphs
>
> --- Jason Shamroski <jason.shamroski at gulfsoft.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I've used InfoVista in the past for device performance reporting. It's
>
> > expensive - typically for larger enterprises, but it's nice. Very
> > customizable reports, provided you know what you want.
> >
> > jason
> >
> >
> > On 1/24/08, olga NN <al3457 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > All,
> > > I am looking for a good tool to change
> > Reporter,can
> > > you recommend something?
> > > Thank you in advance
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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