[INUG-Users] Any good tool instead of reporter?
Don Wildman
WILDMAN at uk.ibm.com
Mon Jan 28 09:20:54 EST 2008
BIRT itself is open source - http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/
Tivoli Common Reporting provides an additional toolset based on BIRT. You
will find TCR delivering in the downloads of an increasing number of the
Tivoli product set together with sample reports. It is not a separate
download.
-hth-
Don W
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brad.bueche at wachovia.com
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Do you have a download URL?
brad
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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
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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
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[mailto:users-bounces at netcoolusers.org] On Behalf Of olga NN
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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
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> 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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