Re: [U2] odbc access and crystal reports

2005-09-01 Thread Allen Bell
Just for documentation sake (since this problem seems resolved) I have had pretty good luck using a product called "Datavision" which is Crystal Reports-like but available for free (open source). It uses JDBC and I have used it with Universe 10 with no problems. It has fit many of my needs htt

RE: [U2] odbc access and crystal reports

2005-09-01 Thread Charlie Rubeor
Many thanks for the reply. I should not have used the phrase "roll out", since the users already have Crystal Reports. But either way, the high price of Crystal Reports is one of the reasons we have no budget. Your suggestions sound great and they deal with my biggest concern, which was how t

RE: [U2] odbc access and crystal reports

2005-09-01 Thread David Beahm
rchives/2005/06/open_source_bi.php for opinions on them from a professional BI'er) HTH, David Beahm Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 08:40:09 +1200 From: "HENDERSON MIKE, MR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [U2] odbc access and crystal reports {Unclassified} [snip] Our PHBs would li

RE: [U2] odbc access and crystal reports {Unclassified}

2005-08-31 Thread HENDERSON MIKE, MR
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charlie Rubeor > Sent: Thursday, 1 September 2005 01:14 > To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > Subject: [U2] odbc access and crystal reports [snip] > Our PHBs would like us to rol

RE: [U2] odbc access and crystal reports

2005-08-31 Thread colin.alfke
Being a var we don't worry so much about the deployment :) but I have heard high praise for Zenworks. We setup our ODBC account so the PUBLIC user only has select access. This means "regular" users won't be able to update anything through ODBC. Important if you have some users smart enough to real

[U2] odbc access and crystal reports

2005-08-31 Thread Charlie Rubeor
We use Unidata 6.0, hpux 11.11, with the Dataworks package. We have the odbc connections setup, but we only use them within the computer department, ten users in total. Our PHBs would like us to roll out Crystal Reports to the users, well over three hundred of them. So, I'm looking for some