Replace Office Vision - a cheaper solution than Domino
olidel
I would like to have a few suggestions about a product or a
solution which can replace Office Vision. We must do that because if
we want to install OS/400 V5R1 that will delete Office vision 400. We
use Office Vision to do a few merge with the PRTDOC command. Of course
we would like to find a solution which can do the same and it would be
better if it is a 100 % AS400 solutionn because most of this document
are sent after merging through Facsimile 400 However, if there is PC
based solution, iwould be glad to hear about it too.
Thanks for your help,
Bye.
Lou F.
You might want to take a look at OakWord, an AS/400 word processing
system that supports mail merge. Complete information is on our web
site at:
<http://www.sspi-software.com/oakword.html>
Regards,
- Lou Forlini
Software Engineer
System Support Products, Inc.
Rene Veenstra
(http://www.inventivedesigners.com/). They claim your OV/400 applications
will continue running with little or no modifications. I have no idea what
the cost is, but it might be worth considering.
Bye
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Stephen Ray
relatively few reports using this and I have chosen to use Crystal reports /
with a VB "reporting engine" running on an NT server. The VB app looks at a
report request table on the 400 via ODBC and prints the approprate crystal
report. The Crystal report can access the data straight from the existing
merge data file which simplifies the process greatly. The crystal reporter
makes it much easier to modify the report layout and add graphics etc. I
believe you have the option of printing the final report to a fax also.
HTH
Stephen Ray
Software Dev. Manager
Body Corporate Services
Sydney, Australia
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Walter
they bought Lotus, but this is nonsense.
Individual text processing goes to MS Word or Star Office, if you have
already replaced Windows by Linux.
Notes text system is on stone age level, perhaps like the ones in first
Windows 2.x days. Look at it's table handling and printing, for example.
Batch text processing is mostly replaced by a product from
InventiveDesigners, which is a clone of Office text. Includes PRTDOC, text
merge, Query connection. Look for this keyword on the web. I don't know it
there are more programs like this.
Walter
Sylvain Rubele
We provide LAUNCHER/400 to do word processing on the AS/400, using MS Word.
Take a look at www.easycom-aura.com.
With LAUNCHER/400, your RPG, CL or COBOL application can open, merge,
modify, print, save and show Word documents, using a very simple API.
It is about 1 day programming per document type, for an Office Vision
migration.
Regards,
Sylvain Rubele
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Ed Z.
Although we are just coming to the end of our investigation of the
same project, I think we are going to take a slightly different
approach. We've looked at DTM/400 which we consider an expensive
band-aid solution (but good in a pinch). The Notes and PC based
solutions will not work for us since we may be printing a massive
number of pages at any given time and from many different users. PCs
don't handle the print management as well as the AS400. Here is the
way I think we will be going...
We have a PC based program written in ASNA AVR that allows us to enter
text documents and graphically give it bolding, italics, and different
fonts and sizes. This program saves the document onto the AS400.
Anyone could do something similar perhaps maybe editing the document
in Word and saving it as HTML to the IFS. Next we will be parsing the
document on the AS/400 (RPGIV) to split out the font characteristics,
merge the data and print it using the paragraphing API's provided in
the AFP Toolbox.
This will require AFP printers, PSF/400, and AFP PrintSuite for
iSeries (to get the Toolbox), but may AS400 shop will already have
much of this. The major advantages to this is that we could now use
these documents on the AS400 for mass printing and faxing, but we can
also use them on the PC for viewing, printing and web presentation.
The disadvantage is that it will require some programming.
Just one more alternative to consider.
--
Ed
Freddy Zwerus
AIA SOFTWARE LAUNCHES OV/400 MIGRATION TOOL
http://www.as400network.com/nwn/story.cfm?ID=11106
Aia Software ( http://www.aia.nl ) unveils ITP/Office Migration
Assistant (ITP/OMA), a utility that helps OfficeVision/400 users
migrate existing documents to Aia's Intelligent Text Processing
application, a replacement for OV/400. ITP/OMA analyzes existing
OV/400 template documents, automatically generates the database
interface needed to convert the documents to ITP, converts the
documents, adapts converted sample documents so database fields
correspond with those in the documents, and replaces existing OV/400
merge commands. Free trial downloads will be available at the Aia
Web site beginning August 15.