132 Column Fixed Width Reporting???

Good Afternoon ...

I need to maintain compatibility with Legacy systems and provide some reports utilizing standard 132 column fixed width greenbar style reports.

I am new to BIRT and am wondering if I can use BIRT to design and produce these reports vs hard coding the reports.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks ...

DC

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mwilliams

Hi DC,

Can you explain your application in a little more detail?

dlcollison

Sure, we are recreating a legacy application - old application is legacy IBM mainframe and the new system is a distributed applicaton C++ and Java pieces. Data for the new system resides in a DB2 database. What I need to do is recreate old legacy reports on the new system. The old reports were formatted with courier 10 font for a 132 column report. I must maintain compatibility.

These reports are used by external customers who receive them as plain text files that some print out and others actually have systems that scrape the data off and use to feed in to their internal systems. I literally have to recreate with data in the same column positions and the associated control characters inserted in the report.

While we plan on creating new reports that are formatted with charts and graphics inserted, I have to maintain compatibility with the old reports for our external clients.

Essentially, I need to create old style 132 column greenbar reports.

DC

mwilliams

DC,

Initially, I don't see any problem with BIRT being able to do what you're looking for. You can define a custom page size on the master page tab, and then it's just connecting to your data and creating your table with 132 columns. Have you downloaded BIRT and connected to your data yet?