<p>Dear all,</p><p> </p><p>two years ago we migrated a portal solution which works with Eclipse BIRT with students of h-da (Hochschule Darmstadt) to work <strong>native on IBM i</strong>, the portal is able to manage it's metadata directly in the IBM database appliance, DB2 i (aka AS/400). And we made some great experiences on performance. </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size:14px;">Now the new IBM Rational Developer for IBM i (RDi V9.0) supports an integrated Eclipse BIRT Report Designer, starting with BIRT 4.2.2. IBM i developers as well as all other users of RD i can benefit of that integration to start replacing Query/400 or PRTF from within RPG by just running a report inside PASE and show or distribute it to the user in a browser or with such a portal solution. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size:14px;">You can choose to run BIRT inside the POWER platform, on PASE, on Linux and with the new POWER 8 you can choose to enable POWER Processor resources for Debian as well. </span></p><div><span style="font-size:14px;">You can start with open source level (e.g. in Tomcat, Websphere, ... ) or extend to the TRADUI servBIRD portal (</span><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='
http://tradui.de/web/produkte/birt-reportserver-servbird-ibmi.jsf'><span style="font-size:14px;">
http://tradui.de/web/produkte/birt-reportserver-servbird-ibmi.jsf</span></a><span style="font-size:14px;">) enhancing your investment and knowledge on designing reports with BIRT step by step. </span></div><div> </div><div> </div><div><div>Would be great to get some feedback on your thoughts about integrating BIRT close to the data inside such machine, a database appliance, where you can dynamically allocate and share parts of hardware resources as they are required (memory, disc, processor) and just communicate internally to access the data. </div><div> </div></div><div>Best regards</div><div>Manfred</div>
