Hey everyone,
I work with CR8 for several years now and, once again, it's time to upgrade our reporting tool.
Some years ago we tried a newer version of CR, when it belonged to Business Objects if I'm not mistaken.
Everything went well until we came up with an error that made us go back to CR8.
What happened was that our CR reports, designed with an ODBC connection to an iSeries Server got stored the info about the system and the libraries, which unabled us to distribute the rpt's to our costumers.
To exmplain better, designing a report to read data from a table X, on library Y, on system Z, the location of the table on CR would look something like this: "Z.Y.X" and there was no chance to change this, as we do so far, clearing at least the system name making the location of the table as "Y.X".
This also happened with an ODBC connection to an SQL Server as the report would save at least the database name (cant remember if it stored the machine name).
As you can imagine, this way we have no chance of distributing our ERP to our customers as the RPT's would not show any data at all because they would be "pointing" to machines/libraries/databases that didn't existed!
Suppport at that time said that this was no error, this was just the way CR worked, regardless of me saying that it was an error of previous CR versions, meanwhile fixed.
My question is simple: is this the way CR actually still works? If build a RPT, pointing to a system, library and table, will this info be saved on the rpt giving me no change this and therefore giving me no chance to distribute the RPT?
Note: with our current version, we only have to have an ODBC poiting to the iSeries/SQL Server, with the correcte libraries/databases.
Many thanks in advance,