Reminds me of the time in the late '90s when "the mainframe was going away"
and we were all trooped down to the local SAP office for a demo of the
future. One of our techies asked about report management. Our collective
mindset that day was to ask about all the things mvs was doing for us and
how SAP would do the same.
The SAPster replied "there won't be any more reports." Then the room went
totally silent and we listened to the lights buzz for a minute or 2. He went
on to explain that reports are old school thinking, in effect a copy of a
database, re-arranged and summarized, made nice for the simple reason that
the original database isn't. Using his software the database would already
be "nice", hence no need to run reports, hence no need to have a report
management system.
Oh, the mainframe is still around, cranking out nice reports. The
report-meister is SAR/VIEW, soon to be replaced by IBM's flavor of same.
And yes, content search can be done within SAR, but it's not that easy.....
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Systemware has a complete suite for Mainframe and other platforms, includes
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