Radoslav, The advantages of having such a software product are as follows: - Report archival: An important production report is preserved for a certain period of time, as long as you / the law requires. - Online viewing: A user can view a report on the screen instead of having to wait for the hardcopy to be delivered. One can do "Find" operations on the online report. You can't do that easily on paper or microfiche. - Saves paper, cost of paper or microfiche creation and distribution - Saves time. You don't have to wait for the mail to arrive to get your report(s). - Selective viewing and/or selective printing: A huge report can be defined in the report viewer so that a user can only view the pages that apply to him/her (e.g.: Salesman Miller can only see his sales transactions, but not salesman Brown's. The manager of Miller and Brown can see both. And so on.) The same applies to printing selective pages from a report. Again, a salesperson only receives his/her pages from the report. The district manager receives the pages from the report that apply to all salespersons within the district, but none from any other district. - "I didn't get my copy of the report" or "The printer ate my report": Just select a reprint to a network printer near you. No need to re-run batch jobs to recreate a lost report (if you can do that at all).
I have worked with RMDS in the past, as well as CA-View and RSD's EOS. If you want, I can give you an earful off-line. Regards, Ulrich Krueger -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 10:47 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: RMDS [...] > RMDS is "Report Management and Distribution System" or something like > that. It takes reports from the SPOOL and places them in VSAM files, > possibly indexing and or subsetting them. Users can then logon and look > at their list of reports and view them or print them. Without this product, users have to view or print their report from SPOOL, i.e. using SDSF. Oh, the reports can be also moved - or even directly created in regular DASD datasets. Such datasets can be easily viewed or printed. Did I miss any functionality of RDMS ? But seriously: what is an advantage of having such product ? Why to spend $$$ on it ? Just curious. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- BRE Bank SA ul. Senatorska 18 00-950 Warszawa www.brebank.pl Sd Rejonowy dla m. st. Warszawy XII Wydzia Gospodarczy Krajowego Rejestru Sdowego, nr rejestru przedsibiorców KRS 0000025237 NIP: 526-021-50-88 Wedug stanu na dzie 01.01.2007 r. kapita zakadowy BRE Banku SA (w caoci opacony) wynosi 118.064.140 z. W zwizku z realizacj warunkowego podwyszenia kapitau zakadowego, na podstawie uchwa XVI WZ z dnia 21.05.2003 r., kapita zakadowy BRE Banku SA moe ulec podwyszeniu do kwoty 118.760.528 z. Akcje w podwyszonym kapitale zakadowym bd w caoci opacone. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
