Re: running SQR (produces reports) on Unix box

[Pragya Chandra <pchandra@FASTENAL.COM>]

We created Samba shares of the UNIX drives on our NT system..that way the
users can get to the reports from their windows explorer. i am not sure if
that is what you wanted to know.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lambert, Jin [SMTP:JLambert@HRBLOCK.COM]
> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 1:57 PM
> To:   SQR-USERS@list.iex.net
> Subject:      running SQR (produces reports) on Unix box
>
> Hi, all-
>
> I want to hear from your experts out there, about possibilities of running
> SQR reports on the Unix Server???
>
> (we are on SQR V4.3.4, Peoplesoft 7.52 application with 7.58 tools, the
> Unix
> server HP-UX 11.0 , the NT server 4 SP 5 and SP 6A)
>
> Current situation in our shop
>
> *       For any sqr report processes, if they are not producing any .lis
> file (reports) we will try to run them on Unix box (Server) to improve
> performance.
>
> *       For any sqr report process producing any type of .lis file
> (reports), we are forced to run them on Client so any produced reports
> (.lis) can be either printed (LPT1), or resided on the local drive (C: )
> or
> the network drive (NT) somewhere.
>
> Desired situation
>
> *       We would like to utilize Unix serve's horse power but not sure the
> followings-
>
> *       If the sqr runs on the Unix, then all reports will be generated in
> the Unix directory, how do we efficiently ftp reports back to the NT
> network
> drive?
> *       Is any software in the market, which allows sqr running on Unix to
> produce reports on the NT side (instead of Unix side)
> *       What are your experiences and suggestions?
>
> -JL