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Volume 6, Number 40 -- October 10, 2006

Kisco Boosts Flexibility of WebReport/400

Published: October 10, 2006

by Alex Woodie

Kisco Information Systems has launched a new version of its electronic report distribution utility that gives iSeries shops much more flexibility in how their reports get delivered, including support for multiple attachments and group distribution lists. WebReport/400 9.0 also brings higher encryption for PDF documents.

WebReport/400 frees iSeries shops from the drudgery of printing hard-copy reports and mailing them to recipients. By monitoring iSeries output queues, automatically converting spool files to common formats like PDF, HTML, CSV, and RTF, and then distributing the reports through e-mail, the Web, and FTP, the software frees users to focus on the actual information as opposed to the distribution process.

WebReport/400 brings several improvements in the handling of e-mail reports. For example, in previous versions of WebReport/400, users had to send multiple e-mails to the same recipients if they needed to distribute more than one report, but with version 9, they can attach several documents to the same e-mail, Kisco says.

Similar benefits are had through the new release's support for group distribution lists. Instead of including each recipient's e-mail address in the e-mail, users select a single group name from the address list, and have the e-mail distributed to all of them simultaneously.

New naming conventions will also help save users' time. For example, instead of manually naming each e-mail subject, with version 9, users can instruct WebReport/400 to automatically name the product using predefined fields in the iSeries spool file. The subject conversion table, as the feature is known, can use the spool file name, user data field contents, or form type as the basis for determining the subject line text, according to Kisco.

Flexibility has also been added to the way the product names files saved to the iSeries' IFS. With version 9, WebReport/400 can generate a portion of the file name based on a variety of choices, including a generated number, based on the current date, based on the user profile, or based on the date and time. Prior to this, a fixed IFS name was the only option, the company says.

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