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· Sep 13, 2018

Visual Report alternatives

As Visual Report is deprecated in InterSystems IRIS,
What are the best alternatives for reports would you recommend?

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Hi,

I'm using the popular JasperReports reporting library with Caché/IRIS for several years.  See my presentation on this topic from the Caché User Group how to do this: CUG - reporting with JasperReports

You have several options: using the IRIS JDBC connector is the most obvious one, but I'm also using HTTP endpoints returning XML data source to JasperReports. Works very well.

A big advantage is that you can design your reports pixel-precise using JasperSoft Studio.

FYI, you can simply use the JasperReports server community edition: https://community.jaspersoft.com/

You'll need to install JasperReports Server and JasperSoft Studio to work with the IRIS JDBC connector.

HTH,

Ward