Easy Does It Technologies (EDIT) and LeeTech Software announced that EDIT has acquired all rights to the AppeerX Report Management software for MPE/iX.

EDIT founder Michael Gueterman described AppeerX as a client-server application “providing the ability to remotely view, print, e-mail, or Export to an Excel spreadsheet any MPE/iX spoolfile for which the user has been allowed access. This is aimed at a general business customer.”

Gueterman said the Internet access capability led him to acquire the LeeTech product, which includes LeeTech’s AIM middleware as part of the EDIT offering. “If a user is on the other side of the world from where his reports are on a 3000, and they want to print them locally, this is one way they could do it,” he said. EDIT has been a LeeTech reseller for several years, and LeeTech offered the product for acquisition.

The product can manage reports for 3000-based application, making them readable in Microsoft PC programs such as Office, Excel and Access. User access is controlled by logging in at a PC client to a centralized security server, while the spoolfiles can reside on the same HP 3000 or remote MPE/iX systems.

Gueterman said that AppeerX also provides the ability for an authorized user to immediately run or schedule programs or jobs on HP 3000s. The software lets a user view a partially-generated report in progress through 16- and 32-bit Windows client interfaces.

The progress of the job as well as the spoolfiles generated may then be accessed via the client. This provides users working at desktops controlled access to their authorized spoolfiles and programs over a LANs or WANs, intranets, or the Internet.

AppeerX runs on MPE/iX and HP-UX, and accesses Allbase/SQL, Oracle and Informix databases in addition to the spoolfiles generated by HP 3000 applications.

Gueterman founded EDIT (509.943.5108, www.editcorp.com) in 1995 and specializes in providing intranet and Internet access solutions to MPE/iX-based information. A VAR with Allaire and Hewlett-Packard whose mission is to further the integration of the HP 3000 into the intranet/Internet market, Gueterman said he expects to be able to focus on the product more exclusively than LeeTech could.

“I can be very focused on this product,” he said. “I have only this product outside of my regular consulting business.”

Additional functionality is available through use of the Software Developer’s Kit for AIM, he added, “so you can write client-side code or Visual Basic code to interface with AppeerX.” This code can tell AppeerX — though a scheduling system — to launch a batch job on a certain date and time that will generate reports.

“You could write a Visual Basic program that prompts you for the information it’s going to require,” Gueterman said. “If your purpose is to launch jobs to generate reports, there’s no need to even log onto the 3000 to do that anymore.” Users can view by calendar, by spoolview, by archived spoolviews, by scheduler, and by program view. The last view lets a user run a program without having a batch job on the HP 3000, building JCL around it as set up by an administrator.