Yes. Unique facilities, called PrepP, are packaged with ValetMiner to enable straightforward selection and download of authorized iSeries spooled files.

In addition, ValetMiner can read any report downloaded from a mainframe, mini, or PC. Just feed ValetMiner the report file. These files are commonly known as print files or spool files, but are also referred to as PRN files, TXT files, formatted ASCII files and RPT files. If your software runs in Windows and can print to the Generic Text print driver, then it can print to a text file and ValetMiner can read that text file. If your software runs in DOS and has a print to screen option you can put " >filename.txt" as part of the command line, which will cause what is displayed on the screen to be saved to a new text file. ValetMiner can then read this new text file.

ValetMiner directly supports the following formats:

Absolutely! ValetMiner lets PC users mine data from existing reports, so there are fewer demands on MIS to produce custom reports. Users are happy. The backlog is reduced. And nobody touches the central database.

Instead of tying into a central database, ValetMiner pulls data out of familiar reports. In a sense, ValetMiner turns any report into a live database. It's faster and easier than working with raw data in the central database, because report data has already been processed. You don't have to start from scratch!

ValetMiner is a Report Mining tool, therefore, its data functions of query, filter, sort & export work directly with an EXISTING REPORT spool file.

Jacana-OPEN/DB is a report writer and creates a report program to directly  access the database.

Just about anyone who works with data found in reports is a potential user of ValetMiner. With ValetMiner's powerful "point and click" Windows-based user interface, you can be a ValetMiner expert without having any prior programming knowledge.

After purchasing ValetMiner, we recommend working through the sample lessons in the Learning Guide to get better acquainted with the software.