RE: Dynamic java for Excel spreadsheet

[Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you're generating spreadsheets via RPG jobs you may want to consider a 3rd party tool such as our RPG2SQL Toolset for this.

We have export CL commands and an RPG service program you can use for simple exports and programmatic spreadsheet building. 

Since we utilize Excel on a connected PC, there's no memory issues unless of course the PC has issues. 

An alternative worth considering.

Feel free to request a 30-day demo from our web site. 

Regards,
Richard Schoen
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-----Original Message-----


On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 10:37 AM,  <darren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We have run into various memory and performance issues using the JNI
> interface from RPG to Java to generate spreadsheets using the POI HSSF
> API's.  Sometimes to get around this, we generate the spreadsheet in a .CSV
> format, but this obviously generates a pretty ugly output when imported
> into Excel.  I'm currently researching generating the java code dynamically
> in an RPG program, compiling it, and running that, meaning that the there
> would be at least one java code source record for every cell on the
> spreadsheet.  I believe that the resulting program would perform much
> better than the JNI interface does.  Does anyone see any show stoppers with
> this approach?  Anyone tried something like this before?
>
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