RE: Copy AS/400 file to an Excel file

[Ken Slaugh <ken.slaugh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Most of the time I port to Excel simply by creating a Tab (hex 05)
delimited file. Simply concat your field values in a resulting
alphanumeric field and output the field to a PF. Then run CPYTOPCD or
CPYTOSTMF to convert to ASCII. The file suffix is simply .txt

When Excel opens this file it will see the tabs and assume them to be
separators. Click on the Finish button to complete the import wizard and
your done.

Ken Slaugh
Senior Programmer/System Analyst
AS/400 Professional Network Administrator/MSE
Specialist - Client Access/400
Chouinard & Myhre, Inc.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leland, David [SMTP:dleland@Harter.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 1999 1:00 PM
> To:   'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> Subject:      Copy AS/400 file to an Excel file
> 
> I'm looking for a program to create an Excel file from an AS/400
> database file, and to have the Excel file reside on the IFS - no PC
> involved, initiated from the AS/400, and without human intervention.
> I
> believe that Sequel can do this but I've never been a big Sequel fan
> and
> I don't want to pay that much (I'm looking for something for $500 or
> less.).  I'd like more of a standalone utility that I could easily
> incorporate into our nightly batch processing.  The people at
> Millennium
> Information Systems (www.millenniumis.com) were working on just such a
> product but they've apparently gone out of business (their phone's
> been
> disconnected and they don't respond to e-mails).
> 
> Anyone know of such a product, or have anything in their bag of
> goodies
> they'd be willing to share?
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave
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