Re: Upload Date Data from Excel

["Alan Novick" <mida@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wow Jim that was a very creative solution.  It would be a bit cumbersome in
my situation.  Our warehouse vendor is sending us a file of open orders and
I want to compare for discrepancies with our order files.  Several of the
columns they are sending are date fields.  I guess there must be
documentation on how to convert that Excel number to a date but I was hoping
IBM or someone else had done it for me :)

Alan Novick
Pressman Toy Corporation
New Brunswick, NJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Damato" <jdamato@dollargeneral.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 3:46 PM
Subject: RE: Upload Date Data from Excel


The last time I did this I ended up concatenating the character values of
the Excel DAY, MONTH, and YEAR functions into another column, and dropping
the value of that string into another.  I just searched, but I don't still
have the spreadsheet.  It took a long time to debug, but I had given up on
dealing with the integer value behind the date cells, and couldn't find an
easy way to translate dates into values while retaining the format.

I'm sure there's a better way...

-Jim

James P. Damato
Manager - Technical Administration
Dollar General Corporation
<mailto:jdamato@dollargeneral.com>


-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Novick [mailto:mida@pressmantoy.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 1:37 PM
To: MidRange-L
Subject: Upload Date Data from Excel


I have an Excel spreadsheet with columns that are dates.  When I upload to
the AS/400 it becomes a number.  Anyone know how to bring the date up?

Thanks,
Alan Novick
Pressman Toy Corporation
New Brunswick, NJ


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