RE: Easiest and most functional wayto convert selectedspoolfilesintoExcel

Luke,

You've got some good points.  The counter arguments carry some weight as 
to cost effectiveness though.  Especially if one doesn't have the source 
to figure out the logic used to generate the reports.  But I'll go along 
with you one further:  What about if the report layout changes in some new 
version of the vendor software?  Then you have to fix all of your spool 
file extractions.  One of the primary reasons I stopped using spool 
extractions on IBM system reports and delved into api's, etc.

Sure would be nice if many reports came with OUTPUT(...) with *, *print 
and *outfile as options.  And maybe even *fax, *email...

Rob Berendt