Re: CPYFRMIMPF error 98

[jmmckee <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK, this is just getting weird.  I am looking at the imported file in Excel.  Nicely separated into columns.  When I click the icon for "Transfer data to Iseries", I get a box stating"There must be an active worksheet to perform this function".  Looks active to me.  I guess there is another definition for what constitutes an active worksheet.  Any idea what that might be?

John


-----Original message-----
From: Luis Rodriguez luisro58@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:31:55 -0500
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: CPYFRMIMPF error 98

> John,
>
> In this particular case, if you can open it with Excel, could you upload it
> to the iSeries using the Client Access Excel add-in?
>
> Regards,
>
> Luis Rodriguez
> IBM Certified Systems Expert â eServer i5 iSeries
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:50 PM, jmmckee <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I have received a file from an outside agency that chokes CPYFRMIMPF.  The
> > fields are pipe delimited.  I have looked at the raw file and don't see
> > anything REALLY obvious - the file is several hundred lines long.  I can
> > open this thing in Excel just fine, but there is no option to save it with
> > pipe delimiters.  There is a free text portion, which, I suspect, prompted
> > the need to use the pipe as a delimiter.
> >
> > The agency has converted this file multiple times, and the results are the
> > same.  Other files are just fine.  When I attempted to use an error file, I
> > got nothing in the created member.
> >
> > Is this why some of you loathe CPYFRMIMPF?  Any suggestions on how to
> > isolate and fix the error(s) causing CPYFRMIMPF to choke?  Not sure I have
> > the time to write the program to split this thing apart.  Can SQL be used in
> > some way to identify or clean up the file?
> >
> > John McKee
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