Re: CPYFRMIMPF error 98

[jmmckee <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That did it.  Still leaves the riddle as to what was wrong with the file.  But, I can move on to other headaches now.

Thanks.


-----Original message-----
From: Luis Rodriguez luisro58@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:24:46 -0500
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: CPYFRMIMPF error 98

> John,
>
> Try to save it to an Excel file first.
>
>
> Luis Rodriguez
> IBM Certified Systems Expert â eServer i5 iSeries
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:41 PM, jmmckee <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > 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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