You are correct. Excel takes over .csv extensions when it is installed. It can be changed to something else but the default is for Excel to open that type of file.
Someone in this string said something about using HTTP download instead of IFS. How exactly did you see that working? Write the file to the IFS in a location available to Apache, then use STRPCCMD to launch IE and give IE the url to the apache webservers path to the IFS, then IE will launch Excel because the file is a .csv? Sounds much less secure than using an IFS drive mapping that only an authenticated user can map to.
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dennis Lovelady
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 5:59 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Opening Excel from AS400
That's even better... You'll have to configure each PC to open .CSV
with Excel, but personally I think having .CSV as the extension is much
nicer.
I don't know what happens with Open Office (I haven't had the pleasure) but
in my experience, when one installs Excel it becomes the default program for
.CSV. Been that way since the 90s, I think. But maybe I'm wrong.
Dennis Lovelady
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