Re: SQL - Generate Spreadsheet

That little trick is posted in several IBM articles. I found it in the update instructions for WAS server. That was just too complicated to update so the customer abandoned it.

Now it’s all RPG APIs with web services.


Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

On Jul 2, 2025, at 5:09 PM, Don Brown via MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 (tip for extra lines in QSH, type an "18" then press F-14 )

This is handy, where did you find this gem and are there more gems to be
found ?

Thanks
Don



Don Brown

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Bryan Dietz
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Subject: Re: SQL - Generate Spreadsheet

thinking about other ways to create the xls....
If you have the IBM i on fairly recent PTFs the acsbundle.jar exists in
the IFS.

so you could run the following from qsh

java -jar /QIBM/ProdData/Access/ACS/Base/acsbundle.jar
/system=localhost
/PLUGIN=cldownload
/sql="SELECT SYS_DNAME AS LIBRARY,SYS_ONAME AS OBJECT,
OBJTYPE,USER_NAME,OBJ_AUTH,
OBJOPER AS OPR,OBJMGT AS MGT,OBJEXIST AS EXIST,
OBJALTER AS ALTER,OBJREF AS REF,
DATA_READ AS READ,DATA_ADD AS ADD,DATA_UPD AS UPDATE,
DATA_DEL AS DELETE,DATA_EXEC AS EXECUTE
FROM QSYS2.OBJECT_PRIVILEGES
WHERE SYS_DNAME = 'QSYS'
AND OBJTYPE = '*CMD'
ORDER BY SYS_ONAME,USER_NAME"
/clientfile=/tmp/put_your_file_name_here.xls
/colheadings=1

see the GettingStarted.html and look for "9.1.17 CLDownload" section

(tip for extra lines in QSH, type an "18" then press F-14 )

if interested in a CL, I had this bookmarked:
[2]https://www.web400.com/downloads/ACS/xfrdta.clp.txt

Bryan

Jim Oberholtzer wrote on 7/2/2025 2:37 PM:

What I need to do is generate the spreadsheets, I don’t need to consume

the file in CL. The CL would only be a wrapper to run all the SQL
statements needed. The preferred output would be a spreadsheet in the IFS.

So I’m still not clear on how to build the SQL so it will at least run

in ACS.

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