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I know many of you have done as400 to Excel using .csv. I'm having a very strange problem and could use some help. Building .csv files in IFS for web users. Users make request thru cgi, clp builds stmf to set code page, then cpytoimpf to create delimited file CPYTOIMPF FROMFILE(&CUST6/WWRTN *FIRST) TOSTMF(&URLW1) + MBROPT(*REPLACE) RCDDLM(*CRLF) DTAFMT(*DLM) STRDLM('"') FLDDLM(',') CPYTOIMPF FROMFILE(&CUST6/WWRCPY *FIRST) TOSTMF(&URLC1) + MBROPT(*REPLACE) RCDDLM(*CRLF) DTAFMT(*DLM) STRDLM('"') FLDDLM(',') File looks ok in wordpad, except I expected delimiter at end of data, but these files only have delimiter at end of each field. When Excel 2000 displays data, one field, 20 byte number has changed from ,"71010412344005315256", to 7.10104E+19. In fact every number in that column resulted in the same strange number. (the 20 digit number is certified mail numbers and the first 11 bytes are always the same, and MUST be included). Some other colums, with values like CC, OW, 01, only the 01 is right justified, zero suppressed. In both cases the cell format is "general" which I think is messing it up, but see no way to set to "text" when building this. Before we go too far... this process allows any web user to dynamically select data to download to their pc. The .csv is the standard for this industry (they can't spell XML or anything other than "Excel" or "spreadsheet". Some are reading the files in FoxPro. File name is unique every time. Client Access is not an option. FTP is not. Needs to run, look, feel like any other website with no special plugins. Don't know if this is a "feature" of Excel 2000, but that's all we have on inhouse desktops to test with. Am at V4R4, fairly recent ptfs. On V4R5 in a few weeks. Any help appreciated. jim +--- | This is the WEB400 Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to WEB400@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to WEB400-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to WEB400-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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