RE: Data transfer

Hi Ho

        Very nice weather this week. 300 pound black bear in back yard
though. Beats snow.

        I always use Biff Excel 5. I find it better. Any hoot. Your problem
maybe with a NON NUMERIC column. Data files on the AS/400(BPCS) contain
alpha fields and when downloaded to an Excel spread sheet, these alpha
fields are converted to numeric. 

1. The AS/400 file you are trying to upload to.

        Identify which fields are numeric and which are alpha

2. The Excel spread sheet you are using for the upload

        Make sure you are mapping numeric columns to numeric fields on the
AS/400 and the same for the alpha columns.

        Be Careful: The IIM file contains the field IPROD. This field when
downloaded to Excel will convert alpha to numeric Example: Item
number 123456 it will convert this to numeric. 

3. In Excel the ONLY guaranteed way of converting a numeric field to alpha
is      by using the CONCATENATE function. After using this function you
will notice that the field becomes left justified(alpha) and not right
justified(numeric). I hope this helps

Marc "I need a bear trap" Lacelle
Royal Canadian Mint



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> From:         *Ren Fu Ping (CMT)[SMTP:fprenz@hongkongtoy.com]
> Reply To:     BPCS-L@midrange.com
> Sent:         Sunday, June 17, 2001 5:17 AM
> To:   BPCS-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Data transfer
> 
> Dear All,
>       How to process data transfer to As/400, our Model is 820 and
> client access version is V4R5. I successed transfer data with *.csv
> format before,but now, Data transfer can't work and always prompt
> 'CWBTF0005-Data in this field is incorrect or does not match the PC data
> type' ; I checked the the As/400 file details and found PC description
> file *.FDF is no problem. What on earth to Process? I need the function
> to upload excel file and use CIMPath module.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Ping Ren
> China
> 
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