Excel 97 & AS/400 Data conversion problems

[Robert_Meade@xxxxxxx (Robert Meade)]

Hello group!
I have been playing with downloading data to a PC from our AS/400 (V3R7 - 510). 
Overall, this works very well, but I have run into a couple of quirks I would
appreciate some help with.
1. When I try to use Microsoft Excel 97 to "Get external data", I select the
Client Access ODBC 32 bit driver.  I cannot get the data source to recognize the
default libraries I choose on the "server" tab - instead, it uses my AS/400
profile's default library list.
2. When I choose an AS/400 file (table) with a date field, I get the following
error: "SQL5001 - Column qualifier or table TABLENAME undefined."  If I run
Client Access's "Get Data from AS/400", however, the file downloads fine.
3. Occasionally, I get the following error in Excel 97:  "SQL5016 - Object name
TABLENAME not valid for naming option".  Again, this TABLENAME downloads fine
via Client Access's download tool.  Further, I could not find a reference to
this error message anywhere (on IBM's reference website, anyways).
4.  After reading the recent postings concerning CPYSPLF, I created a 100 byte
file and copied a spool file into it.  When I tried to pull this into Excel 97
using "Get external data", it pulled it in in hex!

The questions in the above statements are all implicit.  If you have any
explicit answers (or know where I can go for some), please share!

Thanks!
Robert Meade
Worldwide Church of God
Robert_Meade@wcg.org
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