RE: A quick question on spool files

Another down and dirty way, assuming the report is one line per record, is
to using Operations Navigator, drag the spool file to a desktop creating a
text file.  Open it with a spread sheet parsing the fields of interest.
Remove the printer heading lines, do any other work that spreadsheets are
good at and save as a .dif file.  Transfer it back to the AS/400 with Client
Access and you can then query it, link to other files, etc.

You could automate most everything here but I doubt it would be very robust.

Joe Cox
Bozeman, MT

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Buck Calabro [SMTP:buck.calabro@aptissoftware.com]
        Sent:   Thursday, August 03, 2000 7:39 AM
        To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
        Subject:        RE: A quick question on spool files

        Paudie O'Riordan wrote:

        >Is it possible to change spool files into 
        >Database members/files for query
        >purposes and how do you do it?

        Using what comes with the box you can CPYSPLF a spooled file to a
"flat"
        file, but querying that will be... unpleasant.  Depending on what
your
        business needs are, you may want to look at a product like Monarch
which
        extracts the data out of the columns and creates a PC spreadsheet
out of it.

        Buck Calabro
        Aptis; Albany, NY
        "We are what we repeatedly do.
         Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle


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