Re: Excel Question

I second going the SEQUEL route. I just finished doing a conversion to a 
Windoze server package. That package required that data be imported in 
Excel format. I used SEQUEL for everything. No RPG, no CLP. I built one 
script that sent the data to the IFS in xls format. The Windows import 
software mapped a drive to the IFS and started its thing.


Paul Nelson
Arbor Solutions, Inc.
708-670-6978  Cell
pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx





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On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:16:11 -0500, Goodbar, Loyd (ETS - Water Valley)
<lgoodbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Personally, we've had very few complaints about providing CSV files.

You're lucky, as we've had a ton of them.  If Excel sees a field in a
CSV file with nothing but numbers in it, it treats it as a numeric
(even if you put the value in quotes).  Not good when you're sending
files with zip codes in them (New Jersey's zips begin with zeros). 
I'm not sure how it treats tab-delimited files, perhaps it deals with
them better.

We bought Kemetech's conversion utilities (www.kemetech.com).  Pretty
cheap and they work well.  We later bought SEQUEL from ASC which also
has Excel export capability.

If you have a Java guy around, I'd check out the HSSF/POI stuff. 
That'll give you control over the output far beyond anything a
conversion utility can give you.

Mike E.
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