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  3. February 2007

Re: Question on exporting to Excel from the iSeries

Hello,
If you don't mind some programming, you might be interested in generating actual Excel files rather than CSV files, since that makes it possible for you to completely control the formatting. (You can set column headings, column widths, fonts, colors, landscape/portrait orientation, you name it...) 

Details are here:
http://faq.midrange.com/data/cache/533.html
However, when you e-mail it, you'll need a better tool that SNDEMAIL, which doesn't properly support attachments or encodings. 


DaleGindlesperger@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


I need some assistance, and I'm certain this stellar group can assist me.
Currently, we run a variety of jobs that build files on the iSeries (i5,
whatever).  For some users, they go into Excel and do a "Transfer Data from
iSeries".   However, some of my users are remote, without access to the
iSeries readily available.  For those users, I am requested to just e-mail
them the data.  Today, I use the following command to create the file as a
CSV:

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