RE: Opening Excel from AS400

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If you are serving an HTML page and you want to export to
excel, I've found that you can just add content-disposition
below the content-type.

Content-type: text/html
Content-disposition: attachment; filename=SomeFileName.xls


"attachment" tells the browser to download the page rather
than render it in the browser.

Just for some background (may not have anything to do with
this conversation).

I'm using CGIDEV2 to create my webpages. On my reports, I
have a link that says export to excel. When this link is
clicked, I run the same program again but only output the
table that holds the data to export. But because I have the
content-disposition in my top section, it asks me to either save
or open the file. I do not write out to the IFS at all.
Since the programs do not take long to run, it doesn't hurt
to rerun the program again to export to excel.

Mike Cunningham wrote:

Someone in this string said something about using HTTP download
instead of IFS.