Elden,
There are a lot of table to
Xls solutions out there. Check out Scott Klement's POI routines. Also, for
example, the guys at www.easy400.net have some utilities with source code
included at about $50.
A Google search should return quite a few hits.
Regards,
Luis
Sent from my Moto G phone. Please excuse my brevity.
On Nov 30, 2016 1:15 PM, "Elden Fenison" <Elden.Fenison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I'd like to figure out a better way to get data from an IBM i database file
into an Excel spreadsheet.
We are currently using an open source tool apparently written by Hideyuki
Yahagi. It will take an IBM i database and create a CSV file. We land that
on a QNTC file system (on a Windows server) where the user goes and grabs
it. The user then imports the CSV file into an XLS file via Excel.
The problem we face is that the CSV format doesn't retain any real
information with regards to column formatting. So when we try to import the
CSV to an XLS, Excel tries to guess about the column formatting to where
fields that appear that they could be valid dates (but are not) are brought
in as a date data type. The only way we've found around this is to tell the
import process what the format should be for each column, every time we
need to import from CSV to Excel. We think that exporting directly from the
IBM i database to an XLS format might be allow us to retain the column
formatting so that we don't have to go through all those hoops.
So I am seeking a way to go directly from the IBM i database to an Excel
spreadsheet. If there are no free solutions, we would definitely consider a
paid solution.
Ideas?
Elden Fenison
Programmer/Analyst
Murphy Company
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