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Our systems analysts might argue that the best way to get data from BPCS
is to use their standard reports. They've had too many cases where people
accessed data via Query, Excel, etc and almost made bad business decisions
based on wrong data.
But if you truly want to download then there is a way to control that but
still give nice downloads - especially if it's done on a repetitive basis.
Your development staff can write programs that write directly to an Excel
file and then either post a link to it on your internal website, or attach
the spreadsheet itself to an email and distribute it. You can roll your
own like this:
http://faq.midrange.com/data/cache/533.html
See also
http://faq.midrange.com/data/cache/639.html
If the excel user wants direct access to the data then I suggest using
either an SQL "view" or a DDS "join logical file". Instead of the user
having to know to "join this file to that file and do this and that" they
can simply access the view. The view can also rename the fields from
iclas to ItemClass and lots of other stuff.
See also:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/i/software/access/windows/database.html
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v6r1m0/topic/rzahg/rzahgicia.htm
Rob Berendt
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