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  3. August 2002

Re: File transfer to openoffice.

James Rich schrieb:
> On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, [iso-8859-1] Pere Vilarasau wrote:
>
>>   I have my tn5250 over linux red hat 7.3.  I use
>>openoffice as my only suite.  I need to download the
>>data of my queries to openoffice.calc.
>>
>>  Does anybody know how can I do it?? and... Can I do
>>it from an icon in my desktop??
>
> IBM makes an ODBC client for linux.  It requires V4R2 or something
> (greater than V4R1 I know because that's what I'm at).  I'm not sure how
> you could get the ODBC driver and openoffice to work together, but it is a
> starting point.  I'm fairly sure you could have the ODBC driver output to
> a file and then read that in with openoffice.

Another option is JDBC which can used directly within openoffice.
(see http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/jt400/ for a
driver)

Christian

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