Re: Another one...

Lloyd,

You should be able to get the data in the form the user is looking for
using a combination of a date extraction through ODBC and a pivot table in
Excel. If you cannot build the query in Microsoft Query in Excel you can
certainly create a view/logical on the AS/400 to get the data in the
required format.

If timeliness of the data is a concern you can create a macro to refresh
both the raw data and pivot tables as you open the spreadsheet.

I have been doing an increasing amount of reporting in Execl using this
method since my user base seems more appreciative of a handful of
templates and a lot of raw data.

Marc Rohde
IT Manager
Pentair Filtration, Inc. & Everpure, LLC

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REQMTS and PLNORD remain after the run - they're the files used by the
inquiry. There are multiple records per item, though, so converting them
into spreadsheet form takes a bit of work. At one of my past jobs we had
a
program that transposed that data into a file that could be downloaded
into
a spreadsheet. It wasn't terribly complex, but the design required a bit
of
thought.

Dave Shaw

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From: "Roy Luce" <lwl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 8:07 PM
Subject: Re: [MAPICS-L] Another one...

Lloyd:

You do have a challenge!

I don't know about MAPICS specifically in this regard but all the MRP
programs I'm familiar with do not retain their generation output files -
they clear them during the end-of-run processing. This means there is

no

data source from which the user can create that one reeeeeally long row
per
item. And given Excel's limitation of 234 columns I'd bet on running

out

of
columns before they ran out of item data anyway.

With no files the only data source is the spooled output report - regen

or

exception - so you're back to Monarch - or some other report parsing

tool.

Unless you have a way to email the report from the output queue to the
user.
The file could be saved as a txt file and then imported into Excel but
having done something like this in the past I'd get a copy of Monarch
first.

Roy Luce

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