Re: Data transfer question

HI Greg,

We use a tool from Symtrax for this (XL400 - although they have replaced it with Starquery now), but you could do either of these:

Edit the data transfer select option to read "ORDNO as Order_Number" for example

Use VBA to extract directly from iSeries, I have used this quite successfully, modifying code found here: http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/beyond-excel/say-goodbye-to-querytables/
You can, for example, enter a couple of dates in an excel spreadsheet, click a button and return all sales between these two dates. This effectively does the same as the Symtrax offering but without having to buy any software. It allows you to pass variables from your excel spreadsheet into the SQL statement for extracting.

Kind regards,

David.

-----Original Message-----
From: mapics-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mapics-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Greg Wenzloff
Sent: 23 June 2011 15:21
To: MAPICS ERP System Discussion
Subject: [MAPICS-L] Data transfer question

I need to transfer the contents of a MAPICS file into an Excel spreadsheet.
When I do this I get column headings such as ORDNO.

Is there something I can do to get different column headings other than the field name.
Perhaps ORDER NUMBER.

I want to automate this and not go into Excel to adjust column heading each time this transfer is run.

Thanks,
Greg
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