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  • Subject: Re: AS400 file to PC file transfer
  • From: Patrick Townsend <townsend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 10:41:42 -0800
  • Organization: Patrick Townsend & Associates, Inc.

Phil,

Have you considered using FTP for the transfer? You can specify that
data be appended to the existing file. We have customers using our FTP
Manager product to create the Excel CSV file and then transfer to PC
users. We can replace, append, or automatically generate a new file
name. 

Patrick
-- 
IBM AS/400 communications, FTP automation, and network security
software and consulting services.

http://www.patownsend.com

"Sattler, Phil" wrote:
> 
> I'm using RUMBA file transfer to transfer an AS400 file to a PC. The target
> is an EXCEL spreadsheet. The problem that I'm having is that the spreadsheet
> file is overwritten on each transfer, even when I've stipulated to add to
> (not replace) the PC file. When it's overwritten, it replaces the
> spreadsheet column widths with a width of  8.43 for each column.
> 
> Does anyone have experience downloading to an existing spreadsheet, where
> the original spreadsheet's column formats do not change?
> 
> TIA
> Phil
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