RE: CA400 Transferring from AS400 in Excel Format.

[Bill Erhardt <ERHARDT@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think the question should be, Why does Client Access limit the
transfer at all?  Logically, one could argue that IBM is just conforming
to the MS standard, but the standard has changed, so why didn't
(doesn't) IBM change.  The other approach, is to allow the end user to
decide which files are "downloadable" in an excel format.  This is the
approach that Wall Data has taken with it's RUMBA file transfer.  In our
case, we have been working very hard to move our user base to CA/400 and
we have been very successful at it.  That is until we ran into this
brick wall.  Now the user has a valid case not to change.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Dow [SMTP:pcdow@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 1:34 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: CA400 Transferring from AS400 in Excel Format.
> 
> I believe that's a limitation prior to Excel 97. From the Excel 97
> help I
> found:
> 
> "Maximum worksheet size  65,536 rows by 256 columns"
> 
> HTH
> Peter Dow
> Dow Software Services, Inc.
> 909 425-0194 voice
> 909 425-0196 fax
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Alex A. Moore <alexm@ellishosiery.com>
> To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 3:31 AM
> Subject: RE: CA400 Transferring from AS400 in Excel Format.
> 
> 
> > This is a limit of Excel 97 and below (if I remember correctly, an
> early
> > version of Excel had an 8k row limit).  Excel 2000 has a 64k row
> limit.
> >
> > Alex Moore ~ Ellis Hosiery Mills, Inc.
> > alexm@ellishosiery.com
> >
> > [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Mario Cardinale
> > Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 3:28 AM
> > Subject: CA400 Transferring from AS400 in Excel Format.
> >
> >
> >
> > Why we can't transfer more than 16,000 records using Excel format ?
> >
> > +---
> > | This is the Midrange System Mailing List!
> > | To submit a new message, send your mail to
> MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com.
> > | To subscribe to this list send email to
> MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com.
> > | To unsubscribe from this list send email to
> MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com.
> > | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator:
> david@midrange.com
> > +---
> 
> 
> __________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger.
> http://im.yahoo.com
> 
> +---
> | This is the Midrange System Mailing List!
> | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com.
> | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com.
> | To unsubscribe from this list send email to
> MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com.
> | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator:
> david@midrange.com
> +---


+---
| This is the Midrange System Mailing List!
| To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com.
| To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com.
| To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com.
| Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com
+---