RE: Using SQLREQUEST in Excel to get AS/400 data

Oh, I see.

You're using the content in B1 as a host variable.

Did you get it working?  Can you use the wizards to build something like
this?

Can you do it and not hardcode the userid/password?

This is pretty good.  I could see a lot of uses for this.

Phil



> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
> [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Marshall Akins
> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 6:01 PM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Using SQLREQUEST in Excel to get AS/400 data
>
>
>
> I've used Get External Data (MS Query) and the native file transfer.   I
> don't want to return a set of rows, just one value into one cell.    Using
> SQLRequest I could substitute values from other cells into the sheet.
> Say for example I have a few dozen rows of data in a spreadsheet
> and I need
> to get some corresponding data from the AS/400.   I have employee numbers
> in the spreadsheet and I want to get  hourly rate from the AS/400.
>
> Cell B1 has the employee number and I put this formula in B2.
>
> =SQL.REQUEST("DSN=QDSN_Hanna;UID=m_akins;PWD=test",,,"select rate from
> empmas where empno =" & B1)
>
>
>
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