RE: CPYTOPCD Translation Tables

["Fisher, Don" <Dfisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

While meandering through the archives and manuals I discovered RTOPCB.  I am
currently figuring out how to invoke it from the AS/400.

I hadn't really thought about it, but I guess I could use FTP to send a file
and invoke the OLE processes or a VBA program, which I assume stands for
Visual Basic for Access (might have to learn that language :)).  Of course,
that doesn't solve the problem of automatically sending the file via e-mail.

By the way, we do have CPYTOIMPF on our V4R5 machine, so I could use that if
all else fails.  I've been searching the V4R5 manuals for something a little
cleaner than file transfers and CPYTOIMPF, but have had no luck so far.

Thanks.

Donald R. Fisher, III
Project Manager
The Roomstore Furniture Company
(804) 784-7600 extension 2124
DFisher@roomstoreeast.com

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Command is RTOPCB. This has various output formats, including DIF, et al.
Does this help?

I know you don't have it - but CPYTOIMPF can also put
out a tab-delimited file.

Does the file have packed fields? Even so, if it does,
create a logical that redefines those fields as zoned
(reference technique), then FTP that logical to the PC.
It might be possible to do all this with VBA, then call
Excel methods (OLE) to convert the data, then email it
to a list of clients.
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