Re: AS400 Reports Into MS Excel - Formatting

Rick, in addition to the other suggestions, here're a couple more.

1. RJS Software has a whole suite of products that do this kind of thing and more - very nice. You can get pieces, but the whole kielbasa may help you with all kinds of automated report bursting and distribution stuff.

2. If the layout is always the same, maybe write a VBA macro in Excel to parse the records. I don't know if it can do the formatting wizard thing exactly the same way, but you could bring the data into one worksheet, then go through each row and substring into cells in another worksheet, then delete the first one.

For Each myrow in ActiveWorksheet.Rows
DoTheWork
Next

HTH

Vern

At 07:19 AM 1/29/2003 -0500, you wrote:

I would not be surprised if this question has already been posed but here goes anyway:

I have a request to create a recurring job which entails running a 400 - based report and dumping it into an EXCEL spreadsheet. In the absence of CA, I have been using a BoS-A-Nova file transfer utility to convert the document into a text file. When I open it in EXCEL, I then get the "formatting wizard" which walks through the final steps to view the report properly.

My question is, will I have to format this EACH TIME I bring in the report? Is there anyway to create a permanent format shell that will handle this task without the constant manual attention?

Thanks for the input.

Rick Rayburn
NYC