Re: IFS folders

Thanks to everyone for their help. It is as I suspected... and the steps
helped clarify it.

And Jan, your solution is exactly what I have built. I can create
queries/reports on the iSeries and they appear in Excel or Word for the
user. I was just having difficulty accessing the IFS folder - since I am
creating a solution for multiple customers, I need to be much more specific
than if I was just building it on one iSeries.

The next step is the automatic PDF conversion to attach to an email. I
~love~ this integration stuff - taking my customers beyond the standard
refacing.

I just need to beat OS400 at its own OpsNav game...
Thanks again!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jan Megannon" <jmegannon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: IFS folders


> Hi Trevor,
>
> 1.) On the 400, MKDIR and F4.
> 2.) To check it on the 400, WRKLNK.
> 3.) You can either go in via OPSNAV (cannot remember the option in the
> left frame), setup a share there and the go into File Shares and map a
> drive or you can access it by path, e.g
> \\QXXXXXXX\dir\
> where QXXXXXXX is your NetServer name and dir of course the directory
> you created.
>
> I am sure someone may have mentioned it here before, but here goes. This
> may be of interest to some of the 5250 folks. I did this from the
> iSeries on V5R1 and the 400 on V4R4.
>
> The customer wanted to provide certain people with the functionality to
> select an option on the 5250 sesion and then have that data
> automagically come up on the PC within an Excel spreadsheet. As a result
> of having seen (in certain ways, incoherent) suggestions to various
> questions on this list, I have provided the customer with the solution.
> As we used to say, the code is efficient, maintainable and 'elegant'.
>