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What about sorting though? File on the iSeries with two records - 12/01/06 13/01/05Transfer into Excel and sort in ascending order. You and I both know that 13 Jan 2005 should come top, but it doesn't here. Not until I go into each cell in turn, do F2 to edit and then [Return]. At which point Excel formats the cell properly, and then sort works.
Sounds like it's storing the data as a character field rather than as a date field, and Excel is converting it for you when you use F2 and return.
The only solution that I know of is to generate the file from the iSeries in XLS format using HSSF. (Requires programming expertise). When you do that, you can write an actual Excel date to the file, and you won't have this sort of problem.
But, I'm no expert on the way that the iSeries Access file transfer works, so maybe there's a solutiont that I'm not aware of.
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