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Subject: Re: Getting data into a PF from an Excel spreadsheet
From: James Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:12:59 -0800
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Don Cavaiani wrote:

I make sure the columns lengths of the Excel spreadsheet are the same
length as the System i5 file.

Then, I save the spreadsheet as a fixed length file - a .prn format.

Finally, just ftp it directly into the qsys file - no need for any IFS
here

OK, how do I "make sure the columns lengths . . . are the same length as the . . . file? The first time we tried generating a .prn file, there was truncation.

Tab-delimited failed after importing 20 (seemingly random) records.

Comma-delimited did even worse.

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that it is the embedded CRLFs

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RE: Getting data into a PF from an Excel spreadsheet , Don Cavaiani

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