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I right click on each column in the spreadsheet and choose "column
width", and then make it the same.
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James Lampert
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 12:13 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Getting data into a PF from an Excel spreadsheet
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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James H. H. Lampert
Touchtone Corporation
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