RE: Getting data into a PF from an Excel spreadsheet -- MIDRANGE-L

AFAIK, the visible width of the spreadsheet columns have absolutely no effect on the length of the
actual data.

Charles

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Don Cavaiani
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 10:15 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Getting data into a PF from an Excel spreadsheet

I right click on each column in the spreadsheet and choose
"column width", and then make it the same.

-----Original Message-----
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

--
James H. H. Lampert
Touchtone Corporation

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