RE: Database to Excel

Outputting to .csv is one option, but retaining leading zeros has been a problem for me.
I put together a real simple service program written in RPG that generates an xml spreadsheet that opens up in excel. It could be modified to open up in open office to.
If you would like I can provide source.


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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wintermute, Sharon
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 3:58 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Database to Excel



I have a question. I recently used Scott Klement's Excel articles to
create an Excel processor. It uses a control file that describes what
file, what Excel worksheet to use as a base, then adds the data to a new
copy of the worksheet. Once this is done, another job actually sends
the file from the IFS to the user. I had to separate the creation and
the sending since SNDDST only uses QDLS and QDLS cannot be used in a job
where Java is involved (multi-threading).



The process itself works great. It runs every 10 minutes looking for
new requests to process. Now we have discovered that some of these
requests are huge files. Over 75K rows to be created. This one request
ran for over 45 minutes on a usually lightning box.



This lpar has over 8 gig memory and its on a M525-7792 so its usually a
speed demon.



I really need to decrease the time significantly. Any ideas? Is there
another way to do this, perhaps without Java?





Sharon Wintermute