Re: CPYFRMIMPF error 98

OK, this is just getting weird. I am looking at the imported file in Excel. Nicely separated into columns. When I click the icon for "Transfer data to Iseries", I get a box stating"There must be an active worksheet to perform this function". Looks active to me. I guess there is another definition for what constitutes an active worksheet. Any idea what that might be?

John


-----Original message-----
From: Luis Rodriguez luisro58@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:31:55 -0500
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: CPYFRMIMPF error 98

John,

In this particular case, if you can open it with Excel, could you upload it
to the iSeries using the Client Access Excel add-in?

Regards,

Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert â eServer i5 iSeries


On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:50 PM, jmmckee <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have received a file from an outside agency that chokes CPYFRMIMPF. The
fields are pipe delimited. I have looked at the raw file and don't see
anything REALLY obvious - the file is several hundred lines long. I can
open this thing in Excel just fine, but there is no option to save it with
pipe delimiters. There is a free text portion, which, I suspect, prompted
the need to use the pipe as a delimiter.

The agency has converted this file multiple times, and the results are the
same. Other files are just fine. When I attempted to use an error file, I
got nothing in the created member.

Is this why some of you loathe CPYFRMIMPF? Any suggestions on how to
isolate and fix the error(s) causing CPYFRMIMPF to choke? Not sure I have
the time to write the program to split this thing apart. Can SQL be used in
some way to identify or clean up the file?

John McKee
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