Re: Exporting DB2/400 records . . .

CPYTOIMPF = Performs slower than rolling your own Excel Spreadsheets from RPG with POI

If you're suggesting that "if you're going to roll your own, you might
as well roll an Excel writer, rather than a CSV writer", I would say
that depends. If CSV is sufficient for your needs, that's still going
to be easier to write and run faster.

I do agree that a decent programmer can roll their own CSV writer (in
almost any language of their choice) that would perform better than
CPYTOIMPF.

Why do I like to write my own CSV writer ?

Because in-between the commas of the Comma-Seperated-Values, I can embed labels and formulas like , , ,'Total',=SUM(A1:A11), , ,
and because I use the extension .XLS instead of .CSV on my file - - - when the user double-clicks on the file, it opens in Excel.
And the formulas of =SUM() and =SUBTOTAL() all work and the users need not create these total lines for themselves.

True, using this technique, the users don't get multi-Tab Workbooks or fancy formatting by building a .CSV
but I can quickly deliver something useful that is good enough for their purposes.

- John Voris