Re: Exprting data into Excel drops leading zero

JMHO
Vern

But that is what I am saying.  If you use the data transfer program that
comes with Client Access, it DOES correctly download into Excel.

The problem was, he wasn't using that.  He was using the export utility of a
different program and it fubared it.  That was my whole point.  It CAN be
done, but the program he was using, Survey/400,  was doing it wrong and it
is actually a bug of that program, not the fault of Microsoft.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Naughton" <mnaughton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users" <pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Exprting data into Excel drops leading zero

> I take your point that double quotes around the values in a CSV file may
> not be enough, but I think if you're downloading directly from DB2/400 to
> Excel (say using CA), then there should be a way -- and if there were, I
> wouldn't even have bothered trying CSV. DB2 knows it's a text field, and
> it doesn't seem impossible that it should be able to communicate that. I
> don't know where the problem is, and I'm not blaming anyone, but it sure
> seems like a weakness to me. . .