Re: Word mail merge

fuzzy memory... but I implemented a Word merge project in a small office
on 8 pc's. Six worked fine, and 2 had similar problems to yours, although I
don't remember exact msgs. In one case, after trying a multitude of things,
the network guy uninstalled CA, removed and reinstalled the MS DSN stuff,
then reinstalled CA and svc pack - it worked. He had found a MS Tech tip
about downlevel MS odbc stuff having problems (nothing mentioned Client

CA installed that matters. Has been running fine since.

good luck
jim franz

To: "PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users" <pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 5:51 PM
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Word mail merge

Steve McKay wrote:

I am receiving the message "Unable to obtain list of tables from the data

source" when attempting to use an ODBC connection to retrieve data into MS

Word 2003 SP2.  Our iSeries is at V5R2M0.  My iSeries Access is V5R2M0
SI04484.

I trying to mail merge from an iSeries DB file into a Word document. I have

tried User, File, and System DSNs with the same results.

Steve,

I've also had problems with Word and Mail Merge accessing data via the
Client Access ODBC driver.  IIRC, I could get the original creation to
work fine, but any attempt to retry resulted in errors.  I finally
resorted to using MS/Query inside of Excel and then merge the
spreadsheet data into Word and it has worked fine since.

I'm on V5R2 as well, but I'm using Word 97; so it's somewhat safe to say
a driver problem.  I don't do enough of the mail merge to research a
solution any further.

Bill
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