Re: New Opcodes - %SETCELL

[Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>]

Check the midrange magazine ads.  There was a company that would allow 
you to call, from an RPG program, their program.  Parameters included 
location of spreadsheet in the IFS, row, column and value and maybe others.  
Darn if I can remember the name of the product.  Last time I looked at it was 
early 1993.
The problem with a generic function provided by IBM is that 1)  Lotus would 
be preferred over Excel, 2) Version support.  I get enough returned emails, 
"Can you save that to an earlier version of Excel?"





blarkin@wt.net on 09/06/99 10:13:39 AM
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John,
It is easy, and it already exists. Sort Of. Have Excell access the data via ODBC
in a Database in the QSYS file system! Then you can modify the columns as we
always have. I know it's not realy the way you want to do it, but just a 
thought.

Bob
John P Carr wrote:

> Hey Hans & Barb.
>
> How about some useful built-ins for things we can't do today?
>
> Like  being able to  update an Excel spread sheet's cells?
>
> If I have a .XLS Excel spread sheet on the IFS,   I would like to
> be able to read/update cells in it.     I was reading how easy it
> is to this in Lotus Script.    How about helping us with API's in
> conjunction with new built-in functions where I could read
> (say)  Column A of a spread sheet(maybe Part Number),
> and Update  Column C (maybe on-hand quantity).??
>
> Maybe a %GETCELL and %SETCELL ??
>
> We need some NEW functionality in addition to
> giving us numerous new ways of being able to
> do things we could already do.
>
> IFS Stream File affinity for example.
>
> Lotus Notes .NSF file support would be
> right up there also.  Reading/Updating it?
>
> It should be easy with the CF's in place Right?
>
> Just dreaming I guess.
>
> John Carr
>
>
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