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There used to be an iSeries based package, years ago, that would allow you to call some api's to directly update a Lotus spreadsheet stored under QDLS. I think it was something like parm1 = fully qualified file name parm2 = row id parm3 = column number parm4 = value We were "this close" to buying it and using it to update some financial spreadsheets automatically. Granted this is a lot different from the generate a load of rows most people do with spreadsheets but maybe you need to find out if they are actually looking at the detail, or the totals. Are they plugging those totals into particular cells on the fancy spreadsheet? Then in theory you could do this automatically and email out the finished product. And it would look a lot prettier than the standard bulk row spreadsheet. Rob Berendt -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin "Haas, Matt" <Matt.Haas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 05/13/2003 02:44 PM Please respond to RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries To: "RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> cc: Fax to: Subject: RE: AS400 to EXCEL Creating an Excel file isn't a simple thing. Excel (and Word and probably Power Point) use what's called an "OLE2 Compound Document Format" file which is basically a file version of a COM object. Creating one of these files is extremely complicated. I think there are third part programs that can do this (I couldn't tell you names off the top of my head). If you know Java and you don't want to spend money on it, you can use an Apache package called POI to do Word and Excel. Matt -----Original Message----- From: hrishikesh kotwal [mailto:hdkotwal@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 3:20 PM To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: AS400 to EXCEL Hi all: I did find a lot interesting things @ midrange regarding converting PF to an Excel file. But still a few questions remain: Using CPYTOIMPF, I was able to create Source Member containing formatted data i.e. character strings in ' " ' and numbers separated by ' , '. But I would like to generate an Excel file from this member without any human intervention i.e. programmatically. How do I achieve that? Please advise. Regards, Hrishikesh Kotwal >From: Buck Calabro <BUCK.CALABRO@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >Reply-To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries <RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries <RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >Subject: RE: AS400 to EXCEL >Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 08:07:53 -0400 > >The FAQ has some entries dealing with this. http://faq.midrange.com > --buck _______________________________________________ This is the RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries (RPG400-L) mailing list To post a message email: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/rpg400-l or email: RPG400-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l.
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