RE: AS400 to EXCEL

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>
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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

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