RE: Filling a Subfile with an SQL statement / Writing a CSV

Thanks.  My only question is how do you move forward in the recordset?
I'm assuming if you are writing the results, you would need to be able
to go through the results one by one, correct?

Brian.

-----Original Message-----
From: Geeky400 [mailto:Geeky400@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 8:34 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Filling a Subfile with an SQL statement / Writing a CSV

Hi Brian,

...and for the first question you can test SQLCOD, ie, DoW SQLCOD = 0

Hope this helps,

G4!


Peter.Colpaert@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>Brian,
>
>regarding your second question,  you could always use the Jakarta POI 
>classes to output a "real" excel sheet, and have the user pick it up
from 
>the IFS, or mail it to him/her.
>
>Alternatively, you could output to a workfile, and have the user import
it 
>into excel using the iSeries Access data transfer add-in.
>
>HTH,
>
>Peter Colpaert
>Application Developer
>Massive - Kontich, Belgium
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>"Brian Piotrowski" <bpiotrowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Writing a CSV
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>Hi All,
>
> 
>
>When I use an SQL statement to obtain information to a database, do I
>need to create a cursor in order to write the data to a subfile?  Is
>there a way to do something like a DoW not %eof(SQL returned records)?
>
> 
>
>The other question I have regards writing a CSV file.  Right now, we
>have a null device where all of our "scratch" data is written (PRT01).
>One of the users on our system needs to have the results of a query
>written to a file that will be exported to an Excel spreadsheet.  I was
>planning on simply writing the file to our scratch drive and have them
>grab the print file using Navigator.  Does anyone know if there is a
>better way to do this?
>
> 
>
>Thanks!
>
>
>
>Brian.
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