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  3. July 2006

Re: Getting a file to excel

It's been a long thread, so my apologies if this was already mentioned, but I'm doing an implementation where we're creating Excel files using ASC's Sequel product, and putting them into an IFS file. There is an IFS API for getting attributes on that file, including how many bytes it occupies, but it's a C-function in a service program. Scott's excellent tutorial available at his Web site on using IFS has the thing prototyped perfectly for RPG, and you can get it from IBM's infocenter under Programming -> APIs -> API's by category -> Unix-type APIs. I think it's stat() (not at work right now).
We check that in case a user hits above the maximum for email sizes or email attachments. If it's over the max, we just change the corresponding email text to tell them where it is.
In our implementation, each running of the report by a user overlays the previous one. By the way, they've decided to use share folders to let them get at it. 

--Alan

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