Re: Query in CPYFRMIMPF

[Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Doesn't sound ok to me. You should be able to save the excel file in
.csv format on your PC, then open it in NotePad or Excel or WordPad
and it should be readable.

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Nisha Ramesh <n4nisha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When I save the excel file to .csv format and just tried to open the excel
> again, it is non readable format. Is that okay?
>
> On 6 October 2012 00:24, Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Save the file from Excel in .csv format for the first thing - you
> > don't need to do the NotePad thing.
> >
> > Then, use CPYFRMIMPF and specify FROMRCD(2). That will skip the heading
> > line.
> >
> > Try that, and check for error messages with the QCMDEXC technique.
> > Look in your job log.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Nisha Ramesh <n4nisha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >  Could you please extend your help to me as I am stuck here with one
> > issue.
> > > This is the requirement. I have an excel sheet with some rows of data in
> > > it. It is in .xls format. The first row is heading and second row onwards
> > > are data. I need to copy this file to a physical file in AS400. For
> > this, I
> > > have opened the excel, copied the data to a notepad and I have put the
> > > delimeters(,) after each field and saved it back as .csv. Now I used
> > > Iseries navigator and placed this .csv file onto the location I want it.
> > > Inorder to get the data onto a PF, I am changing an existing RPG program
> > > which uses CPYFRMIMPF. with the help of QCMDEXC. But this command fails.
> > > But when I try to enter the same command from command line it is copying
> > > data to PF. The other issue here is with the heading. If I include
> > > heading,only heading is coming in. But if I remove heading, then first
> > row
> > > alone comes in . Please let me know why the QCMDEXC fails when it runs
> > > properly in command line. Second is if the excel has one row of heading,
> > > how to deal with it? Then how do I copy multiple rows of data here? It
> > will
> > > be really helpful if u respond back..
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