RE: How do I get my spool files into MS-Word?

The real problem is that IBM did not keep there different computers on the
same platform as far as operation systems, databases, etc.  EBCIDIC vs ASCII
and Windows vs OS/400.  Had the IBM PC, and IBM Midrange, and IBM Mainframe
all been on the same wave, there would be no conversions necessary from
system to system.  Other computer manufacturers are all compatible from
small to large systems.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-jbausers-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-jbausers-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of
Jeff_Klipa/Harvard@harvardind.com
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 10:15 AM
To: JBAUSERS-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: How do I get my spool files into MS-Word?


I'm delighted to see so many responses to this question...

I only discovered the Operations Navigator 'drag-&-drop' capability earlier
this
year...
It seems like that's the most popular option...

I like to use that one too, it really is easy and it gives you a fairly
accurate
translation of the report...
By that I mean it is almost a WYSIWYG translation especially if you save it
as
*.txt...
Some other methods leave something to be desired in terms of keeping the
spacing
intact etc...

We also use another comercial tool from Tangent Group called SurPass...

With this tool you can point and click to download reports from the
PC-connected
AS/400 and then it allows you to create what they call a 'MASK' for that
report...
You can eliminate whatever you want from the report, format columns etc...
Save
the mask and use it over and over again for the same report...
Then you translate the downloaded report through the MASK into Excel or a
wide
variety of other supported PC-based applications...

It's easy to use and relatively inexpensive for tools of this nature...

All of the solutions mentioned so far require a manual intervention
process...
What I really want to figure out is how I can automate the e-mailing of
reports
from my AS/400 via my Notes or SMTP server...
Now that would be slick...

I've looked at SPLTOOL from Bradley V. Stone and we bought a copy but I
couldn't
get any tech support from him to get that working...

It's Shareware and I can only imagine he's made a pretty penny hawking it
but
the lack of tech support is annoying to say the least...

This is obviously a function that many people have a need for and I'm glad
the
question came up...

Regards,
Jeff Klipa


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