Re: AS400 data to .csv problem in Excel

Looks like Excel has problems with numbers greater than 15 digits.

When I put a 20 digit number (12345678901234567890) into Excel 2000, only 15
digits of accuracy are retained (12345678901234500000).

I suspect that the AS400 is working perfectly and Excel is not.

You may be able to circumvent this problem by casting numeric fields that
are greater than 15 digits into alpha fields.

When I put '12345678901234567890 into an Excel field, it did not show the
opening apostrophe and retained all the characters of  this alpha value.

Sincerely,

Peter Lunde.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Franz" <franz400@triad.rr.com>
To: <WEB400@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 4:25 PM
Subject: AS400 data to .csv problem in Excel


> I know many of you have done as400 to Excel using .csv. I'm having a very
> strange
> problem and could use some help.
>
> Building .csv files in IFS for web users. Users make request thru cgi, clp
> builds stmf
> to set code page, then cpytoimpf to create delimited file
>  CPYTOIMPF  FROMFILE(&CUST6/WWRTN *FIRST) TOSTMF(&URLW1) +
>   MBROPT(*REPLACE) RCDDLM(*CRLF) DTAFMT(*DLM) STRDLM('"') FLDDLM(',')
>  CPYTOIMPF  FROMFILE(&CUST6/WWRCPY *FIRST) TOSTMF(&URLC1) +
>   MBROPT(*REPLACE) RCDDLM(*CRLF) DTAFMT(*DLM) STRDLM('"') FLDDLM(',')
>
> File looks ok in wordpad, except I expected delimiter at end of data, but
> these files
> only have delimiter at end of each field.
> When Excel 2000 displays data, one field, 20 byte number has changed from
> ,"71010412344005315256", to 7.10104E+19. In fact every number in that
column
> resulted in the same strange number. (the 20 digit number is certified
mail
> numbers
> and the first 11 bytes are always the same, and MUST be included).
> Some other colums, with values like CC, OW, 01, only the 01 is right
> justified, zero
> suppressed. In both cases the cell format is "general" which I think is
> messing it up,
> but see no way to set to "text" when building this.
>
> Before we go too far... this process allows any web user to dynamically
> select data
> to download to their pc. The .csv is the standard for this industry (they
> can't spell
> XML or anything other than "Excel" or "spreadsheet". Some are reading the
> files
> in FoxPro. File name is unique every time. Client Access is not an option.
> FTP is not. Needs to run, look, feel like any other website with no
special
> plugins.
> Don't know if this is a "feature" of Excel 2000, but that's all we have on
> inhouse
> desktops to test with. Am at V4R4, fairly recent ptfs. On V4R5 in a few
> weeks.
> Any help appreciated.
> jim
>
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