By: tjgm88

tjgm88 — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 04:45:58 +0000

Thanks Tom. The last paragraph is of interest to me and shall investigate the two options.

By: TomLiotta

TomLiotta — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 05:27:24 +0000

Does the IFS provide for this?

I’m not sure what that question is really asking. The IFS doesn’t provide for it. But FAT, FAT32, NTFS, HPFS and any other file system you can think of don’t provide for it either. That’s not what file systems do. It’s what Excel does, not the file system where documents are stored.

And Excel can apply formatting to spreadsheets that are stored in the IFS just like it can for NTFS or whatever file system you use.

But CVTPFXLS doesn’t create Excel spreadsheets nor any kind of Excel file. It creates a type of text file that Excel can import. Excel can’t apply any formatting to it until it has been imported into Excel.

Actually, there is no programming that will apply Excel formatting to the output of CVTPFXLS. However, you could create programming that read the CVTPFXLS output and wrote its output to an actual Excel file with Excel formatting. Of course, if you did that there would be no need for CVTPFXLS in the first place. It would be easier just to read the original database file than to read what CVTPFXLS creates.

Essentially, if you want to create an Excel spreadsheet with formatting, you have two basic choices. You can use Excel to access the database file and to format the output. Or you can use the Apache POI Java API to create programming on your AS/400 to output Excel files with the formatting that you want. (And the result could be stored in the IFS.)

Tom

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