Comments on: Downloading Files Using Client Access In CSV Formats

By: andreaf

andreaf — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:47:30 +0000

If you are transferring into an excel file, you should be able to simply “Save As” a CSV format from there.

By: chatmaker

chatmaker — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:15:26 +0000

If your goal is to put iSeries data into Excel (with column headings) this tutorial shows an laternative method to do just that with what you already have (nothing to buy) and without having to create any RPG or CLP objects, or run any CL commands. Everything is contained in native MS Excel. All VBA code is provided. Once you have copied the code to your spreadsheet, creating new reports with drill down pivot tables and charts takes no more time than creating a Query.

http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/beyond-excel

By: tomliotta

tomliotta — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:46:02 +0000

Minor note… there is no “Client Access Version 5.8″. I suspect that you mean iSeries Access V5R4 which includes Personal Communications Workstation Program Version 5.8. The iSeries Access version/release is not the same as the version/release of the emulator program. In nearly every case, questions will be about the iSeries Access version/release.

With iSeries Access V5R4, there is a new transfer type. See Client Access Data Transfer – Description of File Types and look at the last transfer type — Microsoft Excel XML Spreadsheet . Not exactly .CSV, but it’s compatible with Excel and can carry column headings.

Tom