Comments on: SQL script output to a file http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/sql-script-output-to-a-file/ Sat, 25 May 2013 16:32:12 +0000 hourly 1 By: sbatsi http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/sql-script-output-to-a-file/#comment-58604 sbatsi Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:04:20 +0000 #comment-58604 Silly me, I read the help text regarding inserting links, but I guess I didn’t do enough reading between the lines… Here’s another try.

http://www.innovativesys.net/?page_id=4

]]> By: sbatsi http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/sql-script-output-to-a-file/#comment-58602 sbatsi Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:00:19 +0000 #comment-58602 Greybeard52 -

Thanks for the pointer to FROG – it looks very promising. I believe this is the correct link.

Regards,

Steve B

]]> By: graybeard52 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/sql-script-output-to-a-file/#comment-58597 graybeard52 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:02:05 +0000 #comment-58597 I’m not sure if the out-of-date OS is the probem. SQL has progrssed a great deal in V5R3 and V5R4. I suggest you post the FROG question over on http://www.code400.com in the FROG forum. The author is a regular there and is very helpful.

]]> By: donethat http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/sql-script-output-to-a-file/#comment-58588 donethat Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:15:44 +0000 #comment-58588 Hello GB52…
This is the 2nd time I’ve tried F.R.O.G. It connects to my AS400 but most options are “greyed out”. I can enter an SQL statement but there is no way to run it. F5 doesn’t react, “execute” isn’t available. My libraries and files are visible so it’s there and working. I’ve tried breaking/remaking the connection – no joy.

FYI: I’m on V5R2 and XP SP3.

What am I missing that I need to make an SQL run?

]]> By: graybeard52 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/sql-script-output-to-a-file/#comment-58542 graybeard52 Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:26:14 +0000 #comment-58542 A great product from ad hoc SQL is F.R.O.G. Its available for no charge from http://www.innovativesys.com

]]> By: donethat http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/sql-script-output-to-a-file/#comment-58466 donethat Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:22:32 +0000 #comment-58466 You don’t have to use CPYTOSTMF to get your file to Windows. You can set up a “.DTT” data transfer and the file will be transferred with a double-click. And it could/would be a “.TXT” file. Fixed length fields and all.
Yes I know – not direct.

I have one more way out suggestion. Techtarget just ran 2 articles – one of which was “Map Your Network Drives to the IBM i”. If you output directly from the AS400 to the mapped drive, you could avoid a file transfer of any kind.
Trying!

]]> By: cwc http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/sql-script-output-to-a-file/#comment-58374 cwc Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:40:44 +0000 #comment-58374 Your request sounds simple enough and like it would be supported through Navigator, but I can’t think of a way off hand to direct that output to a file. I figured copying and pasting might work, but the interface doesn’t provide that either.

Do you use any .Net or Java applications? If so, you could use that architecture to initiate an SQL request and receive its result set back into the code, where you could loop through and write them to a file.

]]> By: sbatsi http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/sql-script-output-to-a-file/#comment-58368 sbatsi Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:16:00 +0000 #comment-58368 Thanks for the response… By a “text file” I mean a .txt file in the Windows environment. Because I typically use desktop tools to massage the results of ad hoc queries, it would be very handy to be able to send the results directly to a .txt file. In cases where the payoff is sufficient to justify doing this much work, I could certainly use the approach you suggest of INSERTing the output of the SELECT statement into a physical file I have created; I could then use CPYTOIMPF to transfer the data to a .txt file. It’s a shame this cannot be done directly.

Regards,

Steve B

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