> From: "McKown, John" <[email protected]>
> Supposedly, but I haven't actually tried. Look at: http://poi.apache.org/ as always, thanks to everybody for your valuable input. I'll try to answer to some of the questions which have been posed : we don't have SAS, nor DB2; .csv is considered not acceptable because it lacks features which .xls offers (formatting, graphs, and so on) CPAN is worth a try, thanks to John for explaining why it might NOT work on z/OS. We don't have C compiler, either. Radoslaw's comment about creating .xls on z/OS and not on a PC is surely correct, I forgot that we already offload some processes to distributed machines, depending on the process. As an example, if we need to produce a single .pdf file, we use TXT2PDF on z/OS, pure. But if we need to produce 3,000 .pdf files, we offlload TXT2PDF's execution on a Linux box. Likewise, we can think of producing the raw data on z/OS, offloading the creation of a .xls on a Linux box, where the availability of programs to create Excels is wider. Sam, may I try your Cobol/assembler API ? Walter Marguccio z/OS Systems Programmer BELENUS LOB Informatic GmbH Munich - Germany ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
